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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Allée Couverte de Saint-Eugène Alternative Name: Allée Couverte de Laure MinervoisCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 2.829 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Languedoc:Aude (11) Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Carcassonne Nearest Village: Laure-Minervois
Latitude: 43.297600N Longitude: 2.525200E
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 |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
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TheCaptain visited on 14th Sep 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 I have now twice found this only by luck. This time I took a wrong turning (one road too soon) and ended up on a stone track across private land where I could not turn round to go back out, and then I saw a little sign to dolmen, up the hillside I remember. I managed to park the van in a wider part of the track about 500 metres away, and went back on foot to look for the site. Quite how one is meant to get here properly, I do not know !
Up on top of a pine covered hill is an open flattish area, upon which is built this lovely tomb. It has all been much restored, so quite how much is original I do not know. The first thing you see is a circular stone wall containing a stone cairn, about a metre high and about 25 metres in diameter, with upright slabs every 5 metres or so around its circumference. Within this is the remains of a massive structure, and a partitioned chamber. The main chamber is 15 metres long, lined with large slabs, and opens to the southeast at 155°. At the back end it is 4 metres wide, and 5.5 m from the end is the remnants of a stone partition within which the remains of portal entranceway can be seen. The next section is 6 metres long, tapering to 2.5 metres wide, up to the remains of another partition with entranceway. This leaves just 3 metres of tapering corridor to the entrance in the circular wall, just 1 metre in width. Unfortunately there are no cover stones, and the entrance portals are very damaged, to the extent of being almost non existant. In the stone mound there can be seen the remains of two further intermediate circling walls, the first a U shape around the chamber, and the second a concentric circle within the outside wall.
johnstone visited on 21st Jul 2001 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4
TheCaptain visited on 13th Aug 2000 - their rating: Access: 4 Day out from Toulouse to explore Minerve ancient village, Rock tunnels, Morrel das Fadas, St Eugene. it was getting late and the roads and map didnt seem to match. I just followed signs to something like fairy hill, and on top of a hill was this amazing site, with a circular walled structure with various chambers and passages in it.
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 4
Within its stonebuilt cairn, the slab and drystone wall lined chamber is 14/15 metres in length, split into three sections. The entrance is less than 2 metres in width, while its the two part chamber is mostly between 3 and 4 metres in width. No capstones remain in place, and unfortunately the dividing stones, with their portal entrance holes, are largely destroyed.
Around the outside of the full cairn is a circular structure, with a cromlech of raised stones, forming a sort of peristalith.
As with the nearby Morrel das Fadas, this is another fantastic place to visit.
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