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Pierre Tournante (Livarot)
Trip No.1 Entry No.1 Date Added: 16th Aug 2026
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 16th Aug 2026. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pierre Tournante (Livarot) submitted by Rida on 2nd Apr 2011. Pierre Tournante (Livarot)
Site in Normandie:Calvados (14) France
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Log Text: The path to this stone is just to the left of the barbed wire that is blocking access to a overgrown logging track through what used to be woods. The path itself is tight and overgrown in places, and despite the stone only being about 15m of the road surprisingly twisty. The google maps location is accurate and there is room for a single car to park at the junction on the left just before the stone and room for a couple further along the road at a junction, which is where I parked.
The short twisty path helps with the feel of the site, because at this time of year the brush and scrub cover hid the stone until it suddenly loomed into view. It filled the small clearing completely, making it rather difficult to photograph but making it feel larger than life and quite overpowering.
There is what appears to be a additional piece of the stone lying about a meter NE but I couldn't see an obvious scar on the stone itself so it may have been a second stone. It is also clearly pudding stone.
The stone used to be far more accommodating to visitors, my parents have a house in the area and have seen it cycling along the road when the area was planted with pine trees, although I think it's ambience may have deepened as it's become more isolated.