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Mane Lud Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.352 Date Added: 10th May 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mane Lud dolmen submitted by greywether on 30th Jun 2005. The massive broken granite capstone over the chamber (8.5 x 4.9m).
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Log Text: This is just a few hundred metres away from the famed sites at the Grande Menhir Brise, but it is not visited by many people, yet I think it is a better site than the Table des Marchands.
Still within its large long cairn of stones, it doesn’t look much from the outside, just a large broken capstone at the western end of the long mound. But a closer inspection shows there to be a passage down past a little chapel which has been built onto the end of it, which allows access into a large chamber.
The chamber is about 4 metres by 3 metres, and high enough to stand up in, and has many decorated stones, with a carved floor stone with an axe or plough in raised relief. The passageway to the chamber is about 10 metres in length, with about 5 metres at the chamber end being still covered, while the first 5 metres are open and much altered by the building of the chapel.
Mané Keriaval
Trip No.203 Entry No.391 Date Added: 14th May 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mané Keriaval submitted by thecaptain on 27th Jan 2005. Mané Keriaval as it was back in 1987.
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Log Text: Now this is a nice one, not only for the monument, but it is signposted and not being worn away by masses of visitors. Best of all, it has obviously been cleared within the last day or so of all the undergrowth which was here. About time I found one of these which was treated a bit better, and well looked after, although it must have been several years since the last time it was cleared judging by the size of some of the cuttings.
This must be the remains of a double transepted tomb with a main passageway about 8 metres in length, facing east at 115°. Off from this passageway are four side chambers, arranged in two pairs opposite each other, and each being about 2 metres square. The end of the chamber, and the two northern side chambers still have large capstones in place, and there are still substantial traces of a mound surrounding everything.
Mané Braz tumulus
Trip No.203 Entry No.401 Date Added: 14th May 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Mané Braz tumulus submitted by LizH on 1st Nov 2007. The front of the southern tomb of the main group.
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Log Text: I am surprised yet again. Up on a hilltop a few hundred metres from the Chemin des Megalithes trackway (use off road bike) is signposted Mané Braz, up a little footpath.
The first thing you see is a lot of stones, which upon inspection are a double transepted passage grave similar to Mané Groh dolmen. The main passage is about 7 metres long facing south east, and has 4 chambers at the northwestern end, which are about 2 m by 1.5 m each. Most of the capstones are in place, except for the largest central one at the junction of all the chambers. The main entrance is a bit low, and a crawl to get through, but entry is easily possible through the end of one of the side chambers. Terrific.
A bit further up the hill from Mané Braz dolmen 1 can be seen more stones. This is a more straightforward passage grave dolmen, with a 3 metre by 2.5 metre chamber covered with a large slab, and an entrance passageway curving off towards the south, about 5 metres long. The first capstone to the passage is still in place.
Just next to the Mané Braz dolmen 2 at the top of the hill, are two more, smaller passage graves, each with curving passages about 6 metres long, and smaller slab sided chambers. The third grave still has a couple of capstones on an extension to the original oval chamber, but they are very low. The fourth grave is an oval slab sided chamber and curving entrance, but it has no remaining cover stones at all. It is very low, only about 30 cm in depth.
Surrounding the area are several standing stones. I can only assume that these are various rebuilds of newer larger burial chambers as the years went on, the bigger newer versions getting progressively further east. I may well be wrong of course. I wonder if it was all in one big mound at some point. But what a fantastic place, Do come here.
Mané Braz menhirs
Trip No.203 Entry No.403 Date Added: 14th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Mané Braz menhir submitted by ogham on 13th Feb 2013. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
They are well hidden at times in the undergrowth.
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Log Text: Just the other side of the footpath to the Mané Braz dolmens, down the hill, is a line of large stones still standing, each about a metre high. There are many other stones. I have no idea what this may be. Maybe a wrecked tomb of some kind.
Mané Bras
Trip No.203 Entry No.367 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Mané Bras submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Nov 2007. According to a signpost at the roadside, it is only a 500 metre walk along a bridlepath to this monument.
However, in practice for me in June 2005 it involved crossing a swamp, negotiating woodland full of brambles and nettles, then crossing an open tract of heather, and last but by no means least, somehow getting through a gorse jungle.
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Log Text: According to a signpost at the roadside, it is only a 500 metre walk along a bridlepath to this monument. However, in practice it involved crossing a swamp, negotiating woodland full of brambles and nettles, then crossing an open tract of heather, and last but by no means least, somehow getting through a gorse jungle.
Its a nice monument to find though, as two passagewayed dolmens look out of their mound at you upon finally reaching it. On the right, the northern chamber is about 3m by 3 metres rectangular with a 4 metres passageway to the east. On the left, a 4 m by 3 metre oval chamber, without capstone, has about a 6 metre passage leading out to the edge of the mound. It was all far too overgrown though, and getting photograps was nearly impossible.
Many of these lesser known sites need a good dose of TLC. I later found that there are more dolmens and cjambers to be found here in th hilltop mound. Obviously one for another visit it some time.
Malves Menhir
Trip No.205 Entry No.98 Date Added: 9th Nov 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 14th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Malves Menhir submitted by thecaptain on 6th Mar 2006. The menhir is to be found a few hundred metres west of the winemaking village of Malves-en-Minervois, and just across the river from the central wine co-op.
Although it is over 5 metres high, it is less than half a metre thick.
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Log Text: This large menhir is to be found a few hundred metres outside the village of Malves-en-Minervois, taking the D.38 road westwards towards Villalier, and just across the river. There is a little parking area, and a signposted walk for about 100 metres to the stone. Just how could I have missed this when I came to look 5 years ago ?
The stone stands proudly on a higher bit of ground above a vineyard, with steps up to the field it is in. It is over 5 metres high (with apparently 4 metres more under the ground), 1.5 metres in width but less than half a metre thick. It was restored in the 1960s and looks to have been mended from three broken pieces, although its possible that the cement like substance is perhaps just filling cracks.
Maison Neuve menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.16 Date Added: 4th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Maison Neuve menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Jul 2007. Maison Neuve menhir is about 3.5 metres high, and there are several other blocks of quartz beside it.
I could not tell whether these are bits which have fallen off it, another broken menhir, or simple field clearance stones. The menhir is nicely shaped at the top which seems to rule out the first option.
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Log Text: This is a beautiful white quartz menhir standing beside the road to Morhannais to the northeast of Monterrain. It is about 3.5 metres high, and there are several other blocks of quartz beside it, which are either bits which have fallen off it, another broken menhir, or simple field clearance stones. The menhir is nicely shaped at the top which seems to rule out the first option. Even in the bright hot sunshine of the day I visited, the stone felt nice and cool. Lovely.
Maison du Loup dolmen 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.111 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 22nd May 2005
Maison du Loup dolmen 1 submitted by ocdolmen on 7th May 2006. Maison du Loup dolmen (also called Monpazier dolmen), Dordogne, France.
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Log Text: The book I have says this one is 100 metres from the D.2 road near Marsalès at a place called Borie-Neuve so I thought this one was findable and worth a go. I found Borie-Neuve easily enough but no obvious dolmen. So I looked round all the lanes and tracks in the vicinity but still found nothing. There was nobody here to ask so I had a look in the forest here but its all thick undergrowth and there's no way of finding anything without knowing where to look. Why oh why don’t they all have signposts or at least footpaths to them ?
Maison des Fées (Miré)
Trip No.204 Entry No.318 Date Added: 12th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Yes on 12th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Maison des Fées (Miré) submitted by theCaptain on 13th Dec 2011. Just at the northern edge of the village of Miré, just off the main D.27 road north, and beside a little side road can be found this dolmen.
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Log Text: Just at the northern edge of the village of Miré, just off the main D.27 roadnorth, and beside a little side road can be found this dolmen. It's a tall dolmen with a single capstone covering a squarish chamber of about 3 metres dimension, and over 2 metres tall. With it being right at the side of the road, it cant be sure that it's not been altered at all, and there are some rather large gaps in the stones. There are 4 support stones, two of them being large slabs, the other two fairly slender.
Maison de la Vieille Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.49 Date Added: 5th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Maison de la Vieille dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 5th Dec 2005. South along the track from Les Pérottes, can be seen a little wooded area inside a cultivated field. There is the remains of a dolmen inside.
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Log Text: Further on along the track and to the south of where it crosses a perpendicular trackway can be seen a little wooded area inside a cultivated field. This is just where I had seen the dolmen symbol on the 1:25000 ign map I had earlier looked at in the shop so I went for a look. Having crossed the field to the little copse I found a bramble and bush covered mound the vegetation almost too thick to penetrate. But inside this can be seen a broken capstone about 3 by 2 metres and 0.6 metres thick. There is no obvious chamber or side slabs to be seen underneath but its all a bit of a jumble.
Mail de Soupène Cromlechs
Trip No.205 Entry No.67 Date Added: 26th Oct 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Midi:Haute-Garonne (31))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Mail de Soupène Cromlechs submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Jul 2007. My little rough sketch plan of the Mail de Soupène Cromlechs.
For my notes of the circles, see the site page details.
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Log Text: Wow ! A bit further down the hill to the east, on a little upland ridge, is a row of stone circles all interlocking with each other. I counted 14 cairn circles up here, sort of joined together in a line along a little hillock. Fantastic. The largest one is on the top of the hillock, and there a row of others running from it down the ridgetop. Then there are other smaller circles built in between the larger ones.
Some of these circles have very well defined cists in their centre - indeed a couple of the smaller, lower circles still have slab lined boxes with both floor and capstones still in place. The top circle has a diameter of 7 metres, and is nicely formed with 23 stones making up the circumference with just a few gaps. There is nice flat grass within but no other obvious features. There are too many circles to write about individually, so I will just list the basic details of the circles I saw in a table below, with numbers matching the little sketch plan.
There is possibly a lot more remains here in the bracken, and not so well defined, and difficult to find.
Maiden Hill
Date Added: 23rd Sep 2021
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Maiden Hill submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Sep 2021. A large raised area of grass which quite possibly does have a cairn underneath
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Log Text: Day down to Dartmoor for a pilgrimmage to Beardown Man. From Devils Tor, looking to head on to Conies Down there seems two choices, either down and up the steep and deep Cowsic valley, or a longer route round the head of the valley further north, which I decide to take. The path is fairly good, and obviously used a fair bit by people on quad bikes, so is easy going except for the odd bit of bog. Onto the top of Maiden Hill, avoiding a large herd of ponies, and look for the cairn in the featureless long grass, finding only a large raised area of grass which quite possibly does have a cairn underneath.
Maiden Castle Barrow Cemetery
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2008
Maiden Castle Barrow Cemetery submitted by thecaptain on 8th Jul 2008. Inspired by Jim's recent pictures, I just had to search out and find this picture I had taken of a barrow cemetery at Maiden Castle, back in 1985 or 6.
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Maiden Castle (Eskdale)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 7th Oct 2017
Maiden Castle (Eskdale) submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Oct 2017. Looking east towards Scafell, from the path running from the west of Burnmoor Tarn towards Wasdale.
The Maiden Castle cairn is pretty much central in this picture.
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Magnez Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.36 Date Added: 2nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Magnez dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Dec 2005. Magnez dolmen can be found up a little track behind the hamlet of Magnez.
It rests on a few supports but is collapsed on the side nearest the trackway.
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Log Text: Walk up a little track behind the farmhouse to the south of the road as it passes through the hamlet of Magnez (Magné) for a couple of hundred metres and you will see a large stone to the right of the trackway. This is the capstone to the dolmen which is full of holes with plants and flowers growing in them. It rests on a few supports but is collapsed on the side nearest the trackway. It’s a lovely rockery but not much of a dolmen.
Maes Knoll
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2004
Maes Knoll submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Apr 2004. Maes Knoll Hillfort, Norton Malreward, North Somerset, ST600660.
The remains of this Iron age hillfort lie at the eastern end of the Dundry Hill ridge just to the south of Bristol. The hillfort consists of a fairly large flat open area, roughly triangular in shape, that has been fortified by ramparts and shaping of the steep sided hilltop around the northern, eastern and southwestern sides of the hill. The western end of the fort is made across a narrow neck of the ridge of high land, and co...
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Maen Llia
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Maen Llia submitted by cerrig on 14th Aug 2018. Maen Llia and a Perseid meteorite. I used my influence to book this particular one specially for the Megalithic Portal.
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Log Text: Beautiful day out doing the 4 waterfalls walk to the south of Ystradfellte. After dinner at the New Inn, popped up to visit Maen Llia where we amazingly meet Cerrig, out doing some surveying, but the sun is hidden from him. He takes great pride in showing us some amazing features of Maen Llia, such as the flattened platform with a stone where a shadow would fall, and the place where the stones shadow (or toungue) would reach on solstice sunset. Brilliant!
Maen Crwn
Date Added: 30th Oct 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Maen Crwn submitted by stu on 16th Oct 2002. Nice standing stone in field outside Red Farm.
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Log Text: A bit further southwest, and now into an open paddock like area below the farm, and this large stone is stood in the open grass below an avenue of trees. It has a scratches T + J on its southern face, along with other graffitti.
Maen Ceti
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2013
Maen Ceti submitted by theCaptain on 14th Jun 2013. I visited Gower for the first time in 30 years recently. A friend found this picture of me at Arthurs stone all those years ago.
Site in West Glamorgan Wales
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Maen Castle
Date Added: 5th Aug 2022
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Maen Castle submitted by thecaptain on 31st Aug 2008. Jim's mention of Dr Syntax's head prompted me to search though some of my old pictures this dull damp August afternoon, rather than being out searching for the real thing.
This is Dr Syntax's head, which gives its name to that part of Lands End.
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Log Text: From Sennen Cove, I decide to walk up to the coastguard lookout shelter and on to look at the shipwreck of the RMS Mülheim, wrecked March 2003, the path passing right beside the Mayon Cliff cairn, and with the cliff castle clearly visible the other side.