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sals wrote: Research first, drop locations into Google Earth and print yourself screen dumps ..... my preferred method combined with purchasing a local map and being prepared to go off plan when you find an unexpected road sign to something you haven't heard of. Have fun! Sals Hmmm. When I was researching I found that a lot of the buggers are marked on Google Earth but not necessarily in the right place. Quite a way out sometimes. We also used Bruno Marc's books which we borrowed from Spaceship Mark, but got from Amazon.Fr when we got back in case we get a chance to go again. They're in French & neither of us are that good at French but I found that with reasonably occasional use of a French/English dictionary & in conjunction with the maps Spaceship Mark recommended we did ok. There are also quite a few websites but they tend not to be too good on telling you where the things are. I think that's partly coz Bruno Marc seems to have a finger in many of them & he probly wants folks to buy his books! This was probly one of the most useful sites I found, tho it's not that easy to use & some sites are not placed quite right http://www.t4t35.fr/Megalithes[...]heSelectDep.aspx?Projet=France This site http://dolmen1.free.fr/oc/cartes.html has maps based on Bruno's books, but they're quite difficult to 'match up' to any printed maps! Hereare a cupple more that I bookmarked but I'm not how useful they actually were http://zebuprehisto.unblog.fr/[...]lmens-a-st-felix-de-pallieres/, http://dolmen3.free.fr/lot/ & http://dolmen2.free.fr/oc2/index.html (which seem related to the one in the previous para but I'm not sure how!) A lot of the time I was reduced to grabbing the name of a site from one of the websites & googling it - often without much success. If you can afford it, I'd deffo recommend the Bruno's books/Spaceship Mark's recommended maps route!!! Where are you actually staying? A word of warning - a lot of them take a bit longer to get to than you expect!! Once you get close, quite a few are signposted, but the signposts are a bit hit & miss for some, taking you some of the way & then disappearing! But megaliths were slightly secondary to Van Gogh places on our trip - we were staying over to the east (in Arles). It's not where you'd choose for dolmens, so the stuff we've posted tends to be a bit more over that way. Other than the ACE rock-cut stuff around Arles itself there's not much very close to Arles. Actually, I've still got some more sites to add here - just never have time.... :^( I'm assuming you've seen J's blogs? http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/63029/weblog/ http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/62865/weblog/ http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/62864/weblog/ http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/62797/weblog/ (I think that's all of them.) :^D love Moth Reply | with quote |  14th January 2009ce 17:48 In reply to: French maps - help needed! (Vicster) |
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