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<< Our Photo Pages >> Allee Couverte de Jappeloup - Passage Grave in France in Languedoc:Aude (11)

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Allee Couverte de Jappeloup Alternative Name: Jappeloup dolmen
Country: France
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Département: Languedoc:Aude (11) Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Carcassonne  Nearest Village: Trausse-Minervois
Latitude: 43.327500N  Longitude: 2.583300E
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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.
3 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
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Allee Couverte de Jappeloup
Allee Couverte de Jappeloup submitted by richardfrance : View of the Allee Couverte de Jappeloup from foot. It's more massively built than the 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. (Vote or comment on this photo)
I had read somewhere that this was a bit of a ruin deep in the middle of a forest. In fact it's a fairly massive and sophisticated, if damaged, structure that stands just off a farm track on a hillside that has been largely scalped of its dwarf oaks.

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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Allee Couverte de Jappeloup
Allee Couverte de Jappeloup submitted by richardfrance : A view from further out. The setting is pleasant, but not at the moment stunning. The hillside has been scalped of most of its evergreen oaks, leaving a low-level wilderness of box-shrub. The knoll, or barrow, in which the dolmen is set, still retains a few healthy little trees, but there are a scary number of skeletal stumps all over. Rumours of a freak post-Chernobil rain-fall persist. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Allee Couverte de Jappeloup
Allee Couverte de Jappeloup submitted by richardfrance : View from on top the chevet: there is more than the usual chaos of stones here and it's hard to make out what was an original orthostat and what was simply fecked about. 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 . . . Time for a proper revisit? The access is easy: though I wa... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Allee Couverte de Jappeloup
Allee Couverte de Jappeloup submitted by richardfrance : This is closer in: 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 ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Allee Couverte de Jappeloup
Allee Couverte de Jappeloup submitted by richardfrance : View from the site. We live just under the great bulk of Alaric - but we rarely see it as others do, every day. It is a lodestone in the landscape - but kept humble by the bigger, further presence of Canigou. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Jappeloup dolmen by richardfrance on Sunday, 27 January 2008
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I had read somewhere that this was a bit of a ruin deep in the middle of a forest. In fact it's a fairly massive and sophisticated, if damaged, structure that stands just off a farm track on a hillside that has been largely scalped of its dwarf oaks.
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.
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