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stèle Georges Helmstteter
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Overview
About this site
What the sources say
The stele known as Stèle Georges Helmstteter lies in Perrex, France. The catalogue places it at 46.2459° N, 4.9623° E and links it to Wikidata item Q141178415. Wikidata gives material recorded as stone.
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The full article
About stèle Georges Helmstteter
This kind of monument hereSources for this section
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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. Further down this page, About this kind of monument gives the whole of “French steles, milestones and memorials”.
Dating
No date has been recorded for this site, and the Atlas does not guess one. Where a regional range exists for this kind of monument it is given in the notes on this page, as background and not as a date for this site.
Landscape and neighbours
No other catalogued site lies within 10 km of it. The nearest is Pierre de Matafin, 29.9 km to the north. It is one of 1 stele records among the 1 sites catalogued in Perrex, France.
Nearest to it are Pierre de Matafin (29.9 km north, dolmen); Pierre Fiche menhir (35.4 km east, menhir); Nécropole des Près-de-l'Eau (35.7 km north, megalithic mound); Pierre Levée du champ de la Fa (35.8 km north-west, menhir). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
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No heritage register entry is attached to this site in the records the Atlas uses; that does not show whether national law covers it. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q141178415), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Many such sites stand on private land; check local access rules and respect the monument and its surroundings.
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Nothing on this page was written by an AI model: it is assembled by program from Wikidata (CC0) and the regional article “French steles, milestones and memorials”, 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
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
Photographs
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Where it stands
France
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 46°14′45″ N, 4°57′44″ EFor a GPS or map app: 46.24587, 4.96232
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.
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Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
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- 01Wikidata Q141178415wikidata.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
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 Q141178415CC0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
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