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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen des Lacs 1 Alternative Name: Dolmen de Bruneau (A)Country: France Département: Languedoc:Hérault (34) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Narbonne Nearest Village: Minerve
Latitude: 43.367000N Longitude: 2.714800E
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 |
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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 |
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TheCaptain visited on 15th Sep 2005 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3 From the intriguing and lovely little historic village of Minerve, take the D.147 road to the northwest, passing over the bridge and past the big car parks. The dolmens are signposted from here. The road zig-zags up the hillside for a kilometre or two and then levels out a bit. Continue for three or four kilometres, past the water reservoir, and eventually you will find a dirt track on the left, with a large stone with the word dolmens painted on it. Park somewhere, then follow this track on foot for a couple of hundred metres. About 100 metres before the track splits, to find this dolmen go into the scrubland to the right for about 60 metres, where the remains of the dolmen can be found, quite well hidden behind some little oak trees.
What remains is a fairly large round mound of stones, about 20 metres in diameter, with some evidence of an encircling peristalith of radial facing stones. The chamber in the middle is about 4 metres long by 2 metres wide, facing southeast at 155°, and has most of the side and back slabs still in place, but broken. The capstone is still here, but pushed off to the side, and the largest western side slab possibly had a nice hole in it. Unfortunately, this dolmen is all crumbling away and getting a bit overgrown.
ShamrockStone have visited here
About 100 metres before the track splits, to find this dolmen go into the scrubland to the right for about 60 metres, where the remains of the dolmen can be found, quite well hidden behind some little oak trees.
What remains is a fairly large round mound of stones, about 20 metres in diameter, with some evidence of an encircling peristalith of radial facing stones. The chamber in the middle is about 4 metres long by 2 metres wide, facing southeast at 155°, and has most of the side and back slabs still in place, but broken. The capstone is still here, but pushed off to the side, and the largest western side slab possibly had a nice hole in it.
Unfortunately, this dolmen is all crumbling away and getting a bit overgrown.
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