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Natural PlacesSite Name: The Maiden Stone Alternative Name: Девий каменьCountry: Russia Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Moscow
Latitude: 55.663110N Longitude: 37.662830E
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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A stone of peculiar form, one of a pair of boulders in the Golosov Gully in Kolomenskoe Park in Moscow. The object of veneration whose energy is supposed to cure female diseases.
Reprint from the information sign:
«This is a monolithic quartz stone of unusual shape that consists of 60 roundish and oblong oolites. Its open surface totals 2.5 sq. m. The stone is sunk underground».
Note: Russian Pagan community cleans up vandalized sacred stones
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