<< Our Photo Pages >> Jabal Fatouma Dolmen - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Jordan
Submitted by Bashendi on Monday, 26 December 2022 Page Views: 1138
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Jabal Fatouma DolmenCountry: Jordan
NOTE: This site is 3.459 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Petra Nearest Village: ad-Deir
Latitude: 30.342010N Longitude: 35.429190E
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 |
| 0 | no data |
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My guide on that walk was Haroun who was born in the caves in front of the ad-Deir monument, and of course knows the plateau like the back of his hand.
As mentioned, I can find no reference to it, even in the definitive work on megaliths in Jordan:
Scheltema, Megalithic Jordan: An Introduction and Field Guide, ACOR 2008
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