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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Falera Menhirfeld Alternative Name: Parc La Mutta FaleraCountry: Switzerland
NOTE: This site is 10.933 km away from the location you searched for.
Canton: Graubünden Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Luzern Nearest Village: Falera
Latitude: 46.799900N Longitude: 9.236000E
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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Megalithic89 visited on 1st Jan 2008 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 They rearranged this site. Reference: JB der Schweiz. Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Vol. 84, 2001, p. 209, in German.
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Positional co-ordinates scaled from a map source. Complex Bronze age Alignment with at least 35 Stones having some astronomical relations. Noteworthy is the Falera Sonnenstein, which commemorates a 1089 BCE solar eclypse.
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