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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pierre Plantée (Lèque) Alternative Name: la Lèque, la Peyro PlantadoCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 4.974 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Languedoc:Gard (30) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Alès Nearest Village: Lussan
Latitude: 44.193000N Longitude: 4.394000E
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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johnstone visited on 24th Jun 2000 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
This standing-stone is also called "la Lèque" (in occitan "la Leca"). The occitan language has kept old celt words in its vocabulary as "leca" (ie "the stone") which comes from gaulish "lech" (as in "cromlech")
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