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Dolmen de Pech-Lapeyre
Trip No.203 Entry No.194 Date Added: 20th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dolmen de Pech-Lapeyre submitted by greywether on 4th Jul 2005. This is a photo of a dolmen known in the Lot Inventory as Lac d'Auris. It was signposted from the centre of Limogne-en-Quercy but, I think, simply as "Dolmen". Anyway, the notable thing about Lac d'Auris is the thickness of the capstone - almost 1m and weighing 17 tons. Apparently there is a quarry 300m away with a hole the size of the capstone.
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Log Text: Signposted as dolmens from the centre of the village of Limogne-en-Quercy, this dolmen is more than a kilometres walk along a trackway. The dolmen is still partly within its mound, and is notable for the thickness of its capstone, which is a rectangular 3 m by 2 m in size, but is a metre thick. The chamber is 2.5 metres by 1.5 metres in size, and opens to the southeast at 121°.
Unfortunately, there is quite a bit of rubbish here, with remains of fires, picnics and candles along with all the usual broken beer bottles.
Dolmen dit de Pajot
Trip No.203 Entry No.193 Date Added: 20th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen dit de Pajot submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jul 2005. Mas Pachot dolmen, near Limogne-en-Quercy.
Now used as a store for ancient farming equipment.
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Log Text: This dolmen can be easily found in a field beside the D24 road south of the village of Limogne-en-Quercy. Of typical size for round here, the chamber is 3.5 metres in length, and 1.5 metres wide, and is covered by a capstone which is larger in all dimensions. The northeast side has collapsed slightly, giving a good lean.
The dolmen is used for storing of some ancient farming equipment (ploughs and suchlike) which look to have been in there for many decades.
Dolmen de Maire-Gaillard
Trip No.203 Entry No.192 Date Added: 20th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Maire-Gaillard submitted by irundarra on 1st Jun 2011.
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Log Text: Driving along a little lane to the north of Bois-del-Rey dolmens, I saw a little sign to dolmen, and so just had to follow it. A few hundred metres down a track into the forest from the small lane (with difficult parking) can be found the remains of this little dolmen, not much more than 2 metres long by 1.2 metres wide. There is still a bit of its surrounding mound remaining.
Dolmen du Devès des Gleyettes 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.190 Date Added: 20th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen du Devès des Gleyettes 1 submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jul 2005. Another nice dolmen, just a few hundred metres further round the signposted woodland walk north of Martiel.
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Log Text: A few more hundred metres round the signposted footpath is this dolmen with no name sign. Still in much of its long mound, the capstone is broken into three pieces, and partly fallen. The chamber is 3.5 metres long by 1.5 metres wide, and faces southeast at 125°.
Cloup de Layrou
Trip No.203 Entry No.191 Date Added: 20th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Log Text: Just 50 metres further away from the Cloup de Layrou dolmen, is found a depression in the ground with a couple of cave like shelters. It has a signpost and was no doubt used by ancient man.
Dolmen du Bois Galtier
Trip No.203 Entry No.189 Date Added: 20th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen du Bois Galtier submitted by greywether on 4th Jul 2005. This is a photo of a site known as Bois Galtier
Bois Galtier has a ruined "cazelle" (shepherd's shelter?) built at the back of it.
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Log Text: A hundred or so metres further along the signposted walk from the Bois-del-Rey dolmen can be found the Dolmen de Bois-de-Galtier. This nice dolmen is still sitting within the remains of its mound, and has a 2.5 metre diameter round drystone walled chamber at its west end rather than the usual closing stone. It is probably a more recent shepherds hut been constructed here. The main dolmen, which acts as its entrance, is about 3.5 metres long by 1.5 metres wide, and faces east at 082°.
Bassin de Bois-del-Rey
Trip No.203 Entry No.188 Date Added: 20th Apr 2020
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Bassin de Bois-del-Rey submitted by regina on 25th Jul 2014. Site in Midi:Aveyron (12) France
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Log Text: Just a few dozen metres from the Bois-del-Rey dolmen, and thought to be connected in some way to it, can be found a 40 cm diameter 10 cm deep circular basin cut into a slab of rock, for unknown purpose.
Dolmen du Bois del Rey
Trip No.203 Entry No.187 Date Added: 20th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen du Bois del Rey submitted by greywether on 4th Jul 2005. This is a photo of a site known as Bois del Rey 1
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Log Text: This is quite a nice dolmen but starting to deteriorate badly, supposedly mostly over the last 100 years. The 4 metre long by 3 metre wide capstone has now broken into two bits, still sitting on its two crumbling 4 metre long side supports. It has a nice backstone and remains of a front entry stone, with the chamber facing east at 110°. It is found a couple of hundred metres along a signposted footpath in a lovely oak forest.
Musee Rouergue
Trip No.203 Entry No.186 Date Added: 20th Apr 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2005. My rating: Access 5
Musee Rouergue submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Apr 2011. In the village of Salles-la-Source can be found this museum of Rouergue life. Amongst much old farming machinery and suchlike the museum has a prehistoric collection.
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Log Text: In the village of Salles-la-Source can be found this museum of Rouergue life. Amongst much old farming machinery and suchlike the museum has a prehistoric collection.
Dolmen de Seveyrac (Salles-la-Source) 2
Trip No.203 Entry No.185 Date Added: 20th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dolmen de Seveyrac (Salles-la-Source) 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Apr 2011. Walking westwards along the ridge from Pérignagols dolmen, there are several other mounds which are passed, one of which can be seen to have a couple of large stones on the surface at the eastern end of a long oval shaped mound.
Fantastic views, made all the more impressive by the approach of a massive rainstorm.
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Log Text: Walking westwards along the ridge from Pérignagols dolmen, there are several other mounds which are passed, one of which can be seen to have a couple of large stones on the surface at the eastern end of a long oval shaped mound. Fantastic views, made all the more impressive by the approach of a massive rainstorm.
Dolmen de Perignagols
Trip No.203 Entry No.184 Date Added: 20th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Perignagols submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Apr 2011. This dolmen has a lovely pitted egg shaped capstone, about 4 metres by 4 metres sitting on the top of two three to four metre long side slabs.
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Log Text: This is a nice dolmen with a lovely shaped and pitted egg shaped capstone, about 4 metres by 4 metres sitting on the top of two three to four metre long side slabs. The chamber is a healthy 4 metres by 2 metres internal dimensions.
The dolmen is signposted up a track to the top of a little hill just to the north of Rodez airport runway, but the atmosphere here is spoiled a bit by all the road straightening and widening going on nearby. There are fantastic views from here across towards Rodez.
Musée Fenaille
Trip No.203 Entry No.183 Date Added: 19th Apr 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 29th May 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Musée Fenaille submitted by thecaptain on 4th Jul 2005. The Fenaille museum in Rodez, Aveyron, which has the most wonderful collection of statue menhirs from the region.
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Log Text: This magnificent museum is found in the old city of Rodez, inside a beautiful old building which is as much part of the museum as all the collections of items within it. The museum is perhaps best known for its superb collection of statue menhirs, extremely well presented on the top floor, but there is much more besides.
La Baraque Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.182 Date Added: 19th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
La Baraque dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 19th Dec 2005. This is a nice little dolmen still well contained within its mound which can be found about 150 metres down the footpath to the north of the road to Baraque Farm
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Log Text: This is a nice little dolmen still well contained within its mound which can be found about 150 metres down the footpath to the north of the road to Baraque Farm / Gite about 150 metres before you reach it. The chamber is only about 2 metres in length, 1 metre wide and 1 metre high, much smaller than a lot round here, but it is very neat, and has a little information sign.
Tiergues Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.180 Date Added: 19th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Tiergues Dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 18th Dec 2005. The lovely Dolmen de Tiergues, in its splendid Aveyron scenery.
This is the southern side view, with strange linear markings on the sideslab.
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Log Text: Near to the village of Tiergues, in Aveyron, this is a lovely dolmen, as used in postcards and much Aveyron tourist publicity. It is not far from the D.250 road and signposted from the main D.992 road nearby.
The dolmen is 4 metres long, and 2 metres in both height and width, it has two good long side slabs, with a broken and falling back stone. On top of these there is a good capstone, which is very level, covering a chamber which opens to the northeast at 065°.
While posing for a picture here, the dolmen bit me, as I stood up and hit my head on the capstone, which overhangs the sidestones at the front quite considerably. There are meagre remains of a mound, and a few other large bits of stone surround it.
Dolmen de Combets 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.179 Date Added: 19th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Combets 1 submitted by thecaptain on 19th Dec 2005. In a field just to the southwest of St Michel-de-Larzac in Aveyron, can be found the remains of this dolmen, which arent much these days.
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Log Text: Too windy to write anything as I visited this one, it was blowing my book and everything away, so only small notes !. There is not much left of this dolmen, just a single large sideslab and one end stone. There is no sign of any capstone remaining, and its mound has been well eaten into with ploughing. There are the remains of many other mounds to be seen nearby.
Dolmen de Combets 2
Trip No.203 Entry No.178 Date Added: 19th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Combets 2 submitted by thecaptain on 19th Dec 2005. In a field just to the southwest of St Michel-de-Larzac in Aveyron, can be found this dolmen with a chamber 4 metres long by 1.8 metres wide.
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Log Text: In a field just to the southwest of St Michel-de-Larzac can be found this dolmen with a chamber 4 metres long by 1.8 metres wide. There is not much sign of a mound, but the chamber floor is below ground level of the field surrounding it. It is still enclosed on all four sides, and faces towards east at 100°. The capstone is broken, with a further two metres of stone a bit to the west, which would have made a 5.5 by 2.5 metre capstone originally.
Its very blowy up on this high plateau this afternoon, on the way with Ellie to go and cross the Millau viaduct, otherwise known as "the bridge in the sky".
Azinières Dolmen 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.177 Date Added: 19th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Azinières dolmen 1 submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Mar 2006. This little dolmen sits right beside the busy D.911 road a few kilometres to the north of Millau, continuously passed by masses of heavy lorries which I guess do not like to pay the toll charges for the new motorway.
There was once another one near here, destroyed when the road was made bigger.
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Log Text: This little 3 m by 2 m dolmen sits right beside the busy D.911 road a few kilometres to the north of Millau, continuously passed by masses of heavy lorries which I guess do not like to pay the toll charges for the new motorway. There was once another one here, destroyed when the road was made bigger.
Pèira Levada (La Glène)
Trip No.203 Entry No.175 Date Added: 19th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Pèira Levada (La Glène) submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Mar 2006. High up on the windswept, sunbaked plateau, not far from the D.911 road north of Millau, this is one heck of a big dolmen which has sadly collapsed on one side.
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Log Text: High up on the windswept, sunbaked plateau, not far from the D.911 road north of Millau, this is one heck of a big dolmen which has sadly collapsed on one side. The views to the southeast over the river Tarn are astonishing, with the new motorway snaking its way down the distant hillside adding some interest.
The giant capstone must be 6 metres by 4 metres, and was sitting on two 4 metre long by 2 metre high side slabs, the eastern of which has tipped inwards letting the capstone fall this side. Its backstone has broken, allowing this to happen. The chamber faces unusually south of southeast at 154° - most of the dolmens round here are pretty close to due east. The back has at some point been walled up for use as a shelter.
Its a pity about the dirty modern buildings and busy road nearby.
Sermels menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.174 Date Added: 19th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Sermels menhir submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Mar 2006. This is a lovely menhir, 3 metres tall, right beside the D.2 road at the hamlet of Sermels, to the south of Séverac-le-Château in Aveyron.
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Log Text: I was not expecting this one as I drove past on the way west along the D.2 road. It is a lovely menhir, 3 metres tall, on the edge of a valley. There are some interesting holes in it.
Dolmen de Bel-Air 2
Trip No.203 Entry No.171 Date Added: 19th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dolmen de Bel-Air 2 submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Mar 2006. This dolmen is in the middle of a field of barley, so I didn’t get right to it. It looks a bit of a mess, and not much more than an overgrown pile of stones.
Dolmen de Bel-Air 2
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Log Text: This dolmen is in the middle of a field of barley, so I didn’t get right to it. It looks a bit of a mess, and not much more than an overgrown bump in a field.