A field of ancient stones in Carnac, a town in northern France, has been swept away to make room for a hardware store chain, France 24 reported.
image: Haffen56, Carnac menhirs Wikimedia Commons
…the land they were on was not protected…
ARTNews writes:
“The site has been destroyed,” Carnac-based archaeologist Christian Obeltz told Agence France Presse of the local pre-historic treasure. The 39 stones were around two to four feet in height and thought to be around 7,000 years old.
While these particular stones were close to a protected site where 3,000 similar stones known as menhirs exist, the land they were on was not protected. Last August, hardware chain Mr. Bricolage successfully applied for a building permit on the land to open a new store.
The mayor of Carnac, Olivier Lepick, told AFP that those stones in particular were “of low archaeological value” and that the site had been inspected prior to the start of construction, as required by law…
Obeltz disagrees…
