The menhir of Le Repaire in Esse (Charente) is 2.65m tall. An inventory from 1844 records that a follower of Charlemagne burned candles around it in 789. Card by Dupuis in Angoulême. #StandingStoneSunday.
Phil Watson
@frenchmegaliths.bsky.social
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Field work in Iraq for 5 years, 34 years curating ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern, Pre-Columbian American and Prehistoric antiquities. Since retiring have been publishing my collection of old French postcards of Megaliths (see pinned post).
