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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: La Pierre Crapaud Alternative Name: Dolmen de Bernazay, Pierre Levée, Pierre du CrapaudCountry: France Département: Poitou:Vienne (86) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Les Trois Moutiers Nearest Village: Loudun
Latitude: 47.052000N Longitude: 0.016200E
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 |
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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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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TheCaptain visited on 17th Jul 2005 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 4 This dolmen can be found a few hundred metres down a track to the south west of the village of Trois-Moutiers, where it resides just inside a field which was full of sunflowers when I visited, which meant that i could not get right to the dolmen. What I could see is a large capstone sat on top of some sort of support stones at one end, and the ground at the other.
The farmer has allowed visiting because there are little steps sculptured in the little cliff with a wooden guardrail.
Some say that it is a dolmen, others that it is a menhir.
For a long time, it served as a boundary stone.
For me, when i went around it, it seemed for me more like a capstone. But that is just my opinion.
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