<< Our Photo Pages >> Pierre Courcoulée (Landean) - Passage Grave in France in Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35)
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pierre Courcoulée (Landean) Alternative Name: Pierre des HuguenotsCountry: France Département: Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Fougères Nearest Village: Landean
Latitude: 48.394700N Longitude: 1.1852W
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 |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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johnstone visited on 15th Jun 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
TheCaptain visited on 13th Aug 2005 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 North of Fougères, in the forest, are several megalithic remains. The Pierre Courcoulée is towards the northwest of the forest and well signposted, it is just 200m from a big forest carpark and has its own circular walk which can be followed.
The dolmen is in a little clearing with signpost, and is the remains of a little allée couverte. The western end is fairly ruinous, but the east end is quite complete and has a closing stone. There are 7 metres of chamber remaining, with two large capstones covering most of it. As the eastern end is not the entry, I would think that this is a lateral entry chamber, with the entrance somewhere on the south side, like several of the other nearby Mayenne monuments. It is in the remains of a mound, and there is evidence for some of the stones of its peristalith still being in place.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4 Access: 4
The dolmen is in a little clearing with signpost, and is the remains of a little allée couverte. The western end is fairly ruinous, but the east end is quite complete and has a closing stone. There are 7 metres of chamber remaining, with two large capstones covering most of it.
As the eastern end is not the entry, I would think that this is a lateral entry chamber, with the entrance somewhere on the south side, like several of the other nearby Mayenne monuments.
It is in the remains of a mound, and there is evidence for some of the stones of its peristalith still being in place.
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