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<< Our Photo Pages >> Menhirs dits Les Croûtes - Standing Stones in France in Normandie:Orne (61)

Submitted by thecaptain on Saturday, 16 April 2005  Page Views: 3861

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Menhirs dits Les Croûtes Alternative Name: Les Crouttes
Country: France Département: Normandie:Orne (61) Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: L'Aigle  Nearest Village: Echauffour
Latitude: 48.728400N  Longitude: 0.417500E
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 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.
3 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
0no data
5

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TheCaptain visited on 2nd May 2005 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 A couple of kilometres south of the village of Echauffour can be found a signpost pointing to menhirs along a small track to the east of the road. There is a place to park on this track near the main road and after a couple of hundred metres walk down this track the two menhirs can be seen standing in a field. Both stones are about 3 metres tall and are spaced about 30 metres apart from each other on an alignment of 055° running down the hill (235° uphill). There is supposed to be a third stone in this alignment and I think I saw it laying under deep undergrowth in the hedge at the top of the field on about an equal spacing although I could not be 100% sure.

Menhirs dits Les Croûtes
Menhirs dits Les Croûtes submitted by thecaptain : Les Croûtes are a couple of large (3 metres plus) menhirs stood in a damp field near to the village of Echauffour in Orne. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A couple of kilometres south of the village of Echauffour can be found a signpost pointing to menhirs along a small track to the east of the road. There is a place to park on this track near the main road and after a couple of hundred metres walk down this track the two menhirs can be seen standing in a field.

Both stones are about 3 metres tall and are spaced about 30 metres apart from each other on an alignment of 055° running down the hill (235° uphill).

There is supposed to be a third stone in this alignment and I think I saw it laying under deep undergrowth in the hedge at the top of the field on about an equal spacing although I could not be 100% sure.


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Re: Les Croûtes by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 11 May 2005
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Les Croûtes menhirs, Echauffour, Orne, N 48.7282, E 00.4174 by gps.
Visited Monday, 2nd May 2005. Access 4, Condition 3, Ambience 3.

A couple of kilometres south of the village of Echauffour, can be found a signpost pointing to menhirs along a small track to the east of the road. There is a place to park on this track near the main road, and after a couple of hundred metres walk down this track the two menhirs can be seen standing in a field. Both stones are about 3 metres tall, and are spaced about 30 metres apart from each other, on an alignment of 055° running down the hill (235° uphill). There is supposed to be a third stone in this alignment, and I think I saw it laying under deep undergrowth in the hedge at the top of the field, on about an equal spacing, although I could not be 100% sure.
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