Pierre des Bignes, Habloville, Orne, N 48.8064, W 00.1647 by gps.
Visited Monday, 2nd May 2005. Access 4, Condition 4, Ambience 3.
North of the village of Habloville, and signposted from the road, its about a 200 metre walk along a track to get to the monument, where there are two burial mounds.
The northwestern of the two round mounds is about 15 metres in diameter, and about 2 metres high at the edges. Within the mound, which has been dug out, is the dolmen des Bignes burial chamber. This has a massive capstone (4 metres by 3 metres) held up on 6 uprights, with a few other stones scattered around. There is about 1 metre of height between today’s ground and the capstone, but I could not determine where any entrance would have been, although it would not have been to the west.
The ambience of these burial mounds is spoiled by it obviously used as a place where the local youth (or others) go to have a drink, leaving all their detritus behind. There are broken bottles and other rubbish all over the place.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road