Chambre à la Dame - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Normandie:Orne (61)

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Site Name: Chambre à la Dame Alternative Name: Dolmen de Haute-Folie
Country: France Département: Normandie:Orne (61) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Flers  Nearest Village: Saint-Clair-de-Halouze
Latitude: 48.693800N  Longitude: 0.5867W
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
 no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data 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.
 no data 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
 3
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Re: Chambre à la Dame by thereddragon on Tuesday, 06 May 2014
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I'm pretty convinced now that Chambre à la Dame = Dolmen de Haute-Folie = Lépinardière Dolmen
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    Re: Chambre à la Dame by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 06 May 2014
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    I think you're probably right. The Mégalithes du Monde website has the Chambre à la Dame just north of Lépinardière.
    I see on the Géoportail IGN map they have a graphic of a dolmen rather than the usual symbol.
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Re: Chambre à la Dame by thereddragon on Friday, 19 October 2012
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According to the Annales de Normandie Year 1959 Volume 9 Issue 9-1 p40
DROUELLE (L.). Le dolmen détruit de Haute-Folie, en Saint-Clair-de-Halouze. Le Pays Bas-Normand, 51 a., fasc. 2, no 108, 1958, pp. 184-186

G. Hubert Annales de Normandie Year 1960 Volume 10 Issue 10-1 p11 footnote - destroyed in 1925 by quarrymen

So sadly it is no more and that explains why I couldn't find it! :(
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    Re: Chambre à la Dame by TheCaptain on Friday, 19 October 2012
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    On many occasions, where a megalithic monument has been said to have been destroyed, there are still some form of remains to be found by the dedicated stonehunter, such as a sort of "groundplan foundations" or large stones incorporated into walls and hedges.

    It is often fun to look for these, and I personally find it very gratifying to find and resurrect a supposedly destroyed site!
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      Re: Chambre à la Dame by thereddragon on Friday, 19 October 2012
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      This is all very confusing!

      I think haute-folie may well refer to the tower at Lépinardière. I await clarification from the Flers tourist office.........

      So, could it be it is one and the same site?

      I don't know where the original coordinates for each came from.

      I'm enjoying myself and I'm still learning :))
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        Re: Chambre à la Dame by TheCaptain on Friday, 19 October 2012
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        When we were setting up the original site pages for France, back in 2004, the basic information was extracted from various sources, the prominent ones being the French Mériméé historic monument database, ign maps and various internet sites.

        With position data, often we would have originally only had a nearest village type position, scaled from a map using rulers and pencils and calculators, so they are often quite substantially in error.

        Over the years, when more information has come to light, we update our pages as appropriate, so original sources can become obscured. This updatng also includes modifying position data as and when more detailed maps have become available (eg geoportail) or Google aerial views, or people visiting and letting us know.

        Sometimes its hunting a stone in a forest, which is like hunting a needle in a haystack! You either like the challenge or give up!

        I see this site is down as a t4t35 site, a French chap who was fairly instrumental at teh start of the Portals expansion into Europe, but who has since gone his seperate way. We often have links to his website, which is quite thorough for France, but I'm not sure the links wqork anymore.

        Have a look at his website, its fairly easy to find your way around it. He seems more successful than us in getting other French people to add their pictures and data. Maybe his site can help. I have no time to look into ths now, and no access to it while in the office.

        And yes, sometimes sites will have two entries under different names, until we can define them all better. Haute Folie sounds a likely name for the tower, so the dolmen de Haute Folie would be nearby. So quite possibly the same as Lepinardiere.

        The original online Merimee was full of duplicates and mistakes. maybe this is now better also. Have a look there, sometimes it will give local "parcelles" of land where these things exist. These can now be found from geoportail.

        Good Game, Good Game !
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        Re: Chambre à la Dame by thereddragon on Friday, 19 October 2012
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        Many thanks for that. And you've done an excellent job :)
        Mérimée doesn't seem to have a record of a dolmen for Saint-Clair-de-Halouze or a folly for that matter?
        But I'm new to this, so I may be wrong.
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