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Overview
About this site
What the sources say
Le « Long Borne » ch'est eune pière mégalithike située dzeur ch' territoére d'Carcy-in-Pontiu (Sonme).
Dins l' foéret d' Carcy, il y o granmint d' tumulus (fin éd l’âge d' bronze). Le « Long Borne » ch'est un menhir qu'est ichi dins l'foéret.
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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.
The full article
Long Borne: the whole story
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Long Borne is a standing stone, or menhir, on the territory of Carcy-in-Pontiu in the Somme, France. It lies in the forest of Carcy, where numerous tumuli from the end of the Bronze Age are also found.
The available information gives little detail about the stone’s present appearance, dimensions, material, or condition. It identifies Long Borne as an upright megalithic stone and places it within a wooded area containing many ancient monuments.
The standing stone is dated to 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE by typological estimate. Early records of the site’s megalithic monuments include works by Clodomir Boulanger, M. Ponchon, and Pierre Saint-Yves published between 1890 and 1936.
As a general type, a menhir is a large upright stone placed by humans. Such stones are especially numerous in north-western France, where about 1,200 are known. The name derives from the Breton words maen and hir, meaning “long stone”; in modern Breton, this kind of stone is called a peulvan.
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Long Borne is a menhir (standing stone) in Somme, France. A typological estimate: 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the pcd article "Long Borne (Carcy-in-Pontiu)", shown in the original language.
The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.
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The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-08) from the cited Wikipedia article “Long Borne (Carcy-in-Pontiu)”, translated from pcd. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Breton and French menhirs
A menhir is a large upright stone placed by humans. The word comes from the Breton maen and hir, "long stone", and entered archaeology through French antiquarians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; in modern Breton the word for such a stone is peulvan. Menhirs are most numerous in Western Europe, with about 1,200 in north-western France alone, and Brittany stands out for both the density of monuments and the variety of types.
The largest known menhir is the Grand Menhir Brisé at Locmariaquer. It once stood nearly 20.6 metres high, and now lies fractured in four pieces; whole, it would have weighed some 330 tonnes. Stones in the Carnac area were hewn from local granite by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany. At Carnac more than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones form the largest such collection in the world, arranged in groups of alignments that stretch for four kilometres. The stones were erected at some point in the Neolithic, probably around 3300 BCE, with some perhaps as early as 4500 BCE. Elsewhere, the Cham des Bondons in the Cévennes is the second largest concentration in France, and a menhir 4.5 metres tall stands against Le Mans Cathedral, moved there in 1778 when its dolmen was destroyed.
Dating a menhir is difficult, because standing stones are usually hard to date and were put up in many different periods.
Folklore: a Christian legend held that the stones of Carnac were pagan soldiers who had pursued Pope Cornelius and were turned to stone by him. Modern beliefs link the stones with Roman and Christian occupation, even though they date from 4500 to 3300 BCE.
When visiting, look at how the stones taper towards the top and at how the alignments run across the slope.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Menhir, Wikipedia: Carnac stones, Wikipedia: Locmariaquer megaliths, Wikipedia: List of menhirs · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Photographs
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Lore
Evidence & Lore
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What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 2800–1800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for menhirs in France; this site has not been dated itself. Standing stones are associated with the Beaker people of the European late Neolithic and early Bronze Age c. 2800-1800 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
France
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 50°15′03″ N, 1°49′30″ EFor a GPS or map app: 50.25082, 1.82488
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Nearby
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
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