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Alban menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.36 Date Added: 6th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Alban menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Aug 2007. Alban menhir, situated 100 metres far from Alban dolmen, was built by the Devil (legend)
Alban dolmen or "Stone of the Virgin" because this dolmen was, following the legend, built by the Virgin.
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Amalrics Menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.51 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Amalrics Menhir submitted by patoleon on 5th Aug 2018. The Amalrics menhir at the center of the village. Only the top is visible, a calvary was build around.
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Barraque-des-Fourniols statue-menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.15 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Barraque-des-Fourniols statue-menhir submitted by thecaptain on 14th Mar 2009. This statue-menhir is about 1.4 metres high, and it is well shaped, but any engravings are extrememly faint, to the point of being invisible to me.
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Cambous statue-menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.42 Date Added: 8th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 26th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Cambous statue-menhir submitted by peterpf on 29th Jul 2006. The statue-menhir in a front view.
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Col-de-la-Bole menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.26 Date Added: 6th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Col-de-la-Bole menhir submitted by thecaptain on 13th Mar 2009. At the top of a steep track is the broken off top of a statue-menhir, only about 0.75 metres of it, with its back having had a bishops cross carved into it.
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Combeynart Statue-Menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.10 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Combeynart statue-menhir submitted by theCaptain on 18th Nov 2010. This is a very tall thin male statue-menhir which stands just over 2 metres tall, but only 40 cm width.
Many of his features are equally scrawny. Legs, belt and "objet" can be made out but the rest is a bit of a jumble.
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Croix-de-Condomines menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.17 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Croix-de-Condomines menhir submitted by johnstone on 5th Dec 2018. Not very well visible those days, June 21, 2006
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Dolmen de Peyro Lebado (Crespin)
Trip No.25 Entry No.33 Date Added: 6th Dec 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen de Peyro Lebado (Crespin) submitted by LaDragonne on 11th Jan 2018. Dolmen de Peyre Levade CRESPIN Tarn (81) France
Dalle de couverture ayant glissé
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Dolmen dit Palet de Notre-Dame
Trip No.25 Entry No.35 Date Added: 6th Dec 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dolmen dit Palet de Notre-Dame submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Aug 2007. Alban dolmen or Stone of the Virgin because this dolmen was, following the legend, built by the Virgin.
Alban menhir or Palet-du-Diable de Notre-Dame, situated 100 metres away was reputedly built by the Devil.
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Dolmen du Gouty
Trip No.25 Entry No.34 Date Added: 6th Dec 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Dolmen du Gouty submitted by LaDragonne on 11th Jan 2018. Dolmen du Gouty VALDERIES Tarn (81) France
Vue générale
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Dolmen du Plo de Laganthe
Trip No.25 Entry No.53 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dolmen du Plo de Laganthe submitted by thecaptain on 6th Dec 2003. The Dolmen du Plo de Laganthe, near to the village of Labastide-Rouairoux, in the Parc Regional du Haut Languedoc, Tarn, southwest France.
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Favarels statue-menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.21 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Favarels statue-menhir submitted by thecaptain on 12th May 2009. This jolly chap is only about a metre tall, but has all the right features, face with tattous, arms with fingers, legs with toes, belt with buckle and shoulder straps with "Objet". He also carries an axe.
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Fontbelle statue-menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.47 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Fontbelle statue-menhir submitted by Aska on 21st Oct 2010. Fontbelle statue-menhir in Tarn (81) France
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Granisse statue-menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.1 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Granisse statue-menhir submitted by peterpf on 29th Jul 2006. This stone shows not much details.
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Guior-Haut statue-menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.45 Date Added: 8th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Guior-Haut statue-menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Aug 2007. Guyor-haut statue-menhir.
the carvings are very eroded and can hardly be seen anymore.
The stone measures 1.95 meters in height.
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La Rasse statue-menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.11 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
La Rasse statue-menhir submitted by Aska on 21st Oct 2010. The front side, the engravings (eyes, cupmarks and dagger-like-ornaments) are hard to recognize.
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La Tour menhir
Trip No.25 Entry No.40 Date Added: 8th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 26th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
La Tour menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Aug 2007. La Tour menhir.
Nice 2.10 metres tall granite menhir near a road.
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Les Deux Soeurs
Trip No.25 Entry No.52 Date Added: 9th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Les Deux Soeurs submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Aug 2007. The menhirs of "Les Deux Soeurs" (the Two Sisters) are standing along the road at the entrance of the town of Lacabarède's .
2 legends exist: the first says that menhirs mark the place of a Gallic temple dedicated to the Celtic god Hérus; second legend says that the day when the two menhirs (which are at a distance of 2 meters of each other one) are reunited, it will be the end of the world.
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Menhir de Candoubre 2
Trip No.25 Entry No.20 Date Added: 5th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Menhir de Candoubre 2 submitted by johnstone on 5th Dec 2018. Close up from the back side, June 21, 2006
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Menhir de Duganaoud
Trip No.25 Entry No.37 Date Added: 8th Dec 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2006. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Menhir de Duganaoud submitted by ocdolmen on 18th Aug 2007. Site in Midi:Tarn (81)
Menhir de Duganaoud is also called "la Man Leva" in occitan language (" The Raised Hand " because it was the custom to raise a hand when one walked past this menhir by way of respect and of greeting.
Duganaoud has also certainly for origin " d' Iganaoud " which indicate in occitan language of the department of the Tarn the persons of Protestant religion.
In every case, this stone was or respected (one raised the hand to greet it) or been afraid (the owl is a night bi...
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