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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Le Grand Dolmen de Bagneux Alternative Name: Le Grand Dolmen, Allée couverte dite la Grande Pierre couverteCountry: France Département: Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Bagneux Nearest Village: Bagneux Est
Latitude: 47.243047N Longitude: 0.09464W
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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johnstone visited on 18th Jun 2007 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 3 Access: 5
TheCaptain visited on 16th Jul 2005 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 3 Access: 5 This is now round the back and in the garden of a bar, but not in a very nice area of town. When I was here, it was €3 to visit the dolmen and a little visitor centre, but nearly impossible to get decent photos as its to enclosed between all the surrounding roads.
The dolmen itself is massive, 22 metres in length, by 7 metres wide and almost 4 metres high. Four large capstones sit supported by about four side slabs each side, and with one massive backstone. This cannot be just a burial chamber, it must have had some other purpose - perhaps an indoor sports hall ! There is one stone left of an internal partition, but the angevine entrance has been a bit mutilated.
Traumrealistin visited - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Adding to the description: The Cafe is closed. You need to ring the bell on the right.
It is really an impressive side
DrewParsons have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 5 Ambience: 3 Access: 5
Some statistics: 17.3m long x 5.4m max wide x 3.1m high. The antechamber adds another 4m to the length. It is covered with four capstones the largest of which is 7.6m long and weighs 86 tons. The large overlapping backstone is 7.3m long.
The interior stone is not a supporting pillar but probably the remains of an internal partition usually found in Angevin dolmens.
No burials were found in the 1775 excavations which have led to suggestions that it was not a burial monument but it had been used as a barn for some time previously and other large Angevin dolmens have produced evidence of burials.
Truly massive and worth the price of admission. You don't (or didn't) have to eat at the cafe to see it but it adds to the fun.
Updated by Traumrealistin
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