Menhir of Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle

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The menhir of Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle stands next to the ruins of an old chapel near the Gamage source, west of Blasimon near Libourne in the Gironde department in France .

In 1884, Léo Drouyn (1816-1896) reported a fallen menhir next to the Notre-de-Bonne-Nouvelle chapel and other stones that may have formed a row of stones with the menhir. The chapel was built at this point to Christianize a pagan cult site. The stones assigned to the row of stones disappeared at the beginning of the 20th century and a 1.45 m high limestone block standing next to the chapel was previously considered the menhir described by Drouyn. According to Anne Hambücken, who checked the various sources for the menhir and carried out site inspections, it is a different stone of unknown origin.

Nearby is the 1.65 m high (smaller) menhir of Pontaret (also called La Grande Borne ).

See also

literature

  • Alain Beyneix: Monuments mégalithiques en Aquitaine , Alan Sutton Publishing, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2009, ISBN 978-2-84910-957-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Gamage is a left tributary of the Dordogne .
  2. ↑ Anne Hambücken: Reevaluation de la nature du megalithic monoliths du et site Notre-Dame de Bonne-Nouvelle à Blasimon (Gironde) . In: Revue archéologique de Bordeaux , Volume 105 (2014), ISBN 978-2-908175-15-8 , pp. 9-21.

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Coordinates: 44 ° 44 ′ 34.2 "  N , 0 ° 5 ′ 59.9"  W.