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Hinkelstein Armsheim
Trip No.1 Entry No.9 Date Added: 14th Jul 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 1 Access 5
Hinkelstein Armsheim submitted by Martin_L on 9th Sep 2019. Detail of the relocated Menhir in August 2019.
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Log Text: Interesting menhir though the ambience could hardly be worse.
Dicke Stein
Trip No.1 Entry No.8 Date Added: 2nd Aug 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Visited: Would like to visit
Dicke Stein submitted by AlexHunger on 28th Aug 2005. The Dicke Stein (the fat stone) was re-errected in 2001 in a specialiy laid out park in the pitoresque Palatinate medieval town of Armsheim. All local stones appear to have been moved as a result of agricultural reforms.
With 2 Meters tall and 60 cm width, it is actually a rather thin limestone slab with only about 15cm in depth.
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Hinkelstein von Gumbsheim
Trip No.1 Entry No.7 Date Added: 14th Jul 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Hinkelstein von Gumbsheim submitted by Martin_L on 6th Aug 2019. Gumbsheim Menhir in August 2019. Showing the beautiful standing stone in its new environment. Not a very good ambiance, but at least it hopefully is safe now.
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Log Text: Very nice menhir. After it got knocked over it has been set up at a slightly different location in a rather non-desirable way. At least it survived, but the ambience is definitely is not good although the surrounding rural landscape is quite beautiful.
Langer Stein Flonheim
Trip No.1 Entry No.6 Date Added: 2nd Aug 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Visited: Would like to visit
Langer Stein Flonheim submitted by KaiHofmann on 24th Sep 2014. Flonheim Menhir
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Weisser Stein
Trip No.1 Entry No.5 Date Added: 14th Jul 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Weisser Stein submitted by Martin_L on 16th Aug 2019. August 2019, Weisser Stein (White Stone) photographed using a modified Agfa Clack with flipped lens and film from an expired batch showing some emulsion/backing paper interferences. The Menhir has an impressive almost anthropomorphic shape, but the ambiance is slightly spoilt by agricultural roads, vineyards and a bench planted just beside it. Hence i tried to give it some more timeless appearance by using the equipment mentioned above. It results in some blur and distortion erasing most modern ...
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Log Text: The Menhir has an impressive almost anthropomorphic shape, but the ambience is slightly spoilt by agricultural roads, vineyards and a bench planted just beside it
Einselthum Lange Stein
Trip No.1 Entry No.4 Date Added: 2nd Aug 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Visited: Would like to visit
Einselthum Lange Stein submitted by KaiHofmann on 5th Jan 2014. The Roessen culture (4500-4300 BCE) 1.6m tall, standing stone "Langenstein".
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Albsheim Menhir
Trip No.1 Entry No.3 Date Added: 14th Jul 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Albsheim Menhir submitted by Martin_L on 8th Aug 2019. August 2019. Polaroid showing the re-erected, but damaged neolithic menhir. It has been found during roadworks in 1982 and the larger fragment has been re-erected in 1986. The smaller part is presented just beside it in the same concrete foundation.
Prehistorian Otto Gödel reported in Mitteilungen des Historischen Vereins der Pfalz Bd. 96. (my following translation is not exactly literal): during earthworks for the new route of the federal highway 271 in 1982 settlement pits of the early R...
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Log Text: The stone itself is interesting, though the proximity of the road and quite ugly base used to set it up do not add to the ambience. The surrounding landscape is pleasant in general.
Freinsheim Langer Stein
Trip No.1 Entry No.2 Date Added: 2nd Aug 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Visited: Would like to visit
Freinsheim Langer Stein submitted by KaiHofmann on 21st Sep 2014. The Freinsheim Menhir.
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Dolmen de la Pagerie
Trip No.1 Entry No.1 Date Added: 14th Jul 2022
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Dolmen de la Pagerie submitted by Martin_L on 13th Jul 2022. Landscape context of the Pierre Couverte de la Pagerie. Seen from the East in July 2022. In the Inventaire des mégalithes de la France Dr. Michel Gruet writes "[...] enorme monument [...]" and one cannot agree more. The clear size of the chamber is 10,65m by 5m. As one support in the SE is obviously missing the SE part is partly collapsed. Nevertheless this site is incredibly impressive.
Reference: Gruet, M., Inventaire des mégalithes de la France - Maine et Loire, 1967, p. 127-129.
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Log Text: Enormous
Langer Stein Schauernheim
Trip No.1 Entry No.1 Date Added: 2nd Aug 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Visited: Would like to visit
Langer Stein Schauernheim submitted by KaiHofmann on 3rd Oct 2015. the standing stone, directly besides a road and a busy highway. An impolite neighbour chased me away... nice standing stone awful surrounding.
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