Sincerely there has been an important courting among the circulate of transparent clean water and stones. Of the opposite menhirs, the stone at du Guiric at the outskirts of Pont l’Abbé has a hugely strange shape. it's a tremendous stone four. three m excessive and eight. nine m in circumference on the base. obvious from the south, it splays out in the direction of the pinnacle, contrasting with the tapering kind of so much stones (Fig. 2. 27). against this, the japanese brief face is hugely thick on the base, tapering to an extended slender ridge on the best. the pinnacle ridge of the stone is arched like an elephant’s again and is incised with weathering grooves working downwards from the apex. The stone at Kerscaven, positioned in a move mattress, the main monstrous in Finistère, has a most unique form with tremendous west–east lengthy faces and slender north–south brief faces with a distinctively teatlike or pointed best, at once similar to nearly precisely in shape the so-called – seventy seven – The Materiality of Stone determine 2. 27 The du Guiric menhir, Pont l’Abbé, noticeable from the south. ‘buckler’ or anthropomorphic motif present in engravings at the stones of Breton passage graves (see Shee Twohig 1981). Its sheer scale is tough to over-emphasize, but, set in a shallow wooded valley backside, it may possibly no longer were visible within the wider panorama. unlike the grounded massiveness of the Kerscaven menhir is one other stone a few a hundred m away. At 7 m excessive, this is often a little bit taller yet contemplate– seventy eight – Sprouting Rhizomes and significant Axes determine 2. 28 The southern menhir at Kerscaven, obvious from the west. ably thinner with a distinctively fluted and weathered huge western face and a far smoother and extra usual jap face. The visible impact of this stone is notable (Fig. 2. 28). It feels like a fossilized plant with frond-like palms rising from a pretty good stem base. The jagged best is suggestive of development and upward circulate. – seventy nine – The Materiality of Stone The tall menhir at Le Ruen, that is 6 m excessive, has 4 completely distinct faces. The large southern elevation of this stone is gentle and faces the ocean, that is a number of hundred metres away. The north vast face has shallow depressions all around the higher half. The slim jap facet has a chain of very deep vertical cracks operating correct down the sting. This contrasts thoroughly with the western aspect, that is flat and undeniable. The menhir is surprisingly, for this sector, located with reference to a chain of low outcropping rocks to the west, south and east. this sort of 7 m to the SSW has a chain of shallow and abnormal resolution basins on its uppermost floor. To the east there's a V-shaped passage grave whose capstones have answer basins on their uppermost surfaces. adjoining to this grave are a couple of huge flat stones that have quite a few cup marks and grooves carved into them. Sub-regional Comparisons there's a very marked distinction among the attribute of the stones in all the sub-regional teams of menhirs (see desk 2. 1). neighborhood resources of rock are utilized in all circumstances and there's no facts of any long-distance stream of stones.