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Moth M
Moth Jan 12, 2004 13:15:08
Replying to broen

The Mario Quadrilateral? At least at face value I'd not have thought of that. Is that the one you mean?

This page has the best pics I could quickly find on t'web, but (uncharacteristically for Megalithic Walks) they seem to have spelt the name wrong...seems to be MaRio rather than MaNio everywhere else (including my memory!)

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/celynog/Brittany/manio_quadrilateral.htm

The nearby menhir is known as the Giant of (or 'in') the Woods usually I think. Megalithic Walks calls it the Manio (sic) Giant. (Again I assume they mean Mario) http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/celynog/Brittany/geant_de_manio.htm

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Moth

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Spaceship mark Jan 12, 2004 13:28:00
Replying to Moth

It's definitely Manio. The setting is called the Quadrilataire de Manio and the menhir is the Geant de Manio.
The Quadrilataire is unusual as it is looking less lekely that it ever contained a mound or burials. It could be a unique transistionary monument between the passage 'graves' and cromlechs.
Nearby is the Tetre Tumulaire de Manio. A low mound within which were discovered a number of small kists.
An earlier menhir pokes therough the mound and the whole lot is stradled by the later Kermario Alignements.
Don't know if that's any use...