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Natural PlacesSite Name: Turaida Engraved StoneCountry: Latvia
NOTE: This site is 36.483 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Sigulda
Latitude: 57.182250N Longitude: 24.850560E
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 |
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Carving in Latvia
A little known and often overlooked stone, inside the castle of Turaida (build from the early 13th century onwards by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword). This ovoid stone, at the foot of the dungeon, protrudes from the ground by about 1 m. German servicemen engraved an Iron Cross on it during WWI, probably between 1914 and 1916.
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