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Submitted by johnstone on Thursday, 30 November 2017 Page Views: 1314
Natural PlacesSite Name: Zwerfsteen van RhenenCountry: Netherlands
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Province: Utrecht Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Rhenen
Latitude: 51.960009N Longitude: 5.560112E
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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johnstone visited on 30th Nov 2017 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
This is one of the biggest stones in the Netherlands. Nice erratic at the corner of the N225 and Paardenveld.
The attached plate tells us: “Erratic block of Uppsala-granite from Uppland, South of Sweden. Found in 1972 at the Dikkenberg estate (Rhenen) by sand excavation. The erratic is dated to the third ice-age (200.000-100.000 years ago) by the Pleistocene land ice transported to Rhenen.
The weight is 16 tons. Unfortunately, because of the transport a part of the stone has been demolished”. Original weight: 21 tons, the broken piece lies at the corner of Nieuwe Veenendaalseweg/Paardenveld. That must be an erratic of about 5 tons, position is 51.96485N 5.56624E
Litt: Bulletin OUD RHENEN - vijfentwintigste jaargang - januari 2006 - no. 1 - pag. 38-39
See also the site for erratics: Aardkundige waarden
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