Megalithic standing stones of Kermario
The field is 1,200 metres long and 100 metres wide and still has 1,029 menhirs in 10 rows.
This is where the best examples are to be found.
At the edge of a field, you will see the Kermario dolmen, which has lost one of its table stones.
Close to the Kerloquet pond, a 3 m high menhir signals the Manio long mound.
This type of construction dates from at least 5,000 years BC.
In a clearing a little further on, you will find the small menhirs that form the "Manio Quadrilateral" in proximity to the "Manio Giant".
This impressive menhir over 6 metres high (raised by Z. Le Rouzic), is the highest in the region.
You reach it by following a path that heads onto the moors.
Megalithic standing stones of Kerlescan
The third and easternmost field of menhirs is the smallest but also the most preserved of the three sites.
It contains 555 menhirs, oriented east to west and arranged in 13 rows.
A cromlech of 39 stones can be found at the western end of these alignments.
Megalithic standing stones of Menec
These alignments are the most representative group of menhirs: 1,165 metres long, over 100 metres wide with 1,099 menhirs in 11 rows.
The highest stones reach 4 metres.
The Ménec alignments begin in the southwest at a cromlech that still has 71 surviving blocks, some of which thread between the buildings of Ménec village.
A ruined cromlech still exists to the east.
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