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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Menhir des RichardsCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 1.878 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Saint Jean d'Angély Nearest Village: Mazeray
Latitude: 45.891700N Longitude: 0.5594W
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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Menhir in Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17)
This menhir can be found at the end of the locality Les Richards. It is just next to the road, in a farm. The legend says that it was brought back from a field by a farmer.
The menhir is not very big but it is interesting.
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