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| # Posted 2008-02-18 23:55:12 | |
| simon: | A charbonnière is (by derivation of sense) a remnant of charcoal (charbon) processing in woods. It usually looks like a flat, raised platform of 2m or more in diameter, 10 to 20 cm above the ground. They are more easily seen on slopes. So either you have lots of charbonnières on a map (which means the forest was used for charcoal), either you have none.
They are very durable since most of them are no longer in use since many decades yet still there (recently I could find charbonnières with an O map dating from the 80s). Yet I never felt secured to find one, as you never know the state of a particular charbonnière : either well preserved or almost vanished. It greatly depends on the map update and the judgment of the mapmaker/updater (and tip: whenever I find myself with a charbonnière as a control, I try to bypass another one before the leg, just to be sure what they look like specifically on the terrain) http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charbonnière |
| # Posted 2008-02-19 19:02:04 | |
| PhilW: | Thanks for the tip. To be honest, I don't think I recognized anything special about them. Of course not knowing what I was looking for in the first place made it a bit difficult. I could tell from the word it had something to do with charcoal (charbon), but I'd only seen the big wood pyres they use not the remenents of one. Now I want to go back and look at them closer ;-)
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