Quelques mégalithes de l'Ouest-Minervois

All are marked on the IGN 1:100.000 Béziers-Montpellier map (no.65).
Tous marqués sur la carte IGN 1 : 100.000 No.65 (Béziers-Montpellier).

2. Menhir de Malves-en-Minervois (Aude)

This easily-accessible standing-stone is five metres high,
and estimated to extend another four metres underground.
The approach has been charmingly planted with shrubs.

Some 25 km NW, not far from Saissac in the commune of Fraïsse-sur-Agout, is the smaller, but more remarkable
Menhir de Picarel (-le-Haut).

This curious granite megalith , 2.5 metres high, so unlike other statue-menhirs of the area, features also on a slightly unsteady video,
where it is suggested that the deep groove which makes the standing-stone so phallic
was a mediæval Christianisation.

Other interpretations suggest that the engraved top represents a solar disc,
or a human head on which is engraved an ouroboros circumscribing an egg:

"La partie supérieure, représentant la tê;te sans doute, est séparée du reste par un sillon profond creusé dans la pierre.
Elle est gravée d'un ouroboros, c'est à dire un serpent se mordant la queue, symbole d'éternité, qui entoure un œuf, emblème du retour à la vie..."