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<< Our Photo Pages >> Borne de la Pierre Qui Danse - Standing Stone (Menhir) in France in Poitou:Charente (16)

Submitted by taupin on Tuesday, 07 August 2012  Page Views: 4157

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Borne de la Pierre Qui Danse Alternative Name: PIERRE QUI DANSE
Country: France Département: Poitou:Charente (16) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: ANGOULEME  Nearest Village: ROUILLAC
Latitude: 45.804270N  Longitude: 0.09561W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Borne de la Pierre Qui Danse submitted by taupin : Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France (Vote or comment on this photo)
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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Borne de la Pierre Qui Danse
Borne de la Pierre Qui Danse submitted by taupin : Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France (Vote or comment on this photo)

Borne de la Pierre Qui Danse
Borne de la Pierre Qui Danse submitted by taupin (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Borne de la Pierre Qui Danse by Anonymous on Sunday, 20 July 2014
je connais cette borne depuisplusieurs decennies. Je m'y suis intéressé par curiosité et fait des recherches un peu partout dans le département. j'ai consulté les archives des communes alentour sans aucun résultat danbs les mairies. les archives des communes pour cette période sont à Angoulême au Archives départrementales. je les ai consultés pour essayer d'avoir des infos pensant que les maires des communes au confins desquelles se trouvait cette borne participé à la pose ou autre manifestation autour de la date indiquée sur cette borne. j'ai rencontré des maires, des anciens et consulté les archives du journal "la charente" de l'époque. Un Préfet ou un adjoint a du participer ! Rien. j'ai également visité la veuve d'un ancien colonel qui a écrit des livres sur les communes telles que Rouillac mais n'ai pu avoir de renseignement. Je ne peux pas m'étendre sur le sujet ici mais mes recherches continuent au gré de mon passage dans le pays charentais.
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