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Image of Alignements de Kerzerho by markj99

An unusual holed stone found in the centre of Les Geants de Kerzerho.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone

markj99 Oct 13, 2023

Image of Alignements de Kerzerho by costaexpress

These are the ‘Giants’ of Kerzerho just up a short footpath from the alignment. A true sense of awe

costaexpress Nov 7, 2021

Its a photo from last year, however, only just worked out how to post. Came across this strange mock be heading ceremony at Alignment de Kerzerho, anyone any info on what it is all about?

costaexpress Sep 30, 2016

Image of Alignements de Kerzerho by ryaner

Kerzerho, July 2106.

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ryaner Aug 4, 2016

Herself on one the the fallen giants, head height at over 2 and a half metres, looks up at one of the standing giants.

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ryaner Aug 4, 2016

There are small, outlying remainders of rows in the woods hereabouts.

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ryaner Aug 4, 2016

Some of the main alignment stones are enormous.

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ryaner Aug 4, 2016

Access to Kerzerho is open. There’s a car-park just in off the Plouharnel to Erdeven road.

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ryaner Aug 4, 2016

Socketed or basin stone at the Giants.

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ryaner Aug 4, 2016

Pano looking back towards the road.

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ryaner Aug 4, 2016

She’s getting taller.

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ryaner Aug 4, 2016

3 stone row at Kerzerho.

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ryaner Aug 4, 2016

Sacrificial tables and giants everywhere.

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ryaner Aug 4, 2016

Giants

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ryaner Aug 4, 2016

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Image of Alignements de Kerzerho by postman

As the rows enter the woods they become less in number, but they grow massively, these are the Giants of Kerzerho, this was very definitely my favorite of the stone rows.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton

postman Aug 18, 2014

Image credit: Chris Bickerton

postman Aug 18, 2014

Two giants and a fallen third.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton

postman Aug 18, 2014

The giant of giants and the fallen giant.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton

postman Aug 18, 2014

The top of the fallen giant.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton

postman Aug 18, 2014

The Giant of giants, and a small stone with a hole through it.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton

postman Aug 18, 2014

The last Giant

Image credit: Chris Bickerton

postman Aug 18, 2014

Aaaagh, I’m going stone blind, i’m sure a little stone behind me asked if we could go back to the hotel.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton

postman Aug 18, 2014

Driving by the day before.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton

postman Aug 18, 2014

Image of Alignements de Kerzerho by CianMcLiam

The ‘Super-Moon’ of July 22nd 2013 above an isolated Kerzerho stone huddled next to a tree on a wonderfully calm starry night.

Image credit: Ken Williams/ShadowsandStone.com 2013

CianMcLiam Jul 29, 2013

Image of Alignements de Kerzerho by Moth

Sunday 17 April 2005 Approaching from the carpark

Image credit: Tim Clark

Moth Aug 3, 2007

Sunday 17 April 2005 Looking back between the rows towards the carpark

Image credit: Tim Clark

Moth Aug 3, 2007

Sunday 17 April 2005 Some of the stones in the main alignments are mosters that give their neighbours ‘Les Géants’ a run for their money

Image credit: Tim Clark

Moth Aug 3, 2007

Sunday 17 April 2005 ‘Les Géants’ – about the tallest stone – it’s a whopper! (I was just about to get about the wettest I’ve ever been....)

Image credit: Tim Clark

Moth Aug 3, 2007

Sunday 17 April 2005 ‘Les Géants’ – ‘table of sacrifice’ or altar stone

Image credit: Tim Clark

Moth Aug 3, 2007

Sunday 17 April 2005 ‘Les Géants’ from the ‘far’ end – ‘table of sacrifice’ or altar stone on middle right

Image credit: Tim Clark

Moth Aug 3, 2007

Image of Alignements de Kerzerho by Jane

Image credit: Tim Clark

Jane Jul 30, 2007

Image of Alignements de Kerzerho by Kammer

Image credit: Mark Williamson

Kammer Jul 29, 2007

Taken Summer 1996: Shaded stones at Kerzerho.

Image credit: Simon Marshall

Kammer Jul 29, 2007

Taken Summer 1996: The site is truncated by the road between Erdeven and Quiberon. This cottage stands incongruously next to the stones.

Image credit: Simon Marshall

Kammer Jul 29, 2007

Taken Summer 1996: The tallest stones at Kerzerho including the large fallen stone known as the ‘table of sacrifice’ (is that a bad translation of ‘altar’).

Image credit: Simon Marshall

Kammer Jul 29, 2007

Image of Alignements de Kerzerho by Spaceship mark

Image credit: Mark Williamson

Spaceship mark Jul 29, 2007

Image credit: Jane Tomlinson

Jane Jul 29, 2007

Taken Summer 1996: Who are these strange hairy people? Obviously we’re included here for the purposes of scale only. The ‘table of sacrifice’ is just to the left in this shot.

Image credit: Simon Marshall

Kammer Jul 29, 2007

Articles

Alignements de Kerzerho

Alignement

postman Aug 18, 2014

From Dolmen du Rondosec I carried on up the D781 towards Erdeven, it is impossible to miss the stone rows as the road goes right through them, the tall stones will be crowding round on your left and right as you drive through them, extracting from me various whooa’s and woww’s. These are impressive.

There is a large free car park, and the stones are right next to it. The stones are fence free, those wicked Frenchies have fenced off most of the Carnac stone rows but these are warm and welcoming, and always approachable. I mingled and wandered freely, there are many tall and shapely stones, but unless your looking down a row they can appear higgledy piggledy and random. Understandably I soon went stone blind, a small stone kept following me round asking strange questions, it said it was called Eric, I told it I had a son called Eric, he was here somewhere.
To escape the stone blindness, and the other people we walked off down a shady footpath, there is I think just one row left to follow through the trees. Over the hedge I could see a team of six or so metal detectorists. I wondered if they were officialdom or shameless antiquity thieves, then I wondered if there was much difference.
The path we were following soon widened out and revealed one of the best places in megalithic Brittany.
The shady trees let enough light through their thinly leaved canopy so it wasn’t glum and oppressive, they were also tall, but only just taller than the standing stones that stood beneath them. There was only two standing up but there was also two lying down. they were all giants, these are Les Geants de Kerzerho, and they are mighty.
One of the fallen stones is very rectangular and blockish, but the other one is very worn on its top edge, now that it’s laid flat it’s got worn some more, now it resembles a mini canyon system. Only you can get close to it, onto it, into it, usually it’s many feet above your head but you can get close to a part of stone hunting that is usually out of reach.
The tallest stone looks as though it’s about to fall apart at any moment, struck by lightning maybe, or re-ercted and stuck back together, I dont know, but it is a good one.
We keep on walking, but soon we run out of stones, there is one last giant and then the foot path goes off to who knows where.
Well a sign points to Mane Bras, “ooh” I think,
“I wonder how far that is?”
It was quite far actually, but the stone rows of Kerjean are on the way so it wasn’t dull.

Alignements de Kerzerho

Alignement

Moth Aug 8, 2007

Access: Car park next to the stones at Erdeven. Good even grassy paths between the stones. Travel to Erdeven on the D781. Just to the SE of the village, there is a carpark on the NE side of the road.

Visited Sunday 17 April 2005
I first saw these stones in about 1998 on the way to Carnac and was wiped out!

I guess they’re less impressive than the various other Carnac alignments in terms of numbers and extent, but they’re accessible at all times, beautiful and still damned impressive.

Les Géants de Kerzerho: Les Géants are a walk of a few hundred metres at most on flat, pretty even ground. The path is grassed through the main Kerzerho stones and then a pretty good grass/dirt path (not too muddy when we were there).

The (signposted) path to Les Géants de Kerzerho sets off from very near the car park, on the left as you walk along the main rows.

Visited Sunday 17 April 2005
After a false start missing the path, a short distance down the path, there they were. And very wonderful they are too.

As they’re now quite isolated a short distance from the remaining main part of the Kerzerho alignments, it’s kind of difficult to get a ‘handle’ on just why these extra large stones are bunched together like this. Possibly if the intervening stones were still there or if there wasn’t vegetation inbetween, it’d make more sense.

Unfortunately, I forgot about the holed stone Julian mentions, as I was unwilling to get TME out of my rucksack in the heavy rain.

The alignments here must have been absolutely magnificent once, as they’re still fantastically impressive in their ruin. What it must’ve been to see them and the other small patches of alignments still evident right across the woods when they were all continuous!

Alignements de Kerzerho

Alignement

Jane Jul 30, 2007

Around the village of Erdeven are tons of goodies. Call me undedicated if you like, but the combination of the weather being so horrible, the lack of time for painting opportunities and the prospect of a very wet 2km walk to see more stuff, didn’t appeal. Moth, being a completist wasn’t going to miss a thing, so he set off from the car park at Erdeven and began his walk to take in the Kerjean alignments, Kerherzo alignments, Mane Braz dolmens, Coet er bein and La Chaisse de Cesar. I stayed in car, driving it up to a place to get a good view of the Kerherzo alignments.

I lit a fag, got out a flask of tea and my sketchbook and while munching on a pain au chocolat, made a little study.