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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen de Lugné Alternative Name: Pech de LugneCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 3.598 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Languedoc:Hérault (34) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: St-Chinian Nearest Village: Cessenon
Latitude: 43.471100N Longitude: 3.017200E
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 |
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Just north of Cessenon-sur-Orb on the D14, is the hameau de Lugné, backed by an arbutus-clad hill, le Pech de Lugné. Up a well-maintained dirt-track (left, just before the hamlet) you reach the Col de Castel Pourtié. Park at the top, where you can see down into the next valley to the north.
It’s not easy finding the path on the right, but of the two or three narrow hunter’s tracks there’s one that has a little pile of rocks. Less than ten minutes walk through dense arbousiers and juniper there’s another small pile on the right, indicating an opening in the maquis where a short uphill path becomes mere cleared rubble, leading directly to the dolmen.
It's a rather humble affair, but very typical of the 'Garrigues Languedociennes' and its sandstone schist. Two low walls made of this handsome ruddy angular stone extend the entrance to the tomb with its flat and massive table, 3 m. long by 2 m. wide. It's 1 m. high and 1 m.wide, and the length overall could be 5 m.
Up a little and to the right about 20 metres is this rather low-rent construction, measuring less than 2 m. x 90 cm. With two naturaly-curved boulders forming the side-walls and a rough arrangement of stones - it suggests a real budget deal. A starter-tomb. It does face W-SW however - and therein may lie an explanation for the larger tomb's alignment.
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