Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Menhir de la Pierre
Ceaucé, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Menhir (cad. H 62) : classement par arrêté du 25 novembre 1976
- Protection dates
- 1976/11/25 : classé MH
- Type
- menhir
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- la Grande Pierre
- Commune
- Ceaucé
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.46696, -0.65637
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110761
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1706 map "L'Evesche du Mans (northwest sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Découvert en 1932, le menhir de la Pierre est un mégalithe à quatre faces presque régulières. D'une hauteur de 1, 35m au-dessus du sol, le menhir est enterré d'environ 1/3 de sa hauteur totale.
English translation
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History
Discovered in 1932, the menhir of the Pierre is a megalith with four almost regular faces. With a height of 1.35m above the ground, the menhir is buried approximately 1/3 of its total height.
Nearby in the register
- Manoir de la Grande-Pierremanoirunder 1 mi
- Menhirmenhir3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.