CHEVALEMENT DU PUITS DE LA TRANCHEE
MAUGES-SUR-LOIRE
Built in 1874, the headframe of the shaft of the trench is 32 meters high.
Built in 1874, the headframe of the shaft of the trench is 32 meters high.
It was built, all in wood, in Croix de Vie at the Didier Thomazeau shipyard, for the fisherman Israël Chevrier.
The navigator Garcie Ferrande called the tip of this lighthouse "Pointe de Ryé", giving it to navigators as a landmark.
Transept type dolmen (3000 BC), meaning it has a church like form. A corridor, a room at the end and two rooms on the side.
The Menhir de la Grand'Pierre is a block of quartzite 2 m high, 2.56 m wide and 0.82 m thick. It faces north-east.