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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Menhir le Bâton de Samson Alternative Name: Jouffre menhir, Samson's stick
Country: France Département: Languedoc:Gard (30) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Alès Nearest Village: Anduze
Latitude: 44.044670N Longitude: 3.979620E
Condition:

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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
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-1	Completely destroyed

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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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3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
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TheCaptain visited on 24th Sep 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4 From the village of Ambruze, take the D.133 towards St Felix-de-Pailleres. After a kilometre or two up the hill, there is a turning to the left to Le Jouffre and Lotissement de Menhir. A couple of hundred metres down here, taking first the lower, left, road, then to the right, there is a little wooded area with a pathway entering. The menhir is in here, and about 4 metres tall, of a squarish cross section. It has some nice weathering on one of its sides, all full of holes.

johnstone visited on 22nd Jun 2000 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 3 Access: 4

**Menhir le Bâton de Samson** submitted by ocdolmen : Jouffre menhir (3.60 metres) called "Bâton de Samson" (Samson's stick) (Vote or comment on this photo)

From the village of Anduze, take the D.133 towards St Felix-de-Pailleres. After a kilometre or two up the hill, there is a turning to the left to Le Jouffre and Lotissement de Menhir. A couple of hundred metres down here, taking first the lower, left, road, then to the right, there is a little wooded area with a pathway entering. The menhir is in here, and about 4 metres tall, of a squarish cross section. It has some nice weathering on one of its sides, all full of holes.

The menhir was moved here in 1935
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