Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Menhirs de la Rainière
Saint-Hilaire-la-Forêt, Vendée, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Deux menhirs juxtaposés (cad. A 179) : inscription par arrêté du 6 juillet 1995
- Protection dates
- 1995/07/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique, menhir
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Hilaire-la-Forêt
- Département
- Vendée
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.47135, -1.52814
- Mérimée reference
- PA00135565
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1607 map "Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Nearby in the register
- Menhirmenhirunder 1 mi
- Menhirmenhirunder 1 mi
- Pierre branlantemenhir1 mi
- Menhirmenhir2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.
Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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