Weather beautiful ... Bob and I went to the communal forest where we found traces of those old round stone houses you get hereabouts; who built them, when or why, seems to be unknown.
Any info., anyone?
SAW A HOOPOE! Was too slow to photograph him - not that he was fast, but mesmerisingly beautiful. He sat on a post and wiggled his crest, then took off in a glamorous flutter of stripy wings.
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Are these the Visigoth houses up by Coustasa? Very interesting stuff, and hundreds of them around ...
sort of near Coustassa - within sight of the back of Rennes le Chateau - at the Forest Communale of Esperaza. If you dont know it will take you there next time, its the most tree-less forest Ive ever been in.Love it.
Been WiPi-ing...The place we now call Languedoc-Roussillon - here - was Septimania, the last home of the Visigoths around 508. So if these are Visigoth gaffs, they are dead old. Makes strategic sense, old Spanish border, great views.They got absorbed and wiped out with the Albigensians. Max, what makes you think they are built by the Visigoths ?
Henry Lincoln mentions the Coustassa round houses in his book THBHG where he talks about the "Great Encampment"
Dave Mac
Henry Lincoln discuses the Coustassa round houses in his book HBHG where he talks about the "Great Encampment"
Dave Mac
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