statue-menhir de Montagnol
DatedEst. 4800–2500 BCE
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Overview
About this site
What the sources say
Statue-menhir de Montagnol is a statue-menhir in Murat-sur-Vèbre, France. In open records it appears as Wikidata item Q109626535, mapped at 43.6851° N, 2.8547° E. Wikidata gives material recorded as granite.
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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
About statue-menhir de Montagnol
This kind of monument hereSources for this section
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- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
A statue menhir is a carved standing stone of the later European Neolithic, in which a vertical 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, and France has most of the Atlas's records. A group from the Iron Age is also known in Liguria and Lunigiana in Italy, and there are two on Guernsey. One of them, La Gran'mère du Chimquière, "the grandmother of the cemetery", stands in a churchyard. The full article, “Statue menhirs of France”, follows below under About this kind of monument.
DatingSources for this section
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The Atlas shows 4800 BCE to 2500 BCE for this site, but that is a regional estimate for this kind of monument, not a date for this particular statue-menhir. No excavation, radiocarbon sample or other measurement is recorded for it, so the real age could fall anywhere within the range, or outside it.
The range rests on this regional background (source: the Wikipedia article “Megalith”): Statue menhirs were created during the later European Neolithic Period and the megalithic constructions of Brittany begin c. 4800 BC.
Landscape and neighbours
The catalogue lists 6 other sites within 1 km, 15 within 5 km and 24 within 10 km; 22 of them are also classed as statue-menhir. In Murat-sur-Vèbre, France, 14 of the 14 catalogued sites are classed as statue-menhir.
Nearest to it are statue-menhir du devès de Félines (0.0 km north, statue-menhir); statue-menhir de Cambous (0.0 km north, statue-menhir); statue-menhir des Favarels (0.0 km north, statue-menhir); statue-menhir de Ténézole (0.0 km north, statue-menhir). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
Sources for this section
The open records used here carry no heritage designation for the site, which says nothing either way about its legal status. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q109626535), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Access varies from open common land to private fields; check local access rules, ask where needed, and take care not to damage the monument.
How this page was madeSources for this section
Sources for this section
Nothing on this page was written by an AI model: it is assembled by program from Wikidata (CC0) and the regional article “Statue menhirs of France”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), with distances and counts calculated from the catalogue coordinates.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Statue menhirs of France
A statue menhir is a carved standing stone of the later European Neolithic, in which a vertical 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, and France has most of the Atlas's records. A group from the Iron Age is also known in Liguria and Lunigiana in Italy, and there are two on Guernsey. One of them, La Gran'mère du Chimquière, "the grandmother of the cemetery", stands in a churchyard.
A well-known site is on Corsica. Filitosa, in the south of the island, is a megalithic site occupied from the end of the Neolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age until about Roman times. Arrowheads and pottery date the earliest habitation to 3300 BCE. Around 1500 BCE menhirs 2 to 3 metres high were erected there, carved with human faces, armour and weapons. About twenty menhirs of various periods have been counted. One interpretation, by Roger Grosjean, was that they were set up to ward off an invasion by a people he called the Torréens, who threw them down, broke them up and reused some as building stone, and then built the circular stone structures called torri; later researchers disputed this theory.
Dating rests on comparison with the Arco stelae, six Copper Age statue menhirs found in Trentino in 1989, which are similar in style to other anthropomorphic stelae of the fourth and third millennia BCE.
When visiting, look at the weapons and belt carved on the stone.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Statue menhir, Wikipedia: Filitosa, Wikipedia: Arco stelae · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 4800–2500 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for statue-menhirs in France; this site has not been dated itself. Statue menhirs were created during the later European Neolithic Period and the megalithic constructions of Brittany begin c. 4800 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
France
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 43°41′06″ N, 2°51′17″ EFor a GPS or map app: 43.68510, 2.85470
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.
- Statue-menhirstatue-menhir de Cambous4800–2500 BCE
- Statue-menhirstatue-menhir de Puget 14800–2500 BCE
- Statue-menhirstatue-menhir de Ténézole4800–2500 BCE
- Statue-menhirstatue-menhir des Favarels4800–2500 BCE
- Statue-menhirstatue-menhir du devès de Félines4800–2500 BCE
Statue-menhir du col des Saints4800–2500 BCE- Statue-menhirstatue-menhir de Candoubre4800–2500 BCE
- statue-menhir du col des Saints4800–2500 BCE
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
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- 01Wikidata Q109626535wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- statue-menhir du devès de Félines<0.1 km N
- statue-menhir de Cambous<0.1 km N
- statue-menhir des Favarels<0.1 km N
- statue-menhir de Ténézole<0.1 km N
- statue-menhir de Puget 1<0.1 km N
- Statue-menhir du col des Saints<0.1 km SE
- statue-menhir de Candoubre1.7 km SW
- statue-menhir du col des Saints2.7 km S
- Statues-menhirs du Plos3.3 km N
- statue-menhir de Plos 23.5 km N
Credit
Text, licence and sources
This page is assembled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a tradition article paraphrasing Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No article exists for this site, and nothing here is written by a model.
- Wikidata Q109626535CC0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0