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Dolmen de la Pierre-Pèze
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Dolmen de la Pierre-Pèze submitted by thecaptain on 1st Dec 2005. La Pierre-Pèze is positioned in a lovely woodland glade and despite the noise of the busy road and the TGV trains rushing (quietly) by, the place is full of birdsong and a nice place to spend some time.
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Log Text: Very impressive site
Dolmen des Sept Chemins
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Dolmen des Sept Chemins submitted by TheCaptain on 31st Jul 2013. Sept Chemins dolmen can be found not far from the Bougon necropolis, just to the south of the Sept Chemins crossroads. It has been recently restored, and sits in a little area with parking and notice board.
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Log Text: None
Musée des Tumulus de Bougon
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Musée des Tumulus de Bougon submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Sep 2010. Outside the museum is a 40 metre long neolithic longhouse and other structures based on nearby archaeological finds.
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Log Text: It is an interesting site. Once you have paid for entrance you have access to the museum and the experimental archaeology and then the site leads on into the Bougon Tumuli which are all fairly close together in one area.
Pierre Levée de Bougon
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Log Text: Attempted a visit to this dolmen as the bougon tumuli are so impressive but found nothing.
Dolmen de la Garenne (La Mothe)
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Dolmen de la Garenne (La Mothe) submitted by thecaptain on 27th Jul 2008. The dolmen is in a clearing in the woods, and still mostly within its mound. I cannot be totally sure what this is the remains of, whether it is one chamber with a long and angled passage, or more likely two chambers with entry passageways.
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Log Text: Eventually found the allee du dolmen but not before we spent ages trying to battle our way through the wood.
Les Doignons
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Les Doignons submitted by oldman on 1st Oct 2018. Site in Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) France Close up showing the amonite revealed when the top was broken off this stone
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Log Text: Failed to find this dolmen but the point on the road closest to these coordinates where the sat nav told us we had reached our destination was a large stone the top of which had been broken off to reveal an amonite. Could this be a menhir?
Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (Neuville-de-Poitou)
Date Added: 5th Nov 2017
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (Neuville-de-Poitou) submitted by JacobT on 22nd Jul 2010. Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (Neuville-de-Poitou)
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Log Text: Google says this is Dolman des Amoureux. There is a woodland site just above that was closed when we were there but maybe would supply a cup of tea in season.
Dolmen de Beaumont
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Dolmen de Beaumont submitted by oldman on 1st Oct 2018. Site in Poitou:Vienne (86) France The dolmen could be hidden in here?
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Log Text: No one in the village had heard of a dolmen nearby and I can only assume that the coordinates aren't correct. Nothing visible nearby. Farmer let us look in his area and beyond his land is a disused railway which is very overgrown so could hide anything.
Dolmen de la Fontaine au Son 1
Date Added: 14th Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 25th Oct 2017
Dolmen de la Fontaine au Son 1 submitted by dipo on 12th Dec 2009. 86 St LEGER DE MONTBRILLAIS
Dolmen de la Fontaine au Son
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Log Text: Surrounded by chain link fence so difficult to get good pictures
Pierre-Levée (Chiroux)
Date Added: 27th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pierre-Levée (Chiroux) submitted by theCaptain on 21st Jul 2011. Atop a little hill overlooking a pond can be found this fine dolmen, 150 metres from the road and signposted with a little parking area.
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Dolmen de Laverré
Date Added: 27th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 13th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen de Laverré submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Dec 2007. A single capstone sits on top of the chamber, made with two sidestones each side, two backstones and a single stone at the east end, where the entrance is.
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Log Text: Grassy capstone. Brambles beginning to take over. Small sign at roadside. Infrequently visited.
Dolmen de la Bie
Date Added: 27th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 13th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen de la Bie submitted by Rubis on 25th Jan 2011. This dolmen is not on the village of Rochereau but Champigny le sec.
Lat : 46.70282N
Long : -0.141492E
Site in Poitou:Vienne (86) France
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Log Text: Great place. Windy hill. Vast capstone. Maybe it was once supported on other of the surrounding stones or maybe this is the way it was constructed with the angled stone. Very impressive.
Vaon Dolmen
Date Added: 27th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 13th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Vaon dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jul 2013. The Dolmen de Vaon is a fairly complete Angevin dolmen with a main chamber fronted at the east end by its entrance porch. The two capstones of the main chamber are still in place, although the roofstone of the entrance has fallen.
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Log Text: What a wonderful site. Views in all directions. Clearly a resting place of importance.
Cairn Catto
Date Added: 4th Jul 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Cairn Catto submitted by oldman on 4th Jul 2019. This is the 3rd of 3 pictures taken from the left end to the right end of the cairn.
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Log Text: The cairn is in a field of cows surrounded by double barbed wire fences. It is only possible to get to the first fence and take pictures from there. At least half of the height of the cairn is hidden by gorse so it is only possible to see the stones forming the top of the cairn.
Gray Hill circle
Date Added: 29th Nov 2018
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Nov 2018
Gray Hill circle submitted by sem on 6th May 2013. Vandalism!
The idiot who sprayed this hand-print probably thought he was being very clever and somehow "enhancing" the work of his ancestors. The sane and sensible among us will view it for what it is, graffiti.
This has been reported to the relevant archaeo trust. Unfortunately I doubt the culprit will be found..... unless anyone knows of someone bragging on a social network site????
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Log Text: Well I am not an archaeologist but isn't this a burial chamber? It is not the least bit circular but formed of two rows of stones down the sides with others at the ends.
Great House Camp
Date Added: 28th Apr 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Great House Camp submitted by Andy B on 3rd Feb 2011. Hill fort topped with trees.
Copyright Jonathan Billinger and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence
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Log Text: We thought at first that we would not be able to get to view the fort as there is no path indicated on the OS map and the Great House seems to be very private. However when we parked nearby we found that there is actually a marked (in Welsh) footpath which passes by two sides of the fort. There is a high hedge along most of the path but one access point into the area of the set of four ditches and mounds. The main area of the fort is not accessible and used for grazing cows. The rings are however quite impressive.
Nant Tarw WNW
Date Added: 15th Oct 2018
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2018
Nant Tarw WNW submitted by enkidu41 on 9th Jun 2004. SN 8197 2584
A 65' diameter circle of 15 or so stones. It lies 354' away (centre to centre) from its companion circle, Nant Tarw ESE.
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Log Text: Not an easy place to access across the moor