Statue Menhir U Nativu

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Map: Haute-Corse
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Statue Menhir U Nativu​
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Upper Corsica

The statue menhir U Nativu (also de Nativu) stands under a protective roof in a park in the village of Patrimonio, in the Haute-Corse department on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica .

U Nativu
U Nativu

The statue menhir , which was found in nearby Barbaggio in 1964, is about 2.3 m high and one of the few Corsican menhirs made of limestone . He is in the 1st millennium BC. And belongs to the unarmed northern group of the Megalithic III . The menhir has raised shoulders, a mask-like face with ears and chin. There is an engraved groove in place of the sternum.

literature

  • François de Lanfranchi: Le secret des Mégalithes . Edition Albiana, Ajaccio 2000, ISBN 2-905124-76-8 .

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