The Menhir de Champ-Dolent is 2 kilometres (1 mile) south of Dol-de-Bretagne in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine.

[5] It is made of pinkish granite,[4] quarried about 2.5 mi (4.0 km) away,[6] and has an estimated weight of around 100 tonnes.

[7] It is not precisely dated, but recent scholarship suggests that Brittany's menhirs were erected c. 5000–4000 BC.

[9] According to legend, the menhir rose from the ground to separate two feuding brothers who were on the point of killing each other.

[10] Another legend states that the menhir is slowly sinking into the ground, and the world will end when it disappears altogether.