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Frébouchère Dolmen
Trip No.11 Entry No.20 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Frébouchère dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 6th Jul 2005. Frébouchère dolmen is a MASSIVE Angevin type dolmen. It really is enormous, my pictures do not do it justice. The chamber is 6.5 metres by 3.5 metres, and 2 m high, with a single capstone.
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Dolmen de Savatole 3
Trip No.11 Entry No.19 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dolmen de Savatole 3 submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2005. Right beside the little lane to the north of the village of Le Bernard, this dolmen has an oval chamber 3 metres long by 2.5 metres wide, with a single capstone covering it.
There are also other stones which suggest an entrance passageway, and the floor is paved with large slabs.
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Dolmen de Savatole 2
Trip No.11 Entry No.18 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dolmen de Savatole 2 submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2005. Savatole Dolmen 2 is a simple dolmen with a 2.5 by 2.5 metre chamber with a single capstone, these days supported on 3 side stones with remains of a couple more, and a strange carved floorstone.
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Dolmen de Savatole 1
Trip No.11 Entry No.17 Date Added: 22nd Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen de Savatole 1 submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2005. This dolmen is larger, but less complete than it's two neighbours. What would appear to be a 4 metre by 2.5 metre chamber is only covered at the western end by a capstone resting on three support stones.
As at the other dolmens nearby, there is a large smoothed stone slab paving the floor.
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La Sulette Dolmen
Trip No.11 Entry No.16 Date Added: 22nd Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
La Sulette dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 13th Dec 2005. This is a pleasant find, as it has been fully excavated and restored in 1989 to 1991, and is now found completely within its mound, a kilometre or so to the northwest of St Hilaire-la-Foret.
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Pierre qui Vire (Russelet)
Trip No.11 Entry No.15 Date Added: 22nd Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Pierre qui Vire (Russelet) submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2005. Pierre qui Vire (Russelet)
I thought I'd found a stone row here, but it turns out that the other stones lined up with it in the field are relatively modern placements by the local farmers as field clearance.
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Fontaine Saint Gré menhirs
Trip No.11 Entry No.14 Date Added: 22nd Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Fontaine Saint Gré menhirs submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2005. Near to the Fontaine Ste Gré spring there are two menhirs to be seen.
In the hedge beside the lane which leads to the Fontaine Ste Gré, just beside the entrance to the field within which the spring is, can be found this menhir, about 2.5 metres tall, but very well hidden and overgrown within the hedge.
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Camp de César Menhir
Trip No.11 Entry No.13 Date Added: 22nd Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Camp de César menhir submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jul 2005. The King of the Menhirs, in the public gardens of Avrillé, in Vendée.
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Menhir de la Boilière
Trip No.11 Entry No.12 Date Added: 21st Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhir de la Boilière submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2005. This 4 metre tall menhir just to the east of Avrillé fell in 1964, but has been re-erected only with the help of two cranes in the 1980s after they had failed to put it back up manually.
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Alignement dit de La Petite Pierre
Trip No.11 Entry No.11 Date Added: 20th Feb 2018
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Alignement dit de La Petite Pierre submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jul 2005. Alignement de la Pierre, near the wonderfully rich megalithic centre of Avrillé in Vendée.
The central stone is about 5.5 metres tall.
This is only one of many such arrangements in the locality.
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Pierre Levée de Soullans
Trip No.11 Entry No.10 Date Added: 20th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Pierre Levée de Soullans submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Jun 2011. In a little forest clearing beside the busy D. 69 road to the south of Challons, I found this stone because of the restaurant of the same name.
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La Pierre Folle (Commequiers)
Trip No.11 Entry No.9 Date Added: 20th Feb 2018
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
La Pierre Folle (Commequiers) submitted by dipo on 15th Dec 2009. 85 COMMEQUIERS
La Pierre Folle
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Pierre des Farfadets
Trip No.11 Entry No.8 Date Added: 20th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pierre des Farfadets submitted by dipo on 31st Jan 2010. La Pierre des Farfadets
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Petite Roche menhir
Trip No.11 Entry No.7 Date Added: 19th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Petite Roche menhir submitted by johnstone on 19th Feb 2018. The other side, Sep.6, 2013
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Mégalithe de la Pierre Frite
Trip No.11 Entry No.6 Date Added: 19th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 5th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Mégalithe de la Pierre Frite submitted by musasa on 27th Sep 2005. Mégalithe de la Pierre Frite from the front.
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Menhir La Haute Lande
Trip No.11 Entry No.5 Date Added: 19th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 5th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Menhir La Haute Lande submitted by Dipo on 22nd Jun 2008. Site in Pays de la Loire: Loire-Atlantique
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Menhir des Faux
Trip No.11 Entry No.4 Date Added: 19th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 5th Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Menhir des Faux submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. About 2 Meter tall largely quartz based Menhir supplanted by iron cross and headless saint in little park of Les Sorinières, South Nantes Suburb.
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Deux Menhirs Prés Moreau
Trip No.11 Entry No.3 Date Added: 19th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 5th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Deux Menhirs Prés Moreau submitted by Dipo on 20th Sep 2008. Site in Pays de la Loire: Loire-Atlantique France:
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Menhir dit la Pierre Folle
Trip No.11 Entry No.2 Date Added: 19th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir dit la Pierre Folle submitted by Dipo on 16th Jan 2009. La Pierre Folle (St Cyr)
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Dolmen dit La Salle des Fées
Trip No.11 Entry No.1 Date Added: 19th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen dit La Salle des Fées submitted by thecaptain on 28th Nov 2005. La Salle aux Fées, near to the village of St Pazanne in Loire Atlantique.
Very much a real dolmen, and not a waterlogged hole !
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