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Natural PlacesSite Name: Grotte de Tuc-d'Audobert Alternative Name: Tuc d'Audoubert, Résurgence du VolpCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 7.218 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Midi:Ariège (09) Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Saint-Girons Nearest Village: Montesquieu Avantès
Latitude: 43.032500N Longitude: 1.202150E
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 |
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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43559959 visited on 15th Apr 1983 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 1 reading the book of Richard E. Leakey, the Making of Mankind from 1982 got my mind spinning reading about the two clay Bisons found in the Tuc D'Audoubert, untouched and unseen for 15.000 years.
The time was back in the early 80's, but the cave was not open to the public and very difficult to find. But the cave was found and a collappsible canoe brought us in there after the long drive from Norway to the environs of Ste.Croix in the french Pyrénées.
vejen visited on 1st Jan 1983 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 1 With the photographer on this adventure.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 4 Access: 1
The primary work on the cave and its finds is Le sanctuaire secret des bisons : Il y a 14 000 ans, dans la caverne du Tuc d'Audoubert, by Robert Bégouën, the son and nephew of the original discoverers, Jean Clottes, archaeologist, and other co-authors.
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Note: Unique photos of this cave from Per, taken in 1983. At the time part of the cave was gated and the cave is now strictly off limits
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