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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pierre Butée - Standing Stone (Menhir) in France in Normandie:Manche (50)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Sunday, 19 December 2004  Page Views: 4349

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pierre Butée Alternative Name: Menhir dit la Pierre Butée
Country: France Département: Normandie:Manche (50) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Valognes  Nearest Village: Rauville-la-Place
Latitude: 49.371900N  Longitude: 1.4686W
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.
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.
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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Pierre Butée submitted by theCaptain : Menhir on the Ile de Crosville, in the marais to the southwest of St Sauveur-Le-Vicomte the Cotentin peninsula. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Menhir on the Ile de Crosville, in the marais to the southwest of St Sauveur-Le-Vicomte on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy.

When I eventually got to visit this stone, I found it to be much taller than I was expecting, at between 2.5 and 3 metres tall, and made of a lovely granite.

I had previously read that it was 1.7 metres tall. Looking carefully at the latest update of the ign maps, and it would seem that in this position is marked both the menhir and a borne, so maybe this is that. But what happened to the menhir? There was only one large stone out here.
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Pierre Butée
Pierre Butée submitted by theCaptain : When I eventually got to visit this stone, I found it to be much taller than I was expecting, at between 2.5 and 3 metres tall (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pierre Butée
Pierre Butée submitted by theCaptain (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pierre Butée
Pierre Butée submitted by theCaptain (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pierre Butée
Pierre Butée submitted by theCaptain (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pierre Butée
Pierre Butée submitted by theCaptain : Menhir on the Ile de Crosville, in the marais to the southwest of St Sauveur-Le-Vicomte the Cotentin peninsula. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pierre Butée
Pierre Butée submitted by theCaptain

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Re: Pierre Butée by TheCaptain on Sunday, 18 January 2015
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Back at Easter, had an afternoon looking for a couple of Manche stones that had evaded me on the way to the evening ferry from Cherbourg, so decided to come and have another look for this one.

After a long slow drive behind a muckspreader, and then a long slower drive down the approach lane to this behind a tractor with grass mower, eventually arrived to find that the gate at the end of the road was open today, so where to park. Then the local farmer turned up and suggested I drive right down to the Ile de Crosville in order to visit the stone, which was much taller than I was expecting, at between 2.5 and 3 metres tall, and made of a lovely granite.
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Re: Pierre Butée by TheCaptain on Sunday, 23 September 2007
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This one is marked on the ign 1:25000 maps, and is to be found to the east of the lovely little town of St-Sauveur-le-Vicompte down a long trackway south through Crosville and Le Caneda into the Marais.

Unfortunately, it is not public footpath round here, and before I could get to the end of the trackway, there was a large, heavily chained and bolted gate preventing access.

Maybe another time.....
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    Re: Pierre Butée by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 23 April 2014
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    that gate was open today, and the local farmer suggested I drive right down to the Ile de Crosville in order to visit the stone, which was much taller than I was expecting, at between 2.5 and 3 metres tall, and made of a lovely granite.
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