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Fire reveals moor's stone legacy

smallblueplanet Dec 23, 2004 14:52:13

Replying to Spaceship mark

I've seen a copy of the statue menhirs from the Aveyron area in a very interesting "Roman pottery production site" museum (can't remember its name!). I'd loved to have seen an original, anywhere.

This troll's opinion is that France has too much great rock art and we should ship some of it over here!! ;-) Where abouts did you go in the Aveyron? Did you fly to Rodez, its often a very cheap place to fly to.

Spaceship mark Dec 23, 2004 16:03:17

Replying to smallblueplanet

I was working down there for most of last summer, although due to busyness didn't see too much stuff. Rodez is indeed cheap to fly too and while you're there you have to go the the Chams des Bondons; a huge moor/downland area, between Florac and Mende, scattered with hundreds of menhirs, mainly sighted on a 'sleeping beauty' type range of three hills that rise above the down.
Two of these hills are known locally as 'the tits of the devil' and many of the local place names relate to 'the bad old woman'.
Do a google for a guy called bruno marc, there's tonnes of stuff on his site.
The Ardeche (where I also was) has like, 500 dolmens or something but, to be honest, many are ruined and nearly all of them are exactly the same. Still cool to see a few though...