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Submitted by richardfrance on Thursday, 14 February 2008 Page Views: 3632

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bois de Monsieur allee couverte
Country: France Département: Languedoc:Hérault (34) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: St-Chinian Nearest Village: Assignan
Latitude: 43.398228N Longitude: 2.877539E
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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
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-1	Completely destroyed

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3	Ordinary
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2 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	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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**Bois de Monsieur allee couverte** submitted by richardfrance : I came here armed with just one sentence gleaned from a 1962 account of the activities of a member of the 'Societé d’ Etudes Scientifiques de l’Aude‘. In a paper he gave on the prehistoric relics of the region, he noted four sad, forgotten and neglected dolmens in the Minervois. One of them was the Allée Couverte du Bois de Monsieur, 500 metres off the Assignan to Coulouma road, on a ‘pe... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Remains of an allee couverte near to the village of Assignan, in Languedoc:Hérault (34).

Not worth a detour. Drive out of Agel on the D20, past Le Moulin de Madame. Somewhere along here the road turns into the D128. Fork L onto the D26 and go thru the hamlet of La Roueyre and on past La Grotte du Gourp des Boeufs, where the road morphs into the D177. You can do all this without knowing any of this - basically you’ve just gone from Agel to Assignan. The proximity of the grotte is significant - and the distance between Monsieur et Madame is intriguing.

The dolmen is in the far corner of the last vineyard on the left, down the track on the left after the pond above the village. It lies at 2.52′40″ E , 43.23′50″ N. using www.geoportail.fr
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