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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pierre Levée (Salles-de-Castillon)Country: France
NOTE: This site is 5.855 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Aquitaine:Gironde (33) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Libourne Nearest Village: Salles-de-Castillon
Latitude: 44.921300N Longitude: 0.0074W
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 9th Sep 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 5
TheCaptain visited on 2nd Jun 2005 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 5 This one comes with its own wine! While driving from Peyre Lebade towards Clotte I saw this stone standing at the entrance to a farmhouse wine producer and noticed that the farm was called Chateau de la Pierre Levée.
I stopped to have a better look and a man on his tractor in the vineyard came over to me so I tried to ask him about the stone. Apparently somewhere in his garage he has an archaeological panel with some information on it which he intends to get erected by the stone but he couldn’t find it. He called his wife who told him it was in the garage and went to look for herself also to no avail ! At this point I enquired of their wine and got taken on a little tour of the place and a tasting or two (how could I refuse?) so of course bought a case of mixed vintages for a very reasonable price as a souvenir.
The menhir at the entrance is just over 2 metres tall but I have to say looks fairly recently erected there although the stone looks as old as the hills. I think I saw somewhere that the menhir after which the wine is named was in a corner of a field. Perhaps it has been fairly recently moved here. It’s a pity I couldn’t fully converse with the chap he had a thick accent which didn’t help and although we chatted well about simple things the details were missed.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 2 Access: 5
I stopped to have a better look, and a man on his tractor in the vineyard came over to me, so I tried to ask him about the stone. Apparently, somewhere in his garage, he has an archaeological panel with some information on it, which he intends to get erected by the stone, but he couldn’t find it. He called his wife, who told him it was in the garage, and went to look for herself, also to no avail ! At this point, I enquired of their wine, and got taken on a little tour of the place and a tasting or two (how could I refuse?), so of course bought a case of mixed vintages for a very reasonable price, as a souvenir.
The menhir at the entrance is just over 2 metres tall, but I have to say looks fairly recently erected there, although the stone looks as old as the hills. I think I saw somewhere that the menhir after which the wine is named was in a corner of a field. Perhaps it has been fairly recently moved here. It’s a pity I couldn’t fully converse with the chap, he had a thick accent which didn’t help with my lack of French, and although we chatted well about simple things, the details were missed.
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