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<< Image Pages >> Plattesteen - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Belgium in Bruxelles - Brussel

Submitted by Alta-Falisa on Saturday, 03 May 2014  Page Views: 6921

Natural PlacesSite Name: Plattesteen
Country: Belgium Province: Bruxelles - Brussel Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Bang in the middle of Brussels
Latitude: 50.846452N  Longitude: 4.349065E
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
1 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.
5 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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Plattesteen
Plattesteen submitted by Alta-Falisa : Nameplate of the street, recalling a very ancient site (see legend of the site). (Vote or comment on this photo)
A possible dolmen slab in Brussels.
Plattesteen is Dutch for "flat stone", or slab. It is now the name of a street.

Although Brussels is strictly bilingual, it has been felt superfluous to translate, from Dutch to French, a name probably older than the city herself.
Nearby flows the River Senne, now vaulted and invisible. In the 12th century, a bridge (le Pont du Miroir) was constructed, gone since long. One may assume that, before the construction of that bridge, a slab was used as a marker to indicate the place where the river could be forded.
Also nearby stood a stopover on the Camiño de Santiago de Compostella : first a modest chapel (mentioned since the 12th century), later enlarged and named Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours (Our Lady of Refuge), still upright !

Was this slab the remnant of a dolmen ?

Anybody who has visited Brussels has probably been on the Grand'Place and from there to the "Manneken Pis". The street Plattesteen lies just in-between.

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Plattesteen
Plattesteen submitted by Alta-Falisa : There is not much more than a name to recall the existence of a stone, gone since long. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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