<< Our Photo Pages >> La Pierre Levée (Ardillières) - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17)
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: La Pierre Levée (Ardillières)Country: France
NOTE: This site is 7.691 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Rochefort Nearest Village: Ardillières
Latitude: 46.054300N Longitude: 0.8814W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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johnstone visited on 12th Jun 2014 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4
TheCaptain visited on 5th Jun 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4 This is a nice pleasant simple little dolmen, just into a field of wheat about 30 metres from a farm track to the south of the village of Ardillières. The capstone sits proudly atop its three upright supports, making a chamber about 2 metres long by 1.5 metres wide and almost 2 metres high. It sits almost at the top of a little hillock in amongst the marais, and can be seen for miles around. On the inside of the chamber, the western side support stone has a fairly clear carving on it of what looks to be an axe, or a crook, perhaps a combination of both, looking rather like a large P, about 45 centimetres tall.
While I was here, a German couple, saying they were father and daughter, about mid twenties, arrived, and we were talking about the dolmen, and I showed them the carving.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 3 Access: 4
The capstone sits proudly atop its three upright supports, making a chamber about 2 metres long by 1.5 metres wide and almost 2 metres high. It sits almost at the top of a little hillock in amongst the marais, and can be seen for miles around.
On the inside of the chamber, the western side support stone has a fairly clear carving on it of what looks to be an axe, or a crook, perhaps a combination of both, looking rather like a large P, about 45 centimetres tall.
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