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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: La Chapoulie
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 7.943 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Périgueux Nearest Village: Nontron
Latitude: 45.564724N Longitude: 0.660208E
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

4 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

4 Access:

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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4 Accuracy:

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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LaDragonne visited on 7th Mar 2024 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Après examen des deux "pierres levées" granitiques qui sont maintenant complètement couvertes de végétation, il ne s'agit pas de stèles mégalithiques . Leur mise en place semble relativement récente.

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**La Chapoulie** submitted by Anne T : Rosey with the smaller of the two menhirs, which are about 15 metres apart. To show scale, Rosey is 5ft 6ins tall. Photo credit: Frank and Rosey Martin (no Portal ID) La Chapoulie: Site in Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) France. (Vote or comment on this photo)

A pair of Menhirs in Dordogne. Rosey and Frank Martin write: We live near Nontron in the Northern Dordogne and have just come across 2 menhirs not mentioned anywhere or marked on the IGN maps.

The book I have on the archaeology of the area (written in 1952) by C Barriere (Les Etapes du Peuplement entre Dronne et Tardoire) mentions a lot of megaliths you won't have picked up from the maps (I'm still trying to find some of them myself) but states categorically that Fixard has the only menhirs in the region

The examples we have found are at La Chapoulie: UTM: 31T 317410E 5048350N

They are about 15m apart and not visible on GoogleEarth
Here I am with them - I'm about 5'6"
Rosey
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