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Dolmen de la Fontaine aux Chiens
Trip No.32 Entry No.1 Date Added: 2nd Aug 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Dolmen de la Fontaine aux Chiens submitted by johnstone on 27th Jul 2019. Hidden and overgrown not really a monument, June 18, 2019
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Menez Lié Dolmen
Trip No.31 Entry No.47 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menez Lié dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Jan 2007. At first view from the road this dolmen looked lost in the middle of a field of wheat, but there is a footpath to it around the edge of the field, and a little clearing is left around it.
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Dolmen de Pen-an-Run
Trip No.31 Entry No.46 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Pen-an-Run submitted by thecaptain on 20th Jan 2007. This is a little dolmen on the Crozon Peninsula with a 2.5m by 2.5m capstone sitting on three support slabs, making up part of a hedge.
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Alignement de Lostmarc'h 1
Trip No.31 Entry No.45 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Alignement de Lostmarc'h 1 submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Aug 2009. What I first found of the Lostmarc'h alignements, on top of a headland overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, was a line of stones running across the headland.
There is a menhir and several other stones laying about, perhaps the remains of other rows.
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Lostmarc'h menhir
Trip No.31 Entry No.44 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Lostmarc'h menhir submitted by Jimwithnoname on 17th Jul 2011. Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France
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Lagatjar alignements
Trip No.31 Entry No.43 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Lagatjar Alignements submitted by thecaptain on 18th Oct 2004. Lagatjar Alignements.
West of the fishing town of Camaret, in the far west of the Crozon Peninsula, Finisterre Brittany.
If memory serves me right, these stones form part of a sort of large stone square.
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Saint-Gonvarc'h menhir
Trip No.31 Entry No.41 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
Saint-Gonvarc'h menhir submitted by Martin_L on 31st Jan 2009. Menhir Saint-Gonvarc'h (Pierre der Saint Gonvarc'h, Menhir de St-Gonveld) is an impressive 6m tall and slender Menhir. Unfortunately it is situated in a field, so direct access is limited. But even the view from a distance is worth seeing (May 2001).
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Dolmen de Men-Milliget
Trip No.31 Entry No.40 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Men-Milliget submitted by theCaptain on 4th Feb 2012. Men Milliget or the St Gonvel dolmen is a pleasant little dolmen living on the landward side of a headland sticking out into the ocean.
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Menhir de Kerhouézel
Trip No.31 Entry No.39 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhir de Kerhouézel submitted by thecaptain on 24th Jul 2009. One of the Léon giants, the Kerhouézel menhir is a fantastic monster menhir, just inland from Porspoder. It must be nearly seven metres high and is fantastically smoothed and shaped.
My campervan, parked in the field entrance, is the only thing to give any feel for the size of this stone.
Truly a King of Léon.
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Kerivoret Menhir
Trip No.31 Entry No.38 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Kerivoret menhir submitted by theCaptain on 20th Jun 2014. About 50 metres away from the Kerivoret dolmen is a nice menhir, which looks to have been shaped with a slanted top. It's about 3.5 metres tall.
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Kerivoret Dolmen
Trip No.31 Entry No.37 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Kerivoret dolmen submitted by theCaptain on 20th Jun 2014. This is a nice looking dolmen sitting in a pleasant field behind the houses. It is signposted from the road, and has a path to it from behind the houses, where there is room to park.
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Traonigou alignement de menhirs
Trip No.31 Entry No.36 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Traonigou alignement de menhirs submitted by thecaptain on 25th Jul 2009. The two standing menhirs are about 4 and 5 metres tall, the two fallen ones becoming lost in the undergrowth.
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Dolmen de Poulliot
Trip No.31 Entry No.35 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Poulliot submitted by thecaptain on 25th Jul 2009. Pleasant enough little dolmen sitting in a field of crops about 200 metres from the road.
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Mezdoun menhirs
Trip No.31 Entry No.34 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Mezdoun menhirs submitted by theCaptain on 2nd Feb 2012. These two menhirs are both between 4 and 5 metres tall, and have been shaped. They are about 60 metres from each other, on an east to west alignment.
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Kergadiou Menhirs
Trip No.31 Entry No.33 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Kergadiou menhirs submitted by thecaptain on 8th Jul 2006. The two giant menhirs of Kergadiou are a fine place to visit, and fairly easily found in a field a couple of kilometres north of the Aber Ildut estuary in furthest western Brittany.
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Kerloas Menhir
Trip No.31 Entry No.32 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Kerloas menhir submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Jun 2006. This is the biggest standing menhir in Europe, if not the world, at nearly 10 metres tall, and has lost the top 2 metres after a lightning strike!
The stone, which is not local and has been brought to this hilltop site from more than 2.5 kilometres away, has been beautifully shaped, and tapers both into the ground, and up to a point.
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Menhir de Kervignen
Trip No.31 Entry No.31 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de Kervignen submitted by johnstone on 24th Jul 2019. In the middle of a field, June 17, 2003
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Menhir du Guilligui
Trip No.31 Entry No.30 Date Added: 24th Jul 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir du Guilligui submitted by theCaptain on 20th Jun 2012. About 60 metres to the east of the Guilliguy headland and dolmen, is a little menhir, about 1.5 metres in height.
The well known burial chamber can be seen on the headland beside the cross.
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Pointe de Guilligui allée couverte
Trip No.31 Entry No.29 Date Added: 23rd Jul 2019
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pointe de Guilligui allée couverte submitted by Martin_L on 27th Jan 2009. Site in Bretagne: Finistère (29): Standing beside the lateral passage. What a great site (May 2001)
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Allée Couverte Le Ribl
Trip No.31 Entry No.28 Date Added: 23rd Jul 2019
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Allée Couverte Le Ribl submitted by Martin_L on 2nd Feb 2009. The impressive Allée Couverte de Ribl is beautifully situated near the coast. One large capstone still in situ. Chamber partly filled with earth and sand (May 2001).
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