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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen de Perrières Alternative Name: Peirières (Villedubert)Country: France Département: Languedoc:Aude (11) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Carcassonne Nearest Village: Villedubert
Latitude: 43.223917N Longitude: 2.416716E
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | no data |
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Location Source: T4T35.fr
"it was destroyed shortly after its construction before being reinvested by Beaker tradition populations. The first occupation dated Neolithic, corresponds to a large passage grave totally ruined, oriented southeast / northwest, about 10 m long and 2.10 m wide. The entrance, located southeast, above a corridor slightly narrows as it approaches the entrance of the monument, which is separated from the bedroom by a funeral hall. The second occupation is dated Chalcolithic from an archaeological feature furniture Campaniforme (ceramic decorations made by combing or footprints ... cords, Potter's comb, pearl copper, other soapstone, button hemispherical V ...). The dolmen is now largely ruined and refurbished part. The amounts of the original monument are torn and / or broken to the ground, and the burial chamber is drained. Orthostats dolmen then used to build a pavement on which would be tabled many dead. It is assumed that part was also used to build the two dry stone piles north of C3 and southwest of D6, the purpose of which was likely to bear an umbrella in perishable. The initial entry is condemned and moved to the center of the southern edge of the grave. A threshold composed by superposition of conglomerate slabs, is arranged. The time interval between the second occupation of the former is very brief. When the drain has been completed, some of the dead were in the first occupation during decomposition. This means that only a few months separate the two occupations of the site. The dolmen has radically transformed so that there were still rotting body in the room. For reasons not fully understood, the second memorial had to be abandoned: the bones of the dead were covered with pebbly screed"
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