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The Menhir de Lann al Louarn, nicknamed the Fox Shelter, is a megalithic monument located in the commune of Plouguin, Finistère. In 1859, Pol de Courcy reported a set of four menhirs near the village of Kermabiou, measuring between 6 and 7 metres high. These stones were erected on a height overlooking the Locmajan Valley, near a fibrolith deposit, and come from a granite deposit about 1 km away.

In 1877 the teacher Mingan only recorded three menhirs forming an isocele triangle. Three of them were destroyed in 1887 by carriers, but two were known by a drawing by Paul du Châtellier. The remaining menhir, classified as a historic monument in 1961, is 5.40 m high for 2.20 m wide. Its transport from the extraction site, located 40 m below, probably required a diversion route to bypass the elevation.

According to Châtellier surveys, the three missing menhirs were between 4.70 m and 5.40 m high. A polisher and a fifth menhir, located 70 m and 200 m east, were destroyed around 1956. A moulding of the polisher is preserved at the Prehistoric Museum of Penmarc The present menhir, in granite from the Aber-Ildut, bears witness to the importance of megalithic sites in this Breton region.

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