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Monpalais Dolmen 3
Trip No.10 Entry No.8 Date Added: 12th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Monpalais dolmen 3 submitted by thecaptain on 5th Sep 2009. This is another small simple dolmen, about 150 metres to the west of the large dolmen 4. The stones sit in a little 7 metre diameter mound of stones
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Monpalais Dolmen 4
Trip No.10 Entry No.9 Date Added: 12th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 4
Monpalais dolmen 4 submitted by thecaptain on 5th Sep 2009. A superb bit of restoration, this large Angevin like dolmen sits in an oval cairn, with faced walling around the outside.
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Monpalais Dolmen 6
Trip No.10 Entry No.10 Date Added: 12th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Monpalais dolmen 6 submitted by thecaptain on 4th Sep 2009. Like the other dolmens here it has been tidied up, and now consists of a chamber in a little round mound of stones.
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Bougon Tumulus A
Trip No.10 Entry No.11 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus A submitted by greywether on 3rd Jul 2005. Tumulus A.
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Bougon Tumulus B
Trip No.10 Entry No.12 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus B submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Aug 2010. Bougon Tumulus B with its two chambers, seen from the southwest.
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Bougon Tumulus C
Trip No.10 Entry No.13 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus C submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Aug 2010. Bougon Tumulus C viewed from the northwest.
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Bougon Tumulus D
Trip No.10 Entry No.14 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Cairn
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus D submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Aug 2010. Bougon D seems to be more a defining line separating the necropolis into two parts and it winds in a serpent like form between the quarries used to get the stone to build the other tumuli.
It is about 70 metres in length, but only 1 or 2 metres in width and height.
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Bougon Tumulus E
Trip No.10 Entry No.15 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus E submitted by greywether on 3rd Jul 2005. The two passage graves in E, from SE.
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Bougon Tumulus F
Trip No.10 Entry No.16 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus F submitted by thecaptain on 24th Aug 2005. Bougon tumulus and dolmen F0.
This is stated to be the oldest known and dated man made building in all the Atlantic facing lands.
Inside the entrance is a round room, roofed not with a large slab, but with corbelling.
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Dolmen des Sept Chemins
Trip No.10 Entry No.17 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dolmen des Sept Chemins submitted by TheCaptain on 31st Jul 2013. Sept Chemins dolmen can be found not far from the Bougon necropolis, just to the south of the Sept Chemins crossroads. It has been recently restored, and sits in a little area with parking and notice board.
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Dolmen de la Voie
Trip No.10 Entry No.18 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de la Voie submitted by johnstone on 13th Feb 2018. Information panel, June 9, 2014
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Tumulus du Montiou
Trip No.10 Entry No.20 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tumulus du Montiou submitted by Rubis on 27th Aug 2011. Entrances of first and second chambers!
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Dolmen de la Pierre-Pèze
Trip No.10 Entry No.36 Date Added: 15th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de la Pierre-Pèze submitted by thecaptain on 1st Dec 2005. La Pierre-Pèze is positioned in a lovely woodland glade and despite the noise of the busy road and the TGV trains rushing (quietly) by, the place is full of birdsong and a nice place to spend some time.
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Pierre-Fitte
Trip No.7 Entry No.14 Date Added: 20th Jan 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2015. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Pierre-Fitte submitted by johnstone on 20th Jan 2018. View from the road, Sep.19, 2015
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Dolmen de Loubressac
Trip No.44 Entry No.12 Date Added: 24th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 1998. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dolmen de Loubressac submitted by thecaptain on 19th Feb 2006. At the hamlet of Loubressac, the little road curves around the remains of this dolmen.
The capstone, which once would have measured 5 metres by 4 metres, has now broken and collapsed into the chamber.
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Pierre-Levée (Chiroux)
Trip No.44 Entry No.13 Date Added: 24th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 1998. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pierre-Levée (Chiroux) submitted by theCaptain on 21st Jul 2011. Atop a little hill overlooking a pond can be found this fine dolmen, 150 metres from the road and signposted with a little parking area.
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Dolmen de Thorus 2
Trip No.44 Entry No.14 Date Added: 24th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 1998. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Thorus 2 submitted by johnstone on 24th May 2020. Reasonable remains between the trees, July 12, 1998
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Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (Neuville-de-Poitou)
Trip No.44 Entry No.15 Date Added: 24th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 1998. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (Neuville-de-Poitou) submitted by johnstone on 24th May 2020. This would be a mega-capstone, July 13, 1998
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Dolmen de Fontenaille
Trip No.44 Entry No.16 Date Added: 24th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 1998. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Fontenaille submitted by johnstone on 24th May 2020. Delicate balance here, July 13, 1998
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Dolmen de la Bie
Trip No.44 Entry No.17 Date Added: 24th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 1998. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen de la Bie submitted by oldman on 27th Oct 2019. Dolmen de la Bie. Vast capstone rests on two uprights
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