Alignements de Vieux Moulin

Latitude:
47° 36' 21.98 N
Longitude:
3° 7' 11.19 W
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Image of Alignements de Vieux Moulin by ryaner

Possibly my favourite site in Carnac/Plouharnel.

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ryaner Jul 28, 2016
Image of Alignements de Vieux Moulin by ryaner

“Were it anywhere else in the world, this magnificent and dynamic alignment of six stones would be the kind of monument which megalithic pilgrims would travel hundreds of miles to see. Yet, within its Carnac environment, this remarkable setting of Menhirs du Vieux Molin is almost forgotten.”
Julian Cope, The Megalithic European, page 88.

‘nuff said.

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ryaner Jul 28, 2016
Image of Alignements de Vieux Moulin by ryaner

Stayed a while with these. Wish I’d stayed longer.

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ryaner Jul 25, 2016
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From this angle you can see just how close to the town of Plouharnel the site is

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Spaceship mark Oct 3, 2008

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Alignements de Vieux Moulin

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Spaceship mark Jul 29, 2007

12:07:03ce

Almost a year and a half after I came here with Julian Cope I have returned to Vieux Moulin. I’d forgotten just how effective the illusion the stones create is. As one approaches one is sure that there are four stones n this short, solitary row. Only when the approach angle changes slightly can one see that in fact there are six.

I remain unconvinced by Aubrey Burl’s ‘slight curve’ and it seems to me this was only ever as it is now. These shortish stone rows are indeed an riddle. They enclose no space, they do not seem precise enough to facilitate astronomical observations, so what were they for? I think the clue may lie in the fact that many of these rows are (relatively) isolated and away from large ritual centres. In that one can read that, like so many of the smaller dolmens, these were monuments for a small community. The village chapel for day to day use away from the great cathedral of Carnac.

It almost seems that one can try to read to much into these type of monuments, trying to find reason or purpose, in the end I think it goes back to the mountaineer’s answer; why did they put up the stones? Because they were there…

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