Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Menhir dit La Pierre de Gargantua
Doingt, Somme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Menhir dit La Pierre de Gargantua : classement par liste de 1840
- Protection dates
- 1840 : classé MH
- Type
- menhir
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- Entre la rivière de Cologne et la D937
- Lieu-dit
- Pierre de Doingt (la)
- Commune
- Doingt
- Département
- Somme
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.92503, 2.95996
- Mérimée reference
- PA00116131
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1607 map "Picardia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le menhir dit Pierre de Gargantua, situé dans un espace boisé, a une hauteur de quatre mètres sur une circonférence de trois mètres.
English translation
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History
The menhir called Pierre de Gargantua, situated in a wooded space, has a height of four metres on a circumference of three metres.
Nearby in the register
- Anciennes fortificationsfortification d'agglomérationunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Jeanéglise1 mi
- Châteauchâteau1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.