Celtiberian culture in the Camino

[Robert Spenger]

I have a photo of such a structure that I took at a stop along the Arles route. There is a
priory, just a few km east of Lodève, France. When I made a stop there I was just in time to
take a tour of the old priory and of the even more ancient structures on the grounds
surrounding it. The tour was conducted in French, but occasionally the guide would tell me some
of the key features in English. There were a couple of such dolmen type structures and he said
that they were tombs.

regards,

Robert


Conor Fortune wrote:

> For my tuppence (or two cents, depending
> on your country of origin), I'm not so sure
> that cairns were necessarily markers along
> a pilgrimage. All the Celtic peoples
> constructed cairns and later dolmens
> (three massive rocks in a table-like tomb
> structure that were once covered in a
> mound of earth but in modern times stand
> alone due to
> erosion, ). But all these were
> burial chambers, usually for chieftains and
> their families.

> CF