<< Our Photo Pages >> Pierre Longue de Saint-Jouan - Standing Stone (Menhir) in France in Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35)
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pierre Longue de Saint-Jouan Alternative Name: Menhir de la ButteCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 2.689 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Dol-de-Bretagne Nearest Village: Cuguen
Latitude: 48.419900N Longitude: 1.6707W
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 17th Jun 2013 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Ogham TheCaptain have visited here
Despite the menhir being so big, it still manages to play a game of hide and seek before finding it along chestnut lined trackways through fields of maize!
To find the menhir (which is well worth the effort) take the D795 south from the crossroads with the D796 Combourg to Bazouges road. About a kilometre south of the crossroads, and just south from crossing the little stream, take the small road to the east, which does have a sign to the menhir. Continue along this lane for about a kilometre, turning to the left a couple of times, until it ends at a farm, and park. From here walk along the farm track to the south, which had a very homemade sign in October 2010 between two fields of maize, for a few hundred metres until a crossing of ways. From here take the right turn west along a lovely chestnut tree lined avenue for a hundred or so metres and there the stone is. It is amazing how it hides so well behind the trees which are smaller than it !
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