Moth

Access: Not sure, I only looked at it from the road as I had an ambitious itinerary. (Too ambitious as it turned out, in more ways than one.) Looks a little bit of an uphill tromp to me, for ‘just’ a menhir.

Visited Saturday 8 September 2007
Looks like a nice big (for the area, at least) menhir, but unfortunately I couldn’t afford the time for a closer look. So I whipped out the big lens – which means it’s a longer walk from the road than it might look in the photos....

Access: Nightmare to find anything on this plain which seems to be covered with sites at various sites of wreckedness. Just across the dirt road from Ciste de Lacam. Luckily this one is fairly near the main track – still difficult to spot!

Visited Saturday 8 September 2007
I knew this was ruined, but all I found was just a few likely looking stones in a vague line. They were the most likely candidates I saw, but absolutely no guarantees that these are the remains of the monument!

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Access: Nightmare to find anything on this plain which seems to be covered with sites at various sites of wreckedness. Dirt road, so you’ll probably need to not care too much about your car, especially if you want to leave the ‘main’ track!

Luckily this one is very near said main track – still difficult to spot! It’s also surprisingly easy to lose your sense of direction & mine’s usually pretty good.

Visited Saturday 8 September 2007
Not exactly spectacular, but traces of a little cairn with a very nice cist left in the middle. This was to be one of the few things I’d find out here in the barren wilderness!

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Access: Not easy, unless you’re at least reasonably fit. Close-ish to Dolmen de la Claie-de-Driolle 4 & 6 a good few hundred metres along the same path. (You will also pass various less definite but suspicious bits of possible wrecked sites.)

Visited Monday 3 September 2007
I’ve taken the name of this monument from t4t35.fr

In Dolmens et Menhirs en Languedoc et Roussillon Bruno Marc refers to ‘le grand dolmen de l’Olivier’, which from t4t35.fr seems to be a little further along the same path, but I must have stopped just short of it before giving up for the day & turning back. (Gah!)

Bare remains of the chamber uprights & cairn only here, possibly with a fallen capstone at the front of the chamber according to some sources. As far as I can tell, Le Grand Dolmen de l’Olivier which I didn’t find seems to be similar, but larger and with more of its cairn. It also has an additional small (later?) cist in what remains of its chamber.

Approximate coordinates only. Also, there seems to be confusion in my sources on the numbering of the Claie-de-Driolle tombs. This seems to be 4 in Bruno Marc’s books, but I’ve seen it referred to as 5 elsewhere. (Incidentally, there seem to be gaps in the numbering sequence everywhere I’ve looked!)

Access: Not easy, unless you’re at least reasonably fit. Very close to Dolmen de la Claie-de-Driolle 3 along the same path.

Visited Monday 3 September 2007
Right next to Dolmen de la Claie-de-Driolle 6 (depending whose numbering you use!) The 2 sites together are gorgeous, though of the 2 this is slightly the ‘poor relation’!

Approximate coordinates only. Also, there seems to be confusion in my sources on the numbering of the Claie-de-Driolle tombs. This seems to be 6 in Bruno Marc’s books, but I’ve seen it referred to as 4 elsewhere. (Incidentally, there seem to be gaps in the numbering sequence everywhere I’ve looked!)

Access: Not easy, unless you’re at least reasonably fit. Very close to Dolmen de la Claie-de-Driolle 3 along the same path.

Visited Monday 3 September 2007
Right next to Dolmen de la Claie-de-Driolle 4 (depending whose numbering you use!) The 2 sites together are gorgeous. Similar to the other main monuments on this walk, but then again they’re (mostly) little beauties!

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Access: Not easy, unless you’re at least reasonably fit. Very close to Dolmen de la Claie-de-Driolle 2 along the same path.

Visited Monday 3 September 2007
My favourite of the monuments we saw on this walk. Another beautiful dolmen in its cairn but with noteably more open views.

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Access: Not easy, unless you’re at least reasonably fit. Maybe 1km or slightly more from the nearest parking place which is impossible to describe but to the SW! The path starts off quite steep as a wide-ish gravel track, which becomes a track through the woods. It continues to have steep bits & also slightly rocky bits. May also be muddy in wet weather.

Visited Monday 3 September 2007
Beautiful! Seemingly fairly complete but restored in its rocky cairn. Well worth the walk (which I enjoyed – but I like walking!)

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Access: Not easy, unless you’re at least reasonably fit. Maybe 500m from Dolmen de la Bergerie-de-Panissière along the same path, which has steep bits & slightly rocky bits. May also be muddy in wet weather.

Visited Monday 3 September 2007
I liked this a lot. The pictures say it all really. Beautiful dolmen in its (perhaps somewhat denuded) cairn.