Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Menhir dit La pierre qui pousse
Eppeville, Somme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Menhir dit La pierre qui pousse (cad. A 264) : classement par liste de 1889
- Protection dates
- 1889 : classé MH
- Type
- menhir
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Chemin du Halage ; Marais d'Eppeville
- Commune
- Eppeville
- Département
- Somme
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.74886, 3.03620
- Mérimée reference
- PA00116143
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 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
Sur une aire de 27 mètres de long s'étendent cinq blocs. La Pierre qui Pousse est la seule qui ait une forme aplatie et triangulaire. Elle atteint plus de 1, 8 m de haut sur 1, 9 m de large à sa base.
English translation
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History
Over an area of 27 metres long extend five blocks. The Pierre qui Pousse is the only one which has a flattened and triangular form. It reaches more than 1.8 m high on 1.9 m wide at its base.
Nearby in the register
- Sucrerie Saint-Louis (ancienne)sucrerieunder 1 mi
- Église Notre-Dame et la crypteéglise2 mi
- Ruines du châteauchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.