La Berthellière polissoir, Montenay, Mayenne, N 48.2839, W 00.8550 by gps.
Visited Friday, 29 April 2005. Access 4, Condition 4, Ambience 4.
A lovely polissoir stone found a couple of kilometres southeast of the village of Montenay, near to the town of Ernée in Mayenne. The stone is signposted and found in a little wooded area about 50 metres down a lane from the farm of the same name.
The stone is flat on the ground, about 2 metres in length and about half to three quarters of a metre wide, It has 3 big polishing bowls, several sharpening grooves and several other polished features. It is a very hard looking stone, which has been polished fantastically smooth by thousands of years of stone tool making.
I am starting to really like these polissoir stones, they really bring the ancient people to life, sitting here polishing away at their axes and tools. They say far more than any dolmen or menhir to me.
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