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Claie-de-Driolle 5
Trip No.40 Entry No.14 Date Added: 26th Mar 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2000. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Claie-de-Driolle 5 submitted by t4t35 on 16th Jan 2005. Site in Languedoc:Gard (30)
Front view of one of Claie-de-Driolle cairns
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Galaberte Dolmen
Trip No.40 Entry No.19 Date Added: 26th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2000. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Galaberte dolmen submitted by ocdolmen on 6th Apr 2006. One of the nicest Gard departement dolmen. its capstone is about 20 tons, limestone. about 2.50 metres high under the capstone.
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Pierre Plantée (Lèque)
Trip No.40 Entry No.20 Date Added: 26th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2000. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pierre Plantée (Lèque) submitted by ocdolmen on 7th Aug 2006. La Pierre Plantée de Lussan (la Peyro Plantado) is the tallest menhir in Gard "département" with 5.60 metres.
This standing-stone is also called "la Lèque" (in occitan "la Leca"). The occitan language has kept old celt words in its vocabulary as "leca" (ie "the stone") which comes from gaulish "lech" (as in "cromlech")
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Dolmen dit le Beaume des Fées
Trip No.40 Entry No.21 Date Added: 29th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2000. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen dit le Beaume des Fées submitted by ocdolmen on 11th Apr 2006.
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Dolmen de Carcuignau 4
Trip No.40 Entry No.22 Date Added: 29th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2000. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Carcuignau 4 submitted by ocdolmen on 11th Apr 2006.
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Dolmen de Carcuignau 3
Trip No.40 Entry No.23 Date Added: 29th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2000. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Carcuignau 3 submitted by ocdolmen on 11th Apr 2006.
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Dolmen de Carcuignau 2
Trip No.40 Entry No.24 Date Added: 29th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2000. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Carcuignau 2 submitted by ocdolmen on 11th Apr 2006.
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Menhir de Méjannes
Trip No.40 Entry No.25 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2000. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Menhir de Méjannes submitted by johnstone on 30th Mar 2020. In Méjannes, June 24, 2000
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Dolmen dit La Maison des Fées (Méjannes-le-Clap)
Trip No.40 Entry No.26 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2000. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen dit La Maison des Fées (Méjannes-le-Clap) submitted by johnstone on 30th Mar 2020. Situation on June 24, 2000 (scan from colour negative)
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La Pierre Bamboche 1
Trip No.40 Entry No.34 Date Added: 31st Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2000. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
La Pierre Bamboche 1 submitted by thecaptain on 8th Aug 2006. La Pierre Bamboche stands at over 2 metres tall, but has been cemented back together from several pieces, the top having been broken off in the past.
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Pierre Levée (Collias)
Trip No.40 Entry No.35 Date Added: 31st Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2000. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Pierre Levée (Collias) submitted by ocdolmen on 7th Aug 2006. "La Pierre Plantée" is now standing up in a private property in the village of Collias.
The menhir was broken in two parts and condemned to be totally destroyed by excavators.
A man in the village of Collias has chosen to bring it to his home and to repair it. This stone is now in its garden. Bravo !!!
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Pierre Plantée (Congénies)
Trip No.40 Entry No.36 Date Added: 31st Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2000. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Pierre Plantée (Congénies) submitted by Nick- on 26th Apr 2007. 18/04/2007 Western face of the stone.
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Pierre levée de Picarel
Trip No.23 Entry No.3 Date Added: 23rd Nov 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Pierre levée de Picarel submitted by johnstone on 23rd Nov 2018. The west side, Sep.13, 2018
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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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