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<< Our Photo Pages >> La Pierre Cornue - Standing Stone (Menhir) in France in Normandie:Calvados (14)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Sunday, 19 December 2004  Page Views: 4846

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: La Pierre Cornue
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 5.32 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Normandie:Calvados (14) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Falaise  Nearest Village: Condé-sur-Ifs
Latitude: 49.042697N  Longitude: 0.128611W
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 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
5

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johnstone visited on 24th Jun 2009 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5

TheCaptain visited on 23rd Apr 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 5 A very large menhir in disturbed ground which looks to be an old stone quarry just behind the Mairie which is just to the west of the main street a few hundred metres south of the church. The menhir is made of a strange sort of stony conglomerate and is a strange shape and contains many holes. It is more than 4 metres high 2.5 metres wide and over a metre thick at the base although the main part of the stone is about half a metre thick.



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 5

La Pierre Cornue
La Pierre Cornue submitted by TheCaptain : La Pierre Cornue, a more than 4 metres tall menhir. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Menhir in the village of Condé-sur-Ifs, Calvados.

The menhir is made of a strange sort of stony conglomerate, and is a strange shape and contains many holes. It is more than 4 metres high, 2.5 metres wide and over a metre thick at the base, although the main part of the stone is about half a metre thick.

The menhir is in disturbed ground, which looks to be an old stone quarry just behind the Mairie, which is just to the west of the main street a few hundred metres south of the church.

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La Pierre Cornue
La Pierre Cornue submitted by TheCaptain : La Pierre Cornue, more than 4 metres tall and seen here in relation to its position to the church. (Vote or comment on this photo)

La Pierre Cornue
La Pierre Cornue submitted by regina : Site in Normandie:Calvados (14) France (Vote or comment on this photo)

La Pierre Cornue
La Pierre Cornue submitted by regina (Vote or comment on this photo)

La Pierre Cornue
La Pierre Cornue submitted by regina (Vote or comment on this photo)

La Pierre Cornue
La Pierre Cornue submitted by regina

La Pierre Cornue
La Pierre Cornue submitted by johnstone : Very impressive on June 24, 2009

La Pierre Cornue
La Pierre Cornue submitted by johnstone : From another side, different shape! June 24, 2009

La Pierre Cornue
La Pierre Cornue submitted by johnstone : Looking at the top of the menhir, June 24, 2009

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Re: Pierre Cornue by Rida on Thursday, 24 March 2011
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Re: Pierre Cornue by TheCaptain on Friday, 06 May 2005
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La Pierre Cornue menhir, Condé-sur-Ifs, Calvados, N 49.0427, W 00.1287 by gps
Visited Saturday, 23 April 2005. Access 5, Condition 4, Ambience 3.

A very large menhir in disturbed ground, which looks to be an old stone quarry just behind the Mairie, which is just to the west of the main street a few hundred metres south of the church. The menhir is made of a strange sort of stony conglomerate, and is a strange shape and contains many holes. It is more than 4 metres high, 2.5 metres wide and over a metre thick at the base, although the main part of the stone is about half a metre thick.

Somewhere around here are also the remains of some chambered burial mounds.
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