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45.680000, 6.883333

Using Google Earth, and enabling the Wikipedia layer in the Geographic layer shows a placemark with the following:
The Little St Bernard Pass (French: Col du Petit Saint-Bernard, Italian: Colle del Piccolo San Bernardo) is a mountain pass in the Alps at 45.680, 6.884. Its saddle is at 2188 metres above sea level. It is located in Savoie, France, to the south of the Mont Blanc Massif, and close to the border with Italy. There is also a Great St. Bernard Pass and a San Bernardino Pass. Although damaged by a road that runs through it, the pass is the site of a stone circle measuring 72 m in diameter. A standing stone once stood in the middle. It has not been precisely dated but from coin finds it has been attributed to the Iron Age, possibly being a ceremonial site of the Tarentaisian culture (c. 725 BC - 450 BC). A Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter was later erected nearby along with a Roman mansio serving travellers along the pass and it is thought that Carthaginian general Hannibal used this route. The stone circle was partly restored in the 19th century.

The imagery is fair, no detail. The surrounding mountains show nicely. Switzerland to the north is bizarrely brightly colored!

BuckyE wrote:
45.680000, 6.883333

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Thanks Bucky , Google Earth seems to vary in acuracy some sites with attested co-ordinates are accurate to within a couple of metres whereas others can be out by 200 odd metres . Fingers crossed (technical term) for this one .