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Natural PlacesSite Name: Cave à Margot Alternative Name: Grotte Margot
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 12.681 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Laval  Nearest Village: Thorigné-en-Charnie
Latitude: 47.992852N  Longitude: 0.400918W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
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5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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w650marion visited on 4th May 2025 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Early morning visit, we had a guide to ourselves who treated us to an excellent tour in English of the faint engravings. Lots of low ceilings, no hard hats!

Cave à Margot
Cave à Margot submitted by Flickr : Entrée de la grotte Margot, Saulges, Mayenne Site in Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) France fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotte_Margot Image copyright: Selbymay (Stéphane Mahot), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
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Cave à Margot
Cave à Margot submitted by w650marion : The cave is in the Erve river valley which has its own microclimate and is very pretty. 17000 years ago it was very cold and the humans lived in the entrances to the caves, entering them to create engravings of animals. But unusually on this site, bird engravings have also been found. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cave à Margot
Cave à Margot submitted by w650marion : Example of the engravings to be found on the walls of the cave. No photography was allowed inside, probably due to safety, as the route is wet, slippy low ceiling, uneven steps down low passages. Site in Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) France (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cave à Margot
Cave à Margot submitted by Flickr : Image from page 498 of "Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale" (1913-14) Site in Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) France Title: Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale Identifier: archivesdezoolog53cent Year: 1913-14 (1910s) Authors: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France); Lacaze-Duthiers, Henri de, 1821-1901 Subjects: Zoology; Zoology Publis... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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