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Natural PlacesSite Name: PlattesteenCountry: Belgium
NOTE: This site is 8.533 km away from the location you searched for.
Province: Bruxelles - Brussel Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Bang in the middle of Brussels
Latitude: 50.846452N Longitude: 4.349065E
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 |
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A possible dolmen slab in Brussels.
Plattesteen is Dutch for "flat stone", or slab. It is now the name of a street.
Although Brussels is strictly bilingual, it has been felt superfluous to translate, from Dutch to French, a name probably older than the city herself.
Nearby flows the River Senne, now vaulted and invisible. In the 12th century, a bridge (le Pont du Miroir) was constructed, gone since long. One may assume that, before the construction of that bridge, a slab was used as a marker to indicate the place where the river could be forded.
Also nearby stood a stopover on the Camiño de Santiago de Compostella : first a modest chapel (mentioned since the 12th century), later enlarged and named Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours (Our Lady of Refuge), still upright !
Was this slab the remnant of a dolmen ?
Anybody who has visited Brussels has probably been on the Grand'Place and from there to the "Manneken Pis". The street Plattesteen lies just in-between.
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