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Pierres Folles du Follet
Trip No.11 Entry No.30 Date Added: 27th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Pierres Folles du Follet submitted by thecaptain on 30th Nov 2005. The Pierres Folles de Follet are two large menhirs both about 3.5 metres tall.
They have a nice legend associated with them.
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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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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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Pierre Levée de Soubise
Trip No.11 Entry No.34 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 2 Access 5
Pierre Levée de Soubise submitted by thecaptain on 25th Oct 2005. Pierre Levée de Soubise, Bretignolles-sur-Mer, Vendée.
This cute little dolmen looked to be in serious danger in June 2005, as it is in the middle of a new housing development.
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Pierre Levée de Chenillée
Trip No.11 Entry No.28 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 4
Pierre Levée de Chenillée submitted by thecaptain on 7th Dec 2005. A nicely smoothed and shaped menhir, which must be about 4.5 metres tall, 2.5 metres wide and 1 metre thick.
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Pierre Folle des Cous
Trip No.11 Entry No.38 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 4 Access 5
Pierre Folle des Cous submitted by ocdolmen on 30th Aug 2009. another view of the ruined dolmen called "la Pierre Folle des Cous"
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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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Pey de Fontaine
Trip No.11 Entry No.23 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Pey de Fontaine submitted by thecaptain on 15th Dec 2005. Pey de Fontaine, the largest prehistoric monument in the departement of Vendée.
Estimated to be 6000 years old, the cairn is rectangular, about 35 metres by 30 metres and is built with several drystone wall steps.
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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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Menhirs du Plessis
Trip No.11 Entry No.25 Date Added: 24th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhirs du Plessis submitted by thecaptain on 13th Dec 2005. The Menhirs du Plessis were once an equilateral triangle of three large menhirs, each 100 metres apart, but now only two remain after the eastern one was destroyed in 1860.
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Menhir Le Palet du Diable
Trip No.11 Entry No.36 Date Added: 28th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir Le Palet du Diable submitted by johnstone on 28th Feb 2018. As seen towards the village on Sep.11, 2013
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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 du Bois (Vendée)
Trip No.11 Entry No.21 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir du Bois (Vendée) submitted by ocdolmen on 28th Aug 2009. During the summer 2009. the menhir du Bois near La Frébouchère dolmen.
Nice view isn't it ?
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Menhir dit le Champ du Rocher
Trip No.11 Entry No.27 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 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Menhir dit le Champ du Rocher submitted by thecaptain on 9th Dec 2005. Champ du Rocher menhir. All I could find where this stone should be was a fallen smoothed stone at the roadside, about 3 metres long by 2 metres wide.
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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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Menhir dit la Conche-Verte
Trip No.11 Entry No.33 Date Added: 27th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhir dit la Conche-Verte submitted by thecaptain on 20th Dec 2005. In a little forest clearing amongst the sand dunes to the north of Olonnes-sur-Mer in Vendée, this 2 metre tall granite menhir is easily found.
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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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Menhir de la Crulière
Trip No.11 Entry No.35 Date Added: 27th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhir de la Crulière submitted by thecaptain on 20th Dec 2005. This menhir, 2.4 metres tall, is in a well fenced field, near to the village of Brem-sur-Mer 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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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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