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Photo Pages: Clauzel Dolmen - Burial Chamber (Dolmen) in France in Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82)
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Submitted by weirwolf on Sunday, 22 January 2006 Page Views: 1275
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 Site Name: Clauzel Dolmen Country: France Département: Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82) Type: Burial Chamber (Dolmen)
Nearest Town: Caussade Nearest Village: St-Antonin-Noble-Val
Latitude: 44.160000N Longitude: 1.725000E
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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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 | | 0 | No data. |
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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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   Clauzel Dolmen submitted by weirwolf
Burial Chamber (Dolmen) in Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82)
Almost all of the 24 tombs in the commune of Saint-Antonin are in a ruinous to very ruinous state, and most are almost impossible to find on featureless causse. But one of these, le dolmen de Clauzel/Clausel is remarkable in that it was christianised on a surviving fragment of roof-stone. Clauzel/Clausel is a lieu-dit, which corresponds to a townland in Ireland.
Though christianised menhirs are frequent in Brittany and Western France, christianised tombs are exceedingly rare. I know of no other in France, apart from a monolithic cross erected close to a dolmen farther north which is on the old Pilgrim Path to Santiago. I know of none amongst the hundreds of tombs I have visited in Ireland. The cross on the tomb at Clauzel is not, like some crosses on menhirs, of crude or recent execution, but is an equal-armed cross whose expanded terminals are typical of the period from the 6th to 9th centuries, and of a type found at Early Christian monastic sites in Ireland.
This kind of cross clearly suggests the crucifixion by the top arm having no terminal.
The Clauzel tomb is not difficult to find - though I discovered it right in front of my eyes only on the third attempt! It is 3.5 km S by E of the bridge of Saint-Antonin, at a point 0.8 km (0.6 miles) down a wide but pot-holed track running SE from the GR (chemin de Grande Randonnée) 46, behind a modern metal fence and gateway (on the left) which is usually locked.
For an exhaustive study of all the megalithic tombs of Saint-Antonin (with no mention of the Neuf Pierres which may have stood on the flood-plain of the little Bonnette river close to the town, and served a different ritual function for the same population) see the superbly-produced LES DOLMENS DU PECH ET LE MÉGALITHISME DE SAINT-ANTONIN-NOBLE-VAL, by Bernard Pajot and others, Toulouse & Caussade, 1996, which has plans and colour plates of all the surviving tombs, plus a summary in English. This book is in the municipal library in the market-place of Saint-Antonin.
Dolmens of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in SW France
IMPORTANT NOTE: Position of site believed to be near here.
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Re: Clauzel Dolmen (Score: 1)
by TheCaptain on Monday, 23 January 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | | There is another Christianised dolmen less than 10 km to the north of here at Saillac, in the commune of Caylus. I will get details up and posted here sometime soon. Perhaps its the one of which you speak on the way to Santiago. | [ Reply to This ]
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