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<< Our Photo Pages >> Dolmen des Lacs 1 - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Languedoc:Hérault (34)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Thursday, 10 February 2005  Page Views: 3383

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:
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 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.
3 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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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.

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Dolmen des Lacs 1
Dolmen des Lacs 1 submitted by richardfrance : Les Lacs dolmen 1 (a) 8/02/08 (Vote or comment on this photo)
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.
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Dolmen des Lacs 1
Dolmen des Lacs 1 submitted by shamrockstone : Languedoc :Hérault (34) France: Dolmen des Lacs 1 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen des Lacs 1
Dolmen des Lacs 1 submitted by richardfrance : Les Lacs dolmen 1 (b) 8/02/08 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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