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Leintant menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.546 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Couldn't find on 23rd Jun 2005
Leintant menhir submitted by wiltswarrior on 5th Apr 2015. Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France
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Log Text: Three metre tall menhir, which was probably once part of the nearby alignment.
Les Baux
Trip No.205 Entry No.206 Date Added: 29th Nov 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Provence:Bouches-du-Rhône (13))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2005
Les Baux submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Nov 2020. A beautiful and intriguing old village clinging onto the sides of a steep and craggy limestone ridge, riddled with caves and quarries, and with a castle on top.
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Log Text: Beautiful and intriguing old village clinging onto the sides of a steep and craggy limestone ridge, riddled with caves and quarries, and with a castle on top.
Les Bordouès
Trip No.204 Entry No.3 Date Added: 22nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Les Bordouès submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Jun 2007. This is the remains of a small allée couverte, 8 metres long and 1.5 metres wide.
There is a small entry porchway, separated from the main chamber by a large slab, at the southeast end.
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Log Text: This is the remains of a small allée couverte, 8 metres long and 1.5 metres wide, with only one capstone still in place. There is a small entry porchway, separated from the main chamber by a large slab, at the southeast end. Excavations in 1976 found amongst other things five polished axes. Much of its oval mound still remains. It is to be found about a kilometres marked walk through the forest from the Monteneuf visitor centre.
Les Cartesières
Trip No.202 Entry No.18 Date Added: 26th Mar 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Couldn't find on 24th Apr 2005
Les Cartesières submitted by TheCaptain on 7th May 2005. Les Cartesières allée couverte, St Symphorien-des-Monts, Manche.
This T shaped gallery grave is found in a zoo park. However, on the day of my visit, this park was well and truly shut, and looked like it hadn’t been open in many years.
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Log Text: This T shaped gallery grave is the only one of this kind surviving in Normandy and is to be found in a zoo park near to the village. However on the day of my visit this park was well and truly shut and looked like it hadn’t been open in many years and was becoming very decrepit. No chance of getting in to see the monument.
Later note. Having seen the 1:25000 ign map of the area the dolmen is marked beside the little lane which runs down to the lakes along the western edge of the park. In fact its probably almost exactly where I stopped and had a look around to see if I could spot anything. If I am in the area again I will know where to look.
Les Chateliers
Trip No.205 Entry No.263 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Centre:Indre (36))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 27th Sep 2005
Log Text: At the village of Moulins-sur-Céphons is a reconstruction of an ancient Gallic village. I did not visit.
Les Doignons
Trip No.204 Entry No.145 Date Added: 17th Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Couldn't find on 20th Jul 2005
Les Doignons submitted by oldman on 1st Oct 2018. Site in Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) France Close up showing the amonite revealed when the top was broken off this stone
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Log Text: In the book I have about Bougon, there is a map showing a dolmen and tumulus at Les Doignons. A drive past the area and there is nothing obvious to see.
Les Ecuelles du Diable
Trip No.205 Entry No.141 Date Added: 11th Nov 2020
Site Type: Holed Stone
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 17th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Les Ecuelles du Diable submitted by thecaptain on 26th Oct 2007. Within the grounds of the St Michel de Grandmont Priory there are many strangely shaped and carved rocks.
Several rocks have curious basins and channels carved into them, which are thought to possibly be sacrificial tables. There are stories of sacrifice, and there being channels cut in the rocks for the blood to run through.
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Log Text: Within the grounds of the St Michel de Grandmont Priory there are many strangely shaped and carved rocks. There are stories of sacrifice, and there being channels cut in the rocks for the blood to run through. Several of the rocks seem to have been cut into what are possibly thrones. A very strange area.
Les Gastines
Trip No.202 Entry No.70 Date Added: 29th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 2nd May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Les Gastines submitted by thecaptain on 9th Nov 2005. Les Gastines menhirs.
Not too long ago a field with at least 4 menhirs in it, but these days seems to have been cleared except for the big one, which can just about be seen here poking out of the top of the dark bush in the middle.
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Log Text: At the hamlet of La Métairie, a couple of kilometres south of Saint Hilaire-sur-Risle, in Orne, used to be a field with several stones in it including 4 menhirs one of which was more than 4 metres high and had been split by a tree which had grown in a crack in the stone.
Recent fate seems not to have been kind to these stones as when I visited, the field had been cleared of these stones and ploughed over and planted with crops. What appeared to be a bush growing over the top of the ridge was on closer inspection a trimmed tree with signs of a large stone mixed in with it.
I could get no closer to look properly, but at least the large split menhir seems to be in place still. When driving along the lane to the south of the field I saw three large stones and many smaller ones piled within the hedge. Is this the sad fate of Les Gastines ? Succombed to a farmers greed after 5000 years ?
Les Grises Pierres
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2010
Les Grises Pierres submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Oct 2010. The second of Les Grises Pierres at Montaigu-la-Brisette.
This one is more well hidden and buried than its partner.
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Les Grosses Devises (E)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2012
Les Grosses Devises (E) submitted by theCaptain on 15th Jan 2012. The eastern of the two main Les Grosses Devises stones still standing, seen here on a sunny winter morning looking northeast from the farmtrack which leads up from the west at Barbieres.
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Les Grosses Devises (W)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2012
Les Grosses Devises (W) submitted by theCaptain on 15th Jan 2012. The western of the two main Les Grosses Devises stones still standing, seen here on a sunny winter morning looking north from the farmtrack which leads up from the west at Barbieres.
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Les Grosses Pierres (Breuil)
Trip No.204 Entry No.288 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41))
Visited: Couldn't find on 9th Aug 2005
Log Text: I could find no trace of this despite spending a lot of time looking. It should be somewhere beside the river Loir south of Cloyes near to Le Breuil farm, but a longish way from any road. All the land in this region is either flooded for lakes, planted with tall sweetcorn, or private, and I could find no dolmen. Its a very pleasant spot though.
Les Pierres Blanches (Corsept)
Trip No.203 Entry No.298 Date Added: 26th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Les Pierres Blanches (Corsept) submitted by thecaptain on 17th Nov 2009. At first I thought that there were three small menhirs here, in a farmyard with a very active guard dog.
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Log Text: At first I thought that there were three small menhirs here, not much more than a metre in height or fallen, but upon closer inspection (from a distance due to them being in a farmyard with a very active guard dog) it looked more like two menhirs and a pile of stone. There are perhaps others nearby.
Les Pierres Branlantes
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2007
Les Pierres Branlantes submitted by thecaptain on 15th Jan 2007. The situation of Les Pierres Branlantes seen from the farm track to the southeast. They are just inside the wood directly at the end of the hedge crossing the field.
It looks to me as though some of the original mound which covered them survives, as can be seen by the raise in the ground at the corner of the field.
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Les Pierres Couchées
Trip No.203 Entry No.22 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Les Pierres Couchées submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. Employees insist the broken rocks in parking lot are the remains of this once listed menhir. At parking of Les Pierres Couchees allotment / Camping site.
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Log Text: Now incorporated into a campsite of the same name I was expecting to find a fallen menhir. I was told the stone was round the back of the office building but I could not find it initially. Upon my return to the parking area later I found what looked to be some ancient stones right behind my campervan which had hidden them from me originally ! If what I saw was indeed the Pierres Couchées then it looked to me to be more the remains of some sort of burial chamber rather than a fallen menhir.
Les Pierres Jumelles
Trip No.203 Entry No.283 Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Les Pierres Jumelles submitted by theCaptain on 24th Jan 2011. The two stones are both about 4 metres high, but that is where the similarity between them ends.
One is a tall pointed grey stone.
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Log Text: The Pierres Jumelles, or twin stones, are set into a little area beside the old road (which has now been bypassed twice) opposite to the aptly named Chateau Pierre Levée. The two 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. They are set about 6 metres apart from each other. The pink stone really does shine and sparkle in the evening sunlight - it really is a wonderful stone, and is one of my favourites of all I have seen. There is wonderful lichen growing on both menhirs.
Les Roches-Hues
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 10th Nov 2009
Les Roches-Hues submitted by thecaptain on 10th Nov 2009. When I eventually found my way to this, the top of a large stone could be seen in the distance over some impenetrable overgrowth.
Looking for a way through proved futile.
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Log Text: None
Les Trois Fromages
Trip No.200 Entry No.82 Date Added: 18th Jun 2020
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 24th Sep 2000. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Les Trois Fromages submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Apr 2016. celebrated rock formation to the east of Castres.
Note all of the sticks and stones thrown onto the top. I cannot remember the story surrounding this.
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Log Text: Celebrated rock formation thought to represent a pile of three cheeses, in the Sidobre region to the east of Castres. There are many sticks and stones thrown onto the top of the rocks, but I cannot at present remember the folklore behind it.
Les Trois Pierres (Les Junies)
Trip No.203 Entry No.112 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 22nd May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Les Trois Pierres (Les Junies) submitted by theCaptain on 19th Jan 2011. Remains of a lovely dolmen in a woodland setting.
There are remains of something much more, possibly once a double chamber and entry passage.
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Log Text: What the hell am I doing here in the campervan ? It’s a road on my map and it starts off as a road with a “circuit des dolmens” sign so of course I followed it. It was very steep to start and lots of hairpin bends so was using first and secod gear only. It has to get better I thought. It levelled out a bit but then the tarmac disappeared. And the trees closed in. And the gravel surface gave way to bare rock and grass and puddles. Nowhere to turn round and go back so thought I’d continue past a bemused looking lady outside her house but still following the “Circuit des Dolmens” signs but in reverse. Of course its raining and misty up here in the clouds.
Ah a sign to “Les Trois Pierres”. This is a nice dolmen in a woodland setting lots of little oak trees growing in the rough limestone rock. I was by now hoping for three ! Its about 4 metres long by 1.5 m wide and high with a single capstone remaining in place. The chamber was obviously much longer once and there are traces of its mound.
Les Vinettes
Trip No.204 Entry No.146 Date Added: 17th Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Couldn't find on 20th Jul 2005
Log Text: In the book I have about Bougon, there is a map showing a dolmen and tumulus at Les Vinettes. A drive past the area and there is nothing obvious to see.