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Submitted by TheCaptain on Saturday, 16 April 2005 Page Views: 5664
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (La Jarne)Country: France Département: Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: La Rochelle Nearest Village: La Jarne
Latitude: 46.128088N Longitude: 1.071757W
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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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johnstone visited on 11th Jun 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5
TheCaptain visited on 5th Jun 2005 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 5 This is a nice little dolmen sitting at the edge of the playing fields just outside the back of the church in the village of La Jarne. I am not sure exactly how original this dolmen is, as it looks like it might be a relatively modern reconstruction, and is stood in a gravel area with tell tale plastic sheeting under the new gravel surroundings. I could find no information about it.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 2.5 Access: 5
I am not sure exactly how original this dolmen is, as it looks like it might be a relatively modern reconstruction, and is stood in a gravel area with tell tale plastic sheeting under the new gravel surroundings.
From Rubis:
At the beginning, this dolmen was at a crossroad between the two roads D939 and D111. Then it was moved to the Jardin des Plantes, museum of La Rochelle, in August 1886.
In 2001, it came back in La Jarne, but not on its first place, but in the center of the village.
Legend says that the French Fairy Mélusine was angry against the Lord of Châtelaillon because he refused to offer her hospitality. Then she ordered the destruction of the city. She took some stones in her apron to build her castle in Lusignan but one of her straps tore and some stones fell down and made the dolmen de la Pierre Levée of La Jarne.
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