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<< Other Photo Pages >> Dolmen dit le Palet de Gargantua (Brizay) - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37)

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen dit le Palet de Gargantua (Brizay)
Country: France Département: Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Tours  Nearest Village: Brizay
Latitude: 47.102300N  Longitude: 0.385500E
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
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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.
no data 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
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Dolmen in Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37)

Dolmen dit le Palet de Gargantua is a Dolmen in the community of Brizay, Departement of Indre-et-Loire, Region of Centre
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Re: Le Palet de Gargantua (Brizay) by rattleobones on Monday, 14 October 2019
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A somewhat disappointing megalith, considering the title! Rather undistinguished, and surely too small to have accommodated Gargantua (palet in this case meaning a thing to rest on). Gargantua was the creation of the writer Francois Rabelais, (c1494-1553) whose Gargantua and Pantagruel is regarded as one of the greatest comic masterpieces of French literature. Rabelais dwelt in Chinon, little more than a stone's throw (in Gargantuan terms) away where he practised his various arts! The menhir is marked on larger scale IGN and soem Michelin maps, but isn't easy to locate, up a narrow track leading to a farm. The Le Carroir Bon-Air at Ligre, a couple of miles west, and signposted, is a more impressive structure, although it has partially collapsed. It is also on the NW/SE alignment and the panorama from the latter is spectacular. It would have been visible across a wide area.
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Re: Le Palet de Gargantua (Brizay) by TheCaptain on Monday, 19 March 2012
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