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Minervois 4 - Dolmen des Fados Traditional Geocache

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miguaine: Bonjour,

Merci de me contacter si cette cache peut être réactivée. En attendant, elle est archivée pour permettre éventuellement à un autre géocacheur d'en placer une dans le secteur.

Cordialement,
Miguaine - "Groundspeak Volunteer Reviewer".

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Hidden : 7/30/2006
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

We have hidden some caches in the beautiful surroundings of the Minervois. This series of 15 caches have been placed at nice spots so that you can enjoy this lovely area!


This are the Minervois Geocaches:


- Minervois 1 – Panorama 1 (mystery, regular, 1/3)
- Minervois 2 – Cesseras (traditional, small, 1/1)
- Minervois 3 – Olonzac (multi, small, 1/2)
- Minervois 4 – Dolmen des Fados (traditional, micro, 1/1)
- Minervois 5 – La Livinière (traditional, small, 1/1)
- Minervois 6 – White Rock (traditional, small, 1/1)
- Minervois 7 – Panorama 2 (traditional, regular, 2/1)
- Minervois 8 – Cantignergues (traditional, regular, 2/2)
- Minervois 9 – Minerve (multi, small, 2/2)
- Minervois 10 – Panorama 3 (traditional, regular, 3/1)
- Minervois 11 - Anciennes 1 (traditional, small, 1/1,5)
- Minervois 12 - Panorama 4 (traditional, regular, 1,5/2)
- Minervois 13 - Notre Dame du Cros (multi, regular, 2/2,5)
- Minervois 14 - Anciennes 2 (traditional, small, 1,5/2)
- Minervois 15 - Curiosité de Lauriole (mystery, small, 1/1,5)


The Fades or Faieries dolmen.
This vast and rectangular monument, has a development of 24m, is built with bloks of different rocks (limestone, grey sandstone, red sandstone), comprises a long corridor where dry stones and pillar are alternated, an antechamber which had preserved its covering table and at last a terminal cella which is more eroded. Twoo doors made by carved joined flag stones forming a porthole outlined the interior space.
This dolmen was built at the end of the Neolithic period (about – 3000) and was still used at the copper-period in “campaniforme” and in the first days of the bronze-period.

The grave of Fades is the biggest dolmen in the south of France.

 

Good luck!
Team GPSearching & Les Héros

Small note on cache maintenance: I work for an outdoor organisation and we are located not far from the cache at a place called Cantignergues. I'm there more times in a year.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

oruvaq gur vasbezngvba fvta jvgu gur sver jneavat

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)