Alignement de Kerdruellan, Neolithic stone row site near Belz, France

Alignement de Kerdruellan is a diffuse arrangement of over fifty fallen menhirs of gneiss, up to 2.0 m high, lying in their original sedimentary context near Belz. The stones, mostly toppled toward the northwest–southeast, form several rows. In the photograph, large black plastic sheets cover much of the ground, with a few rough gray-brown stones and patches of loose soil visible at the edges.

These stones were deliberately positioned around 2000 BCE during the Neolithic period and later toppled from northwest to southeast. Some menhirs were reused during the Medieval period for agricultural purposes.

The site's name comes from the Kerdruellan hamlet in Belz. During the Middle Ages the fallen menhirs were partly cut up and reused as building material by farmers working the land. The 2006 INRAP excavation, the first large-area dig in France devoted to megaliths, uncovered a network of ditches, pits and wall foundations around the stones.

The site was discovered in 2005 during a housing development project and received protected monument status in March 2008. Visitors should explore the area respectfully, as it is a protected archaeological site.

Archaeological investigations revealed that people reused and repurposed these ancient stones thousands of years after they were first placed. This shows how inhabitants adapted the landscape across different time periods, giving the stones new meanings for their own needs.