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Garn Fawr (Brecon)
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 20th Aug 2019
Garn Fawr (Brecon) submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Aug 2019. View south with the Pontsticill Reservoirs in the distance
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Log Text: Marked as Cairn and "Pile of Stones" on the various OS maps, this is a stone cairn on a rock outcrop, part of a low craggy outcrop at the southern end of the flat plateau of Gwaun Cerrig Llwydion. The cairn is 3m in diameter and 0.75m high. The area of the rock outcrop is called Garn Fawr but this appears to be a large marker cairn rather than a burial monument.
Garn Turne
Date Added: 3rd Nov 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Couldn't find on 5th Oct 2015
Garn Turne submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Garn Turn Burial Chamber SM979272.
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Log Text: Despite there being a few places to park nearby, I could find no way into the relevant field to have a look at this interesting sounding site, which is not clearly marked on the maps.
Gatcombe Lodge
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2009
Gatcombe Lodge submitted by thecaptain on 24th Mar 2009. Having read several tales of people being stopped and questioned by rapidly arriving police here, I didn’t spend long, and just took a photo from the entry to the estate.
It looks to be the regular shapeless lumpy bumpy mess covered in trees.
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Gâts-Fleuris Dolmen
Trip No.204 Entry No.295 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41))
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Gâts-Fleuris dolmen submitted by theCaptain on 8th Mar 2012. Apparently, in the 1920s, not only were the dolmens quite complete, but also still largely covered by their tumulus.
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Log Text: Just to the side of Rue des Dolmens, to the north of the village of Huisseau-en-Beauce, can be found the remains of this dolmen or dolmens. Unfortunately it really is no more than a pile of stones at the roadside these days, although with the knowledge of what was once there, it is possible to make out the remains of two capstones still partly resting on their supports.
Apparently, in the 1920s, not only were the dolmens quite complete, but also still largely covered by their tumulus. All of the stones are of a flinty gravelly puddingstone, some of which is crumbling.
Gaudinais megalithes
Trip No.203 Entry No.15 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Gaudinais megalithes submitted by thecaptain on 18th Nov 2005. Gaudinais megalithes, near to the village of Langon.
Remains of a rectangular tumulus, with embanked stones set around the outside, which reminded me of a small version of King Arthurs Hall.
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Log Text: A signpost to Vestiges Megalithiques de La Gaudinais points down a gravel track to this from the main street on the west side of the village of Langon so I just had to go and have a look. I have no idea what I found or even whether it is the proper megalithic remains but I had a good look around.
What I found was a sort of embanked rectangle of stones in woodland a bit like a small version of King Arthur’s Hall on Bodmin Moor. The dimensions of this rectangle are about 16 metres by 6 metres with the long axis on an alignment of 090°. I later found that this is the remains of a rectangular tumulus, with stones set around the outside, similar to that at Les Demoiselles. There are also the remains of two further tumulus mounds here, but in muxch less well preserved condition.
Gavrinis Cairn
Trip No.203 Entry No.332 Date Added: 4th May 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 10th Jun 2005
Gavrinis Cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Aug 2010. The megalithic art display at the Bougon Museum culminates in a full size reconstruction of the Gavrinis internal chamber.
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Log Text: I took a walk out to the Pointe de Penbert, from where the entrance to the Golfe de Morbihan can clearly be seen, and all the many islands within the gulf. It is a smashing day with a good breeze, and lots and lots of sailing boats are out having fun. There's a cracking tacking duel going on between two large single handed craft as I was writing. It all looks lots and lots of fun.
Just offshore can be seen the islet of Er Lannic, with its double cromlech. Many of the stones stand proud of the island, and indeed the sea, where these half submerged circles are situated, and can clearly be seen from here.
Just beyond that is Gavrinis, with its large cairn and entrance overlooking the whole scene. The entrance seems to be looking directly towards me, although in reality it is probably looking a bit more towards the east. The cairn is clearly visible, looking pale against the dark background of a pinewood. A boat trip of people has just landed on the island for the guided visit to the cairn, with its magnificent carvings.
Geant du Manio
Trip No.203 Entry No.385 Date Added: 14th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Geant du Manio submitted by rw1 on 3rd Mar 2008. 09/2007
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Log Text: This is a 5 metre high menhir, fairly easily found and obviously very popular because of all the erosion around it. It is only 50 metres from the quadrilateral. It’s a very nice stone in the woodland, but I guess it can become a bit of a nightmare when crowded.
Géants de Kerzerho
Trip No.203 Entry No.436 Date Added: 23rd May 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Géants de Kerzerho submitted by Jimwithnoname on 26th Sep 2010. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
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Log Text: Fantastic.
Géants de Kerzerho
Trip No.203 Entry No.405 Date Added: 14th May 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Géants de Kerzerho submitted by Jimwithnoname on 26th Sep 2010. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
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Log Text: Coming along the Chemin des Megalithes from the east, the first thing you see is a large menhir, more than 4 metres tall, at the side of the path, with a couple of smaller stones fallen beside it. Then you notice the fallen giant of the Pierre des Sacrifices, 6 metres long and nicely smoothed, upon which I sat writing this.
Then you see a path going behind this, which opens up through the undergrowth to reveal the whole row of Giants. It would seem that the two massive stones at this northern end of the row are not on the same line. Could they have been from a second row of alignements ? This was another pleasant surprise.
Further along are the real giants. Two standing and two fallen, more than six metres tall I would think. It looks like one of the flat fallen stones may have been used as a dolmen with a chamber underneath it. Perhaps they are not fallen giants. Maybe this is the true Pierre des Sacrifices. Whatever this all is here, its a wonderful place.
I must have been having too much fun and am being punished. I am feeling the start of gout coming on and I don't have any tablets with me. And when I get back to my bike I find I have a puncture. ARSE. Mend the puncture at the Kerzerho Alignements.
Geffosses Ecole-des-Filles
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2007
Geffosses Ecole-des-Filles submitted by thecaptain on 25th Apr 2007. Built into the bottom corner of the old Girls School in the village of Geffosses, just to the south of the churchyard, can be seen this old menhir.
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Gelligaer Common Standing Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Mid Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 18th Nov 2017
Gelligaer Common Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Nov 2017. Long and slender stone leaning at a very precarious angle, high on Gelligaer Common above the Welsh valleys to the southeast of Merthyr Tydfil.
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Genévrier Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.153 Date Added: 16th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 26th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Genévrier dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 4th Jul 2005. Genévrier dolmen 1, Salles-la-Source, Aveyron.
The village community of Salles-la-Source, is known to have 66 burial mounds and dolmens within its boundary. There are probably more, which makes it the richest parish in the whole of France.
But most of them are not much more than piles of stone with a chamber inside, like this one.
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Log Text: Up on the causse above Salles-la-Sources are supposed to be 66 dolmens. There is supposed to be a dolmen trail with map and information available. But I found no such thing. I couldn’t even buy a 1:25000 map of the area (which is notably right on the corner of four. But there is a lovely cascade down over a cliff edge, with a splendid pool at the bottom, and caves going back into the rock. Theres lots of that calcitic stuff that you get like those falls in Croatia. I spent quite some time here in the shade, watching the swallows building and feeding young on the cliffs.
There is a signpost towards this dolmen, but when you get nearby, there are no more signs. I found a mound nearby the road which was larger than most of the other multitudes of mounds round here, so stopped for a look. The mound is probably about 25 metres in diameter, and up to 4 metres high. There is the remains of a chamber in the centre, about 5 metres in length, 1.5 metres wide, with a nice capstone in place. it opens to the east at 085°.
Giant's Caves
Date Added: 6th Mar 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2004. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Giant's Caves submitted by thecaptain on 16th Apr 2004. Giant’s Caves, Chambered Tomb, Luckington, Wiltshire, ST820830
Within this central part of the barrow can be seen the remains of four chambers, constructed using large rock slabs. These chambers are approximately 3 to 4 metres long and 1 to 1½ metres in width, and strangely would not have been located at the bottom ground level of the mound, but at a slightly higher level.
This is the southeast chamber.
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Log Text: This fantastic long barrow, which lies on an east west axis, is in a field just to the north of a little stream on the edge of the Badminton estate. The initial impression is that it is fairly ruinous, and has become overgrown with trees and undergrowth, but closer inspection reveals that there is much left here. Although the ends of the barrow appear to have been removed at sometime in the past, the remaining central part show what a large structure this once was. Within this central part of the barrow can clearly be seen the remains of four chambers, constructed using large rock slabs, which either opened onto a central corridor, or to the sides of the barrow, although they would have been blocked off with stone slabs. These chambers are approximately 4 metres long and 1 to 1½ metres in width, and strangely would not have been located at the bottom ground level of the mound, but at a slightly higher level.
Giant's Caves
Date Added: 6th Mar 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Mar 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Giant's Caves submitted by thecaptain on 16th Apr 2004. Giant’s Caves, Chambered Tomb, Luckington, Wiltshire, ST820830
Overall view from the south of this fantastic long barrow, which lies on an east west axis, in a field just to the north of a little stream on the edge of the Badminton estate. The initial impression is that it is fairly ruinous, but closer inspection reveals that there is much left here. Although the ends of the barrow appear to have been removed at sometime in the past, the remaining central part show what a large structure th...
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Log Text: A lot of the large trees and overgrowth has gone since I was last here 19 years ago, but its still overrun with brambles etc, and not in a good condition. The remains of three chambers are easily found with large side slabs still in place, but there is also a worrying heap of large slabs piled nearby, no doubt once part of the structures. I didn't do too much delving to see what else I could find.
Giant's Rock, Zennor
Date Added: 30th Jul 2023
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Access 3
Giant's Rock, Zennor submitted by Bladup on 28th May 2017. The Giant's Rock.
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Log Text: Having found myself in the field adjacent to that in which the Giant's Stone is marked, I have a look and can see it over the hedge. However its all very overgrown and I cannot get in to have a proper look
Giants Grave, Penrith
Date Added: 14th Oct 2022
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Giants Grave, Penrith submitted by nicoladidsbury on 12th Feb 2005. Giants Grave Viking Crosses and Hogback stones
The 'Giants Grave' is a collection of ancient grave stones comprising two 11' high stone crosses and four hog-back stones. An excavation of the 'Giants Grave' showed a skeleton underneath with a sword. The four hogback stones surrounding the grave are said to represent wild boar he killed in nearby Inglewood Forest.
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Log Text: An evening in Penrith, and despite thinking I knew something like hogback stones were here, I missed seeing the Giant's Grave in the dark with the churchyard gates closed. But I did see the Giant's Thumb carved cross and take a picture of it from the nearby path.
Gidleigh Chambered Cairn
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2010
Gidleigh Chambered Cairn submitted by theCaptain on 2nd Apr 2010. Gidleigh Chambered Cairn viewed looking southeast
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Ginestous Dolmen
Trip No.205 Entry No.181 Date Added: 25th Nov 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Ginestous dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 31st Oct 2005. Ginestous dolmen.
This much ruined dolmen can be seen from the Almond menhir, looking like a wide menhir, and is 40 metres to the south of menhir 3.
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Log Text: Ginestous dolmen is in a very wrecked state. At first sight it seems to be another menhir, but closer inspection shows it to be the remains of a burial chamber, these days not much more than a depression in a mound of stones. At the eastern end is a large slab (2m by 2m) standing, which is perhaps the backstone to the chamber, but possibly the fallen capstone, which may well have covered a chamber made from drystone walling. It can be seen looking west from the Almond menhir, looking like a smaller menhir, and is 40 metres to the south of menhir 3.
Ginestous Menhir 1
Trip No.205 Entry No.177 Date Added: 25th Nov 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ginestous Menhir 1 submitted by thecaptain on 27th Oct 2005. Ginestous menhir, perhaps the finest there is.
This is the side view looking west
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Log Text: The Ginestous complex of 9 menhirs and a burial chamber can be found about 5 kilometres to the east of Ganges, by following the road signposted to Nimes. After the road reaches the top of the hill continue for a further 500 metres, then take the small lane to the north, towards Ginestous chateau. After a couple of hundred metres, the road crosses an old railway line (now dismantled) and there is room to park here. The wonderful Almond menhir can be seen from here.
Ginestous menhir is the most wonderful almond shaped menhir, a good 3 metres in height, up to 2 metres wide at its middle, but only 30 cm thick. The flat front faces due south. The work that has gone into shaping it is extremely finely done.
They did a great job making this one, surely one of the most lovely standing stones in the world. Easily found a couple of hundred metres along the disused railway track to the east of the Ginestous Chateau road crossing, and visible from there. Well worth a visit.
Ginestous menhir 2
Trip No.205 Entry No.178 Date Added: 25th Nov 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Ginestous menhir 2 submitted by thecaptain on 31st Oct 2005. Ginestous menhir 2
Small fallen menhir, 50 metres to the north up the hillside from the wonderful Ginestous menhir.
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Log Text: Ginestous menhir 2 is about 50 metres further up the hillside from the Almond menhir, which can be found fallen beside a bush. It is fairly small, less than 2 metres in length.