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<< Our Photo Pages >> Menhir du Faix du Diable - Standing Stone (Menhir) in France in Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Saturday, 16 April 2005  Page Views: 4081

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Menhir du Faix du Diable Alternative Name: Chesnaie Menhir
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 5.003 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Ernée  Nearest Village: La Bigottière
Latitude: 48.204400N  Longitude: 0.7738W
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.
3 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.
4 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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TheCaptain visited on 30th Apr 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 5 A massive menhir right beside the road and standing in the ditch. It must be well over 4 metres tall 3 metres wide and over a metre thick and it looks to have been smoothed.

Menhir du Faix du Diable
Menhir du Faix du Diable submitted by TheCaptain : Faix du Diable, Mayenne. A massive menhir right beside the road, growing in the ditch. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A massive menhir standing in the ditch beside the road near La Bigotière, in Mayenne

It must be well over 4 metres tall, 3 metres wide and over a metre thick, and it looks to have been smoothed.

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Menhir du Faix du Diable
Menhir du Faix du Diable submitted by TheCaptain : Faix du Diable, Mayenne. A massive menhir right beside the road, and standing in the ditch. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Faix du Diable by TheCaptain on Friday, 06 January 2012
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Re: Faix du Diable by TheCaptain on Sunday, 08 May 2005
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Faix aux Diable, Chesnaie menhir, La Bigotière, Mayenne, N 48.2044 W 00.7738 by gps.
Visited Saturday, 30 April 2005. Access 4, Condition 3, Ambience 4.

A massive menhir right beside the road, and standing in the ditch. It must be well over 4 metres tall, 3 metres wide and over a metre thick, and it looks to have been smoothed.
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