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Merrivale Centre N
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale Centre N submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. The remains of the cairn with its central cist and surrounding stone circle which is in the middle of the southern (or central) avenue
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Merrivale
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 29th Oct 2004
Merrivale submitted by thecaptain on 29th Oct 2004. Merrivale site overview.
This is the view looking west overlooking the Merrivale site. I have tried to mark out where the various features are.
The stones in the foreground are remains of bronze age reaves and ancient settlement huts and field walls.
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Merlin's Cave (Cornwall)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2014
Merlin's Cave (Cornwall) submitted by theCaptain on 23rd Mar 2014. Inside Merlin's Cave back in 1986.
Note my friend giving scale to the place.
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Mérinville Polissoir
Trip No.204 Entry No.239 Date Added: 5th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Centre:Loiret (45))
Visited: Couldn't find on 5th Aug 2005
Log Text: The Mérinville Polissoir is another stone the farmers wife at Coinche said I should go to see. However, I am not exactly sure where to find it, and it is now pouring with rain, so I am not going to go for a long walk now, especially as it is getting late and starting to get dark. There is no sign to it, so I will for now leave it.
Mérinville Polissoir
Trip No.204 Entry No.243 Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Centre:Loiret (45))
Visited: Couldn't find on 6th Aug 2005
Log Text: Today I went back for a proper look for the Mérinville Polissoir, which is another stone the farmers wife at Coinche said I should go to see. I walked a lot down the forest track near to where it is marked on my map, but there was no chance of finding it without knowing exactly where to look. There is lots of marsh and ponds in the forest which doesn't help in trying to find anything. After quite some time going to look at any rock I can see, I decide its time to give up ! Shame.
Mentoul Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.452 Date Added: 23rd May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Mentoul Menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Jan 2019. This menhir is found in a little grassy area just to the north of Moelan-sur-Mer town centre, between the houses.
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Log Text: This menhir is found in a little grassy area just to the north of the town centre, between the houses. Its about 3 metres high and 2 metres wide.
Menoignon menhir
Trip No.214 Entry No.4 Date Added: 23rd Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 16th Apr 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Menoignon menhir submitted by theCaptain on 5th May 2014. Absolutely splendid menhir which is easily found near to a corner in a little open farmland lane, just behind a little scrubland area.
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Log Text: Absolutely splendid menhir which is easily found near to a corner in a little open farmland lane, just behind a little scrubland area. The menhir must be about 8 metres in height, of large girth at the bottom, slowly tapering up to a pointed top. The southeastern face of the menhir has been worked into an extremely flat surface, of triangular shape, something which clearly took a lot of time to produce. One can only speculate at what this was used for, I have no doubt that it may well have been painted on.
The locality of the stone is a bit marshy, and perhaps there is a spring nearby, underneath some of the wooded glades. Not far away to the east (~20 metres) is another large stone, which looks fairly natural, but I have no doubt it has some relation to the menhir.
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.
Menir do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas
Date Added: 25th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menir do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas submitted by TheCaptain on 26th Oct 2019. Outlying menhir to the northeast of the Cromeleque do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas, standing in open ground surrounded by cork bark oaks.
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Log Text: Outlying menhir to the Cromeleque do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas, standing in open grownd surrounded by cork bark oaks.
Menhirs du Plessis
Trip No.203 Entry No.270 Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhirs du Plessis submitted by thecaptain on 13th Dec 2005. Menhirs du Plessis, Le Bernard, Vendée
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Log Text: At this site, there was once an equilateral triangle of three large menhirs, each 100 metres apart, but now only two remain after the eastern one was destroyed in 1860. They are easily found and well signposted in the locality.
The northern stone is a lovely dressed menhir 7.5 metres tall. It fell and was re-erected in 1977.
The southern menhir is much smaller than its neighbour, at about 4 metres high, but again is a very nicely dressed piece of granite. It is said that there was once a stone block with engravings at its foot, but this stone has now disappeared.
Menhirs du Col des Faïsses
Trip No.205 Entry No.220 Date Added: 1st Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 24th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Menhirs du Col des Faïsses submitted by johnstone on 29th May 2018. The big one measures about 2m, in front of the information panels, June 23, 2008
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Log Text: At the north western end of the section of the Corniche-des-Cévennes along the high Causse near Le Hospitalet, can be seen several other similar looking standing stones.
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.
Menhirs dits Les Croûtes
Trip No.202 Entry No.68 Date Added: 29th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Yes on 2nd May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhirs dits Les Croûtes submitted by thecaptain on 4th Nov 2005. Les Croûtes are a couple of large (3 metres plus) menhirs stood in a damp field near to the village of Echauffour in Orne.
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Log Text: A couple of kilometres south of the village of Echauffour can be found a signpost pointing to menhirs along a small track to the east of the road. There is a place to park on this track near the main road and after a couple of hundred metres walk down this track the two menhirs can be seen standing in a field.
Both stones are about 3 metres tall and are spaced about 30 metres apart from each other on an alignment of 055° running down the hill (235° uphill). There is supposed to be a third stone in this alignment and I think I saw it laying under deep undergrowth in the hedge at the top of the field on about an equal spacing although I could not be 100% sure.
Menhirs dit de la Maisonnette 2
Trip No.205 Entry No.247 Date Added: 7th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Access 4
Menhirs dit de la Maisonnette 2 submitted by Aska on 20th Oct 2010. Site in Languedoc: Lozère (48) France
Triangle of menhirs on the hill close to D35 road.
44.41490N,3.63194E
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Log Text: As I was driving past in the rain, I could see another hiltop covered in standing stones, where a possible cromlech has been identified here.
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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Menhirs de la Fage B
Trip No.205 Entry No.228 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Access 4
Menhirs de la Fage B submitted by ocdolmen on 5th Aug 2006. La Fage group 2, Lozère, France.
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Log Text: In the area around the Pierre des Trois Communes, can be seen dozens of menhirs, which are collectively known as the La Fage menhirs B, or the Combettes menhirs. It was impossible to visit them all in the short time I was here, so I will add the few that I did go to visit at first hand.
Menhirs de la Fage A
Trip No.205 Entry No.226 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Couldn't find on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Access 4
Menhirs de la Fage A submitted by ocdolmen on 29th Aug 2006. on 28th of August 2006 beside a menhir of group1 of la fage, Bondons menhirs group, Lozère, France.
originally, there was 20 menhirs composing sub-group 1 of Fage, group on the Bondons (150 menhirs); Not long ago, all the menhirs were lying on the ground. They are in the course of rélèvement and the majority are today upright. A part disappeared certainly re-used by the peasants from the surroundings (various constructions).
Their sizes are between 1 meter to 1.85 meter tall.
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Log Text: Take the D.35 road east from the Col de Montmirat for just under 4 kilometres, and there is a signpost to menhirs down a footpath on the right. However, when I visited, this footpath takes you through a field of vicious looking cows, so I did not venture any further. Supposedly there are 15 small menhirs to be found in the woods, should you choose to go here.
Menhirs de Hirguer
Trip No.203 Entry No.450 Date Added: 23rd May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 16th Jun 2005
Menhirs de Hirguer submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Jan 2019. A few hundred metres to the south of the road to Clohars from Moelan can be seen this menhir which must be about 3 metres tall.
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Log Text: A few hundred metres to the south of the road to Clohars from Moelan, bit further to the east along the road from the above menhir, can be seen this menhir which must be about 3 metres tall.
Menhirs de Coëby 1
Trip No.204 Entry No.22 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Menhirs de Coëby 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 10th Sep 2013. In the thick Coëby forest can be found the remains of many dolmens and other megalithic structures, although most are very difficult to find.
At the junction of lanes in the forest, there are a couple of easily found menhirs. Both are about 3 metres high, and they are about 15 metres apart.
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Log Text: At the junction of lanes in the forest, there are a couple of menhirs. Both are about 3 metres high, and they are about 15 metres apart. Not marked on any map I have seen, they are however easy to find.
Menhirs d'Epoigny
Trip No.204 Entry No.204 Date Added: 27th Aug 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bourgogne:Saône-et-Loire (71))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Menhirs d'Epoigny submitted by thecaptain on 27th Oct 2006. Just outside the main field of stones, beside the road junction, is a sixth menhir, this one only about 2 metres tall and broken, and which does not align with any of the others. Another stone is nearby.
This is the first view you get of the stones as you approach.
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Log Text: Just to the south of the D.978 road, a few kilometres north west of Couches, is a sign to menhirs, which I of course followed. About a kilometre from the main road is a little road junction, and several menhirs can be seen in the fields. It's hard to make out exactly what the menhirs represent, and how accurate they are is open to question, as they have all been re-erected in concrete bases fairly recently.
Near the side of the lane is a row of three superbly sculpted menhirs, the southern one being 5.5 metres tall, with several carved lines and cupmarks. The central menhir is about 4.5 metres tall, but has lost its top, while the northern menhir is fallen and broken (in actual fact it looks to have been cut up) and would perhaps have been bigger than its neighbours. The three menhirs are evenly spaced about 7 metres apart, and are aligned NW to SE at about 125°. Forty or fifty metres away to the north, are another pair of menhirs, both about 4.5 metres in height, and again they are superbly shaped and dressed. These are spaced at about 10 metres from each other, and align NE to SW at 025°, and any intersection passes through the row of three but not at any stone. Of this pair of menhirs, the southern one has a few cupules carved into it, while the northern one is decorated with lines, cupules and at least one axe, and a few more serpent like lines. Just outside this field, beside the road junction, is a sixth menhir, this one only about 2 metres tall and broken, and which does not align with any of the others.
It is thought that there was once more menhirs here. This feels like a very powerful place, up on this hill. I feel all trembly here, and in awe of the stones, and find it hard to leave.