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Kergonet menhir
Trip No.26 Entry No.6 Date Added: 29th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Kergonet menhir submitted by Ural on 26th Dec 2012. Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) France
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Tour-ar-Varquez
Trip No.26 Entry No.5 Date Added: 29th Dec 2018
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Tour-ar-Varquez submitted by thecaptain on 26th May 2007. Two standing and one fallen stone make up this alignment of stones in a field wall to the northeast of Pleubian.
The two standing stones are about 2.5 metres tall.
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Men-ar-Rompet
Trip No.26 Entry No.4 Date Added: 29th Dec 2018
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Men-ar-Rompet submitted by thecaptain on 27th May 2007. The remains of this allée couverte, "the Giants Stones", sit just 25 metres from the sea at high tide, near to the entrance of the Tréguier estuary.
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Allée couverte de Mélus
Trip No.26 Entry No.3 Date Added: 29th Dec 2018
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Allée couverte de Mélus submitted by TheCaptain on 28th May 2007. This lateral entry allée couverte is about 14 metres long, with the entrance on the southern (far) side, about two thirds the way along from the western end.
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Allée Couverte dite le Lit de Saint-Jean
Trip No.26 Entry No.2 Date Added: 29th Dec 2018
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Allée Couverte dite le Lit de Saint-Jean submitted by johnstone on 29th Dec 2018. The back side, don't mind the dog, June 20, 2005
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Menhir de Kerguézennec
Trip No.26 Entry No.1 Date Added: 29th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Menhir de Kerguézennec submitted by JohnGinny on 2nd Sep 2007. This is a 6 meter Menhir made from the local schist and transported from 500 meters away. A hilltop stone facing the same direction as Crec'h Coulm, it is located in a field that this year was a cow meadow.
(next year maize!)
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Menhir du Briol
Trip No.25 Entry No.54 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Menhir du Briol submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Aug 2007. Site in Languedoc:Hérault (34)
Briol menhir, granite, 1.80 metre.
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Dolmen du Plo de Laganthe
Trip No.25 Entry No.53 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dolmen du Plo de Laganthe submitted by thecaptain on 6th Dec 2003. The Dolmen du Plo de Laganthe, near to the village of Labastide-Rouairoux, in the Parc Regional du Haut Languedoc, Tarn, southwest France.
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Les Deux Soeurs
Trip No.25 Entry No.52 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Les Deux Soeurs submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Aug 2007. The menhirs of "Les Deux Soeurs" (the Two Sisters) are standing along the road at the entrance of the town of Lacabarède's .
2 legends exist: the first says that menhirs mark the place of a Gallic temple dedicated to the Celtic god Hérus; second legend says that the day when the two menhirs (which are at a distance of 2 meters of each other one) are reunited, it will be the end of the world.
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Amalrics Menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.51 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Amalrics Menhir submitted by patoleon on 5th Aug 2018. The Amalrics menhir at the center of the village. Only the top is visible, a calvary was build around.
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Roucan menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.50 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Roucan menhir submitted by patoleon on 6th Aug 2018. Menhir du Roucan
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Peyre-Pause
Trip No.25 Entry No.49 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Peyre-Pause submitted by patoleon on 1st Aug 2018. The menhir of Peyre-Pause. It is not very impressive, it's a small one (about 1.2 meters).
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Prats menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.48 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Prats menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 27th Aug 2007. Prats menhir is the tallest menhir in the département of Tarn with 3.70 meters tall.
Granite.
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Fontbelle statue-menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.47 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Fontbelle statue-menhir submitted by Aska on 21st Oct 2010. Fontbelle statue-menhir in Tarn (81) France
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Montjarié menhir 1
Trip No.25 Entry No.46 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Montjarié menhir 1 submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Aug 2007. Monjarié menhir.
2.70 metres tall, granite.
The menhir serves at present as a commemorative monument in memory of the execution of two french resistance members by German troops during the second world war.
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Guior-Haut statue-menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.45 Date Added: 8th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Guior-Haut statue-menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Aug 2007. Guyor-haut statue-menhir.
the carvings are very eroded and can hardly be seen anymore.
The stone measures 1.95 meters in height.
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Planissart statue-menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.44 Date Added: 8th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Planissart statue-menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 25th Apr 2006. Planissart menhir-statue, tarn, France.
On the stone, we can see the enigmatic objet in the middle of the statue (copper of flint dagger supported by a cross-belt) and below, the belt perhaps with a (erased) buckle.
Note representation of head hand or leg.
Granite
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Teil-Bas statue-menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.43 Date Added: 8th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 26th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Teil-Bas statue-menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Aug 2007. Le Teil-Bas statue-menhir.
Carvings on the menhir are very erased but one still discerns eyes, nose and necklace.
Lower down, one sees better the belt with its buckle and the legs.
The summit of the stone was restuck.
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Cambous statue-menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.42 Date Added: 8th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 26th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Cambous statue-menhir submitted by peterpf on 29th Jul 2006. The statue-menhir in a front view.
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Peyre-Plantade (Tarn)
Trip No.25 Entry No.41 Date Added: 8th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 26th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Peyre-Plantade (Tarn) submitted by ocdolmen on 27th Aug 2007. "La Peyre Plantade" menhir
This small stone measures 1.50 metre .
It is situated close to a commemorative monument for persecuted Protestants the last centuries.
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