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Dolmen de la Madeleine d’Albesse
Trip No.38 Entry No.1 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de la Madeleine d’Albesse submitted by thecaptain on 7th Mar 2006. The chamber itself is quite large, but a bit of a wreck these days. It looks to be a sort of V shaped chamber 6 metres in length and up to 3 metres wide
It is open to the east at about 118°, which looks right along the valley below the ridge.
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Malves Menhir
Trip No.38 Entry No.2 Date Added: 24th Feb 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Malves Menhir submitted by thecaptain on 6th Mar 2006. This large menhir is to be found a few hundred metres outside the winemaking village of Malves-en-Minervois, just across the river.
It is over 5 metres high (with apparently 4 metres more under the ground), 1.5 metres in width but less than half a metre thick.
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Morrel das Fadas
Trip No.38 Entry No.17 Date Added: 17th Mar 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Morrel das Fadas submitted by thecaptain on 6th Dec 2003. The Morrel das Fadas, near to the village of Pepieux, in the Minervois region of Aude, southwest France
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Allée Couverte de Saint-Eugène
Trip No.38 Entry No.18 Date Added: 17th Mar 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Allée Couverte de Saint-Eugène submitted by thecaptain on 14th Mar 2006. Up on top of a pine covered hill is an open flattish area, upon which is built this lovely tomb. It has all been much restored, so quite how much is original I do not know.
The first thing you see is a circular stone wall containing a stone cairn, about a metre high and about 25 metres in diameter, with upright slabs every 5 metres or so around its circumference. Within this is the remains of a massive structure, and a partitioned chamber.
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Dolmen de la Jagartière
Trip No.38 Entry No.19 Date Added: 17th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Dolmen de la Jagartière submitted by thecaptain on 20th Mar 2006. The slab sided chamber, 3 metres by 2 metres, is covered with a single large capstone, and has an entry looking over the Aude valley to the southeast at 160°. There is a small cairn surrounding the chamber, of which the excavations showed it to be of diameter only 8.5 metres, with an encircling circle of stones.
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Roque Traoucado
Trip No.38 Entry No.20 Date Added: 17th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Roque Traoucado submitted by thecaptain on 13th Mar 2006. Roque Traoucado, up on the southern slopes of the Montagne Noire in Minervois wine country.
The views from up here, over the plain of the Aude river are truly spectacular. On a clear day, the Mediterranean sea and the sacred mountain of Canigou in the Pyrénées are clearly visible.
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Peyregat menhir
Trip No.38 Entry No.21 Date Added: 17th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Peyregat menhir submitted by johnstone on 17th Mar 2020. It looks like the stone still has to be put upright, the pit is already dug! Situation on July 21, 2001
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Dolmen de la Pierre Plantée (Laferrière)
Trip No.38 Entry No.22 Date Added: 17th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de la Pierre Plantée (Laferrière) submitted by johnstone on 17th Mar 2020. Only two elements left, July 21, 2001
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Menhir de la Pierre Droite (Rieux-en-Val)
Trip No.38 Entry No.23 Date Added: 19th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Pierre Droite (Rieux-en-Val) submitted by johnstone on 18th Mar 2020. The menhir with the iron cross on July 23, 2001
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La Pèira Dreta (Tournissan)
Trip No.38 Entry No.24 Date Added: 19th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
La Pèira Dreta (Tournissan) submitted by richardfrance on 24th Feb 2008. It's a fairly clean-cut and rather phallic stone of 1.75 m. and has a face which could be said to point towards le Roc Troue - a suggestively gaping hole high up in a cliff above the village.
There is another menhir close by - with a story - to be visited soon.
See Fertility cult in the Corbieres at www.dolmen.wordpress.com
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Dolmen de Palats
Trip No.38 Entry No.25 Date Added: 19th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen de Palats submitted by richardfrance on 6th Jun 2008. While there are only two stones remaining, the location - in the heart of the Corbieres - and the dolmen's emplacement - atop a clear tumulus in a fertile little valley - make this a site worth visiting.
The capstone is pear-shaped - nearly 3 m. long and over 2 m. wide.
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Dolmen de la Clape 1
Trip No.38 Entry No.26 Date Added: 19th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Dolmen de la Clape 1 submitted by johnstone on 19th Mar 2020. Looks more like a disorderly bunch of stones, July 23, 2001
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Dolmen de la Clape 8
Trip No.38 Entry No.27 Date Added: 19th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dolmen de la Clape 8 submitted by johnstone on 19th Mar 2020. Looking into the "open" room, July 23, 2001
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Dolmens de la Clape
Trip No.38 Entry No.28 Date Added: 19th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Dolmens de la Clape submitted by richardfrance on 5th Apr 2008. Severely eroded and lacking a 'table' this is a dolmen reduced to its bare elements. It faces due S, like the other two nearby. Three metres long, by one wide.
More on my weblog www.dolmen.wordpress.com
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Saint-Salvayre Menhir
Trip No.38 Entry No.29 Date Added: 19th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Saint-Salvayre Menhir submitted by ceresbeith on 7th Jul 2018. Standing Stone (Menhir) in Languedoc:Aude (11) France
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Grand Menhir de Counozouls
Trip No.38 Entry No.30 Date Added: 19th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grand Menhir de Counozouls submitted by thecaptain on 15th Nov 2005. Le Grand Menhir de Counozouls, at nearly 9 metres high, one of the tallest in France, stands on the side of a steep valley in the Pyrenees.
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Dolmen des Lacs 2
Trip No.38 Entry No.4 Date Added: 24th Feb 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Dolmen des Lacs 2 submitted by richardfrance on 28th Jan 2008. We found 2 & 3 at Les Lacs but ran out of time to search for the others. (see Les Lacs 2 for more, and www.dolmen.wordpress.com for more photos, archaeologist sketches, etchings from 19th.c. and more text).
This site, like so many in lower Languedoc, received a burst of attention in the '70's & '80's from academics on their way up, only to be left languishing. Perhaps funds dried up, perhaps reputations were now made, perhaps other bigger sites had a more cachet.
But it looks to me like t...
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Dolmen des Lacs 3
Trip No.38 Entry No.5 Date Added: 24th Feb 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Dolmen des Lacs 3 submitted by richardfrance on 29th Jan 2008. Dolmen des Lacs 3, near the lovely village of Minerve, in Hérault.
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Necropolis du Bois Bas
Trip No.38 Entry No.6 Date Added: 17th Mar 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Necropolis du Bois Bas submitted by richardfrance on 11th Feb 2008. Site in Languedoc:Hérault (34)
This is has an impressive balance and symmetry - the orthostats are about 2 m. square, and the table 2 m. x 1.5 m. It's just under 2 m. high at the entrance, and faces W-SW.
Number 14
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Dolmen du Bois Bas 4
Trip No.38 Entry No.7 Date Added: 17th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jul 2001. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dolmen du Bois Bas 4 submitted by johnstone on 15th Mar 2020. Side view on July 20, 2001
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