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Men-Milene
Trip No.203 Entry No.363 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 12th Jun 2005
Men-Milene submitted by regina on 30th Oct 2014. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
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Log Text: To the southwest of the Chat Noir roundabout is the hamlet of Kerangoff, where there can be found a dolmen and a menhir. The menhir proved impossible for me to find, hidden somewhere in the forest behind the houses amongst the ferns and gorse, despite a longish walk around all the area.
Dolmen de Kerourang 2
Trip No.203 Entry No.348 Date Added: 10th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Jun 2005
Dolmen de Kerourang 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Nov 2007. I couldn’t find this dolmen marked on my map on my way to Luffang, but stopped for another look on the way back. It was very difficult to find, but it is still there to be seen, well hidden under very thick undergrowth.
I later found out that there are in fact two dolmens a couloir to be found here, within 20 metres of each other.
It's a great shame they are so overgrown and neglected.
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Log Text: To the west of Crac'h, down beside the Riviere de Crac'h can be found the remains of another monument which is another important angled passage graves, rather like Luffang, but still with some of its capstones. Besides this are the remains of several other monuments.
Pointe de Cofréneau cairn
Trip No.203 Entry No.322 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 9th Jun 2005
Log Text: I had a long walk around the coastal path here, after parking the campervan for the night, but I could not find any sign at all of this. It is probably in a garden or underneath lots of thick gorse and undergrowth.
Dolmen de Méarzenne
Trip No.203 Entry No.321 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 9th Jun 2005
Log Text: I had a long walk around the coastal path here, after parking the campervan for the night, but I could not find a way to access the wood within which this dolmen lives, as there are lots of big holiday homes and houses with big fenced gardens surrounding it all.
Soriniere Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.315 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Couldn't find on 9th Jun 2005
Soriniere dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Jun 2011. The dolmen is on the left side of the lane under a thick hedge across a field of barley.
I believe its somewhere under the big tree in this picture.
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Log Text: Not far from Bergnon are two dolmens marked down a little lane. I walked down the lane but couldn’t really find anything, although I was assured by a passing chap on a bike, that it is possible to access both dolmens. But the barriers, crops and hedges here made it all too much effort for probably little gain, so I didn't try too hard. The first dolmen to be accessed is on the left side of the lane under a thick hedge across a field of barley, which I wasn't going to walk through, and there was no way around.
Kerbourg Dolmen 2
Trip No.203 Entry No.311 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Couldn't find on 9th Jun 2005
Kerbourg Dolmen 2 submitted by dipo on 25th Sep 2009. Kerbourg 2 Ruined Dolmen West side
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Log Text: I thought there was another dolmen to be found here and there is. Its just that I thought it was between the first dolmen and the windmill whereas it’s a bit further on down the road I was mixing the two up with their positions on the map. Damnabbit.
La Grée Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.304 Date Added: 26th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Couldn't find on 8th Jun 2005
Log Text: At the village of Avrillac, near St-André-des-Eaux, is marked a dolmen and menhir on my maps. I parked my van and had a good look all around, including a 3 kilometre walk around various lanes, but I saw nothing, and there was nobody to ask. Whatever megalithic remains there might be here are either in somebodies garden, or hidden away out of sight in the large wooded area. Having just crossed the Loire, I am now in Brittany, and I thought that finding these stones would get easier from now on, especially after the multitudes of signposted menjhirs I had found this afternoon.
Menhir de Couëtcas
Trip No.203 Entry No.303 Date Added: 26th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Couldn't find on 8th Jun 2005
Menhir de Couëtcas submitted by johnstone on 15th Mar 2018. This menhir may be an inclined capstone of a dolmen, July 2, 2013
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Log Text: At the village of Avrillac, near St-André-des-Eaux, is marked a dolmen and menhir on my maps. I parked my van and had a good look all around, including a 3 kilometre walk around various lanes, but I saw nothing, and there was nobody to ask. Whatever megalithic remains there might be here are either in somebodies garden, or hidden away out of sight in the large wooded area.
Having just crossed the Loire, I am now in Brittany, and I thought that finding these stones would get easier from now on, especially after the multitudes of signposted menhirs I had found this afternoon.
Menhir dit la Pierre Bonde
Trip No.203 Entry No.299 Date Added: 26th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Couldn't find on 8th Jun 2005
Menhir dit la Pierre Bonde submitted by johnstone on 21st Mar 2018. The sunny side of the monolith, July 9, 2013
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Log Text: I found a signpost pointing down a track to this menhir, but could only park the campervan by blocking the lane. Following the track, it divided into three, and there was no indication which way to go to the menhir. I had a quick look along two of the possible directions, but I found no stone before I decided I had better move on. I have since found that the stone may be quite some distance walk along one of the tracks, but which one I still do not know.
La Pointe de l'Herbaudière dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.291 Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Couldn't find on 7th Jun 2005
Log Text: I camped for the night at the large campsite which now occupies most of the northern point of the Ile Noirmoutiers, but could find no signs of any dolmen. The chap running the campsite said he had no knowledge of any dolmen there. There are however, lots of concrete bunkers, blockhouses and gun emplacements, no doubt built by the Germans in World War 2 as part of the Atlantic defenses. These have no doubt been built on and destroyed any dolmen which might once have been here.
There was a fantastic sunset over the sea and smaller offshore islands from here, with many lighthouses flashing away at various points all around. The swallows flying around here are amazing, into and out of the bunkers, swooping low over the grasslands and in and out of the little cliff faces. Wish I could fly like them. Then the bats came out to play. What a lovely place.
La Meinge du Diable
Trip No.203 Entry No.286 Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Couldn't find on 7th Jun 2005
La Meinge du Diable submitted by ocdolmen on 28th Aug 2009. Menhir of Meinge-du-Diable. Extrait of Pierres-Garatelles (covered rocky), the menhir of Meinge of the Devil is the only preserved megalith raised on Vairé's territory. If one believes the legend of it, this menhir was of use formerly of purpose to Satan and to an angel who played the meinge (sort of game of palet). The angel was so skillful as his palet (a big flat stone) lands right by the menhir. It was not there the same for Satan who sent the cliff to the middle road of the target. In fury...
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Log Text: I found a signpost to this one, but despite walking along every track and footpath in the vicinity, I found no semblance of any menhir. I wish that when there are signposts from the road, they are followed up later. I must have walked many miles in the baking hot sun here. At least it should be doing me good.
Puy Durand menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.282 Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Couldn't find on 6th Jun 2005
Puy Durand menhir submitted by Rubis on 22nd Jul 2010. Puy Durand menhir
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Log Text: They sell postcards of this menhir, and it looks massive. I found Puy Durand, and had a good look all around, but could not find any signs of the menhir. There are lots of private and fenced off areas here, so the menhir is probably inside one of these.
Menhirs du Bois du Fourgon
Trip No.203 Entry No.274 Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Couldn't find on 6th Jun 2005
Menhirs du Bois du Fourgon submitted by Flickr on 31st May 2016. Avrillé - Alignement mégalithique G2 du Bois de Fourgon Image copyright: jpdelalune, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: There are several sets of alignements to be found in the grounds of the Chateau, of which you have to pay for entry to be able to get in and see them. I didn’t have tome to do a tour of the Chateau, so was not able to visit these stones, of which at least three rows exist.
La Pierre Levée (Oleron)
Trip No.203 Entry No.248 Date Added: 22nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Couldn't find on 4th Jun 2005
Log Text: I looked all around the Pierre Levée farm, but could see nothing obvious, so I asked. I was told that there was once a dolmen here, but that it had been destroyed, and nothing remains of it today.
Soubise Dolmen 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.246 Date Added: 22nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Couldn't find on 4th Jun 2005
Soubise dolmen 1 submitted by Rubis on 24th Jul 2010. Postcard maybe taken between the two World Wars.
The domens are three. The two well preserved were moved into the military base. The third one is ruined. Only some few stones remain. It is always there where they were all together.
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Log Text: These two dolmens are within the confines of an airfield, which has a big military base on the northern side of the runway, and a little flying club at the south. I could not get to very near to where the dolmens are marked on my map, so didn’t try very hard to get close enough for a photo.
Buffletizion Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.245 Date Added: 22nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Couldn't find on 4th Jun 2005
Buffletizion dolmen submitted by Rubis on 16th Aug 2010. The dolmen can be found in the park of this castle.
It has been excavated in 1903 and pulled up at the same time because it was ruined.
Site in Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) France
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Log Text: I found Buffetision just to the southeast of trizay, but there were no signs of any dolmen. Perhaps it is in the grounds of the chateau.
Dolmen du Bois de la Grosse Pierre (Sainte-Radegonde)
Trip No.203 Entry No.243 Date Added: 22nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Couldn't find on 4th Jun 2005
Log Text: I had a good look around for this one, down into the woods from at least two tracks, and got told some directions on how to find it, but it is well hidden in thick woodland somewhere, and I thought there are better things to do with my time than wander round in the forest for hours on end.
Pierre Folle (Négrignac)
Trip No.203 Entry No.235 Date Added: 22nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Couldn't find on 3rd Jun 2005
Pierre Folle (Négrignac) submitted by Rubis on 2nd Oct 2010. Coming from Pouillac, you must pass in front of the church, then go to the east. Pass upon a little bridge and then take a white path on the right.
Site in Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) France
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Log Text: This I couldn’t find, and I could find no mention of it in the village. It is somewhere to the southeast of the village.
La Palanque de Peyre
Trip No.203 Entry No.232 Date Added: 22nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Aquitaine:Gironde (33))
Visited: Couldn't find on 3rd Jun 2005
Log Text: I had a look all around the region here, but with nothing marked on any of my maps, and nothing signed from the village, I gave up, as after all the time I had spent looking for Bignon I had to move on.
Menhir de Clotte
Trip No.203 Entry No.223 Date Added: 21st Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Aquitaine:Gironde (33))
Visited: Couldn't find on 2nd Jun 2005
Log Text: I found both a Chateau de Clotte and a Moulin de Clotte but not the menhir.