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<< Our Photo Pages >> Porte de Pierrefite - Standing Stone (Menhir) in France in Midi:Haute-Garonne (31)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 31 August 2011  Page Views: 6858

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Porte de Pierrefite Alternative Name: Cromlech du Port de Pierrefite
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 4.141 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Midi:Haute-Garonne (31) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Bagnères-de-Luchon  Nearest Village: Bourg-d'Oueil
Latitude: 42.868240N  Longitude: 0.471940E
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.
5 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
0no data
4

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Porte de Pierrefite
Porte de Pierrefite submitted by irundarra : Porte de Pierrefite Site in Midi:Haute-Garonne (31) France (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing stone surrounded by a cromlech of stones at the high Porte de Pierrefite mountain pass (1855 metres) in the Pyrénéan mountains to the west of the holiday and Spa town of Bagneres-de-Luchon.





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Porte de Pierrefite
Porte de Pierrefite submitted by irundarra : Porte de Pierrefite Site in Midi:Haute-Garonne (31) France (3 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Porte de Pierrefite
Porte de Pierrefite submitted by irundarra (Vote or comment on this photo)

Porte de Pierrefite
Porte de Pierrefite submitted by irundarra (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Porte de Pierrefite
Porte de Pierrefite submitted by irundarra (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Flickr
Lac de Bareilles (1766 m)
Cromlech du port de Pierrefite (1857 m)
Le port de Pierrefite (1857 m) et le mont Né (2147 m)
La vue de la crête de la Coume du Lion
Le pic du Lion (2102 m) et le col du Lion (2031 m)
Le col du Lion (2031 m) et le sommet du Tech (2138 m)

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Re: Porte de Pierrefite by Martin_L on Friday, 02 September 2011
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Not sure though, but there seems to be a second page of this site: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=9590
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    Re: Porte de Pierrefite by TheCaptain on Friday, 02 September 2011
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    When I originally made these site pages up, I created one for each of the known and listed standing stone and cromlech. As I am not 100% sure whether they are both one and the same site, or whether there is more to be found up there, I did not delete the other page.

    In actuality, these Pyrenean cromlechs are often found in groups, and often with several groups nearby to each other. Just look at the pages for Sarrat de Cousseillot Cromlechs and Mail de Soupène Cromlechs, just a few kilometres to the southeast along the same mountain ridge top. And there is a lot more there to be found, with several stone rows and a possible large circle to be found, which helps give the area its name Carnac Pyrénéan.
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Re: Porte de Pierrefite by Anonymous on Friday, 02 September 2011
Photo number 009 makes it look like its on a graded road cut. Could this be modern? If it is a road cut then it certainly would be easy to deliver stones there. Or did they cut this road TO the circle, because it looks like that is the end of the road.
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    Re: Porte de Pierrefite by TheCaptain on Friday, 02 September 2011
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    Not sure what you mean by photo number 009, I assume you mean pid=81112, but yes there is a trackway up here to this mountain pass. No doubt this trackway through the mountains has been here for thousands of years, and became a fairly major way for the shepherds herding their sheep. It is still not a major road, but access can be obtained from the neaby Port de Bales a few km to the northwest, which has now been made up into a tarmacced road, possibly for the use of the Tour de France.

    Less than 100 years ago, there was no road over the World famous Col de Tourmalet, but just a shepherds track. Then somebody had the idea of using this for the route of the Tour de France, and since then the trackway became a small road, and is now a fairly major route to holiday resorts such as La Mongie and Bareges. But there was no real need for the road, it went from nowhere to nowhere through tough mountain country, hence its name, Tour Malet, approximately translating to Bad Route.

    A now World Famous road over a legendary mountain pass, made for a bike race.

    And yes, I have no doubt this site is ancient, although it has been "restored".
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Re: Porte de Pierrefite by Anonymous on Friday, 02 September 2011
Is that for real? It's tooo perfect - I suspect modern provenance! What's it's story?
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Re: Porte de Pierrefite by TheCaptain on Thursday, 01 September 2011
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streetview up towards Mont Né and Porte-de-Pierrefite from the road down from Port de Bales


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Re: Porte de Pierrefite by TheCaptain on Monday, 19 July 2010
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Found a nice picture of this here
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