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Saturday 26.09.2009 An unreachable whopper, it seems
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Monday 27 October 2008 Julian Cope and band play on Swanborough Tump as part of Julian’s ‘busking tour’ – I figured the fact that this is Julian’s website meant TMA Eds may allow this as an acceptable post....
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 Is that another very tall thin stone ‘above’ and to the right of the main stone in the photo?
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 I wish we’d had time for a closer look....
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 Viewed from the road with a very big lens
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 If those deep cuts/cracks are the alleged ‘christianisation’ carving, I’m not convinced!
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 Le Petit dolmen encloses un plus petit dolmen....
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 From the side of the D130
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 A giantess or a tiny dolmen? You decide....
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 The ‘double-dolmen’ appearance and the elderly couple who helped us realise we’d missed the Petit Dolmen de Ferrusac
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 Approaching from the road
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 The uppermost part of the chamber, looking like a large but ‘standard-type’ dolmen (and hiding the sins of the other, concrete, side slab)
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 Note the light shining through the upper part of the chamber into the lower, showing that there is nothing between it and the lower part
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Wednsday 5 September Nasty concrete slab in foreground – shame they couldn’t’ve used one of the huge slabs of rock amongst the trees behind....
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 A bit trashed....
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 Weird ‘double-decker’ effect of the passage and chamber – the top part of the chamber basically just projects strangely far above the passage
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 Jane gives scale to the dolmen and its mound
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Wednesday 5 September 2007
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Wednesday 5 September 2007
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Wednesday 5 September 2007
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Wednesday 5 September 2007
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Wednesday 5 September 2007
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Wednesday 5 September 2007
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Wednesday 5 September Dry-stone walled passage cuts through the mound to the entrance
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 Approaching the mound from the path (the ‘back’)
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 Jane demonstrates that this is a fairly large structure (she’s 5’ 8”)
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 Inside drystone-walled chamber – it’s not lop-sided, unfortunately I wasn’t holding the camera stright....
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 Commanding view over capstones looking roughly north
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 Large stone at end of dirt road, with dolmen-like bench under tree. The path to the dolmen is in the corner of field to the right of the tree
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 Notice large almost ‘ballaunish’ depression on nearest side-slab of dolmen
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 ‘Christianising’ carved cross visible on nearest side of dolmen
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