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Bougon Tumulus E
Trip No.10 Entry No.15 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus E submitted by greywether on 3rd Jul 2005. The two passage graves in E, from SE.
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Bougon Tumulus F
Trip No.10 Entry No.16 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus F submitted by thecaptain on 24th Aug 2005. Bougon tumulus and dolmen F0.
This is stated to be the oldest known and dated man made building in all the Atlantic facing lands.
Inside the entrance is a round room, roofed not with a large slab, but with corbelling.
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Dolmen des Sept Chemins
Trip No.10 Entry No.17 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dolmen des Sept Chemins submitted by TheCaptain on 31st Jul 2013. Sept Chemins dolmen can be found not far from the Bougon necropolis, just to the south of the Sept Chemins crossroads. It has been recently restored, and sits in a little area with parking and notice board.
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Dolmen de la Voie
Trip No.10 Entry No.18 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de la Voie submitted by johnstone on 13th Feb 2018. Information panel, June 9, 2014
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Dolmen de la Pierre-qui-Vire
Trip No.10 Entry No.19 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen de la Pierre-qui-Vire submitted by ocdolmen on 28th Aug 2009. La Pierre qui Vire near Cheffois village Dolmen de la Pierre-qui-Vire
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Tumulus du Montiou
Trip No.10 Entry No.20 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tumulus du Montiou submitted by Rubis on 27th Aug 2011. Entrances of first and second chambers!
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Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (La Jarne)
Trip No.10 Entry No.21 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (La Jarne) submitted by thecaptain on 7th Dec 2005. This is a nice little dolmen sitting at the edge of the playing fields just outside the back of the church in the village of La Jarne in Charente-Maritime.
Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (La Jarne)
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Pierres Closes de Charas 1
Trip No.10 Entry No.22 Date Added: 13th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pierres Closes de Charas 1 submitted by thecaptain on 18th Jan 2006. This odd burial chamber can be found to the northwest of the historic Naval town of Rochefort, amongst the marshes of the Charente river estuary.
It consists of an oval shaped chamber which has been carved out of a big solid block of rock, on top of which is a limestone capstone.
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Dolmen dit la Pierre Fouquerée
Trip No.10 Entry No.23 Date Added: 14th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dolmen dit la Pierre Fouquerée submitted by thecaptain on 13th Jan 2006. This dolmen is not so easy to find as its neighbour, La Pierre Levée, but is in the middle of a field of maize to the west of the farm of Bois des Mottes near the village of Ardillières.
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La Pierre Levée (Ardillières)
Trip No.10 Entry No.24 Date Added: 14th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
La Pierre Levée (Ardillières) submitted by thecaptain on 13th Jan 2006. This is a nice pleasant simple little dolmen, atop atop a hillock in amongst the marais, just into a field to the south of the village of Ardillières
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Dolmen de la Pierre Levée (La Vallée)
Trip No.10 Entry No.25 Date Added: 14th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dolmen de la Pierre Levée (La Vallée) submitted by davidmorgan on 26th Aug 2010. Dolmen de la Pierre Levée (La Vallée).
Nicely tidied up since ocdolmen visited.
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La Pierre Levée (Sablonceaux)
Trip No.10 Entry No.26 Date Added: 14th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
La Pierre Levée (Sablonceaux) submitted by davidmorgan on 26th Aug 2010. Only three stones remain.
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Garde Epée Dolmen
Trip No.10 Entry No.27 Date Added: 14th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Garde Epée dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Jul 2007. Garde Epée dolmen suffers from graffitti and rubbish, but is otherwise well looked after in a little clearing amongst the vines with its own sign.
It can be found just to the south of the D.157 road, a couple of kilometres west of Jarnac.
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Sechebec Dolmen
Trip No.10 Entry No.28 Date Added: 14th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Sechebec dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 28th Jul 2007. Sechebec dolmen is to be found in the western outskirts of Cognac, surrounded by blocks of flats.
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Saint Fort Dolmen
Trip No.10 Entry No.29 Date Added: 14th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Saint Fort Dolmen submitted by Nick- on 24th Sep 2005. Strange dolmen, here's me 1m93 (6'4) for scale. I have a feeling that the capstone has been 'replaced'. I might be completely wrong of course. Easy access, Dolmen is signposted in the village of St.Fort.
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Courades Dolmen
Trip No.10 Entry No.30 Date Added: 14th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Courades Dolmen submitted by hewpop on 23rd Sep 2007. West side
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La Petite Pérotte
Trip No.10 Entry No.33 Date Added: 14th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
La Petite Pérotte submitted by thecaptain on 5th Dec 2005. La Petite Pérotte.
A massive capstone, 4 metres long by 2.5m wide and 1.5 metres thick is sitting on top of several smaller support stones.
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La Grosse Pérotte
Trip No.10 Entry No.34 Date Added: 15th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
La Grosse Pérotte submitted by thecaptain on 4th Jul 2005. The two Perotte dolmens, sitting proudly on their ridgetop by the ancient trackway.
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Maison de la Vieille Dolmen
Trip No.10 Entry No.35 Date Added: 15th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Maison de la Vieille dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 5th Dec 2005. South along the track from Les Pérottes, can be seen a little wooded area inside a cultivated field. There is the remains of a dolmen inside.
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Dolmen dit la Pierre du Sacrifice (Boixe)
Trip No.10 Entry No.31 Date Added: 14th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen dit la Pierre du Sacrifice (Boixe) submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Dec 2005. Pierre du Sacrifice (Boixe A) these days is just the capstone of the destroyed tumulus, once similar to Boixe B.
It has some very straight channels in the top, which are so straight and even that they must have been carved, rather than randomly shaped rain channels.
Dolmen dit la Pierre du Sacrifice (Boixe)
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