<< Our Photo Pages >> La Loge aux Sarrasins - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Normandie:Calvados (14)
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: La Loge aux Sarrasins Alternative Name: Dolmen du Mont Savarin, Dolmen de la Loge aux SarrazinsCountry: France Département: Normandie:Calvados (14) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Vire Nearest Village: St-Germain-de-Tallevande
Latitude: 48.791210N Longitude: 0.87407W
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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TheCaptain visited on 9th Oct 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Having gone to Vire for a Vide Grenier and country show, persuaded Trevor and Sara to visit this stone for another look. Followed the same path as last time, and this time, once at the corner of the garden, the dolmen was clear to be seen in the back garden. At Last!
Its a lovely looking little dolmen. I can only assume that last visit there was a shed in the way, preventing it being seen. To get a better view, went back to the cornfield, and walked along its edge and up along outside the garden. I noticed that a bit further to the west, behind the garage, there was a separate standing stone, a couple of metres tall.
TheCaptain couldn't find on 17th Apr 2005 Despite an accurate description of how to find this dolmen I could find nothing that looked like the picture from 1980. I did however find some large stones in about the right place a large single stone standing in the middle of the field and a couple of smaller ones with a small stone on top and a further large stone nearby. Perhaps I was looking in the wrong field but I think more likely is that this dolmen has recently been destroyed. A closer inspection of the photographs and I think that the large stone lying near the edge of the field might be the capstone from the dolmen upside down. A criminal shame that these things survive so long only to be destroyed in these modern times due to greed and laziness of a farmer.
Later note. Having seen the 1:25000 ign map of the area the dolmen is marked in a field further to the north than where I was looking beside the farm buildings which begs the question of what are the stones I did find.
On my first visit to this, in April 2005, despite an accurate description of how to find this dolmen, and expecting it to be an easy find, I could find nothing that looked like the picture I had seen from 1980. Having later seen the 1:25000 ign map of the area the dolmen is marked in a field beside the farm buildings a bit further to the north than where I was looking.
I did however find some large stones in about the right place a large single stone standing in the middle of the field and a couple of smaller ones with a small stone on top and a further large stone nearby, which begs the question of what are the stones I did find.
Note: This rare Normandy dolmen becomes yet another French megalithic site which has now been seemingly fenced off from the public by new owners of an old farmhouse - including shutting of a GR footpath.
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