<< Our Photo Pages >> Dolmen dit de la Madeleine - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Poitou:Charente (16)
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen dit de la Madeleine Alternative Name: Pierre Madeleine, Dolmen de la Chapelle, Ste-Madeleine, Saint MadeleineCountry: France Département: Poitou:Charente (16) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Poitiers Nearest Village: St-Germaine-de-Confo
Latitude: 46.045180N Longitude: 0.681090E
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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oldman visited on 1st Sep 2018 - their rating: Access: 1 It would be truer to say we tried to visit this site. We did find someone who knew of its existence but the access is over a private bridge to the island. A boat might be useful. Not possible to get close enough on either side of the river to take a picture.
There is a picture of this dolmen, albeit called 'Dolmen de la Chapelle' in Glyn Daniel's book 'Megaliths in History', Thames and Hudson, 1972. Then it was surrounded by vegetation and trees and looked more romantic and mysterious. His caption reads :"The capstone was fourteen and a half feet long by twelve foot broad by three and a half feet thick, supported by columns of Romanesque design with twelfth-century capitals. The site was originally a single simple rectangular chamber: each pillar was inserted separately under the capstone and the site was translated into a Christian chapel. On the underside of the capstone you will find today two incised symbols - a cross and a hafted axe. Here indeed, in art and architecture, the elder faith and Christianity appear to be wedded."
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