<< Our Photo Pages >> La Berthellière - Polissoir in France in Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53)
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: La Berthellière Alternative Name: La Pierre Saint-GuillaumeCountry: France Département: Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) Type: Polissoir
Nearest Town: Ernée Nearest Village: Montenay
Latitude: 48.283900N Longitude: 0.855W
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 |
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TheCaptain visited on 29th Apr 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 A lovely polissoir stone found a couple of kilometres southeast of the village of Montenay near to the town of Ernée in Mayenne. The stone is signposted and found in a little wooded area about 50 metres down a lane from the farm of the same name.
The stone is flat on the ground about 2 metres in length and about half to three quarters of a metre wide. It has 3 big polishing bowls several sharpening grooves and several other polished features. It is a very hard looking stone which has been polished fantastically smooth by thousands of years of stone tool making.
I am starting to really like these polissoir stones they really bring the ancient people to life sitting here polishing away at their axes and tools. They say far more than any dolmen or menhir to me.
A lovely polissoir The stone is signposted and found in a little wooded area about 50 metres down a lane from the farm of the same name.
The stone is flat on the ground, about 2 metres in length and about half to three quarters of a metre wide, It has 3 big polishing bowls, several sharpening grooves and several other polished features. It is a very hard looking stone, which has been polished fantastically smooth by thousands of years of stone tool making.
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