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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: La Grotte des Fées de Cordes Alternative Name: L'Epée de Roland, Grotte-Dolmen des Fées de Cordes
Country: France Département: Provence:Bouches-du-Rhône (13) Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Arles  Nearest Village: Fontvieille
Latitude: 43.700160N  Longitude: 4.675510E
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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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
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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TheCaptain couldn't find on 22nd Sep 2005 Also known as Le Palet De Roland, this monument is somewhere up on top of the Montagne des Cordes. The rock cut trench of this hypogae is the largest of the many around here, at 43 metres in length. Unfortunately, while I was looking, the entire hill seems to be very heavily fenced off, double fences and razor wire on top of one of them. They don't seem to want people here !

La grotte des Fées de Cordes
La grotte des Fées de Cordes submitted by thecaptain : La Grotte des Fées de Cordes, is on private property, not accessible to public, somewhere up on top of the Montagne des Cordes. (Vote or comment on this photo)
La grotte des Fées de Cordes, also known as L'Epée de Roland, is somewhere up on top of the Montagne des Cordes. The rock cut trench of this hypogae is the largest of the many around here, at 43 metres in length.

Unfortunately it is on private property, not accessible to public, and when I was looking the entire hill seemed to be very heavily fenced off, double fences and razor wire on top of one of them.

They dont seem to want people here !
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La Grotte des Fées de Cordes
La Grotte des Fées de Cordes submitted by durhamnature : Plan and cross-section drawings from "Der Orient und Europa" via archive.org Site in Provence:Bouches-du-Rhône (13) France (Vote or comment on this photo)

La Grotte des Fées de Cordes
La Grotte des Fées de Cordes submitted by durhamnature : Plan from "The Realm of the Great Goddess" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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 124m NW 319° Epée de Roland Menhir Standing Stone (Menhir)
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Moon Goddess: Speculations on a Pictograph by Andy B on Tuesday, 06 November 2012
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In every archaic culture, a grammar of images, of pictographs, precedes that of letters: the sign, or sema, is first of all pictorial. Even if these pictographs evolve with time into phonetic units—find themselves transformed, that is, into so many verbal signifiers—at first it is the pictures themselves that speak . Carved into wood, rock, deer's antler, it's the sign, the linguistic antecedent, that signifies . Having neither the aesthetic pretension of sculpture nor, as yet, the verbal attributes of the written character, it belongs to an intermediate idiom of its own.

Five kilometers northeast of Arles and only several hundred meters beyond the Abbaye de Montmajour, a series of such pictographs can be found scattered over open ground. Carved in limestone on flat, recumbent slabs or, in one case, upon the flank of a menhir, they each describe an inverted U . Down the center of that inverted U runs a prolonged dash. Taken together, the vaulted U and the vertical dash it encloses form the two movements—reciprocal gestures—of a single, singular pictograph. This pictograph may or may not be accompanied by outlying dashes, crosses, cupules: signs that have traditionally been interpreted as stellar. As to the meaning of the pictograph itself, we have only what the archeologists would call working hypotheses. We may safely assume, however, that the sign, unmistakably female, represents the vulva and, as such, signifies birth, fecundity, perpetuation. It's not by chance that this immediate area, Les Collines de Cordes, is rich in hypogea: underground burial chambers carved in long corridors out of the surrounding rock.

Clearly the pictographs relate directly to the burial chambers themselves. For everywhere throughout the megalithic culture of this period, symbols of re-birth and regeneration accompanied the dead. Nowhere, we may safely say, was life represented in all its procreant magnitude more fully than in these late Neolithic burial sites.

More at Moon Goddess: Speculations on a Pictograph
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5j49p06s&chunk.id=d0e575&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e103&brand=ucpress

which is an online copy of the book Luminous Debris: Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc, by Gustaf Sobin. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999 1999. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5j49p06s/
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Re: La Grotte des Fées de Cordes by Andy B on Tuesday, 06 November 2012
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A map and diagram of the tomb here

LE SITE MYSTERIEUX DE LA MONTAGNE DES CORDES...

Pour maintes raisons, et certainement depuis la nuit des temps, le site de la Montagne des Cordes reste dans la mémoire collective, un lieu chargé de mystères... Essayons d'y voir un peu plus clair...

Situé au Nord de la ville d'Arles, la Montagne des Cordes faisait partie intégrante du massif Montmajour - Castelet. Avant même les débordements des Durançoles venant de Saint Gabriel (à l'ouest des Alpilles), l'ensemble de ce massif, était d'un seul tenant, tant il est vrai qu'à la hauteur de Saint Gabriel (l'ancien Ernaginum), les archéologues ont trouvé des vestiges à une profondeur de 3.50 mètres ! Dans toutes nos analyses du site, on doit donc considérer que le sol "originel" de la plaine du Trébon se situe vers cette profondeur...

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http://www.camargue-insolite.com/article-le-site-mysterieux-de-la-montagne-des-cordes-111642625.html
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