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Menhir de Boulay-Filleul
Trip No.202 Entry No.74 Date Added: 29th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 2nd May 2005
Menhir de Boulay-Filleul submitted by HOMER27000 on 7th Jan 2012. Boulai menhir
Site in Normandie:Orne (61) France
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Log Text: A menhir in woodland visible just to the west side of the road to L’Aigle a couple of kilometres south of the village. As is becoming typical of round here there is nowhere at all to park on a very busy road. Those damned Normadie ditches alongside all the roads. Couldn’t stop to take a picture and it took miles before I was able to turn round and have another look on the way back.
Menhir de Clos-et-Bé 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.339 Date Added: 4th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de Clos-et-Bé 1 submitted by thecaptain on 13th May 2006. This menhir which is about 3 metres tall, and just 40 metres from its neighbouring dolmen, is getting swamped by undergrowth in the middle of a field
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Log Text: This menhir which is about 3 metres tall, and just 40 metres from its neighbouring dolmen, is getting swamped by undergrowth in the middle of a field, which was empty at the time of my visit. It has got some lovely lichens growing all over the the sparkly granite.
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.
Menhir de Coat Mocoun (sud)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 26th Jul 2016
Menhir de Coat Mocoun (sud) submitted by TheCaptain on 26th Jul 2016. Spent some time looking for various menhirs here while travelling through the area. To the south of the road junction I followed a pathway through some newly cut scrubland which was until revently forest, heading towards the noise of the quarry. The path eventually entered into some wooded land, with many boulders laying around, the remnants of quarrying.
Then I saw something. Not an 8m tall menhir, but a 4 metre tall stone standing amongst noulders. I am pretty convinved that this stone...
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Menhir de Coat Mocun nord
Trip No.203 Entry No.550 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Couldn't find on 23rd Jun 2005
Menhir de Coat Mocun submitted by Liamean on 27th Jul 2016. Menhir de Coat Mocun.
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Log Text: Supposedly 8 metres tall, and re-erected recently when they built the new road, I could not find this. I asked an old gent with a straw hat and waving a stick, who was pushing a wheelbarrow of grass. He took great delight in telling me how I could get to see it, although it was on private land, but he was fairly difficult to understand. From what I did understand, I thought he said it was in a quarry area, I had several looks, from various points of attack, but could not find it. Bummer.
Menhir de Coinche
Trip No.204 Entry No.235 Date Added: 5th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Centre:Loiret (45))
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Menhir de Coinche submitted by thecaptain on 12th Feb 2007. Coinche menhir is a lovely multicoloured puddingstone menhir, perhaps 1.5 metres high and at least as wide, and about 0.5 m thick.
Near to the top there is a hole which goes right through the stone. It is not known whether this is a much more recent modification to the stone or original.
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Log Text: This menhir is in the middle of a cropped field just behind the farmhouse, down a track and then turn left near the wood. It is not normally possible to get right to it, but I was proudly shown the stone by the wife of the farmer. The field is full of sunflowers this year, and the stone was not visible from the road, and proved difficult to find, even for the farmers wife and daughter.
It stands in a little area left uncropped for its protection. It is a lovely multicoloured puddingstone menhir, perhaps 1.5 metres high and at least as wide, and about 0.5 m thick. Near to the top there is a hole which goes right through the stone. It is not known whether this is a much more recent modification to the stone or original. Beside the stone there are two smaller stones, one each side. I was told that it is thought that these two stones were used to place lamps on when ceremonies were carried out here.
Menhir de Colobrières 1
Trip No.205 Entry No.249 Date Added: 7th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 25th Sep 2005
Menhir de Colobrières 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Oct 2010. The large Colobrières menhir seen on the skyline from the road across the top of the Bondons, near Vaissiere, September 2005.
The weather made me not bother to go for the walk to visit it !
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Log Text: The large Colobrières menhir can be seen on the skyline from the road across the top of the Bondons, near Vaissiere. The weather made me not go for the walk to visit it !
Menhir de Condé
Trip No.203 Entry No.320 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Menhir de Condé submitted by Dipo on 28th Apr 2008. Site in Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique Menhir de Condé
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Log Text: In the midst of an industrial estate, sandwiched between a quarry and France's equivalent of Middlesbrough, with all the chemical works beside the Loire estuary, and not to forget the nearby airport and motorway, this poor stone doesn’t seem to stand a chance. However, here it still is in a hayfield amongst all the noise. The stone is probably three and a bit metres tall, with the top almost certainly broken off.
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 de Courégant
Trip No.203 Entry No.448 Date Added: 23rd May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 2
Menhir de Courégant submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Jan 2019. Courégant menhir is 5 metres tall, and can be found just outside the back of a holiday homes complex.
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Log Text: Courégant menhir is 5 metres tall, and can be found just outside the back of a holiday homes complex. There is no obvious path through to it, but some people in one of the chalets let me take a picture from their decking ! Thanks to them !
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.
Menhir de Ferrussac 1
Trip No.205 Entry No.151 Date Added: 11th Nov 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Couldn't find on 18th Sep 2005
Menhir de Ferrussac 1 submitted by regina on 18th Oct 2011. Coördinates: N43.79046 E3.48343
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Log Text: Between 50 and 100 metres to the northwest of the Grand Dolmen du Ferrussac, is a fallen menhir, 1.7 metres in length. However, this land is fenced off, and with some pretty mean looking horned cattle in there, so I wasn't going to look too hard.
Menhir de Ferrussac 2
Trip No.205 Entry No.152 Date Added: 11th Nov 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Couldn't find on 18th Sep 2005
Menhir de Ferrussac 2 submitted by regina on 18th Oct 2011. Co-ordinates: N43.79089 E3.48443
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Log Text: Between 50 and 100 metres to the northeast of the Grand Dolmen du Ferrussac, is a fallen menhir more than 3 metres in length. However, this land is fenced off, and with some pretty mean looking horned cattle in there, so I wasn't going to look too hard.
Menhir de Fraissinel
Trip No.205 Entry No.224 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 25th Sep 2005
Menhir de Fraissinel submitted by regina on 20th Oct 2011. Site in Languedoc:Lozère (48) France
The menhir is about 2.50m high
N44.43841 E3.49464
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Log Text: I could find nowhere to park my campervan around here, so ended up turning round and going back, which was easier said than done! However, the menhir standing up on the top of its little hillock can be seen for miles around, and looks to be about 2.5 metres tall.
Menhir de Goulvars
Trip No.203 Entry No.429 Date Added: 23rd May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 2 Access 4
Menhir de Goulvars submitted by ermine on 8th Aug 2004. This 4m tall granite menhir stands near the Conguel campsite and the Quiberon aerodrome - it extends another 1m into the ground, according to the information board
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Log Text: This massive menhir is now sadly fenced in behind the SNCF holiday complex near to Pointe du Conguel out at the tip of the Quiberon peninsular. It can be found by taking the road beside the SNCF complex until it reaches the grassland behind them, and then taking the trackway to the left. The menhir is hidden behind some large trees and a hedge, and it took me two visits before I found it, my previous visit having taken the wrong track. It really is a lovely stone, well over 5 metres tall and 2 metres in width, and it has been shaped and smoothed. Finding this was a good start to a grotty looking day.
Menhir de Gouville
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2010
Menhir de Gouville submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Jun 2010. Just over 2 metres tall, this nicely shaped granite stone stands in a little tended garden area beside the Coutances road at the junction with Rue du Moulin-a-Vent.
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Menhir de Kerandrège
Trip No.203 Entry No.454 Date Added: 23rd May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de Kerandrège submitted by JohnGinny on 9th Aug 2007. Kerandrège menhir.
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Log Text: This menhir has lost its top, but is still about 3 metres high, 2 metres wide and has been nicely shaped, and is associated with the lovely allée couverte with which it stands just outside the entrance. It can be found in a field to the left of the D116 road to the south of Moelan-sur-Mer on the way to Brigneau.
Menhir de Kergoarat
Trip No.203 Entry No.533 Date Added: 29th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Menhir de Kergoarat submitted by thecaptain on 1st Dec 2006. Splendidly shaped 7 metres tall menhir standing on its little headland beyond the Cam Louis beach.
As with most of the stones round here, it is a wonderfully weathered rock.
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Log Text: In contrast to its bulbous headed, thirsty neighbour, this fine chap looks to be wearing a pointy hat. He must be a good 7 metres tall and standing perfectly upright on this little headland beyond the beach. As with most of the stones round here, it is a wonderfully weathered rock, and from certain angles it has a face in it, looking out over the sea.
Menhir de Kerhouézel
Trip No.203 Entry No.509 Date Added: 27th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhir de Kerhouézel submitted by thecaptain on 24th Jul 2009. One of the Léon giants, the Kerhouézel menhir is a fantastic monster menhir, just inland from Porspoder. It must be nearly seven metres high and is fantastically smoothed and shaped.
Looking at these pictures now, several years after visiting, and they do not show the massive size, no do justice to this magnificent manhir. Truly a King of Léon.
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Log Text: The Kerhouézel menhir is another fantastic monster menhir, just inland from Porspoder and signposted. It must be eight metres high and is fantastically smoothed and shaped. I just love these massive stones. I've go to give it a hug ! It is possible that there is a carved symbolon the upper part of the southern face.
Menhir de Kerloc'h
Trip No.214 Entry No.25 Date Added: 5th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 17th Apr 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Menhir de Kerloc'h submitted by theCaptain on 8th Mar 2015. Menhir de Kerloc'h is about 6.5m tall, and has clearly been recomposed out of several broken parts.
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Log Text: Part of the La Roche Jaune menhir mystery solved, and so time to continue along the road towards La Roche Jaune in order to find and fully position the "unknown menhir".
A couple of kilometres further to the northeast, right at the roadside and fitting all descriptions, this menhir is easily found. It is about 6.5m tall, and has clearly been recomposed out of several broken parts, and has a strange look about it, as if it has an open mouth. I cannot find any reference to when it was re erected.