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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pierre Ceinturee - Standing Stone (Menhir) in France in Poitou:Charente (16)

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pierre Ceinturee
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 4.009 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Poitou:Charente (16) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Angouleme  Nearest Village: Jauldes
Latitude: 45.771680N  Longitude: 0.283530E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Pierre Ceinturee
Pierre Ceinturee submitted by TAUPIN : Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France (Vote or comment on this photo)
This stone was perhaps a standing-stone which has fallen. It is a limestone cylinder about 2 metres long and 1 metre in diameter. It is on the edge of a track along a shooting area of the army, but access is allowed out of shooting exercises. This stone is on "La Braconne" forest where we can find many abyss and caves.

A legend is attached to this stone and written down on a signpost.

The inhabitants of the aréa want to see the filling-up of "La Grand'fosse", a nearby abyss; and for that they called the Devil. Nothing more easy for him to carry some big rocks on his shoulders.

For this deal the farmers had the bad idéa to accept to give them souls and those of them descendants to the Prince of the night; but only if the work was finished at the crowof the cock. The Devil had just made a single trip and poured out loose stones when he heard cock-a-doodle-doo.

The cock had perhaps taken the moon for the sun or drunk some wine ? One thing is certain; the big stone carried by the Devil firmly chained on his shoulders had never been put down in the abyss and it is since this adventure left at the side of the track. The prints of chains and Devil's shoulders can be imagined on the stone and on the other extrémity there is a Christian cross engraved.
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Pierre Ceinturee
Pierre Ceinturee submitted by TAUPIN : Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France (Vote or comment on this photo)

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