pierre de Tucé
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Overview
About this site
Overview
Pierre de Tucé is a stele in Le Mans, France. It lies at 48.0086° N, 0.1959° E.
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pierre de Tucé
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The Atlas's French steles are a mixed group. A stele is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected as a monument, with text, ornament, or both. Steles were made as grave markers, as government notices and boundary markers, and as memorials to battles. Among the French records are Gaulish steles, funerary steles, Roman milestones and a number of modern memorials. The regional background, “French steles, milestones and memorials”, is given below.
Dating
No date has been published for this site.
Setting
1 other recorded monument lies within 10 km (1 within 1 km, 1 within 5 km). In Le Mans, France, 1 of the 2 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Pierre Saint-Julien (0.2 km north-east, menhir); Dolmen de la Pierre Couverte (18.4 km south-west, megalith); Dolmen Palet-de-Gargantua (20.1 km north-east, dolmen); Pierre Couverte (24.6 km east, megalith).
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No heritage designation is recorded for the site.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
French steles, milestones and memorials
The Atlas's French steles are a mixed group. A stele is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected as a monument, with text, ornament, or both. Steles were made as grave markers, as government notices and boundary markers, and as memorials to battles. Among the French records are Gaulish steles, funerary steles, Roman milestones and a number of modern memorials.
A milestone is a numbered marker placed on a route to indicate distances to towns or landmarks. In the Roman world a cippus was a low, round or rectangular pedestal set up for purposes such as a milestone or a boundary post, with inscriptions that indicated its function or the area it enclosed. A Roman milestone carries inscriptions that indicate its function, so it can often be placed within a reign.
In Rome cippi marked the limits of the pomerium after the city walls were expanded, the course of aqueducts and of the imperial post; cippi lined up in rows were often numbered, and sometimes carried the name of the magistrate responsible. Roman cippi were made of wood or stone. Stelae were also erected as memorials to battles, and the Gaulish and Roman examples of France sit in that long tradition.
Modern memorials are recorded as stone monuments in the registers, and the Atlas keeps them, but they are not prehistoric.
When visiting, read the inscription, which is the quickest way to tell a Roman milestone from a modern memorial.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Stele, Wikipedia: Milestone, Wikipedia: Cippus · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Where it stands
France
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 48°00′31″ N, 0°11′45″ EFor a GPS or map app: 48.00863, 0.19591
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
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Compiled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a regional background article based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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