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Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (La Jarne)
Trip No.10 Entry No.21 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (La Jarne) submitted by thecaptain on 7th Dec 2005. This is a nice little dolmen sitting at the edge of the playing fields just outside the back of the church in the village of La Jarne in Charente-Maritime.
Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (La Jarne)
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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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Courades Dolmen
Trip No.10 Entry No.30 Date Added: 14th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Courades Dolmen submitted by hewpop on 23rd Sep 2007. West side
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Dolmen de Confolens
Trip No.10 Entry No.37 Date Added: 15th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 5
Dolmen de Confolens submitted by irundarra on 11th May 2011. Site in Confolens
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Dolmen de Fontenille
Trip No.10 Entry No.1 Date Added: 12th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 4th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dolmen de Fontenille submitted by johnstone on 12th Feb 2018. Almost hidden in the bush, hardly visible, June 4, 2014
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Dolmen de La Pierre Blanche à Bessé 1
Trip No.10 Entry No.41 Date Added: 17th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 25th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de La Pierre Blanche à Bessé 1 submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Dec 2005. La Pierre-Blanche (Bessé)
Its very thick capstone is pitted with holes full of various plants. A real rock garden.
Dolmen de La Pierre Blanche à Bessé 1
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Dolmen de la Pierre Levée (La Vallée)
Trip No.10 Entry No.25 Date Added: 14th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dolmen de la Pierre Levée (La Vallée) submitted by davidmorgan on 26th Aug 2010. Dolmen de la Pierre Levée (La Vallée).
Nicely tidied up since ocdolmen visited.
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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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Dolmen de la Pierre-qui-Vire
Trip No.10 Entry No.19 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen de la Pierre-qui-Vire submitted by ocdolmen on 28th Aug 2009. La Pierre qui Vire near Cheffois village Dolmen de la Pierre-qui-Vire
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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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Dolmen des Grandes-Chaumes
Trip No.10 Entry No.39 Date Added: 16th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dolmen des Grandes-Chaumes submitted by TAUPIN on 14th Nov 2013. Dolmen des Grandes-Chaumes or Dolmen du Chatelard on St-Ciers sur Bonnieure.
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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 dit la Pierre du Sacrifice (Boixe)
Trip No.10 Entry No.31 Date Added: 14th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen dit la Pierre du Sacrifice (Boixe) submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Dec 2005. Pierre du Sacrifice (Boixe A) these days is just the capstone of the destroyed tumulus, once similar to Boixe B.
It has some very straight channels in the top, which are so straight and even that they must have been carved, rather than randomly shaped rain channels.
Dolmen dit la Pierre du Sacrifice (Boixe)
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Dolmen dit la Pierre Fouquerée
Trip No.10 Entry No.23 Date Added: 14th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dolmen dit la Pierre Fouquerée submitted by thecaptain on 13th Jan 2006. This dolmen is not so easy to find as its neighbour, La Pierre Levée, but is in the middle of a field of maize to the west of the farm of Bois des Mottes near the village of Ardillières.
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Dolmen dit le Gras du Chien
Trip No.10 Entry No.4 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
Dolmen dit le Gras du Chien submitted by thecaptain on 6th Sep 2009. One of the additional chambers adjoining the first cairn.
Edit: This is the second tomb "Dolmen dit le Gras du Chien"
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