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<< Other Photo Pages >> Sicilian Channel Monolith - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Italy in Sicily (Sicilia)

Submitted by Andy B on Monday, 10 August 2015  Page Views: 12667

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sicilian Channel Monolith Alternative Name: Pantelleria Vecchia Bank Megalith
Country: Italy Region: Sicily (Sicilia) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)

Latitude: 37.166667N  Longitude: 12.105556E
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.
1 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.
1 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
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Sicilian Channel Monolith
Sicilian Channel Monolith submitted by dodomad : A 12 metre monolith, hacked out of limestone by stone-age humans some nine thousand years ago, has been found at the bottom of the Mediterranean. Source: Journal of Archaeological Science (Vote or comment on this photo)
A 12 metre monolith, hacked out of limestone some nine thousand years ago, has been found at the bottom of the Mediterranean. The enormous stone totem, now split in two and sitting in the Sicilian Channel between Tunisia and Sicily, about 25 miles from Malta, was hewn from a rocky outcrop some 300m away when the Mediterranean Sea was still a dry basin.

It’s now under 40m of water. The new study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, says the area was submerged about 9350 years ago (give or take 200 years) when the last Ice Age retreated. Before that time the area was believed to be something of an archipelago, with a string of islands linking Europe to North Africa via a shallow sea.

“It was cut and extracted as a single stone from the outer rectilinear ridge situated about 300 to the south, and then transported and possibly erected,” the study reads. ”From the size of the monolith, we may presume that it weighs about 15 tons.”

Read more at News.com.au and the original paper is here. With thanks to Mary B for the link.
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Sicilian Channel Monolith
Sicilian Channel Monolith submitted by dodomad : A 12 metre monolith, hacked out of limestone by stone-age humans some nine thousand years ago, has been found at the bottom of the Mediterranean. Source: Journal of Archaeological Science (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Sicilian Channel Monolith by aolson on Saturday, 30 January 2021
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Also called the Pantelleria Vecchia Bank megalith.
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    Re: Sicilian Channel Monolith by Runemage on Saturday, 30 January 2021
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    Thank-you Aolson, I've amended our site-page to show that new information.
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