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<< Our Photo Pages >> Armenteule Menhir - Standing Stone (Menhir) in France in Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Tuesday, 07 February 2006  Page Views: 4993

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Armenteule Menhir
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 6.436 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Bagnères-de-Luchon  Nearest Village: Armenteule
Latitude: 42.816370N  Longitude: 0.413050E
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.
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
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TheCaptain visited on 8th Sep 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Deep in the Louron valley, on the western side of the Col de Peyresourde in the high Pyrenees, is the tiny village of Armenteule. In this sleepy little Pyrenean village there is an old church. Inside the churchyard, just beside the back of the church, is a standing stone. Whether the church was built beside the menhir, or the stone was brought here later I do not know. The stone is a piece of slatey schist, stands some 1.3 metres tall, and is approximately 40 cm wide by 20 cm thick at the base, tapering slightly to the top. The whole place has a nice feel about it, as if its as old as the hills, and that man has been living and farming here for eternity. It is slightly strange that this stone (and that at nearby Aneran) is made of a dark grey / black slatey stone, when the majority of stone round here is pale granite.

Armenteule menhir
Armenteule menhir submitted by thecaptain : Deep in the Louron valley, on the western side of the Col de Peyresourde in the high Pyrenees, is the tiny village of Armenteule. In this sleepy little Pyrenean village there is an old church. Inside the churchyard, just beside the back of the church, is a standing stone.... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Deep in the Louron valley, on the western side of the Col de Peyresourde in the high Pyrenees, is the tiny village of Armenteule. In this sleepy little Pyrenean village there is an old church. Inside the churchyard, just beside the back of the church, is a standing stone. Whether the church was built beside the menhir, or the stone was brought here later I do not know.

The stone is a piece of slatey schist, stands some 1.3 metres tall, and is approximately 40 cm wide by 20 cm thick at the base, tapering slightly to the top.

The whole place has a nice feel about it, as if its as old as the hills, and that man has been living and farming here for eternity.

It is slightly strange that this stone (and that at nearby Aneran) is made of a dark grey/black slatey stone, when the majority of stone round here is pale granite.

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Armenteule menhir
Armenteule menhir submitted by thecaptain : Inside the churchyard, just beside the back of the church, is a standing stone. The stone is a piece of slatey schist, stands some 1.3 metres tall, and is approximately 40 cm wide by 20 cm thick at the base, tapering slightly to the top. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Armenteule menhir by TheCaptain on Friday, 06 July 2012
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