Pierre Couchée
The menhir Pierre couchée ( German 's "The Sleeping Stone" ) is on the edge of the road "Chemin Meunier", on the western outskirts of Louvigny in Caen , near the "Champ de la Pierre" at the intersection of two highways, in the Calvados region in France . It could be from the end of the Neolithic .
The Chemin Meunier is an old ravine that was previously used to transport the wheat harvest through the ford of Athis to the numerous water mills on the Odon .
A menhir named Pierre de Couche can be found in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins . The Menhir de la Pierre Couchée is located in Saint-Benoist-sur-Mer .
description
The menhir consists of a very hard limestone that does not occur in the region. It lies broken in two on the floor and carries many small bowls (French: cupule ). Its total length is more than 2.0 m.
Jean Desloges examined the stone in 2009 and is of the opinion that it is not a menhir. In fact, there is no difference between the lower and the upper part, which shows no impairment from erosion (frost, rain, temperature fluctuations or wind), which the megaliths that have been erected for millennia (4000 to 2000 BC) otherwise have. On the other hand, the stone has been flattened by processing, does not come from the region and has bowls. According to J. Desloges, the stone should be used as a Gallo-Roman milestone or as a boundary stone.
The fallen menhir of Olendon in Calvados has similar characteristics.
literature
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 19.7 " N , 0 ° 24 ′ 11.3" W.