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<< Our Photo Pages >> La Butte Vachon - Passage Grave in France in Ile-de-France:Val-d'Oise (95)

Submitted by AlexHunger on Thursday, 10 February 2005  Page Views: 6161

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: La Butte Vachon Alternative Name: Allée couverte des Déserts, Argenteuil I
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 3.462 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Ile-de-France:Val-d'Oise (95) Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Paris  Nearest Village: Argenteuil
Latitude: 48.952200N  Longitude: 2.282700E
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.
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.
3 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
4

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La Butte Vachon submitted by binardino : Site in Ile-de-France:Val-d'Oise (95) very funny dolmen located in the center of the town , Argenteuil is a big modern town at few kilometrers of Paris and it's unusual to find dolmen preserved in big towns in a such ambience! (Vote or comment on this photo)
A very odd allée couverte located in the centre of the town of Argenteuil - a big modern town a few kilometrers from Paris. It's unusual to find dolmen preserved in big towns with such ambience!

Address: 45-47 rue des Déserts , 95100
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Re: La Butte Vachon by Martin_L on Tuesday, 21 February 2012
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Site name is 'Argenteuil I' or
'Allée couverte des Déserts'
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Re: La Butte Vachon on Street View (just) by Andy B on Sunday, 14 March 2010
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Re: La Butte Vachon by TheCaptain on Thursday, 30 March 2006
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Many thanks for all your comments binardino, and welcome to the Megalithic Portal. Have you any photographs you can send us ?
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Re: La Butte Vachon by binardino on Thursday, 30 March 2006
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very funny dolmen located in the center of the town , argenteuil is a big modern town at few kilometrers of Paris and it's unusual to find dolmen preserved in big towns in a such ambience!
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