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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup
Country: France Département: Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: La Flèche  Nearest Village: Seiches sur le Loir
Latitude: 47.571080N  Longitude: 0.33575W
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
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 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.
 4 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
 5

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Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup
Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup submitted by DrewParsons : A lovely isolated dolmen. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Allée couverte in Maine-et-Loire

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This pleasant, well preserved dolmen is located to the east of the town of Seiches-sur-le-Loir down the gravel lane running north from the D766, 100 metres west of the A11. There is a sign post " Pierre au Loup" at the junction of the D766 and this lane. The lane runs north for 100 metres and then turns north west. 80 metres from this turn the dolmen can be seen 25 metres into the woods on the north (right) side of the lane.

In winter the site would be much easier to locate than in spring when it was hidden by tree growth at the time of my visit in Aril 2010. The lane ends at a farm a further 300 metres or so on so don't drive that far.
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Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup
Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup submitted by DrewParsons : This large dolmen was hidden in the woods in Spring 2010. It would be much easier to spot in winter. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup
Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup submitted by DrewParsons : April 2010. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup
Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup submitted by DrewParsons : View through the woods, northern Spring 2010 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup
Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup submitted by DrewParsons : April 2010. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup
Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup submitted by DrewParsons : View into the chamber. April 2010.

Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup
Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup submitted by ocdolmen : "La Pierre au Loup" dolmen (the Wolf Stone) near Seiches sur le Loir.

Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup
Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup submitted by karolus : Site in Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 France

Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup
Dolmen dit la Pierre au Loup submitted by karolus

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Re: Pierre au Loup by DrewParsons on Monday, 03 May 2010
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This pleasant, well preserved dolmen is located to the east of the town of Seiches-sur-le-Loir down the gravel lane running north from the D766, 100 metres west of the A11. There is a sign post " Pierre au Loup" at the junction of the D766 and this lane. The lane runs north for 100 metres and then turns north east. 80 metres from this turn the dolmen can be seen 25 metres into the woods on the north (right) side of the lane. The GPS given on the Meg Portal site is incorrect, my hand held GPS at the site gave: 47.57108N 00.33575W. In winter the site would be much easier to locate than in spring when it was hidden by tree growth, although I had been expecting to find it further along the lane given the coordinates on the website at the time of my visit in Aril 2010. The lane ends at a farm a further 300 metres or so on so don't drive that far.
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    Re: Finding the Pierre au Loup. by TheCaptain on Monday, 03 May 2010
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    Sorry you had difficulty finding this Drew, this is why we have given a rating box for the accuracy of the coordinates. Unless the site has a rating of 4 or 5, then you have to be careful and not just follow the coordinates "blindly". Sometimes, in the days before the accuracy rating, a comment will have been written as a note in the description.

    Many of the sites on the portal have been added with only the nearest village or an approximate position given, after finding of their existance on a basic map or in a historical monument record. This is then the fun part of hunting them down in real life.

    Often in France these sites may be marked on the 1:25000 ign maps which can be called up for the area via one of the blue buttons at the top of the site page to give better info, but certainly not in all cases. Often, it requires much more persistance to find the site, and a trick I use in France is to go to the local Mairie if the community is known, and they sometimes have a map outside, with local monuments and features marked on it, or perhaps a series of suggested walks. Sometimes the name refers to a "lieu dit", perhaps a farm name, in which case you can find that on the map, then have to hunt around using your stonehunting sense, or ask a local.

    Sometimes, but not in this case, the site is one I hunted down during my trip in 2005, but have still to get round to adding my info on here, which is unfortunately the case for several hundred sites!
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      Re: Finding the Pierre au Loup. by DrewParsons on Tuesday, 04 May 2010
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      It was not a real problem finding Pierre au Loup - I am used to hunting down sites like this one!! I drove along on the lookout for it and was lucky. I own a number of the IGN series 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 maps and do use them, although I have relied on the Meg Portal ACME maps too. Generally the Meg Portal locations given in France are pretty good (probably much thanks to your work over the years). Your suggestions regarding other sources of info is very helpful. Some of the Meg Portal Spain and Portugal locations were clearly less reliable and I am contributing GPS coordinates for the sites there which I visited.
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