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<< Our Photo Pages >> Alaric Dolmen - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Languedoc:Aude (11)

Submitted by richardfrance on Friday, 25 January 2008  Page Views: 5055

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Alaric Dolmen
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 5.905 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Languedoc:Aude (11) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Carcassonne  Nearest Village: Moux
Latitude: 43.162500N  Longitude: 2.634400E
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 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.
2 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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Alaric Dolmen
Alaric Dolmen submitted by richardfrance : Site in Languedoc:Aude (11) A last view out over the chevet, across the ravine, to Les Chambres d' Alaric. In this part of France the co-incidence of dolmens with grottes and eperons-barree (defensible lookout points) and avens strikes me as significant. To reach the Alaric dolmen I pass la Caouno de Moux (the village where we live), where over 200 skeletons were found in the '70s. The concealed ... (Vote or comment on this photo)
This dolmen was 'found' in 1956 by a 16-year-old, Régis Aymé of Conihlac-Corbières, the youngest member of S.E.S.A. (la Société d'Etudes Scientifiques de l'Aude) founded in 1889. He is now its longest serving member, 50 years. His discovery, plus others, including Les Chambres, caught the attention of an ambitious young archaeologist, Jean Guilaine, who formally searched the site. Guilaine has been, since 1994, professor at the Collège de France where he holds the chair of Civilisations de l'Europe au Néolithique et à l'Âge du Bronze. He is a native of Carcassonne, an expert on the protohistory of southern France, and a member of SESA.

The dolmen appears in no maps, nor in any publication that I have found so far. I am now a member of SESA. ( www.sesa-aude.com ) and have spent some hours searching the library, but as it is a voluntary organisation with no inter-library-loan facility and few funds, it is dependent on the generosity of its learned and illustrious members to provide copies of academic articles. The full account of this excavation is out there I am sure - but France as a whole has been slow to embrace the internet, and none more than the academic world, who demand E30 for access to such articles as have been digitized. Thus there is little to go on, apart from my interviews with Régis, and his file of memorabilia, which includes a photo of the excavation team including Jean Guilaine, and his copy of an issue of Cahiers Ligures (Ligurian Notebooks), an in-house SESA publication, in which I believe an account of the find is made. He is reluctant to part with these, but has assured me he will make copies this week.

I have set this down at length not only because this is a 'new' site - but also to draw attention to the problems encountered in this corner of France, when searching for the vestiges of protohistory. For more: see my blog www.dolmen.wordpress.com - its title is Dolmens Lost and Found.
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Alaric Dolmen
Alaric Dolmen submitted by richardfrance : View from mouth of la grotte, S.-E. The cave is partially blocked by a large boulder, against which the chevet, or headstone is set. La table, or capstone, is missing - there are possible candidates within la grotte, and to one side, buried in rubble. Their dimensions are difficult to estimate - but together look likely to cover the 4 metre length of the dolmen. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alaric Dolmen
Alaric Dolmen submitted by richardfrance : Site in Languedoc:Aude (11) View straight on to chevet, with the boulder behind, and the shaded cave-mouth behind that. Not every day in January, here in Languedoc, is as brilliantly sunny - but many are. It makes for glorious explorations - but can blitz the photos. There's a video on the vidz page which sets the scene better. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alaric Dolmen
Alaric Dolmen submitted by richardfrance : Site in Languedoc:Aude (11) View from foot to chevet. This headstone measures 90cm. by 90cm. while the orthostats diminish in stature towards the foot. There are 5 per side: Right side - 90w x 90ht, 90x90, 80x80, 70x70, 60x60. Left side - 60w x 90h, 70 x 90, 60 x 90, 60 x 60, 40 x 60. Length - 4 metres width - 90cm. There is a possible foot-stone, lying askew. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alaric Dolmen
Alaric Dolmen submitted by richardfrance : Site in Languedoc:Aude (11) View S.E. from the limestone cliff known as Le Roc Gris (418 m.) part of La Montagne d'Alaric (600m.) the most prominent and most southern of the Corbières Hills, in the departement de l'Aude. The dolmen is at the foot of the cliff, directly in front of a shallow grotte (cave or rock shelter). It looks across a wide ledge known as le Champ de Roland, and beyond to le ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Alaric by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 30 January 2008
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I have now managed to find this place on the ign maps (using geoportail), and have been able to correct the positional data you have given (which before placed this dolmen pretty south of Carcassonne).

I have corrected to N43.1625, E2.6344. I wonder what system you were supplying your data in ?
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