Name: Menhir de Kerampeulven
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Location: Berrien, Châteaulin, Finistère, France

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1. Forêt d'Huelgoat – Rocking Stone loop from Kermaria

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2. Menhir de Kerampeulven – Rocking Stone loop from Huelgoat

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3. Lac de Huelgoat – Forêt d'Huelgoat loop from Saint-Herbot

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Vincent Reboul

July 13, 2022

Erected in the Neolithic between - 5,000 years and - 2,300 years, the menhir of Kerampeulven is 6 meters high. Which is already impressive in itself.

What is more remarkable is the presence of the tumulus of Berriou in the town of Berrien where this stone is also located.

According to an interesting archaeological hypothesis menhirs and tumulus (or Dolmens) would be linked. Some believe that the alignments of standing stones would be paths that would lead the dead from dolmen to dolmen, as they progressed through the realm of the afterlife. This remains a difficult theory to prove because in the Neolithic era writing was not yet invented, and there is no evidence to support this. At most we see the presence of the two emblematic monuments of Brittany very often going together.

Kerampeulven means "the village of the menhir".

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Location: Berrien, Châteaulin, Finistère, France

Menhir de Kerampeulven

1. Forêt d'Huelgoat – Rocking Stone loop from Kermaria

2. Menhir de Kerampeulven – Rocking Stone loop from Huelgoat

3. Lac de Huelgoat – Forêt d'Huelgoat loop from Saint-Herbot

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