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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Menhir du Kunkel Alternative Name: KunkelsteinCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 4.82 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Alsace-Lorraine:Moselle (57) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Abreschwiller Nearest Village: Eigenthal
Latitude: 48.630038N Longitude: 7.118410E
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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Standing Stone (Menhir) in Alsace:Moselle (57)
The Kunkel was a Menhir with a height of 7 meters. It probably has been destroyed in the 19th century. People constructed a christian wayside cross on the menhirs cone end fragment. A lot of legends are existing about the Kunkelstein in Abreschwiller.
(Different location given at www.t4t35.fr)
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