The Giant Prehistoric Chamber In The Back Garden Of A French Café 

Fyi: I should mention that there are several reviews on Google from people saying they turned up at the Dolmen during opening hours and found it was closed. If you do want to visit it might be worth calling ahead... just to make sure. Fyi part II: at time of recording it's illegal not to wear a face covering in Saumur Fyi part III: I think I may have stolen that hippy line from David Mitchell, but can't remember which of his many many panel show rants it's from

I'm not surprised at all these prehistoric humans build this in the yard of café. I can imagine lifting these huge rocks can make someone rather thirsty!

Every time Tim says "but we're here not to see that", my thoughts are: "I'll go there to see exactly that". I've visited Monschau, after watching the Vennbahn video. Now I'm sure I'll visit Saumur one day.

Nothing like standing under an 80 ton rock in a structure designed like a house of cards.

As a Dutchman, I feel the need to point out that we have them too. We call them "hunebedden". There are still 54 of them left standing. 52 of which are located in the province Drenthe.

Today's 'Hallooo' is fresh and exciting, making a perfect opener to a light snack meal.

Thanks a lot for this vidéo about the biggest dolmen of France ! Beautiful !

France is so beautiful. I hope to go back one day and spend more time there!

The Pierre de Silex theme was a stroke of genius. Thanks Tim for another great video 👍

I suddenly have a great desire to watch a Flintstones marathon. The original cartoon version, of course. Thank you!

Very interesting. I love how you can still make great videos with all those restrictions

By far the best channel on RU-vid. So for funny, so informative. Keep up the good work! :)

When you can go back to the UK, Tim, you need to get up to the Knap of Howar in Orkney. Located on Papa Westray (an island of 80 people and a wonderful bird sanctuary), it is the oldest house in Western Europe. Unlike the much more famous Scara Brae on Mainland Orkney, accessing it requires a combination of ferries (including the schoolboat that takes the middle-grades children of PW to neighboring Westray every day) and flights on a small aircraft (including the shortest regularly-scheduled commercial flight in the world at

Your first few words and the pics got me to realize I want to listen to and watch more of your videos, so I subscribed. This video is fun and interesting, thank you!

Sacre blue! What a delightful way to start the weekend :D

What a treat this video is. Tim talking on camera and a Homes Under The Hammer theme tune! Half expecting Dion Dublin to come out and complain about the lack of stairs.

I'm impressed you opened this video with everyone's favorite childhood cartoon The Flintstones xD

The intro music was very appropriate.

Your videos always brighten my day. They are witty and informative and well rounded. I love that you place a spotlight on unknown tourist locations and just random oddities. Cheers to you!

Again a great and interesting video from you! Thank you :-)

Bet the mortgage adviser wants a survey done. "I'm sorry sir, it does not conform to the latest building regulations, there are no windows, no toilet, no electrical sockets and the wifi connection is really cr@p."

The family loves your channel just had to comment on this one because of the theme music the Flintstones.... We see what you did there, very nice. Take care and stay safe.

Loving the 'Homes under the Hammer' outro!

Fab. I am from Kits Coty. Great to see a complete one for a change!

On the topic of easy to access and crowd-free ancient sites, I'm an Aussie who visited England a few years ago, and I never bothered with Stone Henge, opting instead for the Uffington White Horse and Weyland's Smithy (which involve some lovely moderate hill walking). I went on a weekday and there was barely anyone about. I recommend it.

The accordion music was spot on. I hope everyone picks up on the musical jokes in your videos.

The most laid back chill vidéaste ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

For such a great channel, 150k subs is a joke... Wonderful work Tim! Rock on!

I was there as a young man way back in '92! Way cool. There's also a Roman arena not far away.

The opening track is brilliant.

I’m fascinated by what seems to be the fact that all we discover are temples and burial chambers. This on the other hand could have been my grandparents to the tenth power home.

This is going to be good. I smashed the thumbs up before watching.

I’ve subscribed. Hopefully you get a million 😃👍

You have made my quarantine ao much more bearable. I truly appreciate your informative walk tours, that I have come to terms with being my only exposure to incredible places I did not know I long to see. I have also learned that I have a favourite version of The Flintstone's. Thank you.

I wonder what happened to the car for this Flintstone house? Would be a heck of a barn find!

Thanks ! Have never heard of this . So vastly ancient and so incredibly well built to stand for 50 centuries. Just one stone 80 tons. Why on earth would they go to so much trouble ? To build it so well they obviously wanted it to last ; for eons as most all these dolmens do last from prehistory. Just looking at them they almost taunt you to find out who built them and why . Such huge effort implies they had great purpose and meaning but the key to there secrets is lost. I’ve looked at them many times and wondered what lost culture did this , it must have been vibrant with its own , clothing, pottery, sensibilities, holidays and full of emotion and connections all gone as if it never existed accept for these vestiges of stone. And it seems that they are like just the tooth left behind from a great extinct animal that we really can’t recreate what it looked like.

You might enjoy Carnac in southern Bretagne, which has fields of standing stones, the odd very large menhir and similar dolmen, with no charge and no barriers to getting up close. My family used to go to one of the campsites there every year when I was young. Happy days!

Plenty of stuffy like this in rural Ireland my girlfriends flatmate in college has a stone circle in her back garden, though a plain and boring field is far more common location than garden or farm yard. There's one particular stone circle we always go to for the winter solstice, dolmens being graves rather than gathering points are far less visited. Never understood why the English make such a big deal of Stonehenge.

Subbed less than 1 minute in. Great Garden! Prehistoric rock room! Wow!

Seems like a great starter home.

Anyone else more impressed with the Homes Under The Hammer theme than the Flintstones? “So Tim, what made you want to buy this place?”

Great video - fascinating. Love the Flintstones valse...

I had to look this place up on TripAdvisor (it's a slow day and I'm sticking with that excuse) and it's "too expensive" (€4) and they also - horror of horrors - have the audacity to close sometimes. How very dare they! It would appear also that the whole place is up for sale. I thought Tim meant just the Dolmen but he'll have a cafe too. Hope he can make good coffee.

Homes under the hammer theme was a nice touch lol.

It's true that being French I didn't even know about this !! Amazing !

It would suck to have that in your backyard. We live in Turkey and have an underground system of tunnels and cities in our basement.

Love your channel👍🏻

been to Saumur so many times and never new about this. There's also an interesting neolithic site near where I live in a place called Bougon, You used to be able to wander around the 'burial mounds' for free but they built a museum and now charge to go in. Still worth a visit though.

Was looking for the final line....."Buyer Collects"!

A million subscribers before Christmas? Alright, let's go.

Yep they have even found dolman in the US up along the east coast

Wow, this guy makes great videos!! Just fantastic!

I love your videos! I just discovered your channel last week You were not that far from me at that time, I live in Angers! If you still haven't visited the city, I suggest you the fortress, it's really impressive and the Tapisserie de l'Apocalypse inside is incredible

Flintstones opening music... very clever. Lol.

Great stuff, Tim. Let me know if you want me to chip in!

Mission accepted. WE MUST GET TIM TO 1 MIL BEFORE CHRISTMAS! HE NEEDS TO OWN THIS DOLMEN!!!

It looks like a "Hunnebed" from here in Holland

If you want to know more about these types of things you can also look up things like the Medway Megaliths and Long Barrows. im not sure if they count as dolmens but theyre super similar and just as interesting imo.

Please come to The Netherlands again, after Covid, where up North (Drenthe) we have dozens of structures like this, called 'hunenbedden'.

clearly a prehistoric bus stop

For some reason, I assumed you were kidding but then the video just ended 😂😂😂

My guess is that the Normand family is still waiting for Tim to reach 1M subscribers, as they are still the owners of the property and there is no longer the *En Vente* menu on the web site

Denmark has hundreds of grave mounds like this, the most famous ones are at Jelling and they also probably provide us with the most solid evidence that they were in fact built as grave sites. We know for a fact that the mounds at Jelling were built as grave sites as their construction was actually recorded and we can compare the ones there with other ones and see that they are generally similar and all have human remains in them. That makes it extremely likely that these were primarily built as graves for the wealthy and carbon dating also tells us that graves were often reused. In Scandinavia the same Bronze and Iron Age cultures persisted all the way up to the start of recorded history in those areas so it gives us a lot of insight into those pre-historic cultures, unlike in France where history started rather suddenly and rudely with the Roman invasion.

Was that a fancy Flintstone melody as an intro?

I'm really surprised that a country like France would not preserve their national monuments as historical areas. I realize that private land is private land but what is valuable for human knowledge is more important. I really hope that there's some sort of a movement in France to preserve these sacred areas.

There are also dolmens in Portugal!

Visited two smaller ones of these in Anglesey this summer. I say visited - I mean photographed from the edge of a field. The bovine inhabitants didn't look too welcoming. Neither did the the passage underfoot. :-)

You'll find a lot of them in the Netherlands as well. Province of Drenthe is known for it.

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Subscribed (finally) so now you HAVE to buy it!

Oh wow a place I've actually been.

I wouldn't be surprised if it did have some some significance to the Celts. You know, like gathering there annually, to wonder and exchange theories, who built these :)

I'd like an update. Did you buy the dolmen?

Instantly subscribe because I want to see Tim living in a dolmen...........

I guess looking at this from the future... you haven't bought it (yet) Also love the cover of the homes under the hammer theme tune at the end ;)

In addition: the word "dolmen" comes from the Breton language, "dol" meaning "table" and "men" meaning "stone" hence a table made of stone

You lucky traveling bastard!! Why were we (pretty much all of us, everywhere) so bad this fall, with the Americans being particularly naughty? Anyway, there are dim second year French class memories percolating up of the Asterix cartoons we were forced to read. French humor + learning French was a tough sell. Anyway I thought Asterix's friend was named Dolmen? He was always carrying around a monolith...

Once Covid travel restrictions are completely lifted, here's hoping that this one is not just going on the "we're not here to see any of that" bucket list, but that this one is also going to be under TTT ownership!

Loved it!

Tim starts a go-fund-me: I want to buy some old old rocks...

yup, knew about this stuff thanks to asterix (dolmen, menhir etc). Super interesting that it's some guy's property though.

Is that the theme to La Famille Pierrafeu at the beginning?

Wish I hadn't seen this one, now I'm questioning wether I really need that degree...

Question: Given that it's on private property would someone be allowed to turn into a house/sleepout if they wanted or is it still part of a preservation society making something like that full of red tape?

Its a hunebed! We have loads of those here in the netherlands

5 months to go boyyyyyssssss!!!!!!

It is worth noting that Saumur also has a number of others unconventional tourist attractions, such as a Mushroom Museum and a Museum of Blinds (or, after I added the right accent when putting it through Google Translate, it turns out it's a museum of armaments, not as interesting...)

Clearly you didn't read enough Goscinny & Uderzo in your youth! When Asterix and Obelix visit Lutetia (this might be in Asterix and the Golden Sickle), Obelix laments the fact that there's only one dolmen nearby.

The vibe is so nerdy, but maybe, I hope, Tim is banging some Parisian Audrey Tautou de nos jours.

Flintstones theme, Through the Keyhole (old and best version, who lives in a home like this indeed :) ) and Homes Under The Hammer?

Milion subscribers before Christmas?! Let's do it!

The Egyptian Pyramids are 12000 + years old...! How do you make this site much older than them...?

I get why he had the Flintstone’s theme at the beginning

That's wild, ive never heard of this one nor seen it featured in any historical show as it is really interesting if it is theorized to be from around same period as Stonehenge, but really how would one know for sure unless they painted a "established in so n so year" in there. Lol Learn and see something new every day.

What about the floor. Modern cocrete?

*cough* West Kennet Long Barrow is bigger, and free *cough* (And possibly older, dating from 3670 BC) Not so convenient for a tasse de cafe though, but probably a damn sight nearer to a decent cuppa tea!

It looks like Fred Flintstones house. When they say its for sale, do they mean the structure and the land its on, or do they intend the buyer to move the structure? (I hope not.) Where are the videos from the places we see in your intro? I am pretty sure I have watched all your videos on this channel, but I don't remember seeing those places. Stay safe out there!

I played on Stonehenge as a kid before people realized that was bad... late 70s... think it was roped off in the 80s...now you walk around it from a distance. Not “played”. But crawled all over it when we visited...

You have an attractive face and a wonderful personality on top of which you have an extensive knowledge of things we'd never think about and that makes your channel so interesting. Stop buying into the current corporate bullshit and remove the bloody mask. You're not going to die

That is amazing