<< Our Photo Pages >> Mevoisins menhir - Modern Stone Circle etc in France in Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28)
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Modern SitesSite Name: Mevoisins menhirCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 1.705 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Chartres Nearest Village: Mevoisins
Latitude: 48.553100N Longitude: 1.605100E
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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TheCaptain visited on 7th Aug 2005 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5 This lovely 3 metre tall menhir can be seen from miles around, beside the D.329 road up in the hills between the two villages of Mevoisins and Yermenonville. It’s a gorgeous angular lump of flinty sarsen, but it turns out that it was erected only 5 years ago to mark the turning of the millennium. It seems that there was a big party to celebrate putting the stone up, using only manpower, logs and ropes.
This had me fooled into thinking it was the Pierre-qui-Vire, which is supposedly to be found in the community somewhere. So as not to fool anyone investigating this stone in the future, there is buried under the stone a computer, a mobile phone, some money and a listing of all the people living in the community.
It turns out that this stone has only been here a few years, having been erected in the year 2000 to celebrate the millennium, but it was erected using only manpower and ropes, before a big celebration party was held. Under the stone are items from the time, such as a mobile phone and computer, along with a list of the names of all the people in the community, so that it will not confuse archaeologists of the future.
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