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<< Our Photo Pages >> Menhir de Ger - Standing Stone (Menhir) in France in Aquitaine:Pyrénées-Atlantiques 64

Submitted by TheCaptain on Thursday, 10 February 2005  Page Views: 7795

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Menhir de Ger Alternative Name: Menhir de Roye
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 5.618 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Aquitaine:Pyrénées-Atlantiques 64 Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Tarbes  Nearest Village: Ger
Latitude: 43.264809N  Longitude: 0.029486W
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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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Menhir de Ger submitted by Nick- : 14th April 2009 12:30 Looking South at the menhir, Pyrénées visible; though not that clear because of all the snow..... (Vote or comment on this photo)
At 4.8 metres tall, this is the largest menhir in the western Pyrenees, near a dirt road between Pintac and Ger.
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Menhir de Ger
Menhir de Ger submitted by Nick- : Menhir de Ger 12:30 lunchtime, shade temperature of 38°. Maize enclosing the stone. Quite a change from January. (4 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Menhir de Ger
Menhir de Ger submitted by Nick- : Looking westwards. I didn't notice on the day the concrete(?) in the stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Menhir de Ger
Menhir de Ger submitted by Nick- : This stone is very hard to find (unless one has a 1:25000 map of the area on which it is marked) Gave up trying last summer as one got lost down dusty tracks, and threateningly high Maize. Went a few weeks ago , and found it only because the trees were naked so saw it from afar. (after driving up loads of very muddy tracks...) Someone has left a candle on the stone. Car for scale. (3 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Menhir de Ger submitted by Nick- : 14th April 2009, Pentagon-3cms high (and something else below?) engraved on the Eastern face of menhir. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Menhir de Ger
Menhir de Ger submitted by Nick- : 9th May 2007 , This shows the size of the menhir....(I'm 191cms, 6'3"). I'm slightly surprised by the size of the stone myself......in this photo. What I'm not (now) suprised by is the awful 'sepia' setting on the SONY DSC-60 camera,which absolutely kills* the photo... Even fiddling with photoshop has made it hardly any better.... *the depth (1 comment)

Menhir de Ger
Menhir de Ger submitted by Nick- : 27th March 2007 Looking South West. The 'mound' is on the right, the menhir is on the left in the distance. (I had to brighten the menhir, as 'it' was almost invisible.....) Note the unprepossessing sky, about an hour and a half before, the Pyrénées had been partially visible from Tarbes. By the time I arrived at the menhir, they were hidden once again. So no menhir and Pyrénées.... (2 comments)

Menhir de Ger
Menhir de Ger submitted by Nick- : 27th March 2007, possible mound 200 metres North East from the menhir (it may just be a pile of manure covered with trees....)

Menhir de Ger
Menhir de Ger submitted by Nick- : 27th March 2007 Looking North East. Note the hideous concrete (in this context-I'm not anti concrete). I wonder if somebody thought the menhir was going to fall over! Seems unlikely it would do so..... (2 comments)

Menhir de Ger
Menhir de Ger submitted by Nick- : 27th March 2007 Looking Eastwards towards the menhir..... (3 comments)

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Re: Menhir de Ger by Anonymous on Sunday, 24 December 2017
Où se situe l’emplacement initial ?

Il est dit que le menhir a été déplacé de 20 m
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Re: Menhir de Ger by Andy B on Friday, 25 August 2006
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Nick - photos moved, thanks - can you give us a more accurate long/lat for this stone?
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