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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bach menhirsCountry: France
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Département: Midi:Lot (46) Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Limogne-en-Quercy Nearest Village: Bach
Latitude: 44.353920N Longitude: 1.666510E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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The name of the commune is pronounced Bash. I saw these first about 10 days ago when I went to collect plants from a specialist and inexpensive nursery (dry stony soils). I didn’t have camera or phone with me, so I went back yesterday, the first of January, a beautiful day. The area is a whole département (Lot) of limestone karst, as in Dalmatia or (in miniature) the county Clare Burren. There are chasms and splits and pavements and lots of perforated boulders. I live just where the southern edge ends.
The stones are 250 cm apart, and 120, 130 high, and do not seem ever to have been a gateway. Rubble has been piled behind them, so there is a faint chance that there might be a chamber.
The location on the IGN 2139 SB (Cahors) is in Bach commune, 500 m NW of the Mairie, on the N side of the D22 (direction Escamps) and 300 m SE of the Chemin des Bories Hautes.
I have marked them on Google Earth.
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