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<< Our Photo Pages >> Chantecoq dolmen - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Saturday, 16 April 2005  Page Views: 3685

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Chantecoq dolmen Alternative Name: dolmen de Chantecoq
Country: France Département: Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Chartres  Nearest Village: Ymeray
Latitude: 48.515500N  Longitude: 1.703900E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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TheCaptain visited on 7th Aug 2005 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Marked on my ign map near to the village of Ymeray is the Dolmen de Chantecoq. I had a good look around, but could find no obvious signs to a dolmen of any kind, but there was a trackway called "Sentier des Roches" which I found near to the railway bridge, so I went for a walk up there. After several hundred metres was a little area being turned into a little public parkland, with picnic tables etc. Here there is a big natural outcropping of rocks, which may have been used for dolmen making. There is lots of it, and it makes very good slabs, and in many ways reminds me of the rock outcrops / quarries at Tinkinswood. It looks like there are soon to be some interpretive signs put here, but without any more information, it was difficult to know exactly what there is here. Within the soon to be grassy area is a slab of rock, half on the ground, half on another stone, which may be the remains of a dolmen. At the top of this stone are four grooves and a little basin, where it has been used as a polishing stone.

Chantecoq dolmen
Chantecoq dolmen submitted by thecaptain : Within the soon to be grassy area is a slab of rock, half on the ground, half on another stone, which may be the remains of a dolmen. At the top of this stone are four grooves and a little basin, where it has been used as a polishing stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chantecoq dolmen and polissoir near to the village of Ymeray.

Within a grassy area is a slab of rock, half on the ground, half on another stone, which may be the remains of a dolmen.

At the top of this stone are four grooves and a little basin, where it has been used as a polishing stone.
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Chantecoq dolmen
Chantecoq dolmen submitted by thecaptain : Within the soon to be grassy area is a slab of rock, half on the ground, half on another stone, which may be the remains of a dolmen. At the top of this stone are four grooves and a little basin, where it has been used as a polishing stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Chantecoq dolmen
Chantecoq dolmen submitted by thecaptain : Within the soon to be grassy area is a slab of rock, half on the ground, half on another stone, which may be the remains of a dolmen. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Chantecoq dolmen
Chantecoq dolmen submitted by thecaptain : Here there is a big natural outcropping of rocks, which may have been used for dolmen making. There is lots of it, and it makes very good slabs, and in many ways reminds me of the rock outcrops / quarries at Tinkinswood. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Chantecoq dolmen by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 19 October 2016
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I suspect that this polissoir/dolmen is also called Palet de Gargantua (see T4T35). This website has - il existe près de Montlouet un autre Palet de Gargantua, le “dolmen des Aulnaies”, associé à un menhir.
There's an old photo here that shows it in the background of a view of the nearby menhir which is fallen (and has now been re-erected - we have the menhir as La Mère aux Cailles).

There's slightly conflicting info on that website as they say - le Palet de Gargantua ou “Mère aux Cailles”, à Talvoisin (commune d'Ymeray), est un mégalithe sur lequel Gargantua se serait assis. Les femmes en mal de mari ou d'enfant venaient s'y asseoir ou se frotter pour être fécondes.

All a bit confusing!
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Re: Chantecoq dolmen by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 19 October 2016
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Sentier des Roches on streetview
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Re: Chantecoq dolmen by TheCaptain on Saturday, 10 February 2007
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Marked on my ign map near to the village of Ymeray is the Dolmen de Chantecoq. I had a good look around, but could find no obvious signs to a dolmen of any kind, but there was a trackway called "Sentier des Roches" which I found near to the railway bridge, so I went for a walk up there.

After several hundred metres was a little area being turned into a little public parkland, with picnic tables etc. Here there is a big natural outcropping of rocks, which may have been used for dolmen making. There is lots of it, and it makes very good slabs, and in many ways reminds me of the rock outcrops / quarries at Tinkinswood.

Within the soon to be grassy area is a slab of rock, half on the ground, half on another stone, which may be the remains of a dolmen. At the top of this stone are four grooves and a little basin, where it has been used as a polishing stone.
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    Re: Chantecoq dolmen by TheCaptain on Saturday, 10 February 2007
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    Inspection of the weathering of this stone suggested to me that it was until fairly recently standing, half buried in the ground, and not horizontal with its top face fully exposed. I suspect that the stone has been positioned like this in the newly made little picnic area as a feature, and so as to display the polishing grooves.
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