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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: La Pierre de Gargantua (St Brevin) Alternative Name: La Roche des PrésCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 1.433 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Saint-Nazaire Nearest Village: Saint-Brevin-Les-Pin
Latitude: 47.263970N Longitude: 2.16144W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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TheCaptain visited on 14th May 2005 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 3 I spent nearly an hour looking for this and eventually found it after asking a local. It is in a swamp just beside a large road junction and can be found by taking a dead end track then across some open land before dropping down into the wetlands in the corner of the road interchange.
Having found it it was not all that exciting being only abut a metre high and surrounded by tall grasses. Its hardly a Gargantua ! Perhaps its sinking into the swamp. I understand the name is something to do with a legend attached to the stone but unfoprtunately do not know anything of it.
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