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Gabaudet Dolmen 2
Trip No.203 Entry No.135 Date Added: 10th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Couldn't find on 24th May 2005
Gabaudet dolmen 2 submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Nov 2006. GABAUDET 2 DOLMEN
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Log Text: In the forest 200 metres from the first dolmen can be found the second. A chamber 3 metres in length and 1.5 metres wide is covered by a large slab, now broken into three pieces.
Gabaudet Dolmen 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.134 Date Added: 10th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Couldn't find on 24th May 2005
Gabaudet dolmen 1 submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Nov 2006. GABAUDET 1 DOLMEN
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Log Text: There are supposedly a couple of lovely dolmens here in the woods. I had a good walk and look around, but could find nothing. I really needed to get the 1:25000 map this morning. They should be found about 600 metres to the east of the hamlet, in the forest to the south of the road. For the first dolmen, a 4 metre by 3 metre capstone sits on top of a 3.5 by 2 m chamber, with some remains of a vestibule.
Furzehill Common stone row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 19th May 2010
Furzehill Common stone row submitted by TheCaptain on 19th May 2010. Here I found four little stumps of stone in a row, in a boggy hollow on top of the ridge. They are spaced 2.5, 5, 2.5 metres apart, suggesting a missing stone in between those I could find.
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Furzehill Common Standing Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Sep 2009
Furzehill Common Standing Stone submitted by thecaptain on 14th Sep 2009. The recently broken Furzehill Common standing stone, viewed here looking southwest over the common.
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Furzehill Common cairn
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2010
Furzehill Common cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 16th May 2010. The cairn is in a patch of shortly trimmed grass, and hence easily found. There is a 5 metre diameter raised ring, with a hollow in the centre, which is filled with some large stones, which may or may not be an original feature.
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Furzehill Common Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2010
Furzehill Common Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 14th May 2010. On the western slopes of Furzehill Common, having crossed from Warcombe, I found this tumulus easily, which is fairly large and prominent on the slopes down the side of the ridge.
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Furzehill Common 5
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2010
Furzehill Common 5 submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Jul 2010. View southeast over where this excellent stone setting is to be found, off of the steep eastern slopes of Furzehill Common ridge, overlooking the splendid Hoaroak Water valley, with fantastic views to Cheriton Ridge and beyond.
I almost didn’t come and look for this one as time was getting on, the hillside was in shadow, and when I got near, I saw that the hillside was covered in ferns. I am glad to say that I did go for a quick look, and eventually found the best stone setting I had see...
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Furzehill Common 2
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2010
Furzehill Common 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 14th May 2010. Supposedly a stone setting of three stones, I found one stone standing just over a foot high surrounded by couch grass. With a good hunt around, I found only one other stump of a stone nearby, marked by my bag.
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Furzehill Common 1
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2010
Furzehill Common 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 18th May 2010. On the western slopes of Furzehill Common ridge, I first found a large boulder like stone, and with some further searching around, I found a sort of line of stones running down the side of the hill.
I found two stones high up the slope which are spaced at about 10 metres from each other, marked here by my hat and bag.
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Furzehill Common 0
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2010
Furzehill Common 0 submitted by TheCaptain on 16th May 2010. From the first large stone, I walked off in a south-easterly direction towards my next target, and found several more stones standing or fallen on the moorland amongst the heather. Some of the stones were fairly big and evenly spaced, standing in a line diagonally up the hillside to a square of stones at SS 7339 4449.
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Fridd Wanc
Date Added: 30th Oct 2023
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Fridd Wanc submitted by TimPrevett on 13th Sep 2004. Remains of a round barrow not far from Circle 275; see main entry for details.
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Log Text: Moving on and the next site just to the north of the trackway is the Fridd Wanc mound, with a telegraph pole standing from its centre. Just to the southeast are several boulders, three obvious large stones, with a couple more not so obvious. Is it the remains of an ancient burial chamber? Or on later thinking, another little circle?
Freydefond Menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.186 Date Added: 24th Aug 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63))
Visited: Yes on 25th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Freydefond menhir submitted by thecaptain on 27th Jun 2006. This is a superbly positioned menhir, made from a hexagonal block of crystalline volcanic basalt, up on top of the high hills overlooking St-Nectaire (of cheese fame) in the deep valley below.
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Log Text: This is a superbly positioned menhir, made from a hexagonal block of crystalline volcanic basalt, up on top of the high hills overlooking St-Nectaire (of cheese fame) in the deep valley below, and with splendid views all around, except for the various trees and woods in places. It is now only about 1.5 metres tall, but the top has obviously been broken off, and indeed something has been cemented on to it at some point. This menhir is easily found down a trackway from the road above Sailles, and can be seen from quite long distances.
Frébouchère Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.263 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Frébouchère dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 6th Jul 2005. Frébouchère dolmen is a MASSIVE Angevin type dolmen. It really is enormous, my pictures do not do it justice. The chamber is 6.5 metres by 3.5 metres, and 2 m high, with a single capstone.
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Log Text: Easily found and signposted to the north of the village of Le Bernard, this wonderful dolmen has a little parking and picnic area. Ooooh, it’s a whopper, and absolutely fantastic !
It is a large Angevin dolmen with a main chamber 6.5 metres long by 3.5 metres wide, covered by a single massive capstone (now cracked into two parts) 2 metres high off the ground. There are three side stones along each side, and a single massive backstone at the western end. At the eastern end of the chamber are two partial closing stones and the two entrance porchway stones, with the chamber and its entrance facing towards the southeast at 130°.
Most of the stones are granite, but two of the stones, one on each side, are made from a different type of rock. Within the chamber, to the right near the entrance, is a granite stele, which almost reaches to the capstone, and has been very well smoothed and shaped. It is flat at the face near to the dolmen entrance, and side face near to the outside, but rounded around the back. The stone tapers upwards almost to a point, but has been cut short. There are no obvious engravings on it.
There is a lovely resonance inside the chamber, and two swallows or martins came flying through as I was inside. This is an all round excellent place, but it is a pity that it doesnt have a slightly larger enclosure around it like some, as it is nearly impossible to get a decent photograph of.
Fraissinel Dolmen
Trip No.205 Entry No.223 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Couldn't find on 25th Sep 2005
Fraissinel dolmen submitted by regina on 20th Oct 2011. Site in Languedoc:Lozère (48) France
dolmen du Fraissinel N44.44027 E3.49693
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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.
Fox Tor stone setting
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2010
Fox Tor stone setting submitted by TheCaptain on 31st Aug 2010. On the southeastern slopes of Fox Tor, above Redmoor Marsh, a stone setting is marked on the RCHM Bodmin Moor survey.
I am not sure what to make of this, a couple of large side set slabs about 1.5 metres tall, with perhaps many other smaller ones around them.
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Fox Covert NW
Date Added: 28th Aug 2023
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2007
Fox Covert NW submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Sep 2007. Overgrown Long Barrow which has been cut in two by a hedge.
The eastern part of the barrow in the eastern field has now been completely ploughed out. The part in the western field is now about 30 metres in length, about 20 metres wide and up to 2 metres in height.
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Log Text: A badly damaged overgrown Long Barrow with possible Chambered Tomb in a field, which has been cut in two by a hedge. The eastern part of the barrow in the eastern field has now been completely ploughed out. The part in the western field is now about 30 metres in length, about 20 metres wide and up to 2 metres in height. There are one or two big stones, which are almost certainly field clearance, dumped on top, otherwise there were no noticeable features that I could see. There are a few other tumuli marked on maps in neighbouring fields, but as far as I could see, these have no all been completely ploughed out, including the Tormarton 1 (Gloucestershire) long barrow in the field just to the north of the lane here.
Four-És-Feins
Trip No.203 Entry No.599 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Couldn't find on 28th Jun 2005
Four-És-Feins submitted by thecaptain on 20th Jun 2009. I found a place in a woodland to the left of the track, with a mound in it, and what looked to be some lumps sticking up, but it was very overgrown. It has to be here, surely. Closer inspection amongst the ivy and brambles, and there were clearly a few side set slabs sticking up through the ground.
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Log Text: I had a good look around for the remains of this allée couverte, but could find nothing obvious. It's somewhere to the west of the hamlet of Vieux Bourg, beside the north to south expressway.
Four-És-Feins
Trip No.209 Entry No.10 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Four-És-Feins submitted by karolus on 12th Jan 2018. Site in Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) France
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Log Text: I went and had another look for this while in the area last weekend, now knowing to look nearby to the Beillac farm. I could see nothing obvious when driving slowly down the lane past the farm, but there was an old couple out tending their wonderful vegetable garden, so I stopped and asked them if they could tell me where the dolmen was. They were interested to know what an Englishman was doing looking for the remnants of the dolmen, but were happy to help.
Unfortunately, I struggled to understand fully all they were saying, a combination of strong accent and using some words I just could not figure out. But I thought I had got enough of a lead to find it easily. Park out of the way of the farm track by the corner of the farm. Cross the field to the south on the newly cut hay at the edge of the field for 200 metres until reaching the other side. Go straight on about another 100 metres (unknown words) until I get to the big trees, and it is on the left, (some more unknown words). Put boots on if you have them. Sounds simple.
Well, it was all very simple simple, until I tried to decide which of all the woodlands were the correct big trees. However, after a few false starts, I found a place in a woodland to the left of the track, with a mound in it, and what looked to be some lumps sticking up, but it was very overgrown. It has to be this, surely. Closer inspection amongst the ivy and brambles, and there were clearly a few side set slabs sticking up through the ground, and I was pretty sure I could determine two rows of slabs about 1.5 metres apart from each other, but with no stone more than 0.5 metres tall, and most substantially lower. I reckoned that what I had found on top of the mound was about 10 metres in length, and had to be the remains of a very ruined allée couverte.
However, walking back to the car, I thought that these poor remains were not really enough to be known by the name Four-es-Feins; the Fairies Oven. Surely something with a name like that must be a grander structure. I also thought it to be too ruined to be what the old couple were explaining to me, although they did say it was just the remains of an allée couverte. I would have thought they would have told me not to bother rather than gladly give me directions.....
Upon returning to the car, I remembered I had book with description in a box in the boot. "Rectangular chamber measuring 10m by 1.5m with 6 orthostats on the south side and 5 on the north. Their length is between 1 and 1.8 metres, height about half a metre and thickness 0.3 metres. Brilliant, this all fits to what I saw. But then, the description goes on. Three cover slabs about half a metre thick, and the backstone are still in place. Around the monument, a dozen or so other stones lie scattered.
Well, I can believe the stones are now more covered by undergrowth and soil than that description, and hence seem smaller. The size, orientation and almost everything seems right, with one major exception; the three cover stones. There was nothing at all which could have been them. Read the description again and realise it has been based upon a plan and writings from 1886 and 1928. Maybe it has become much more wrecked since then, but what of the old couples talk ?
So, was this Four-es-Feins or not? If it wasn't, what had I found ? I am not sure, but like to think I did find it. Certainly until anyone proves otherwise and can show me something better I'll count it.
Fortica
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Croatia
Visited: Yes on 30th Sep 2004
Fortica submitted by thecaptain on 30th Sep 2004. Splendidly positioned overlooking Hvar Town, the remains of the fortress date largely to the 16th century. However, the foundations of this castle are built upon remains of an ancient hillfort which dates back to the second millennium BC, some remains of which can still be seen under the south walls.
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Fort Joret allée couverte
Trip No.201 Entry No.16 Date Added: 25th Mar 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Nov 2004. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Fort Joret allée couverte submitted by thecaptain on 21st Jan 2005. Allée Couverte de Fort Joret, Fermanville, Manche.
The view from the coastal footpath along the edge of the beach from the south.
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Log Text: In a field overlooking the sea, with splendid views over the rocky beach, can be found the remains of this very ruinous Allée Couverte. It is about 500 metres along the coast path to the southwest of Fort Joret, in the Commune de Fermanville, just a few miles east of Cherbourg.
Estimated to have originally been about 17 metres in length, it runs in a north to south direction. The northern part of the remains are very ruined, with only a few stones here and there laying on the ground. The southern part of the tomb is in much better, but still very ruined and overgrown condition, and difficult to get to see in detail. The width of this part is much greater than the northern part, of the order 2.5 metres, and several large slabs remain in position.