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Natural PlacesSite Name: De Gesloten Steen Alternative Name: duivelssteenCountry: Netherlands
NOTE: This site is 10.202 km away from the location you searched for.
Province: Utrecht Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Utrecht
Latitude: 52.084478N Longitude: 5.123139E
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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 |
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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 |
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The gesloten steen (locked stone) is a large erratic in downtown Utrecht. This national monument is chained to a building which is named after the stone.
The oldest reference to this boulder is from 1520. Legend has it that the devil and one of his minions would play throw and catch with the boulder and every time they dropped it, the whole neighborhood would shake. To put an end to this, the boulder was chained up.
Source and further reading (dutch): wikipedia
National monument #31110
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