Menhir polissoir from Souhé
The menhir Polissoir of Souhé (also Pierre Levée called) is a 1965 discovered today in the city park of Naintré southwest of Châtellerault in the department of Vienne in France lying menhir .
The megalith consists of a 3.2 m long and 1.6 m wide sandstone slab with a thickness of 0.4 to 0.6 m. The stone, first used as a whetstone (polissoir) and later set up, has three sharpening grooves and seven polishing cups with a length of 0.21 to 0.47 m, a width of 7 to 12 cm and a depth of 1 to 4 cm.
At an unspecified point in time, the slab was erected symmetrically to the Menhir du Vieux-Poitiers on the banks of the Clain , about 220 m from today's river bed . When the stone was reported by René Fritsch in 1965, the slab had sunk to a height of 0.7 m in the ground and inclined at an angle of 45 ° to the northwest. It was left in the parking lot of a restaurant on the edge of Route nationale 10 before moving to its current location.
The megalith was placed under monument protection in 1989.
See also
literature
- Fritsch René, Chollet André: Le menhir-polissoir de Souhé, à Naintré (Vienne) . In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française. Comptes rendus des séances mensuelles , vol. 68, no. 8, 1971. pp. 243-244. doi : 10.3406 / e.g. 1971.4333
Web links
- Menhir-polissoir de Souhé in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and picture (French)
- Description and pictures (French)
Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 36.7 ″ N , 0 ° 28 ′ 49.9 ″ E