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Vacant-de-Rieuviel statue menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.7 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Vacant-de-Rieuviel menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 23rd Apr 2006. Vacant de Rieuviel menhir, Tarn, France
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Trou-de-l'Avent menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.2 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Trou-de-l'Avent menhir submitted by thecaptain on 8th Jun 2009. The top 1.5 metres has now been rescued and installed in the Place de Griffoul in Lacaune town centre, just 100 metres behind the tourist office.
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Trédos menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.16 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Trédos menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Aug 2007. Tredos menhir is only 2.05 metres but very wide.
It was found broken but it has been restored and is now in front of the entrance of Rieu-Montagné museum (several menhirs-statues inside)
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Teil-Bas statue-menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.43 Date Added: 8th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 26th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Teil-Bas statue-menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Aug 2007. Le Teil-Bas statue-menhir.
Carvings on the menhir are very erased but one still discerns eyes, nose and necklace.
Lower down, one sees better the belt with its buckle and the legs.
The summit of the stone was restuck.
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Statue menhir de Picarel
Trip No.25 Entry No.24 Date Added: 6th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Statue menhir de Picarel submitted by thecaptain on 1st Mar 2009. This finely shaped statue-menhir stands over 2 metres tall, and looks out down the valley to the southwest.
The only obvious markings and carvings on the stone are relatively modern, a deep cut halfway up, and some circles in the upper part. No doubt someone trying to make millstones in the fairly recent past.
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Statue menhir de La Pomarède
Trip No.25 Entry No.23 Date Added: 6th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Statue menhir de La Pomarède submitted by thecaptain on 12th Mar 2009. Right outside the tourist office at Fraisse-sur-Agout, next to a wall behind a big tree display thing, is the top 90 cm of this statue menhir which must have once been 2 metres tall.
It is very difficult to make out any markings, with it being in dark shadow and very moss covered.
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Statue menhir de la Gruasse 3
Trip No.25 Entry No.29 Date Added: 6th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Statue menhir de la Gruasse 3 submitted by ocdolmen on 9th Apr 2006. Statue menhir de la Gruasse 3
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Statue menhir de Gieussels
Trip No.25 Entry No.28 Date Added: 6th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Statue menhir de Gieussels submitted by regina on 5th Jul 2010. Statue menhir de Gieussels
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Statue menhir de Cambayssy
Trip No.25 Entry No.25 Date Added: 6th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Statue menhir de Cambayssy submitted by thecaptain on 20th Mar 2009. In some woods, this gorgeous statue-menhir can be found beside the lane, and is about 1.3 metres tall, and beautifully shaped.
Many of his features can be seen. Belt, legs, shoulder strap, "objet" and knife, and his arms coming down diagonally from his shoulders.
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Statue menhir de Cacavel
Trip No.25 Entry No.27 Date Added: 6th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Statue menhir de Cacavel submitted by regina on 5th Jul 2010. Statue menhir de Cacavel
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Roucan menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.50 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Roucan menhir submitted by patoleon on 6th Aug 2018. Menhir du Roucan
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Rieuviel statue menhir 2
Trip No.25 Entry No.6 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Rieuviel statue menhir 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 19th Nov 2010.
He stands about 1.7 metres tall, and the engravings on the front are superb, and very clear. He has a full face, arms (with fingers), collar piece, belt with buckle, legs (with toes). I could not make out what weapons he carries, and the back is not clear.
Unfortunately, when I visited in 2005, the poor chap is being used as a fence post, and the wire fence is scratching and degrading this 5000 year old stone.
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Rieuviel statue menhir 1
Trip No.25 Entry No.5 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Rieuviel statue menhir 1 submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Apr 2006. Rieuviel menhir-statue 1, Tarn, France.
This neolithic statue is standing at Rieuviel hamlet entrance.
Today, we can only see a large collar. The major part of engraved reliefs are erased.
Granite monolith about 1 metre high.
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Pré-de-Roi Menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.19 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Pré-de-Roi menhir submitted by theCaptain on 1st Nov 2010. The Pré-de-Roi menhir is 2.5 metres tall and looks for all the world like it should be carved into a statue menhir.
Perhaps it once was, and all the features have been eroded away by several thousand years of being in the open.
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Prats menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.48 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Prats menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 27th Aug 2007. Prats menhir is the tallest menhir in the département of Tarn with 3.70 meters tall.
Granite.
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Plos statue menhir 2
Trip No.25 Entry No.13 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Plos statue menhir 2 submitted by thecaptain on 12th May 2009. Probably once a statue-menhir, this is not classed as such as no discernible features can be seen engraved on it.
That’s what several thousands of years of weather does for you.
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Planissart statue-menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.44 Date Added: 8th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Planissart statue-menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 25th Apr 2006. Planissart menhir-statue, tarn, France.
On the stone, we can see the enigmatic objet in the middle of the statue (copper of flint dagger supported by a cross-belt) and below, the belt perhaps with a (erased) buckle.
Note representation of head hand or leg.
Granite
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Pierre Plantée de Lacaune
Trip No.25 Entry No.3 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Pierre Plantée de Lacaune submitted by peterpf on 29th Jul 2006. The menhir in a front view. Only some of the engravings are still visible.
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Peyre-Plantade (Tarn)
Trip No.25 Entry No.41 Date Added: 8th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 26th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Peyre-Plantade (Tarn) submitted by ocdolmen on 27th Aug 2007. "La Peyre Plantade" menhir
This small stone measures 1.50 metre .
It is situated close to a commemorative monument for persecuted Protestants the last centuries.
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Peyre-Pause
Trip No.25 Entry No.49 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Peyre-Pause submitted by patoleon on 1st Aug 2018. The menhir of Peyre-Pause. It is not very impressive, it's a small one (about 1.2 meters).
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