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Portsmouth Earthworks
Date Added: 17th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Portsmouth Works submitted by durhamnature on 21st Feb 2013. Old plan of the works, from "Prehistoric America" via archive.org
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Log Text: Only one horseshoe shaped mound remains in Portsmouth. Easy to visit and despite its modest size and location in a city park it still had a good ambience.
Hopewell Culture National Historic Site
Date Added: 17th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Hopewell Culture National Historic Site submitted by bat400 on 27th May 2006. Hopewell Culture NHP, Mound City Group.
Inside the main enclosure, this is a view looking toward the west. The large mound farthest back is the "Central Mound," the largest of the group. Closer is an elliptical mound, and a smaller conical mound is closest.
* The "Central Mound" was erected over the remains of two timber buildings with 13 cremated burials. Artifacts found included falcon effigies cut from copper sheets and fragments of human skull that had been cut and drilled (perhaps ...
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Log Text: second visit to this remarkable place. Its a knockout.
Marietta Earthworks
Date Added: 17th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Marietta Earthworks submitted by bat400 on 13th Jan 2013. A riverside park plaque showing the Marietta Earthwork Complex as is appeared when the modern town was first built in the late 18thC.
"Conus" with its embankment appears just upper left of the center.
The rectangular "Quadranaou" is at lower center and the "Capitolium" lying as one of the smaller rectangular mound between Conus and Quadranaou.
The "Sacra Via" appears at the right.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2012.
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Log Text: The great mound inside of Mound Cemetery is really well preserved with its enclosure intact. Very fine setting in a charming town.
Grotte de Lascaux
Date Added: 21st Nov 2014
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Grotte de Lascaux submitted by ocdolmen on 22nd Apr 2006. Unicorn in Lascaux cave.
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Abri du Cap-Blanc
Date Added: 21st Nov 2014
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Abri du Cap-Blanc submitted by theCaptain on 6th Jan 2011. In this now walled up cliff shelter, there is a massive frieze of sculpted animals. It was discovered in about 1909, and still bears the scars of the picks used in the excavations, and some of the animals were destroyed. There are horses, bison and the main event, a 2 metre long horse and bison combined, the bison looking to the left, while the horse looks to the right.
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Font-de-Gaume
Date Added: 21st Nov 2014
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 20th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Font-de-Gaume submitted by ocdolmen on 26th May 2006. Site in Aquitaine: Dordogne (24)
Entrance of Font de Gaume cave, Dordogne, France.
The entrance is on the right on the photo (the cave on the left is a dead end and presents no drawing)
Inside the cave, a great number of buffalos and horses drawings and some engraved drawings.
Magdalenian period (about 20.000 BCE)
One of the rare prehistoric cave with drawings still open to public.
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Grotte des Combarelles 1
Date Added: 21st Nov 2014
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 20th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grotte des Combarelles 1 submitted by ocdolmen on 26th May 2006. Combarelles cave, Dordogne, France
The entrance of the cave is on the left of the photo.
Great number of engravings (horses, buffalos, enigmatic signs...)
Magdlenian period (about 20,000 BCE)
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Bougon Tumulus
Date Added: 19th Nov 2014
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 19th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus F submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Sep 2010. The ancient Bougon Tumulus F0, is at the southern end of the tumulus, and is a circular construction containing a circular chamber.
It has been dated to the middle of the 5th millenium BC, and as such is the oldest dated construction of all the Atlantic facing lands.
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Log Text: Wonderful preservation and restoration. A fine site fully intact. The museum was superb: the presentations both inside and outside were really well done.
La Pierre Levée (Brantôme)
Date Added: 19th Nov 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 18th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
La Pierre Levée (Brantôme) submitted by theCaptain on 22nd May 2012. The remains of this dolmen stand on a sort of village green thing just on the eastern outskirts of the delightful old town of Brantôme
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Pierre Levée au Bois Bouéry
Date Added: 19th Nov 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87))
Visited: Yes on 17th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Pierre Levée au Bois Bouéry submitted by thecaptain on 20th Feb 2006. In the forest to the southwest of Saint-Sulpice-les-Feuilles, this lovely dolmen is easily found as it is signposted from the D.2 road, and it resides in a little forest clearing.
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Log Text: Nice setting.
Pierre Folle de Saint-Priest-la-Feuille
Date Added: 19th Nov 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Limousin:Creuse (23))
Visited: Yes on 17th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Pierre Folle de Saint-Priest-la-Feuille submitted by thecaptain on 24th Aug 2005. Pierre Folle de Saint-Priest-la-Feuille, perhaps my favourite dolmen from all those I have seen in France so far. Its a wonderfully pretty little dolmen in a lovely little landscaped park.
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Log Text: A fine work of art.
Peyrefit Dolmen
Date Added: 15th Nov 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 15th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Peyrefit dolmen submitted by ocdolmen on 1st Jul 2007. Peyrefit's dolmen is, for me, one of the most beautiful dolmens of the department of the Lot.
Most impressive is the very important thickness of the table in limestone, 1 metre which is in fact the thickest in the region of Quercy.
A big cup is engraved on the top of the capstone.
In the same area, we can also see the very beautiful dolmen of Artillou.
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Log Text: if you get to maximum magnification google maps has this somewhat hard to find dolmens marked.
Dolmen de Peyco Levado
Date Added: 14th Nov 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 13th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Dolmen de Peyco Levado submitted by greywether on 4th Jul 2005. A typical Lot dolmen (probably) close to La Borie du Bois - see site comments.
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Agars Dolmen
Date Added: 12th Nov 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 12th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Agars dolmen submitted by shamrockstone on 14th Jul 2012. Agars dolmen
Coordinates are: 44.547350N, 1.817690E, taken by GPS
Condition: 3
Ambience: 3
Access: 3
Accuracy: 5
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Log Text: a hard to find but intact dolmen with great ambiance. Take the road to Majourales, first dirt road to the left that comes out in Foues. Site is to the right of the road visible from road.
Belinac Menhir
Date Added: 12th Nov 2014
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 12th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Belinac Menhir submitted by MichelDRN on 20th Oct 2005. I suggest to rename Livernon Menhir as Belinac Menhir, its local name.
From Livernon (Lot, 46), heading SE towards the road joining Cahors and Figeac towns, a sign indicates Belinac Menhir on the right side. 600 meters and this outstanding monolith appears.
It is 3.50 meters high, 0.40 m wide, and large from 1.50m (base), to 1.90 m (middle) and 1.00m (top).
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Log Text: easy to find and a great view across from the menhir.
La Pierre Martine
Date Added: 12th Nov 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 12th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
La Pierre Martine submitted by greywether on 4th Jul 2005. In an area where all the dolmens tend to look the same, this one does have a USP in that it is the largest dolmen in Lot. 7.1x2.3m capstone weighing 20 tons. Shame about the concrete supports at each end of it.
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Dolmen dit de Pajot
Date Added: 23rd Dec 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 12th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen dit de Pajot submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jul 2005. Mas Pachot dolmen, near Limogne-en-Quercy.
Now used as a store for ancient farming equipment.
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Log Text: easily visible from road. Many dolmens in this region.
Majoural Dolmen
Date Added: 11th Nov 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 11th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Majoural dolmen submitted by ocdolmen on 30th Jul 2006. Majoural (or Majourals) dolmen, Lot, France.
The modern road has "eaten" a little of the tumulus of the dolmen.
July 2006.
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Log Text: Strong ambiance despite its location right on the road.
Menhir de la Côte de Labro
Date Added: 10th Nov 2014
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 10th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Menhir de la Côte de Labro submitted by ocdolmen on 25th May 2009. Labro menhir
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Log Text: The standing stone can be seen from the road. Great location on a hilltop.
Tiergues Dolmen
Date Added: 10th Nov 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 10th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tiergues Dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 18th Dec 2005. The lovely Dolmen de Tiergues, in its splendid Aveyron scenery.
This is the southern side view, with strange linear markings on the sideslab.
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Log Text: Impressive monument, very easy to find, visible from the road.