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Menhir de Crucuny 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.372 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 12th Jun 2005
Menhir de Crucuny 1 submitted by stollentroll on 14th Dec 2005. Menhir on top of the tumulus Crucuny.
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Log Text: On top of the tumulus, to the north of the hamlet, is a menhir, 2.8 metres tall, with axes carved on it. But it is all very overgrown and covered in gorse, and I could not get to see anything at close quarters.
Crucuny Cromlech
Trip No.203 Entry No.373 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Crucuny Cromlech submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Nov 2010. To the south of the hamlet of Crucuny, this ancient cromlech is now incorporated into a semicircular wall.
There are several big stones to be seen, with smaller ones in between them, which in places are almost contiguous.
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Log Text: To the south of the hamlet of Crucuny, and marked on my map as a menhir, this ancient cromlech is now incorporated into a semicircular wall. There are several big stones to be seen, with smaller ones in between them, which in places are almost contiguous.
Mané-Brizil Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.374 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 12th Jun 2005
Mané-Brizil dolmen submitted by binardino on 14th Jun 2006. Mané-Brizil dolmen
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Log Text: This dolmen is now within private property, but a few stones of what is possibly the dolmen with couloir can be seen inside the entrance of a large chateau like place, up the driveway entrance.
Moustoir tumulus
Trip No.203 Entry No.375 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Moustoir tumulus submitted by thecaptain on 10th Jun 2006. This massive great mound, 90 metres in length, 40 metres wide and 8 metres high, can be found just to the south of the hamlet of Moustoir, a few kilometres to the north of Carnac.
It has become terribly overgrown.
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Log Text: This massive great mound, 90 metres in length, 40 metres wide and 8 metres high, can be found just to the south of the hamlet of Moustoir, a few kilometres to the north of Carnac. The mound is aligned roughly Northeast to Southwest, and has a small menhir on the top at the eastern end, and a larger one at the bottom of the western end.
The menhir on the top of the tumulus is about 2.1 metres high and quite slender, and of a sort of circular section. The menhir at the western end is 3.3 metres high, quite thin and a nice pointed triangular shape.
Towards the western end of the mound is an entrance in the southern side, which after a short passage opens up into a 5 metre by 2.5 metre chamber, with a large capstone and some reinforced concrete. The walls are a mix of large slabs and drystone walling. You need a good torch to see your way around.
There is more to this tumulus, as on the top of the mound near the eastern menhir can be seen a reinforced steel cover to something, indicating that there may be another chamber inside, for which I could find no entry. As for the majority of the monuments around here, this is all terribly overgrown, and difficult to properly make out what is here.
Menhir du Moustoir
Trip No.203 Entry No.376 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir du Moustoir submitted by thecaptain on 10th Jun 2006. The Moustoir tumulus has a small menhir on the top at the eastern end, and a larger one at the bottom of the western end.
The menhir at the western end is 3.3 metres high, quite thin and a nice pointed triangular shape.
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Log Text: Just beside the western end of the massive Moustoir tumulus is a nice menhir, 3.3 metres high, quite thin and a nice pointed triangular shape.
Kermario Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.377 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 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Kermario Dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 18th Oct 2004. Kermario Dolmen, north of Carnac, Brittany.
View of the Kermario Dolmen which is right at the southwest corner of the Kermario Alignements, and right in the corner of the road which skirts the site.
This picture was taken in 1987 when people were free to wander amongst the stones as they pleased. The terrible erosion caused by all the visitors is only too obvious.
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Kermario Alignements
Trip No.203 Entry No.378 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Kermario Alignements submitted by thecaptain on 18th Oct 2004. Kermario Alignements, north of Carnac, Brittany.
View of some of the enormous stones which go to make up part of the Kermario Alignements. This picture was taken in 1987 when people were free to wander amongst the stones as they pleased. The terrible erosion caused by all the visitors is only to obvious.
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Log Text: I am not going to say much about the major Carnac alignements, except to say that they are all absolutely mind blowing. Even though I saw them all those years ago, the first sight of all those stones lined up is incredible, especially in the strong evening sunshine.
I cannot possibly do justice to these stones with my writing or photographs. I will say that the fences surrounding the stones are not obtrusive, unlike the fences at stonehenge, and with the vegetation returning, they all look FAR, FAR better than they did in 1987 with all the soil erosion around them all. I must come back and do the full tour at some time.
Kerlescan Alignements
Trip No.203 Entry No.380 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Kerlescan Alignements submitted by thecaptain on 18th Oct 2004. Kerlescan Alignements, northeast of Carnac, Brittany.
This picture was taken looking west in 1987, when wandering amongst the stones was OK. I think many of them have been fenced off to try and combat erosion these days. I must go back sometime.
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Log Text: I am not going to say much about the major Carnac alignements, except to say that they are all absolutely mind blowing. Even though I saw them all those years ago, the first sight of all those stones lined up is incredible, especially in the strong evening sunshine.
I cannot possibly do justice to these stones with my writing or photographs. I will say that the fences surrounding the stones are not obtrusive, unlike the fences at stonehenge, and with the vegetation returning, they all look FAR, FAR better than they did in 1987 with all the soil erosion around them all. I must come back and do the full tour at some time.
Kerlescan cromlech
Trip No.203 Entry No.379 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Kerlescan cromlech submitted by LizH on 31st Oct 2007. The eastern stones of the western Kerlescan cromlech. The stones touch each other and face across (N-S) rather than being aligned E-W as the rows are.
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Kerlescan nord allée couverte
Trip No.203 Entry No.381 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Kerlescan nord allée couverte submitted by Martin_L on 22nd Jan 2009. Inside the chamber.
(May 2001)
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Log Text: The remains of this monument can be found at the eastern end of the Kerlescan alignements, around the back to the north, and in a wood. It is about 60 metres long by 8 metres wide tumulus, completely surrounded by a stone peristalith. Inside this mound is a 16 metre long lateral entrance allee couverte type structure, but unfortunately with only one remaining capstone at the western end. Its entry is from the southern side near the east end. The mound is rectangular in shape at the western end, and curved at the east, and is still 2 or 3 metres high.
Ménec cromlech
Trip No.203 Entry No.382 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Ménec cromlech submitted by AlexHunger on 20th Dec 2004. The Cromlec de Menec marks the westernmost extent of the Carnac Allignments. It basically starts on the road that separates it from the allignments, goes through a private garden, through the end of the village and ends in a creperie.
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Log Text: Curving around the Creperie at the western end of the Menec alignements, this almost contiguous semicircle of stones really is splendid, and most people who visit the nearby stones do not know that it is there, or think that it’s a wall. All sorts of other bits of the cromlech can be found in between the buildings of the Menec hamlet. This place really is magic without the people.
Ménec alignements
Trip No.203 Entry No.383 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Ménec alignements submitted by thecaptain on 18th Oct 2004. Ménec alignements, north of Carnac, Brittany, France.
View of the Menec Alignements as they were in summer 1987, when you could walk amongst them.
I must go back for another visit sometime
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Log Text: Fantastic in the evening light, and I have them almost all to myself.
Cruz Menquen dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.384 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 5
Cruz Menquen dolmen submitted by greywether on 28th Jun 2005.
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Log Text: In amongst the homes near to the sports facilities to the north of the town is Carnac's own dolmen. It is a small affair, with a 2.5 m by 2 metre capstone mounted on three support stones. On top of the capstone has been mounted a large, 2.5 metre tall cross.
Geant du Manio
Trip No.203 Entry No.385 Date Added: 14th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Geant du Manio submitted by rw1 on 3rd Mar 2008. 09/2007
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Log Text: This is a 5 metre high menhir, fairly easily found and obviously very popular because of all the erosion around it. It is only 50 metres from the quadrilateral. It’s a very nice stone in the woodland, but I guess it can become a bit of a nightmare when crowded.
Le Quadrilatere
Trip No.203 Entry No.386 Date Added: 14th May 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Le Quadrilatere submitted by rw1 on 3rd Mar 2008. 09/2007
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Log Text: This is a quadrilateral of stones in the forest to the north of the alignements. It initially looks to me like the outside peristalith from a long gone passage grave, but closer inspection shows it to be more than that.
As I am here, a party of horse riders ride right through, and then a bus tour of people, who all turn up, take a picture, and then move on elsewhere. While here I met a couple of Brazilian ladies who saw I was writing, and came up to ask me some questions. They are looking out the old stones, and were interested in what I was doing, and wanted to take my internet address. I should have got them to take a picture of me beside the Giant.
Kercado Tumulus
Trip No.203 Entry No.387 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 5 Access 4
Kercado tumulus submitted by theCaptain on 20th Jul 2011. The fabulous Kercado tumulus, seen here looking towards its entrance, with an outlying menhir in the foreground.
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Log Text: Fantastic. This is getting a bit eroded away now, and I think it needs some better protection from all the visitors it gets. The monument consists of a 25 metre diameter round cairn, completely enclosing a wonderful dolmen chamber which is about 3 metres by 2.5 metres, and 2.3 metres high, which is entered via a passageway which opens up from the east. The chamber is covered by a single large capstone, which does not rest directly on top of the sideslabs, but is raised above them by corbelled smaller stones, making it look like it is floating above the chamber. There are carvings on several side stones with chequerboard patterns, and a large carving of an axe on the roof.
On top of the mound is a menhir, and around the outside of the mound is a circle of stones, about 5 metres extra distance away from the mound, of which less than half now exist. A bit further away from the entrance is another menhir, about 1.5 metres tall.
This must be just about the most complete dolmenic chamber there is to be seen in the world today, and is a fantastic place to visit when quiet. It is €1 entry fee, payable into an honesty box in quiet times at the entrance shelter by the pizzeria. I met the Brazilian ladies again here, and also a retired Irish couple who were travelling for a few months in their camper van.
Dolmen de Rosnual
Trip No.203 Entry No.388 Date Added: 14th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Dolmen de Rosnual submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Jun 2011. I can't say a thing about the dolmen other than it is under there somewhere.
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Log Text: A couple of kilometres north of Carnac along the D119 road, turn right towards Rosnual. Just beyond the campsite of the same name, go left up a farm track as the lane goes to the right. After about 50 metres, just beyond the first field wall on the left is the dolmen. You wouldn’t know it though, as its completely overgrown and used as a farmyard dump. I cant say a thing about the dolmen other than it is under there somewhere. There are traces of a mound, and perhaps a circle of stones surrounding it.
Dolmen de Run Mori
Trip No.203 Entry No.389 Date Added: 14th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 13th Jun 2005
Log Text: I could not find this in dense gorse filled woodland, on a hill somewhere to the east of the lane leading to Nauterio.
Dolmen de Nauterio
Trip No.203 Entry No.390 Date Added: 14th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Nauterio submitted by Charmot on 9th Sep 2008. On the map of Carnac, it 's call Dolmen Notério. It is difficult to find, lost in a forest on the dirt road between the dolmen Keriaval and Tumulus of Crucuny.
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Log Text: This is a pleasant little dolmen, sadly becoming very overgrown, which can be found about 50 metres up the track which leads northwest beyond Nauterio towards Keriaval. It has a 2.5 by 2 metre chamber, with a 6 to 7 metre entrance passageway which has a couple of its capstones still in place.
The French Aeronavale are playing overhead in their Super Etendards.
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.