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<< Our Photo Pages >> La Mère aux Cailles - Standing Stone (Menhir) in France in Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Saturday, 16 April 2005  Page Views: 5441

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: La Mère aux Cailles Alternative Name: La Pierre de Chantecoq, Chantecoq menhir
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 1.933 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Chartres  Nearest Village: Ymeray
Latitude: 48.515600N  Longitude: 1.705100E
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
 3 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.
 3 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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TheCaptain visited on 7th Aug 2005 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Marked on my ign map near to the village of Ymeray is the Dolmen de Chantecoq. I had a good look around, but could find no obvious signs to a dolmen of any kind, but there was a trackway called "Sentier des Roches" which I found near to the railway bridge, so I went for a walk up there. After several hundred metres was a little area being turned into a little public parkland, with picnic tables etc. Here there is a big natural outcropping of rocks, which may have been used for dolmen making. There is lots of it, and it makes very good slabs, and in many ways reminds me of the rock outcrops / quarries at Tinkinswood. A bit further up the track, in a private orchard, is what I assume is a menhir, at least there is a 2.5 metre tall slab of rock standing upright. But without any more information, it was difficult to know exactly what there is here.

La Mère aux Cailles
La Mère aux Cailles submitted by thecaptain : La Mère aux Cailles. Up a trackway called "Sentier des Roches", in a private orchard, is what I assume is a menhir, at least there is a 2.5 metre tall slab of rock standing upright. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A 2.5 metre tall slab of rock standing upright in a private orchard.




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Re: La Mère aux Cailles by Anonymous on Tuesday, 18 October 2016
Bonjour captain !

j'ai un sérieux doute à vous soumettre :

la pierre que vous avez photographiée, -qui est manifestement la même que celle qui est présentée par T4T35- ne ressemble pas du tout à celle qui est présentée par le site Monumentum des Monuments Historiques.

D'après les photos couleurs qu'il en présente,
* on voit qu'elle est à quelques mètres d'une usine ;
* le matériau de ces monolithes n'est pas du tout le même : la leur est dans une pierre lisse, la vôtre est clairement en poudingue,-comme vous le dites ;
* enfin, il n'est pas difficile de voir le profil d'une tête de femme un peu effrayante dans celle de Monumentum.

Pouvez-vous essayer d'y voir plus clair ?
Se pourrait-il qu'il s'agisse d'un autre menhir ? mais quel serait son nom ?

Cordialement,
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    Re: La Mère aux Cailles by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 18 October 2016
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    I agree. The menhir called La Mère aux Cailles is a little south-east of Pont sous Gallardon at 48.515987, 1.690321.

    Photos here and looking a bit sad on Panoramio here.
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Re: La Mère aux Cailles by TheCaptain on Saturday, 10 February 2007
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Marked on my ign map near to the village of Ymeray is the Dolmen de Chantecoq. I had a good look around, but could find no obvious signs to a dolmen of any kind, but there was a trackway called "Sentier des Roches" which I found near to the railway bridge, so I went for a walk up there.

After several hundred metres was a little area being turned into a little public parkland, with picnic tables etc. Here there is a big natural outcropping of rocks, which may have been used for dolmen making. There is lots of it, and it makes very good slabs, and in many ways reminds me of the rock outcrops / quarries at Tinkinswood.

A bit further up the track, in a private orchard, is what I assume is a menhir, at least there is a 2.5 metre tall slab of rock standing upright. But without any more information, it was difficult to know exactly what there is here.
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Re: La Mère aux Cailles by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 22 November 2006
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La Mère aux Cailles est le nom d'un menhir encore appelé La Pierre de Chantecoq. Elle se situe à Pont-sur-Gallardon, tout proche de la ville de Gallardon, mais en réalité sur le territoire de la commune d'Ymeray (Eure-et-Loire). A son rôle évident de limite physique (borne sur la plan local et repère géographique à une échelle plus vaste) et de point remarquable dans le paysage, s'ajoute peut-être une finalité de repérage spatial supplémentaire en ce site car il est proche d'un lieu dont le nom est caractéristique d'un passage antique, en l'occurence un petit cours d'eau, où il signalait peut-être l'existence d'un gué ? Quoiqu'il en soit, il existe un certain nombre de faits, de croyances et de pratiques attestés autour de ce menhir, dont l'analyse conduit à la mise en évidence d'autres fonctions. L'A. effectue un certain nombre de comparaisons et des rapprochements entres sites, car il existe un corpus de croyances et de pratiques largement répandues, mais à des stades d'oubli différents.

Which, according to Babel Fish, translates to...

The Mother with Ruails is the name of a menhir still called Pierre de Chantecoq. She is located at Bridge-on-Gallardon, near to the town of Gallardon, but actually on the territory of the commune of Ymeray (the Eure-and-Loire). Perhaps with its obvious role of physical limit (limits on the local level and locates geographical on a vaster scale) and of remarkable point in the landscape, is added a finality of additional space location in this site because it is close to a place of which the name is characteristic of an ancient passage, in the event a small river, where it perhaps announced the existence of a ford? Though it is, there is a certain number of facts, beliefs and practices attested around this menhir, whose analysis leads to the description of other functions. The A. carries out a certain number of comparisons and bringings together enter sites, because there is a corpus of beliefs and largely widespread practices, but at different stages of lapse of memory.
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