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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Steen van HoegaardenCountry: Belgium Province: Vlaams-Brabant Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Tienen
Latitude: 50.774850N Longitude: 4.898516E
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 Vlaams-Brabant
Stone found at the end of the 1990's, a bit further down the road, near the river where it was lying flat. Hardly documented so far, and little known.
Its overall shape and type of stone (cfr. Wéris) are common characteristics of several menhirs found in the region. Hoegaarden is the name of the town where it was found and re-erected ; it is also the name of a beer...
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