<< Our Photo Pages >> Roche a Trois Pieds - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Normandie:Manche (50)
Submitted by theCaptain on Sunday, 17 January 2010 Page Views: 6123
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Roche a Trois Pieds Alternative Name: Dolmen de MartinvastCountry: France Département: Normandie:Manche (50) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Cherbourg Nearest Village: Martinvast
Latitude: 49.599669N Longitude: 1.650263W
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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Expecting to find some natural rocks, if anything, remaining nowadays, I am pleased to say that it all still exists, a natural outcropping of quartz rock in woodland at the top of the hill. The Roche a Trois Pieds is still there to be found, with a massive quartz block (~3m by 3m by 2m thick) perched on top of three smaller quartz blocks making a lovely arrangement, a few metres down from the top of the outcrop.
I dont think that the arrangement is entirely natural. It looks like the top stone has been moved down from the top outcrop a few yards away, not fallen and rolled, but moved sideways. But the thing that particularly made me think this is man made, was the arrangement of the smaller rocks underneath, which certainly didn't look like a natural chancelike arrangement. In fact it looked like two rows of side set slabs, about 4 each side in a parallel line, on top of which has been moved into place the massive capstone.
I have seen many other dolmens/allée couvertes made in this way, where natural features have been enhanced, and I am ready to believe this is another of them.
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