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Overview
About this site
Overview
Menhir v Horoměřicích is a menhir in Horoměřice, Czech Republic. It lies at 50.1329° N, 14.3462° E.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
Article
Menhir v Horoměřicích
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Outside the Atlantic fringe, menhirs also occur across central and southern Europe. In the Czech Republic there are about 40 real menhirs and dozens of stones that could also be menhirs, and others have been erected recently. The largest real menhir is Kamenný pastýř, the "stony shepherd", near Klobuky, 3.3 metres high; the Czech menhirs are probably the last outcrop of a tradition that ran across northern Germany. Some of the Czech stones in the Atlas may be natural boulders. The regional background, “Central and southern European menhirs”, is given below.
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No scientific date has been published for this site. Monuments of this type in Czech Republic are generally dated 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE; the site itself may fall inside or outside that range.
Standing stones of the European late Neolithic and early Bronze Age c. 2800-1800 BC; many Czech menhirs are however medieval stone markers so this is a weak estimate.
Setting
2 other recorded monuments lie within 10 km (0 within 1 km, 1 within 5 km), 2 of them of the same type. In Horoměřice, Czech Republic, 1 of the 1 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Novodobé menhiry v parku Na Farkách v Praze 8 (4.5 km east, menhir); Zkamenělý slouha v Dolních Chabrech (7.6 km east, menhir); kamenný stůl Bel na Krtneni (10.8 km south, dolmen); Menhir in Kunraticko-michelský les (14.5 km south-east, menhir).
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No heritage designation is recorded for the site.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Central and southern European menhirs
Outside the Atlantic fringe, menhirs also occur across central and southern Europe. In the Czech Republic there are about 40 real menhirs and dozens of stones that could also be menhirs, and others have been erected recently. The largest real menhir is Kamenný pastýř, the "stony shepherd", near Klobuky, 3.3 metres high; the Czech menhirs are probably the last outcrop of a tradition that ran across northern Germany. Some of the Czech stones in the Atlas may be natural boulders.
Italy has its most famous menhirs in Sardinia, where at least 332 standing stones can be seen. They include elaborate "statue-menhirs" that show a human face at the top and gendered symbols on the flat front; over a hundred of this standardised type have been found, mostly around the village of Laconi. In the Sardinian language they are called perdas fittas or perdas lungas. In Switzerland, in the canton of Vaud, several menhirs form linear patterns at Clendy in Yverdon-les-Bains, and date back to the third millennium BCE.
A statue menhir is a carved standing stone of the later European Neolithic, in which a slab or pillar has a stylised human figure cut into it, sometimes with hints of clothing or weapons. They are most commonly found in southern and western France, Catalonia, Corsica, Sardinia, Italy and the Alps.
Menhirs are usually difficult to date, and those without excavation can only be given a broad range. A stone's present position is not always its original one.
When visiting, check whether a stone stands in its original position and look for signs of shaping.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Menhir, Wikipedia: List of menhirs, Wikipedia: Statue menhir · CC BY-SA 4.0
See it in 3D
An interpretive reconstruction of the monument, standing on the real ground at its exact point, under the sun for that place and season. Drag to look around it.
The reconstruction is ours, not a survey: it shows what a monument of this type looks like, at the size the record gives for this one.
Photographs
1 photograph, each with its author and licence
Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 2800–1800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for menhirs in Czech Republic; this site has not been dated itself. Standing stones of the European late Neolithic and early Bronze Age c. 2800-1800 BC; many Czech menhirs are however medieval stone markers so this is a weak estimate.Source for this date
Where it stands
Czech Republic
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 50°07′58″ N, 14°20′46″ EFor a GPS or map app: 50.13290, 14.34617
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Novodobé menhiry v parku Na Farkách v Praze 82800–1800 BCE
Zkamenělý slouha v Dolních Chabrech2800–1800 BCE
kamenný stůl Bel na Krtneni
Menhir in Kunraticko-michelský les2800–1800 BCE
Menhir u Jemníků2800–1800 BCE- Menhir (standing stone)Menhir u rybníka v Žižicích2800–1800 BCE
Kromlech v Dendrologické zahradě u Průhonic2800–1800 BCE
menhir in Průhonice Dendrological Garden2800–1800 BCE
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Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
2 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q66565498wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Novodobé menhiry v parku Na Farkách v Praze 84.5 km E
- Zkamenělý slouha v Dolních Chabrech7.6 km E
- kamenný stůl Bel na Krtneni11 km S
- Menhir in Kunraticko-michelský les14 km SE
- Menhir u Jemníků18 km NW
- Menhir u rybníka v Žižicích19 km NW
- Kromlech v Dendrologické zahradě u Průhonic20 km SE
- menhir in Průhonice Dendrological Garden20 km SE
- Zkamenělec22 km W
- Slánský menhir22 km NW
Credit
Text, licence and sources
Compiled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a regional background article based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Wikidata Q66565498CC0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0