<< Our Photo Pages >> Dolmen dit Pierre-aux-Bignes - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Normandie:Orne (61)
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen dit Pierre-aux-Bignes Alternative Name: Des Bignes DolmenCountry: France
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Département: Normandie:Orne (61) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Falaise Nearest Village: Habloville
Latitude: 48.806413N Longitude: 0.164532W
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 |
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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 |
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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.
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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