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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Allee Couverte de Jappeloup Alternative Name: Jappeloup dolmenCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 4.99 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Languedoc:Aude (11) Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Carcassonne Nearest Village: Trausse-Minervois
Latitude: 43.327500N Longitude: 2.583300E
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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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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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Drive 2 km east of Trausse and turn L just after the entrance to the wine Domaine of Paulignan. After 1km.on this track there is a small house on R and just after that, a private drive on R. Park and walk down the drive and around the back of the house. There was a large old dog that barked, and a charming old lady who directed me. The lane continues up to the right for 10 mins, through open country. Take the first track R and up on the knoll is a faded panel and the dolmen, facing due south out over 'la plaine' - the wide valley of the Aude river.
It's more massively built than the more usual little tombs I've been visiting - but nothing to compare with the huge complexity of Saint Eugene just a few kilometers away, down in the valley. Ten paces long - say ten metres - with the foot stones always seeming to peter out, making measurement guesswork.
There seems to be an inner chamber with a carved entry. The inner space is 4 metres long by two and a half wide. And with the rubble removed there would be lots of headroom - 2 metres. On the right side is one massive stone, fissured but intact, 4 metres long and 2 high. On the left four orthostats of about one metre wide. This inner sanctum is all set well into the hillock. Or rather: the dolmen is still partially covered on three sides.
It opens directly to the south - to Mont Alaric.
There is a faded panel to the effect that the place was 'thoroughly examined' in the late 1900's, and that all finds are now in the owners museum, down the track.
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