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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tumulus de Chateaurenaud Alternative Name: La Motte de ChateaurenaudCountry: France Département: Poitou:Charente (16) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Angoulème Nearest Village: Chateaurenaud
Latitude: 45.907700N Longitude: 0.167820E
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | no data |
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TheCaptain saw from a distance on 16th May 2005 Another big obvious wood covered tumulus up on the hills above the village. But to get to this one would have meant quite a long walk from anywhere I could have parked and there was no obvious way to it so I did not bother as there are many others to explore locally.
Extraordinary ! Although this burial chamber lost it's capstone it is an extraordinary thing I saw last sunday afternoon . This dolmen is left in it's tumulus but it had been examined and the capstone had deceased but now we can see :
It had a door between a 7 metres long corridor and the "cell" . The "cell" got a very good constuction with it;s vertical squared stones and well adjusted .
This door could be pivot on itself and maybe the axe was input in a gap of the capstone .
The "cell" is 4 metres long and 2.2 m wide, oriented along an axis NNW-SSE (300°). The corridor 7 m long is oriented along an axis quasi N-S about 345° . The tumulus had 20 metres of diameter and 4 m of height.
A recent article in press suggest it is the unique monument of this type in Europe. The different burial chamber of this regionshould be the area of future research.
I am so disappointed for "The Captain" who visited this site without go on this point .
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