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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Alaric DolmenCountry: France Département: Languedoc:Aude (11) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Carcassonne Nearest Village: Moux
Latitude: 43.162500N Longitude: 2.634400E
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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This dolmen was 'found' in 1956 by a 16-year-old, Régis Aymé of Conihlac-Corbières, the youngest member of S.E.S.A. (la Société d'Etudes Scientifiques de l'Aude) founded in 1889. He is now its longest serving member, 50 years. His discovery, plus others, including Les Chambres, caught the attention of an ambitious young archaeologist, Jean Guilaine, who formally searched the site. Guilaine has been, since 1994, professor at the Collège de France where he holds the chair of Civilisations de l'Europe au Néolithique et à l'Âge du Bronze. He is a native of Carcassonne, an expert on the protohistory of southern France, and a member of SESA.
The dolmen appears in no maps, nor in any publication that I have found so far. I am now a member of SESA. ( www.sesa-aude.com ) and have spent some hours searching the library, but as it is a voluntary organisation with no inter-library-loan facility and few funds, it is dependent on the generosity of its learned and illustrious members to provide copies of academic articles. The full account of this excavation is out there I am sure - but France as a whole has been slow to embrace the internet, and none more than the academic world, who demand E30 for access to such articles as have been digitized. Thus there is little to go on, apart from my interviews with Régis, and his file of memorabilia, which includes a photo of the excavation team including Jean Guilaine, and his copy of an issue of Cahiers Ligures (Ligurian Notebooks), an in-house SESA publication, in which I believe an account of the find is made. He is reluctant to part with these, but has assured me he will make copies this week.
I have set this down at length not only because this is a 'new' site - but also to draw attention to the problems encountered in this corner of France, when searching for the vestiges of protohistory. For more: see my blog www.dolmen.wordpress.com - its title is Dolmens Lost and Found.
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