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Submitted by TheCaptain on Saturday, 16 April 2005  Page Views: 3180

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Arlait Dolmens Alternative Name: Dolmen de Baptresse
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 2.16 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Poitou:Vienne (86) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Poitiers  Nearest Village: Château-Larcher
Latitude: 46.427100N  Longitude: 0.304000E
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
3 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.
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 21st Jul 2005 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Being more careful this time, and not in so much of a rush, I was able to find this dolmen. Follow the signs to the north of the village of Chateau Larcher for about a kilometre, and just before the road gets to the top of the hill, stop. There is a little dirt track which crosses the road, and if you look carefully, has a little painted sign to dolmen, to the west (left) of the road. Follow this track for about 800 metres, alongside a large wire fence most of the way, and the dolmen is then about 80 metres to the north (right) down a wide open trackway. The dolmen is a fairly large one, with a rectangular chamber about 4 metres by 3.5 metres, with an entranceway facing to the southeast. The rock is very holey limestone, and much of it has cracked and crumbled, and the capstone has all fallen in. In fact it looks to have broken very recently, as a couple of the breaks are very fresh. The dolmen is still within the remains of a fair sized mound of loose rock, probably 25 to 30 metres in diameter, covered in the inevitable oak woodland. There are several other slabs of rock laying about, and I wondered if there was a second chamber within the mound. While I was sat here, there were a couple of deer not far away, looking at me.

Arlait dolmens
Arlait dolmens submitted by TheCaptain : The dolmen is still within the remains of a fair sized mound of loose rock, probably 25 to 30 metres in diameter, covered in the inevitable oak woodland. (Vote or comment on this photo)
At the splendid village of Chateau Larcher are lots of signposts to Dolmen. Follow the signs to the north of the village for about a kilometre, and just before the road gets to the top of the hill, stop.

There is a little dirt track which crosses the road, and if you look carefully, has a little painted sign to dolmen, to the west (left) of the road. Follow this track for about 800 metres, alongside a large wire fence most of the way, and the dolmen is then about 80 metres to the north (right) down a wide open trackway.

The dolmen is a fairly large one, with a rectangular chamber about 4 metres by 3.5 metres, with an entranceway facing to the southeast. The rock is very holey limestone, and much of it has cracked and crumbled, and the capstone has all fallen in. In fact it looks to have broken very recently, as a couple of the breaks are very fresh.

The dolmen is still within the remains of a fair sized mound of loose rock, probably 25 to 30 metres in diameter, covered in the inevitable oak woodland. There are several other slabs of rock laying about, and I wondered if there was a second chamber within the mound.

It is probable that there are other dolmens to be found in the bushy scrubland and woods around here. I believe that there were supposedly up to a hundred dolmens in this region a hundred or so years ago.

While I was sat here, there were a couple of deer not far away, looking at me.


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Arlait dolmens
Arlait dolmens submitted by TheCaptain : The dolmen is a fairly large one, with a rectangular chamber about 4 metres by 3.5 metres, with an entranceway facing to the southeast. The rock is very holey limestone, and much of it has cracked and crumbled, and the capstone has all fallen in. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Arlait dolmens
Arlait dolmens submitted by TheCaptain : The dolmen is then about 80 metres to the north down a wide open trackway, in a little round woodland area. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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