Archaeo-astronomy - The Dol de Breton is a part of a solar alignment running between Mont St. Michel, (which is clearly visible from the top), and D' Avranches. The three sites align so that the rising sun on the 8th of May (which is the spring festival of St. Michael), rises over D' Avranches, follows the axis of the Abbey on Mont St. Michel, then passes over Mont Dol and finally the Dol de Breton.

Legends: Several legends relate to Champ Dolent and his menhir.

The name "Champ Dolent" was appointed to more than one place, and it reminds us that this place was held after fighting and confrontation, and where the victims' bodies were buried. The debris of weapons often found in these places confirm this theory.

One legend tells us also that the menhir Champ Dolent fell from the sky or that the sky was so horrified, it dropped it to separate the armies of two brothers engaged in a bloody battle on this ground. The battle was so terrible that it gave the name "field of pain" to this place after witnessing this bloody massacre. It is said by the way, that so much blood was paid for in the outpouring during this fight that the mill valley ran non-stop. The legend ends by saying that each century, the menhir sinks into the ground a few millimetres. When the menhir has been completely buried in the soil, this will be the end of the world.

Another version of the legend specifies that whenever a person dies, the menhir sinks into the ground. Its full submergence signifies the end of the world. it .

Another legend includes Mount Dol. It is said that one day, Satan saw Saint-Samson building a cathedral on Mount "Dol" from the surrounding marshes. The rise of a religious building on an ancient site made the fallen angel indignant, he took a rock of Dol and threw it to the Cathedral in order to destroy it. The rock destroyed the upper part of the north tower (still today, this tower is missing) and fell in a field.