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<< Text Pages >> Menhir d'Austhot - Standing Stone (Menhir) in France in Normandie:Manche (50)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Sunday, 19 December 2004  Page Views: 3511

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Menhir d'Austhot
Country: France Département: Normandie:Manche (50) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Cherbourg  Nearest Village: Austhot
Latitude: 49.693700N  Longitude: 1.35W
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
 no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data 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.
 no data 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
 3
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Possible site of a Menhir in La Manche

I have seen this marked on some old maps (correctly or otherwise)
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Re: Austhot menhir by Martin_L on Thursday, 17 January 2008
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On German maps errors appear quite often: for example Megalithic tombs are marked as "Hügelgrab" what means (bronze age) "barrow". Or bronze age barrows are marked as "Steingrab". But my experience with the French IGN Maps (Scale 1:25000) is, that they are really excellent. I never found an error so far, but of course I did not tried them all ;-) Only a few...
Have you already been there looking for this Menhir or is this planned for next travel?
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    Re: Austhot menhir by TheCaptain on Thursday, 17 January 2008
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    The map I have which has this marked is a fairly old ign 1:100,000 map. Now I have the 1:25,000 map and it is not on that. Neither is it on any scale on the wonderful géoportail. I agree with you that the 1:25,000 ign maps are excellent, but I have often found errors on the older 1:100,000 maps, including roads that do not exist. I have not looked for myself.

    BUT, I am starting to think that there may be some sort of megalithic stone in this area, although not a menhir. I have found a reference to a stone with round hollows carved in it, and finding of some ancient bronze items nerby to it.....
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    Re: Austhot menhir by Martin_L on Thursday, 17 January 2008
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    Ahh, the old IGN 1:100 000 so I guess I know what you mean...:-)
    I own two of this kind from the Nantes area (Redon and ....uh I do not remember at the moment). They are from the Sixties... and really not very helpful for megalithic purpose.... But they really improved this, didn't they? The 1:100000 I bought in 1999-2001 are far better.
    Your new reference sounds quite interesting. Stone with cupmarks?
    I guess you will find it ;-)
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Re: Austhot menhir by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 16 January 2008
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Since first finding a menhir marked on my ign map at this place several years ago, I have been unable to find any other references to it at all.

This, coupled with the fact that the same map does not have one of the fairly well known Trois Princesses marked on it, and I wonder whether there ever has been a menhir here, and if indeed this is all down to a printing error on my map - it would not be the first error of this kind.

Mind you, this is not to say that there never was one here - many have been destroyed over the last centuries.
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