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<< Our Photo Pages >> Dolmen dit Pierre-aux-Bignes - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Normandie:Orne (61)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Saturday, 16 April 2005  Page Views: 5082

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen dit Pierre-aux-Bignes Alternative Name: Des Bignes Dolmen
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 6.802 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Normandie:Orne (61) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Falaise  Nearest Village: Habloville
Latitude: 48.806413N  Longitude: 0.164532W
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
4 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.
4 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
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TheCaptain visited on 2nd May 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4 North of the village of Habloville and signposted from the road its about a 200 metre walk along a track to get to the monument where there are two burial mounds. The northwestern of the two round mounds is about 15 metres in diameter and about 2 metres high at the edges. Within the mound which has been dug out is the dolmen des Bignes burial chamber. This has a massive capstone (4 metres by 3 metres) held up on 6 uprights with a few other stones scattered around. There is about 1 metre of height between today’s ground and the capstone but I could not determine where any entrance would have been although it would not have been to the west. The ambience of these burial mounds is spoiled by it obviously used as a place where the local youth (or others) go to have a drink leaving all their detritus behind. There are broken bottles and other rubbish all over the place.

Dolmen dit Pierre-aux-Bignes
Dolmen dit Pierre-aux-Bignes submitted by thecaptain : Pierre-aux-Bignes. The dolmen chamber seen within its mound. (Vote or comment on this photo)
North of the village of Habloville, and signposted from the road, its about a 200 metre walk along a track to get to the monument, where there are two burial mounds.

The northwestern of the two round mounds is about 15 metres in diameter, and about 2 metres high at the edges.

Within the mound, which has been dug out, is the dolmen des Bignes burial chamber. This has a massive capstone (4 metres by 3 metres) held up on 6 uprights, with a few other stones scattered around. There is about 1 metre of height between today’s ground and the capstone, but I could not determine where any entrance would have been, although it would not have been to the west.

The ambience of these burial mounds is spoiled by it obviously used as a place where the local youth (or others) go to have a drink, leaving all their detritus behind. There are broken bottles and other rubbish all over the place.


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Dolmen dit Pierre-aux-Bignes
Dolmen dit Pierre-aux-Bignes submitted by thecaptain : Pierre-aux-Bignes. The dolmen chamber seen dug out within its mound. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen dit Pierre-aux-Bignes
Dolmen dit Pierre-aux-Bignes submitted by thecaptain : Pierre-aux-Bignes. The top of the dolmen capstone can be seen here within its mound. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen dit Pierre-aux-Bignes
Dolmen dit Pierre-aux-Bignes submitted by thecaptain : Pierre-aux-Bignes and Tumulus-des-Hogues. Seen here together down the farmtrack leading to them. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Pierre-aux-Bignes by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 11 May 2005
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Pierre des Bignes, Habloville, Orne, N 48.8064, W 00.1647 by gps.
Visited Monday, 2nd May 2005. Access 4, Condition 4, Ambience 3.

North of the village of Habloville, and signposted from the road, its about a 200 metre walk along a track to get to the monument, where there are two burial mounds.

The northwestern of the two round mounds is about 15 metres in diameter, and about 2 metres high at the edges. Within the mound, which has been dug out, is the dolmen des Bignes burial chamber. This has a massive capstone (4 metres by 3 metres) held up on 6 uprights, with a few other stones scattered around. There is about 1 metre of height between today’s ground and the capstone, but I could not determine where any entrance would have been, although it would not have been to the west.

The ambience of these burial mounds is spoiled by it obviously used as a place where the local youth (or others) go to have a drink, leaving all their detritus behind. There are broken bottles and other rubbish all over the place.
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