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Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (La Jarne)
Trip No.203 Entry No.253 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 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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Log Text: 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. I am not sure exactly how original this dolmen is, as it looks like it might be a relatively modern reconstruction, and is stood in a gravel area with tell tale plastic sheeting under the new gravel surroundings. I could find no information about it.
Abri de Cro-Magnon
Trip No.203 Entry No.82 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 19th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Abri de Cro-Magnon submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Sep 2006. The Abri de Cro-Magnon UNESCO World Heritage site is to be found behind the Cro-Magnon Hotel, which is itself found along the road behind the railway station.
It is in the cliff face at the left of this picture.
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Log Text: Up a little track to the side of the Cro-Magnon hotel along the road to the railway station can be found this sad little UNESCO World Heritage site where the Cro-Magnon man was discovered in 1868 by Francois Berthoumeyron as they were clearing the way for the road to the railway station.
Despite all the hustle and bustle in Les Eyzies and all the attractions crying out for your visit this place does not even have a signpost. Its nothing much to see just a little rock shelter in the cliff face shaded by a couple of large chestnut trees with a little walled and fenced area around it. It looks a bit like a large garden feature or something from a cemetery tucked round the back and almost forgotten.
Once you have found it there is a sign in fact two the official UNESCO World Heritage site plate and a little plaque commemorating the discovery. I am surprised it is not a bit of a pilgrimage site like so many others around here in this village which thrives on its reputation as the home of Cro-Magnon man.
Abri de Cro-Magnon
Date Added: 21st Oct 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 17th Sep 1978
Abri de Cro-Magnon submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Sep 2006. Abri de Cro-Magnon UNESCO World Heritage site.
It's nothing much to see, just a little rock shelter in the cliff face shaded by a couple of large chestnut trees, with a little walled and fenced area around it.
It is sadly hidden round the back of the hotel and almost forgotten.
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Log Text: Hitch Hiking Trip round France in the summer of 1978. Camped for a couple of days at Les Eyzies to visit and wonder at the ancient sites here.
Abri de la Madeleine
Trip No.203 Entry No.85 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Abri de la Madeleine submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Jan 2011. Within a cave/shelter near the base of the cliff face at La Madeleine, many prehistoric finds were made which gave their name to an epoch, including carved bison and the first harpoons.
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Log Text: You don’t actually really get to see the Abri de la Madeleine where all the prehistoric finds were made which gave their name to an epoch including the carved bison and the first harpoons. I guess to see this best you would need to canoe down the river but you can see the overhang and bits of it from the village and there is some display material in the visitor centre.
Abri de la Salpetriere
Trip No.205 Entry No.197 Date Added: 26th Nov 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Abri de la Salpetriere submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jul 2020. Beside the river near to the Pont du Gard is a big cliff shelter, which was used as a dwelling in the age of reindeer.
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Log Text: Beside the river near to the Pont du Gard is a big cliff shelter, which has a sign on it saying it was used as a dwelling in the age of reindeer. Excavations were going on within, and it was all fenced off.
Abri de Lartet
Trip No.203 Entry No.84 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 19th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Abri de Lartet submitted by theCaptain on 7th Jan 2011. This cliff shelter was discovered by Lartet in 1863 and is classed as a National Historic Monument.
Its just a few metres up the valley side from its more famous neighbour Abri du Poisson.
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Log Text: This cliff shelter was discovered by Lartet in 1863 and is classed as a National Historic Monument. Its just a few metres up the valley side from its more famous neighbour Abri du Poisson.
Abri de Laugerie-Basse
Trip No.203 Entry No.66 Date Added: 5th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2005. My rating: Access 4
Abri de Laugerie-Basse submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Jan 2011. Just to the northwest of Les Eyzies on the west bank of the river Vézère is found the ancient cliff settlement of Laugerie Basse. There are gisements and shelters in the cliff face which have been inhabited since Cro Magnon man right up to this day.
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Log Text: Just to the northwest of Les Eyzies on the west bank of the river Vézère is found the ancient cliff settlement of Laugerie Basse. Gisements and shelters in the cliff face which have been inhabited since Cro Magnon man right up to this day.
Abri de Laugerie-Haute
Trip No.203 Entry No.77 Date Added: 5th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 18th May 2005. My rating: Access 4
Abri de Laugerie-Haute submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Jan 2011. This was one of the biggest rock shelters anywhere and was inhabited since 50000 years ago.
Much of the cliff roof fell down about 10000 years ago and wrecked the place. This had the effect of burying all the archaeology hence preserving it to the present day and preventing it being rebuilt and reused in the millennia past or being plundered in the last few centuries.
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Log Text: Just to the northwest of Les Eyzies on the west bank of the river Vézère is found the ancient cliff settlement of Laugerie Haute. This was one of the biggest rock shelters anywhere and was inhabited since 50000 years ago. But much of the cliff roof fell down about 10000 years ago and wrecked the place. This had the effect of burying all the archaeology hence preserving it to the present day and preventing it being rebuilt and reused in the millennia past or being plundered in the last few centuries.
Abri de Ruth
Trip No.203 Entry No.76 Date Added: 5th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 18th May 2005. My rating: Access 4
Abri de Ruth submitted by theCaptain on 6th Jan 2011. Just to the south of the village of Le Moustoir on the west bank of the Vézère is found this collection of caves and a museum of artefacts. Supposedly a very important place from where the stratigraphy of the various ancient eras was determined.
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Log Text: Just to the south of the village of Le Moustoir on the west bank of the Vézère is found this collection of caves and a museum of artefacts. .Supposedly a very important place from where the stratigraphy of the various eras was determined. But getting on in the evening very tired after a long hilly bike ride when its shut it looks just like a cave in a cliff face in a garden to me !
Abri du Cap-Blanc
Trip No.203 Entry No.73 Date Added: 5th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Abri du Cap-Blanc submitted by theCaptain on 6th Jan 2011. In this now walled up cliff shelter, there is a massive frieze of sculpted animals. It was discovered in about 1909, and still bears the scars of the picks used in the excavations, and some of the animals were destroyed. There are horses, bison and the main event, a 2 metre long horse and bison combined, the bison looking to the left, while the horse looks to the right.
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Log Text: In this now walled up cliff shelter, there is a massive frieze of sculpted animals. It was discovered in about 1909, and still bears the scars of the picks used in the excavations, and some of the animals were destroyed. There are horses, bison and the main event, a 2 metre long horse and bison combined, the bison looking to the left, while the horse looks to the right.
This is a fantastic place to visit, but to be honest there is not so much to see as I thought there would be. And it was all spoiled by a coachload of geriatric Americans who would not shut up and listen, and went on and on and on..... I pretended to be French so that they would not try and talk to me, and so I could express my disgust at them !
Abri du Moustier
Trip No.203 Entry No.75 Date Added: 5th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 18th May 2005. My rating: Access 4
Abri du Moustier submitted by theCaptain on 6th Jan 2011. In the cliff face right opposite the main square in the delightful village of Le Moustoir on the west bank of the Vézère is found this World Heritage Site. Things found here gave its name to an entire epoch; the Mousterien.
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Log Text: In the cliff face right opposite the main square in the delightful village of Le Moustoir on the west bank of the Vézère is found this World Heritage Site. Things found here gave its name to an entire epoch the Mousterien. But late on in the day on a long bike ride and wanting to get back (and knowing there's at least one more big hill in the way) it looked like more fenced and walled off bits of cliff face.
Abri du Poisson
Trip No.203 Entry No.83 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 19th May 2005. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 4
Abri du Poisson submitted by theCaptain on 7th Jan 2011. These days the abri is walled up and locked shut to enable people to pay to see inside and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Log Text: Located in an open garden type area where there is a gap in the cliff face at the bottom of the Gorge D’Enfer on the south west side of the road out of Les Eyzies towards Périgueux about 1 kilometre after the bridge over the river and before Laugerie Basse. These days the abri is walled up and locked shut to enable people to pay to see inside and is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Apart from the traffic going past this is a nice quiet little place with a stream coming out from the cliff nearby and trickling down towards the river.
A typical little Abri at the bottom of the cliffs it was discovered in about 1912 that there is a life sized carving of a salmon on the ceiling. It has been dated to about 25000 years ago and is the oldest known representation of a fish in the world and one of only 10 known in cave art anywhere. It is thought that the ceiling was once completely painted over due to pigment found in cracks in the rocks and there is also a handprint part of a horse and some strange symbols to be seen.
Abson Church
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jul 2015
Abson Church submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jul 2015. Aaaahhhh. At last I found it !
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Adam's Grave (Alton Barnes)
Date Added: 8th Oct 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2002. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Adam's Grave (Alton Barnes) submitted by twentytrees on 29th Jul 2006. View from the south-west. The people in the picture are stood above the now ruined chambers where some stones remain.
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Addington Long Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 30th Aug 2004
Addington Long Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 30th Aug 2004. Large long barrow with many stones still to be seen surrounding it. The barrow has been effectively cut in two by the little road which goes right over the top. This is the western end of the barrow.
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Adlestrop Hill
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 2006
Adlestrop Hill submitted by thecaptain on 3rd Apr 2006. Adlestrop Hill long barrow.
Just about found and identified after a long search by about a dozen hardened stonehunters, and a couple of full time archaeologists.
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Agate House
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2009
Agate House submitted by thecaptain on 28th May 2009. Agate House in Petrified Forest National Park.
picture from November 1990.
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Agranel Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.207 Date Added: 21st Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Couldn't find on 31st May 2005
Agranel dolmen submitted by ocdolmen on 30th Jul 2006. Site in Midi:Lot (46)
Agranel dolmen, Lot, France
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Log Text: This dolmen marked on the ign 1:25000 map is at the top of a hill in a well fenced off area of scrubland with no obvious parking place so I didn’t bother too hard to try and find it.
Aguas Tuertas Dolmen
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Spain (Aragón)
Visited: Yes on 24th Dec 2017
Aguas Tuertas Dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Dec 2017. From hikepyrenees.
In an area called Aguas Tuertas (twisted waters) between the valleys of Hecho and Canfranc is a large flat col that a stream meanders through giving the area it’s name. A dolmen stands at the col in a fabulous location and although it’s only small most people say it’s the prettiest in the region. It’s dated back to 3000 BC and legends say the dolmen is home to the spirits of the region that control access across the pass.
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Al Hili Archaeological park
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: United Arab Emirates
Visited: Yes on 31st Mar 2019
Al Hili Archaeological park submitted by TheCaptain on 31st Mar 2019. The great tomb of Hili is 12m diameter which has been rebuilt. The inhabitants of South-East of Arabia once lived in dried earth brick houses in the sun and buried their dead in collective graves built in stone. The tombs belong to the umm al-nar culture, from-2 600 /-2 000.
Pic from Portail des Mégalithes de la Francophonie and www.abudhabidesertsafari.ae/hili-archaeological-garden-abu-dhabi
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