<< Our Photo Pages >> Montchauvet Alignements - Standing Stones in France in Normandie:Calvados (14)
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Montchauvet Alignements Alternative Name: Menhirs de la Plumaudière, Alignements de Montchauvet, Pierre du HuCountry: France Département: Normandie:Calvados (14) Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Vire Nearest Village: Montchauvet
Latitude: 48.938100N Longitude: 0.7054W
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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johnstone visited on 25th Jun 2009 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4
TheCaptain have visited here
I found nine large stones in the field, mostly flat to the ground, but one or two upright. In the corner of the field, the largest, The Pierre du Hu stands just under three metres tall. The stones are all a sort of quartz like stone, and strangely seem to be covered in a sort of tarry substance - perhaps bird droppings after too many blackberries?
As well as the nine large stones, there are several other smaller bits of stone in the field, some marked by sticks , presumably so that any grass cutting machinery is not damaged.
I could make out no pattern to the stones, perhaps they were in a couple of rows, but they seemed to make a sort of large arc.
Nice to see that these very unknown stones are being looked after and made available to visit, I wondered if it was a condition of the new houses built here.
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