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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: BlešnoCountry: Czech Republic
NOTE: This site is 9.016 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Bohemia Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Louny Nearest Village: Blešno
Latitude: 50.481938N Longitude: 13.903426E
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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This standing stone can be found in the small village of Blešno, located on the slope of the nephelinite hill of the same name. According to the Czech Wikipedia (cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ble%C5%A1ensk%C3%BD_vrch), the hill was formed by dissecting a neovolcanic vein from marlite deposited in the Upper Cretaceous. On the slopes there are rubble fields and small rocks exhibiting a columnar formation. The standing stone looks like a single column of the given rock, adjusted to the shape of a seat. His age is unknown.
It is possible that this is a stone erected in historical times, but the fact is that there was a prehistoric settlement on the site of the current village of Blešno already in the early Bronze Age. Several bronze artefacts, a wheel structure from the time of the Bell-Beaker culture and Lusatian dustbin graves were found here.
The first written mention of the village of Blešno dates back to 1395. On the top of the Blešno hill, there are almost imperceptible remains of a hillfort, probably from the 14th century.
More information (in Czech) can be found here: cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ble%C5%A1no
The standing stone can be seen in Mapy.cz via Panorama view:
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