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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen du Bois de la PlesseCountry: France Département: Normandie:Manche (50) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: La Haye-du-Puits Nearest Village: Lithaire
Latitude: 49.283646N Longitude: 1.492233W
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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 |
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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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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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TheCaptain visited on 19th Nov 2004 On the slopes of Mont Castré to the southwest of the village of Lithaire can be found a little leisure park surrounding a quarry with lake. From the car park, cross the lake and climb the steep path to the top of the quarry before following the path around the top to the right through the woods. The monuments are said to have only been discovered in 1965, and with all the other stones laying around in the woods and undergrowth in this area, it wouldn’t surprise me if much more remains to be discovered here. In fact, while walking along the path round the top of the quarry, my eye was caught by an arrangement of large boulders piled on top of each other on a small mound. Having a closer look, I suspect that the large boulders owe more to their current position to relatively modern quarrying than anything ancient, but the mound on which they lie is most interestingly surrounded by what look like very old, carefully placed kerbing stones. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this is the remains of another Dolmen of some kind.
The coordinates on my GPS (which was slightly misbehaving with low battery power) for this were N 49.28388, W 001.49166 should anyone want a look. Further to the east on Mont Castré are the remains of a Roman encampment, while a bit to the west is a ruined castle, which go to demonstrate the importance of this hill as a place of settlement right through history.
On a further visit here I was not so sure that this was an ancient dolmen this time round, although the circular surrounding stones were still looking like something not natural Perhaps thing as a result of quarrying?
On the slopes of Mont Castré southwest of the village of Lithaire is a little leisure park surrounding a quarry with lake. Within this park is an open grassy area within which are the remains of two Allées Couverte.
These monuments are said to have only been discovered in 1965, and with multitudes of other stones laying around in the woods and undergrowth in this area, it wouldn’t surprise me if much more remains to be discovered here.
While walking along the path round the top of the quarry, my eye was caught by an arrangement of large boulders piled on top of each other on a small mound. Having a closer look, I suspect that the large boulders owe more to their current position to relatively modern quarrying than anything ancient, but the mound on which they lie is most interestingly surrounded by what look like very old, carefully placed kerbing stones. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this is the remains of another Dolmen of some kind.
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