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<< Text Pages >> Wygarten Steinreihe - Stone Row / Alignment in Switzerland in Schwyz

Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 18 February 2006  Page Views: 2893

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Wygarten Steinreihe
Country: Switzerland
NOTE: This site is 5.361 km away from the location you searched for.

Canton: Schwyz Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Luzern  Nearest Village: Tuggen
Latitude: 47.196150N  Longitude: 8.920500E
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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.
4 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
no data

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Stone Row / Alignment in Schwyz


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Re: Wigarten Steinreihe by Megalithic89 on Monday, 19 December 2022
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250 - 335 m long stone row made of at least 100 boulders and Nagelfluh blocks up to 1.4 m high.

Coordinates 47.20452 8.92441 (western end) to 47.20543 8.92764 (eastern end). Perhaps it started even further to the west. Accuracy 5.

References:
1) Swiss stone monuments inventory, Object no. 8856.01
Link to SSDI Object no. 8856.01 Written in German.
2) Walker Richard, Megalithe im Knonauer Amt, Rifferswil 2022, p. 156
Link to Megalithe im Knonauer Amt Written in German.

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