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<< Our Photo Pages >> Diévet Dolmen - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Bretagne:Finistère (29)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Tuesday, 28 December 2004  Page Views: 7324

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Diévet Dolmen Alternative Name: Dolmen de Diévet
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 1.372 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Bretagne:Finistère (29) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Lesneven  Nearest Village: Plounéour-Trez
Latitude: 48.654700N  Longitude: 4.3121W
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
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
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
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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TheCaptain visited on 16th Apr 2014 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Now completely surrounded by cultivated fields, the remains of this allée couvert are easily found to the west of the hamlet of Diévet. What remains are two parallel rows of orthostats (12 in total), between 10 and 11 metres in length by 1.5 metres wide, and with a single large coverstone remaining in the middle.

terry visited on 18th May 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 4 Signpost on left of road, set back. Simply says 'Dolmen'

johnstone visited on 16th Jun 2003 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.67 Ambience: 2.67 Access: 4

Diévet dolmen
Diévet dolmen submitted by terry : Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France Diévet dolmen (Vote or comment on this photo)
Now completely surrounded by cultivated fields, the remains of this allée couvert are easily found to the west of the hamlet of Diévet.

What remains are two parallel rows of orthostats (12 in total), between 10 and 11 metres in length by 1.5 metres wide, and with a single large coverstone remaining in the middle.


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Diévet dolmen
Diévet dolmen submitted by theCaptain : A single large capstone remains in place, approximately in the middle. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Diévet Dolmen
Diévet Dolmen submitted by regina : Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France (Vote or comment on this photo)

Diévet dolmen
Diévet dolmen submitted by theCaptain : Seen from the southwest with my Dad for scale. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Diévet dolmen
Diévet dolmen submitted by theCaptain : The single remaining capstone is very large with respect to the site as a whole. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Diévet dolmen
Diévet dolmen submitted by theCaptain : Seen from the northeast. Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France

Diévet dolmen
Diévet dolmen submitted by theCaptain : Seen from the northwest. Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France

Diévet dolmen
Diévet dolmen submitted by theCaptain : Seen from the southwest. Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France

Diévet dolmen
Diévet dolmen submitted by theCaptain : The southern end. The stone in the left foreground has been carved into a bowl shape, possibly as a stone polisher before being reused in the onstruction of this monument. Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France

Diévet dolmen
Diévet dolmen submitted by theCaptain : Now completely surrounded by cultivated fields, the remains of this allée couvert are easily found to the west of the hamlet of Diévet. Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France

Diévet dolmen
Diévet dolmen submitted by thereddragon : From a page in La Mosaique, sorry no idea on the date :( But, I'd guess at late C19.

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