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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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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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Ciste des Cous
Trip No.11 Entry No.39 Date Added: 28th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 12th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ciste des cous submitted by dt44 on 12th Apr 2008. Ciste des Cous is a famous dolmen with house in Vendée (middle neolithique).
This burial chamber was discovered in 1910.
It was also studied by Roger Jousseaume in 1974.
The architecture is very specific.
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Cour du Breuil Dolmen
Trip No.11 Entry No.22 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 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Cour du Breuil dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 9th Dec 2005. Right by the roadside, this is a pleasant dolmen to find, with the large skeletal remains standing slightly hidden by a surrounding hedge, from where they suddenly jump out at you as you pass along the road.
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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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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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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 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 des Games
Trip No.11 Entry No.29 Date Added: 26th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dolmen des Games submitted by dt44 on 15th Jun 2008. Dolmen des Games near Saint Sornin village in Vendée.
The stone is not very visible behind vegetation.
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Dolmen des Landes
Trip No.11 Entry No.40 Date Added: 28th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 12th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen des Landes submitted by dt44 on 19th Apr 2008. Dolmen des Landes in Bazoges en Pareds (Vendée)
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Dolmen des Pierres Folles du Plessis
Trip No.11 Entry No.24 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 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen des Pierres Folles du Plessis submitted by thecaptain on 8th Dec 2005. This possible Angevine dolmen resides in a little wooded picnic area beside the lane to the south of the busy D.949 road to the east of Avrillé.
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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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Dolmen du Grand-Bouillac
Trip No.11 Entry No.31 Date Added: 27th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dolmen du Grand-Bouillac submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2005. Grand Bouillac dolmen
There are a couple of entrance passage stone pairs, one of these still with its capstone.
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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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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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La Garnerie menhir
Trip No.11 Entry No.26 Date Added: 26th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
La Garnerie menhir submitted by thecaptain on 13th Dec 2005. La Garnerie menhir is a great big menhir in a field of barley, and there was no way I was going to get to it.
I would estimate it to be 4 to 5 metres tall and it is nicely rounded.
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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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La Pierre Folle de Thiré
Trip No.11 Entry No.37 Date Added: 28th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 12th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
La Pierre Folle de Thiré submitted by Rubis on 18th Oct 2010. Real latitude and longitude :
Latitude :46.552500
Longitude : -0.899722
Site in Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) France
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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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Les Pierres Jumelles
Trip No.11 Entry No.32 Date Added: 27th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Les Pierres Jumelles submitted by theCaptain on 24th Jan 2011. The Pierres Jumelles, or twin stones, are both about 4 metres high, but that is where the similarity between them ends.
One of the stones is a rounded block of lovely pink granite, while the other is a tall pointed grey stone.
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