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Tumulus Des Mousseaux
Trip No.12 Entry No.75 Date Added: 19th Mar 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Tumulus Des Mousseaux submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Jun 2005. Large Cairn with 2 chambers and entrances facing south East, spectacular capstones, some repaired. Excavated 1970s and restored in 1985. Similar to Malta temples, but smaller. In Pornic.
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Joselière Dolmen
Trip No.12 Entry No.76 Date Added: 19th Mar 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Joselière Dolmen submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. Unusually square 4 chambered square Cairn with double entrances in Pornic. Chambers with apses similar to single Maltese temples. Excavated In 1970s and restored 1985.
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Dolmen de Monval
Trip No.12 Entry No.77 Date Added: 19th Mar 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Monval submitted by Dipo on 20th Mar 2008. Site in Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique France
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Prédaire Dolmen
Trip No.12 Entry No.78 Date Added: 19th Mar 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Prédaire Dolmen submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Jun 2005. Tertiary sandstone remains of cairn, in three apsed shape, similar to Maltese temples, excavated 1970s and restored in 1985. East of Pornic on Sentier Côtier.
Unexplained fallen Menhir nearby.
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Menhir de la Tuterie
Trip No.12 Entry No.79 Date Added: 21st Mar 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Menhir de la Tuterie submitted by johnstone on 20th Mar 2018. Looking from the back to the road on July 9, 2013
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Les Pierres Blanches (Corsept)
Trip No.12 Entry No.80 Date Added: 21st Mar 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Les Pierres Blanches (Corsept) submitted by thecaptain on 17th Nov 2009. At first I thought that there were three stones here, not much more than a metre in height or fallen.
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Menhir dit la Pierre Bonde
Trip No.12 Entry No.81 Date Added: 21st Mar 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Menhir dit la Pierre Bonde submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Jun 2005. About 3 meter tall menhir in Corsept private fields partially covered by yellow fungus. South of Nantes.
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La Haute Gedeliere Dolmen
Trip No.12 Entry No.82 Date Added: 21st Mar 2018
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 3
La Haute Gedeliere Dolmen submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. This neglected pile of stones and dirt probably used to be an Allee Couverte, but locals use it to burn vegetation and parts of it look like they were buldozed together. On private property / fields.
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Megerie Menhir
Trip No.12 Entry No.83 Date Added: 21st Mar 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Megerie Menhir submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. About 2.5 Meter tall limestone block in fields, surounded by bushes in La Franquinerie, south of Nantes.
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Cassis Menhir
Trip No.12 Entry No.84 Date Added: 21st Mar 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Cassis Menhir submitted by AlexHunger on 2nd Jun 2005. Large rectangular block in private fields, not accessible, about 50 Meters East of road.
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La Gauterie Dolmen
Trip No.12 Entry No.85 Date Added: 21st Mar 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
La Gauterie Dolmen submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. 1 Large 4 Meter by 2 Meter capstone supported by smallish stone with another medium size block nearby. It might also be fallen large menhir. Between Nantes and Saint-Père-En-Retz.
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La Roche Govi Menhir
Trip No.12 Entry No.86 Date Added: 21st Mar 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
La Roche Govi Menhir submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. About 2.5 Meter tall irregular shaped block with quartz veins at 5 pointed croassroads next to Les Ouiseries fields, south of Nantes.
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Menhir dit la Pierre d'Etat
Trip No.16 Entry No.5 Date Added: 15th May 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Seine-Maritime (76))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir dit la Pierre d'Etat submitted by McGray on 14th Jul 2011. Menhir dit la Pierre d'Etat
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Dolmen de la Pierre Couplée
Trip No.16 Entry No.2 Date Added: 15th May 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Dolmen de la Pierre Couplée submitted by thecaptain on 11th Nov 2005. La Pierre Couplée, Ferté Frênel, is a poor broken and mistreated dolmen, barely left with enough room to survive in its ploughed field.
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Bretteville Allée Couverte
Trip No.16 Entry No.19 Date Added: 17th May 2018
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Bretteville Allée Couverte submitted by TheCaptain on 26th Sep 2007. Bretteville Galerie Des Forges, just off the ferry at Cherbourg on an Easter visit to my sisters, at sunrise on a lovely April morning.
This was a lovely visit in the early morning sun, with dew and a bit of frost making everything sparkle, and some happy and contented cows wandering around in the surrounding fields.
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Grande et Petite Pierre
Trip No.16 Entry No.20 Date Added: 17th May 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Grande et Petite Pierre submitted by thecaptain on 3rd Jan 2009. La Grande et La Petite Pierre, near Cherbourg, on a cold, bright morning.
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Petite Roche allée couverte
Trip No.16 Entry No.21 Date Added: 18th May 2018
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Petite Roche allée couverte submitted by thecaptain on 27th Dec 2004. Allée Couverte de la Petite Roche, Rocheville, Normandie.
Seen here in its woodland setting from the southwest.
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Menhir de la Bergerie des Etennevaux
Trip No.16 Entry No.22 Date Added: 18th May 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Bergerie des Etennevaux submitted by TheCaptain on 7th May 2005. La Bergerie des Etennevaux, menhir, St Germain-des-Vaux, Manche.
Menhir about 2 metres tall right at the northwestern tip of the Cherbourg peninsular, seen from two fields distance in a downpour.
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Pierres Pouquelées
Trip No.16 Entry No.23 Date Added: 19th May 2018
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Pierres Pouquelées submitted by thecaptain on 29th Apr 2005. Pierres Pouquelées View looking southish at this much ruined allée couverte on top of the hilly downs to the northwest of the village of Vauville, where the wonderful long beach can just be made out.
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Pierre au Rey
Trip No.16 Entry No.24 Date Added: 19th May 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Pierre au Rey submitted by thecaptain on 6th Dec 2004. La Pierre au Rey dolmen on the clifftops at Flamanville in Normandie, seen in its cafe garden. There are strange carvings on a couple of the stones, including a human figure on the top boulder.
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