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<< Our Photo Pages >> Butte temoin de Lafitole - Hillfort in France in Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65)

Submitted by Nick- on Thursday, 10 February 2005  Page Views: 5591

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Butte temoin de Lafitole
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 8.885 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Tarbes  Nearest Village: Lafitole
Latitude: 43.442800N  Longitude: 0.071900E
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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.
5 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
no data

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Butte temoin de Lafitole
Butte temoin de Lafitole submitted by Nick- : Looking in a Northerly direction at the 'fort' from below. Any earthworks there may or not be, are covered with dense woodland. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Not much evidence to be seen of this hillfort/oppidum in Hautes-Pyrénées.

The views from the site are incredible, or would have been had it not been hazy....

There may be earthworks on the South West side , but the slopes are covered with woodland.......

No mention of the site, on the village 'tourist' notice board....


IMPORTANT NOTE: Position of site estimated from map source.
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Butte temoin de Lafitole
Butte temoin de Lafitole submitted by Nick- : 17/07/07 Looking North Westwards, at the interior of the fort. The 'earthworks' are some sort of modern covered reservoir (???) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Butte temoin de Lafitole
Butte temoin de Lafitole submitted by Nick- : 17/07/07 A carved slate guide , showing the names of different features in the Pyrénées in relief, and also other features including the river l'Adour. Looking Southwards. No good view in the photo because of the haze. No mention of the hillfort anywhere... (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Butte temoin de Lafitole
Butte temoin de Lafitole submitted by Nick- : 17/07/07 Looking Westwards, along the top of the fort. To the left a steep slope, splendid views. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Butte temoin de Lafitole by Anonymous on Thursday, 04 September 2008
Hi Nick
I'd like to find out more about the site, I live about 150m down the hill at number 17
how did you discover it? It does mention a site in the local tourist guide I think, there is another site towards Maubourguet a mound surrounded by fields noone seems to know what it is but it was clearly important enough to route the road around it in a wide circle at some time in the past.
Andy
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Re: Butte temoin de Lafitole by Nick- on Monday, 30 July 2007
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Condition: 2
Ambience: 4
Access: 5

Not much evidence of this hillfort, which is (probably)actually further West , than the position co ordinates given. The views from the site are incredible, or would have been had it not been hazy.... There may be earthworks on the South West side , but the slopes are covered with woodland....... No mention of the site, on the village 'tourist' notice board....

My co ordinates seem to work out thus........

0.071944° Latitude
43.442778° Longitude
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