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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Feuilles Dolmen 1
Country: France Département: Languedoc:Hérault (34) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Montpelier  Nearest Village: Notre-Dame-de-Londres
Latitude: 43.818800N  Longitude: 3.827900E
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.
 5 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
 4

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Nick- visited on 20th Feb 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Not signposted.One walks up a track for less then two minutes from the road, and there is a 'gap' for pedestrians in the fence on the left. 1:25000 map shows the position more clearly on Geoportail.fr

johnstone visited on 9th Jul 2001 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4

regina have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 4

Feuilles Dolmen 1
Feuilles Dolmen 1 submitted by greywether : Looking out from the chamber through the portal stones to the antechamber and the passage beyond. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Feuilles is a good example of a typical Languedoc dolmen with passage, wider antechamber and wider-still chamber all in a row and within a circular cairn.

Here, the antechamber has curved portal stones at either end.

The tower-like thing at the back is, I assume, not part of the restorer's idea of the original structure. It has footholds in it and may be a viewing tower.

Nice site in a wooded area but not signposted (when I was there.)


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Feuilles Dolmen 1 submitted by ShamrockStone : Feuilles Dolmen 1 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Feuilles Dolmen 1 submitted by Nick- : 20/02/2011 Viewing tower above, and a white rose left by somebody else in the chamber....... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Feuilles Dolmen 1 submitted by Nick- : 20/02/2011 Looking Northwards. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Feuilles Dolmen 1 submitted by regina : (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Feuilles Dolmen 1 submitted by greywether : I came here in April 1996 looking for Lamalou which was the only site I knew of in the area (this was in the pre-web days, remember). After a long search I found this and assumed it to be Lamalou. It was only a couple of years ago, when I eventually got round to editing the video, that I discovered I was at the wrong site - but a good one nevertheless. Feuilles is a good example of a typical Lan...

Feuilles Dolmen 1
Feuilles Dolmen 1 submitted by johnstone : View from above into the room, July 9, 2001

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