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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Borne de la Pierre Qui Danse Alternative Name: PIERRE QUI DANSECountry: France Département: Poitou:Charente (16) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: ANGOULEME Nearest Village: ROUILLAC
Latitude: 45.804270N Longitude: 0.09561W
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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Some days ago I was reading the map around the village of ROUILLAC when I found a place named "La Pierre Qui Danse". I went to this place on the next sunday and in the middle of a crossroad I saw a white painted big stone. It is really a boundary marker now; but in the past it was perhaps a standing-stone who had been moved; because the surrounding place is called "Pierre Fiche". It is not a coincidence !
This stone 1,2 metre high, 1,9 m on perimeter, 0,5 m on thickness, is now on the border limit of three rural districts just on the common point; it is engraved on the south face:
PIERRE QUI DANSE
LIMITE SEPARATIVE des communes de ROUILLAC MONTIGNE et SONNEVILLE
PLANTEE ICI le 24 MAI 1868 en présence des autorités municipales des dites communes
The legend attached to this stone said: "The stone start dancing when when the bells of the three vilages rings the "Angélus" at the same time". Maybe in the end of the afternoon the wingrovers of the country saw the stone moving when they drunk a lot !
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