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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Menhir du Monument Alternative Name: Menhir de la RedditionCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 0.297 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Bretagne:Morbihan (56) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Lorient Nearest Village: Caudan
Latitude: 47.814060N Longitude: 3.33903W
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 |
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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 |
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Menhir de la Reddition = Menhir of the Surrender
The tekst at the bronze plate (translated):
HERE May 10, 1945 at 4 p.m. General Fahrenbacher of the Wehrmacht,
Commander of the German troops in Lorient, surrendered his arms to the General Kramer, commander of the 66th D.I.U.S. and General Borgnis-Desbordes, Commander of the 19th D.I. and the French forces of Morbihan
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