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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Peetje en Meetje Alternative Name: Meetje en PeetjeCountry: Belgium
NOTE: This site is 19.929 km away from the location you searched for.
Province: Oost-Vlaanderen Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Ronse Nearest Village: Kluisbergen
Latitude: 50.760000N Longitude: 3.493200E
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 |
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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 |
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TheCaptain visited on 29th May 1998 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 It annoys me that I have no photos of this from my visit in 1998. I had another look through my old boxes of photos and there was nothing at all that day of my cycling holiday, although I could have sworn differently. Perhaps my camera was left in my tent as we visited it on a day ride out from Oudenaaard. Very unlikely, I could swear I had pictures of a local windmill and the bar where we had lunch, but nothing was found.
maByr visited - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 3
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 3.5
Update by Alta-Falisa - AUG.2014. This dolmen is not a real dolmen, not even a reconstructed one, but a "synthetic" dolmen. As the numerous ancient postcards show, the two stones (called "Peetje" and "Meetje", two popular diminutives for Godfather end Godmother) were originally much further apart than today. I haven't found out so far when the monument was assembled. "Meetje" and "Peetje", unearthed and put closer to each other, were supplemented by a few other stones found or collected nearby (see site "Kluisberg", about 1 km away). The present dolmen cannot be older than ca. 1930, and could even be much more recent.
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