Statue menhir

A statue menhir is a type of carved standing stone created during the later European Neolithic Period.

La estatua-menhir del Pla de les Pruneres (Mollet del Vallès). Complutum, 2011, Vol. 22 (1): 71–87. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Madrid.

The statues consist of a vertical slab or pillar with a stylised design of a human figure cut into it, sometimes with hints of clothing or weapons visible.

Locations

They are most commonly found in Southern France and western France, Catalonia,^[1] Corsica, Sardinia, Italy and the Alps. A group from the Iron Age also is known in Liguria and Lunigiana.

There are two in Guernsey,^[2] La Gran' Mère du Chimquière ('the Grandmother of the Cemetery'), a highly detailed example in the churchyard of Parish of Saint Martin, and another known simply as La Gran' Mère in the Parish of Castel. The latter is an earlier, less detailed example found buried underneath the porch of the parish church.

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  Statue-menhir la Dame de Saint-Sernin, musée Fenaille de Rodez
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  Statue menhir of Paillemalbiau (Murat-sur-Vèbre)
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  Statue menhir of Laconi, Sardinia

See also

• Kurgan stele
• Megalithic art