<< Our Photo Pages >> Demoiselles de Langon - Stone Row / Alignment in France in Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35)
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Demoiselles de LangonCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 2.364 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Redon Nearest Village: Langon
Latitude: 47.720900N Longitude: 1.8544W
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 |
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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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johnstone visited on 25th Jun 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5
TheCaptain visited on 13th May 2005 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Found near to the stadium in the village of Langon and signposted from the main street These alignements consist of between 30 and 40 white quartz stone blocks in a field. Though I have read somewhere about them being arranged in two rows this most definitely isn’t the case. I have also read about them being astronomically aligned but to me they seem quite randomly scattered about! Many intersecting lines of 4 or 5 stones perhaps but nothing obvious. It would be nice to see a plan of this place to see if I could make more sense of the stones. There are probably many more stones that have been removed or are hiding in people’s gardens or under hedges.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4 Access: 5
Though I have read somewhere about them being arranged in two rows this most definitely isn’t the case. There is also a thought that they could be arranged as an oval and four further arcs on the outside of this. I have also read about them being astronomically aligned but to me they seem quite randomly scattered about! Many intersecting lines of 4 or 5 stones perhaps but nothing obvious.
It would be nice to see a plan of this place to see if I could make more sense of the stones. There are probably many more stones that have been removed or are hiding in people’s gardens or under hedges.
At the northwest side of the field, in amongst the bushes, is the remains of a rectangular tumulus with surrounding stones.
A nice and intriguing place to visit.
A plan can be found on the linked page
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