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Anta-Capela de Nossa Senhora do Livramento
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 13th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Anta-Capela de Nossa Senhora do Livramento submitted by Magalhaes on 15th Apr 2006. "Anta" of N S do Livramento
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Log Text: Several miles along a very narrow and twisty road, and I eventually arrived at the Anta-Capela de Nossa Senhora do Livramento, or Anta-Capela de São Brissos, which was one I really wanted to visit, the white painted dolmen now built into a chapel, complete with blue stripe around the bottom to keep the devil at bay.
Despite the satnav trying to take me somewhere else, I found it easy enough, and it has a small car park which had another three cars in it. Before I had even got out of my car, a bloke (French I think) from one of the other cars was over asking if I had the key to the chapel, and was most insistent that I should have it, not taking the fact that I am just an English tourist as an answer!
So as I gathered, the chapel was locked up, so could not get to see inside. It's a wierd and beautiful little place, and unlike that at Pavia, this has an extension built onto the back of the dolmen. There is one large stone laying beside the chapel, and traces of its entrance passageway.
Anta Herdade do Barrocal 1
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 13th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Anta Herdade do Barrocal 1 submitted by KenWilliams on 26th Feb 2007. The larger Barrorcal Anta, the second, smaller one is behind the trees to the right of that tower in the background.
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Log Text: From Evora it was time for my day hunting stones. Thankfully I had done much previous research, otherwise I would have found it extremely difficult. I struggled to get out of the walled city of Evora, round all the one way systems etc, but eventually after finding a place to stop, where I figured out how to use the satnav, and there was no looking back!
The next problem was how to locate the sites, as nothing is on any maps, and very little is signposted. However, with use of my previously prepared Google map of sites, and better phone coverage out here than most places at home, I was able to locate the road to these dolmens, where I realised that many of the roads are actually dirt and gravel tracks, and many seem to start from the main roads through gated entrances.
About threequarters of a km along the dirt track to Barrocal, and I see the old windmill and a place I can park, and then I see the dolmen just in the field to the right. There is a path to it, and it is well sited on the top of a hillock, a nicely complete dolmen with remains of its entrance passageway. It is not very picturesque today, grey skies threatening to rain, and the ground covered in scrub.
Museu Nacional de Arqueologia
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: Portugal (Lisboa)
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Museu Nacional de Arqueologia submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Oct 2019. The Portugese National Museum of Archaeology is in the building adjoined to the wonderful Mosteiro dos Jerónimos in Belem.
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Log Text: The Portugese National Museum of Archaeology is in the building adjacent to the wonderful Mosteiro dos Jerónimos. It is is the largest Archaeological museum in Portugal and one of the most important museums in the world devoted to ancient art found in the Iberian Peninsula.
We didn't have long here at the end of a busy day, but had a quick look around the fabulous display of ancient gold and other objects from prehistorical times, the Egyptian gallery and the large Lusitanian (Portugal in the times of the Romans) displays. This is somewhere which would justify many small visits or perhaps a whole day.
Nearby to the bag lockers are a couple of ancient standing stones, one with a large square spiral carving, and the other worked into a very phallic shape.
Menir dos Almendres
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Menir dos Almendres submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Oct 2019. A walk around the Menir dos Almendres.
It casts a long shadow in the late afternoon sun
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Log Text: Driving towards Evora from Pavia, and after the town of Arraiolos, we see a large brown sign stating something like Recinto do megalithica, which I think is directions to a local megalithic cromlech. However, we see no further signs in the locality, and realise that perhaps the sign is for a megalithic tour drive. We find no other megalithic sites in the vicinity (this was before I figured out how this all works), and it ends up taking us out of the way to Almendres. However, the late afternoon light is fantastic, we still have an hour or so to spare, the others are fairly keen that we should go see it, and it would help me with my tomorrows megalithic tour route if we did visit this now.
After the village of Guadelupe there is an interpretation centre and shop, then it is several miles of dirt road, before a parking place and fenced footpath up to the beautifully shaped menhir, which is about 4 metres tall. It has a carving of a "crook" near to the top, and is apparently a marker for summer solstice sunrise from the cromlech. Pity about the grain silos.
Cromeleque dos Almendres
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Cromeleque dos Almendres submitted by Magalhaes on 15th Apr 2006. View from the top, roughly facing SE. Évora on the horizon (left).
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Log Text: From the menhir parking, travel a couple more kilometres along the dirt road, and there is a large parking place for the cromlech, a short walk further along. What a fabulous place, especially in the late afternoon golden sun.
Once a double circle of stones, it now appears to be rather unclear, but the approximately one hundred stones are fabulously shaped, several with carvings, but mostly very difficult to make out.
It's a busy place with lots of visitors, and rather like the Pied Piper, I gain a following of people (including several American's over here from Nashville), who want to know my knowledge of the place and for all my thoughts as to why it is here. They struggle with comprehending that it is over 6000 years old, as old to them is a hundred years!
As I later find with the other two cromlechs I visit, it is positioned on a hilltop position on the gently east facing slopes. Could this be something to do with watching the sunrise at these places? This is a place I could come back to again and again if it was local to me!
Cromlech de Lervaut
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Aquitaine:Gironde (33))
Visited: Yes on 8th Feb 2011
Cromlech de Lervaut submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Feb 2011. In le jardin public de Bordeaux, is a cromlech from Lervaut near Lesparre-Medoc, which was moved here in 1875.
Picture taken Feb 2011 sent to me by a friend.
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Menhirs de Lunac Alignement
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 12th Feb 2011
Menhirs de Lunac Alignement submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Feb 2011. Lunac alignement by Anthony Wier (Greywether).
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Menhir des Verdons
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Rhone:Savoie (73))
Visited: Yes on 17th Feb 2011
Menhir des Verdons submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Feb 2011. Is this an ancient menhir which has been re-erected, or a more modern stone ? I don't know. I can find nothing out about it. But here it stands, proudly at the Verdons lift complex, in the middle of the Courchevel ski area.
The stone itself stands about 2.5 metres tall, and certainly looks the part. I'm guessing a re-erection.
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Cheriton Ridge stone row
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Feb 2011
Cheriton Ridge stone row submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Feb 2011. I found the tops of about 5 or 6 stones just poking their tops above the turf, aligned in a row oriented just east of north along the ridge. As with most of the Exmoor stone rows, the stones are tiny and very difficult to find, with most of them probably buried under the turf and heather.
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Cheriton Ridge 1
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Feb 2011
Cheriton Ridge 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Feb 2011. Stone Setting reported in my Exmoor Archaeology book, but I found nothing for these at the given location.
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Cheriton Ridge 3
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Feb 2011
Cheriton Ridge 3 submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Feb 2011. Stone Setting reported in my Exmoor Archaeology book, but I found nothing for these at the given location.
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Hoaroak stones
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 21st Feb 2011
Hoaroak stones submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Feb 2011. After a long while searching around, I found a couple of stones which looked like they might be placed in position, although now broken and fallen.
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Cheriton Ridge 2
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Feb 2011
Cheriton Ridge 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Feb 2011. To the east, I found plenty more broken and fallen stones, which if all in place would have meant that this setting was perhaps three rows of four stones, running laterally to what is the remaining sixpack.
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Cheriton Ridge 6
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2011
Cheriton Ridge 6 submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Feb 2011. Off the edge of Cheriton Ridge on the western Hoaroak Water side, near to the Hoar Oak itself, can be found the remains of this stone setting.
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Cheriton Ridge 4
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2011
Cheriton Ridge 4 submitted by TheCaptain on 3rd Mar 2011. This is much better than anything else I found out here. A large rectangular setting which has seven stones still standing, up to 2.5 feet tall, plus several others fallen and laying down.
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Farley Water stones
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 9th Mar 2011
Farley Water stones submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Mar 2011. “Standing Stones” are marked on the OS map, but I could find nothing obvious.
What a lovely spot it is down here, well protected from any winds, and with a few trees growing in a little flat grassy area beside the babbling stream.
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Hoaroak Hill
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 9th Mar 2011
Hoaroak Hill submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Mar 2011. I couldn’t find anything of this, in a very swampy area. There is a nice tree and a couple of very active springs here in this delightful place.
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Cheriton Ridge ring cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 28th Mar 2011
Cheriton Ridge ring cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Mar 2011. Approaching from the north, what looks like a stone (which I first assumed must be a sheep) can clearly be seen down by the saddle of the ridge, with some darker heather around it.
As approaching nearer to this, and it can be seen that it is indeed a stone, with a few other smaller stones standing nearby.
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Cheriton Ridge Boundary stones
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2011
Cheriton Ridge Boundary stones submitted by TheCaptain on 1st Apr 2011. These two lovely old standing stones are each about 5 feet tall, and look very gnarled. However, they are not prehistoric, although many hundreds of years old.
If you are out on this part of Exmoor, do go and have a look at them - they are far more impressive and beautiful than any of the remaining prehistoric stone setting stones to be found in the vicinity!
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Stonehenge.
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2011
Stonehenge. submitted by TheCaptain on 1st Jun 2011. Stopping off for a rest (and no doubt a picnic) at Stonehenge, while travelling back up the A303 from summer holiday in Cornwall, 1969.
Spot the young Stonehunter!
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