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La Pierre Carree
Date Added: 9th Oct 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
La Pierre Carree submitted by karolus on 24th Jun 2018. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
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Log Text: Located as described, about 20-30 m west or southwest of the Geant du Manio on a narrow footpath.
La Dame Du Manio
Date Added: 9th Oct 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
La Dame Du Manio submitted by karolus on 24th Jun 2018. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
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Log Text: Located as described, about 20 m NW of the Pierre Carree along a narrow footpath
Tertre du Manio
Date Added: 10th Oct 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024
Tertre du Manio submitted by karolus on 9th Jan 2019. Le Manio 2 Menhir. The tumulus is much earlier than the alignments, which go right over it.
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Log Text: I searched for this tertre at the location given and found nothing. The site is an unlikely one on a heavily wooded steep slope.
I could be wrong, but I suspect this record is in fact referring to Manio 1 (see Burl), a tertre that was overlaid later by the Kerloquet (Manio) alignments. The description here is nearly the same as that given in the Alignments of Kerloquet entry. Its coordinates are actually 47.60114, -3.05598.
Alignement de Kerloquet
Date Added: 10th Oct 2024
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Alignement de Kerloquet submitted by aolson on 24th Jul 2020. The central groomed portion of the alignment
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Log Text: Just west of the low wetland (formerly a reservoir), the Kermario alignments end on a bluff. They then seem to resume on the hill just east of the wetland as a much smaller separate site called the Kerloquet (or Manio) alignments. It's possible these alignments were unbroken and continuous in antiquity.
Parking is the same as that for the Manio Quadrilatere, right off D196. See that log for details. A trail heads up the hill and parallels the northern rows of the alignments.
Kerlescan Alignements
Date Added: 12th Oct 2024
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Kerlescan Alignements submitted by thecaptain on 18th Oct 2004. Kerlescan Alignements, northeast of Carnac, Brittany.
This picture was taken looking east in 1987, when wandering amongst the stones was OK. I think many of them have been fenced off to try and combat erosion these days. I must go back sometime.
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Log Text: I got lucky and was able to get close access to the alignments via an open gate next to D196. This was in September. One family was actually having a picnic next to one of the rows !
Car parking is available nearby in a public lot next to the equestrian center and there are trails from there leading to either the northern or southern side of the rows.
Kerlescan Tertre and menhir
Date Added: 12th Oct 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Kerlescan Tertre and menhir submitted by LizH on 31st Oct 2007. This stone stands at the west end of the Kerlescan rows, but to the north of them, at the western end of what was once a tumulus.
The small bear (Barnaby) at the bottom is from Hallbankgate school and is making a tour of pre-historic sites!
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Log Text: This tertre and menhir are located in what would have been the NW corner of the main cromlech at Kerlescan. Normally this area is fenced off in summer, although you can still get quite close to these features along the fence line. Only later did I realize one of the gates was open, providing much closer access.
Car parking is available in a public lot next to the equestrian center off the D196. A trail leads around the horse stables to the site.
Saint-Michel tumulus
Date Added: 15th Oct 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Saint-Michel tumulus submitted by DrewParsons on 7th Nov 2009. The locked south west entrance to the tumulus.
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Log Text: This is one of a collection of very large manmade Carnacean mounds or tumuli and served as a tomb for elite individuals, accompanied by opulent and often non-local grave goods. It is on a high prominence overlooking the town of Carnac and surrounding areas. Popping the location coordinates into any online mapping tool should lead you directly to the site, which is at the end of a cul-de-sac adjacent to a hotel. There is a public parking area across from the hotel and next to the tumulus.
Le Petit Ménec
Date Added: 17th Oct 2024
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Le Petit Ménec submitted by ermine on 6th Aug 2004. Confusingly, Petit-Menéc is in fact at the opposite, eastern end of the alignments to le Menéc village at the western end. You need to turn left onto the D186 main road after continuing from Kerlescan. After about 250m turn right into a minor road going past a forest, there is a clearing where you can park after about 400m. The menhirs are in the forest on your right, arranged in a gentle curve. You don't get the same clear overview of the alignments since the view is obscured by the trees, bu...
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Log Text: Could be my favorite stone alignment site in the Carnac area, as it is secluded in a forest and not on the heavily traveled tourist track. Serene atmosphere for sure.
This is also one of the few major alignment sites that is still unfenced and you can walk freely anywhere. Much like Kerzerho.
Directions to the site are as described.
Kerlescan cromlech
Date Added: 10th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Kerlescan cromlech submitted by LizH on 31st Oct 2007. The eastern stones of the western Kerlescan cromlech. The stones touch each other and face across (N-S) rather than being aligned E-W as the rows are.
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Log Text: Kerlescan cromlech is probably the most intact of the main alignment cromlechs stretching from Menec through Kerlescan. Many of the stones on the south, west, and particularly the east sides are still in place. The northern stones are gone. Normally the area including the Kerlescan rows is fenced off in the summer, but I lucked out in Sept when I discovered later that one gate was open.
Even when closed, there are trails next to the equestrian center that get you close to stones on the western side and at various cleared spots along the fence there are vistas that allow photography of the other sides from a distance.
Car parking is available in a public lot next to the private equestrian center on the D196
Kerlescan North Cromlech
Date Added: 13th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Kerlescan North Cromlech submitted by LizH on 31st Oct 2007. This shows some of the stones on what would be the western side of the cromlech, embedded in a more modern wall.
The trees and gorse are also visible. This was taken in one of the most open stretches of the wooded area, so not indicating how difficult it in fact was to see or move!
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Log Text: This is the "other" cromlech at Kerlescan, about 100 m north of the Kerlescan tertre. Much seems to have changed since the photo by Lizh was posted. If you follow the fence line past the Kerlescan Tertre/Menhir, a very obvious wide trail eventually deviates off to the north into the wood. Trees have been cleared out quite a bit.
Soon you start seeing what look like obvious menhirs on the right side of the trail and roughly at the listed coordinates. However a much more recent embankment and stone wall was built and connects many of the taller stones. Is it what's left of this mysterious cromlech? With so little information to go on, it's hard to say but I'm guessing it is. If so, this is one side of it, and I didn't attempt a bushwhack to see if I could find anything else.
Car parking for this site is at a public lot next to the equestrian center. It's a fair trail walk from there to the site, maybe 0.7 km.
Kerlescan nord allée couverte
Date Added: 13th Oct 2024
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Kerlescan nord allée couverte submitted by Martin_L on 22nd Jan 2009. Inside the chamber.
(May 2001)
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Log Text: At least for me, this was difficult to find, as there was no signposting and there was no obvious public parking nearby. I tried to shortcut it through a private field from a trail near the Kerlescan Tertre and was greeted with horses and no trespassing signs. Ultimately I parked near the equestrian center, walked along the southern side of the Kerlescan Alignments to nearly their end, took a left onto a road that looked like someone's driveway and then picked my way north through a maze of (private?) trails to the site. The whole thing wound up being about 1.5 km one way, so I got plenty of exercise. ;-) There may have been easier access points somewhere else...
Kercado Tumulus
Date Added: 14th Oct 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Kercado Tumulus submitted by johnstone on 3rd Oct 2022. Look through the passage towards the chamber on June 28, 2022
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Log Text: Between the parking lots for the Manio and the Kerlescan alignments, a signposted private road leads south from the D196 about 1 km to a multi-road intersection and archway. There is a parking lot here on the left for the Kercado Tumulus. Across the road from the lot, there is a signpost directing walkers (pietons) west and south up the gravel road toward the site which is up on a hill next to a concrete water tower. Follow this gravel road for about 250 m. A much narrower signposted trail takes off to the left and leads slightly uphill to the tumulus.
Note: There was no honesty box or payment station that I could see, nor was I anywhere near a residence although the gravel road goes by some kind of building. No locked gate to go around either. I'm guessing the original way to the tumulus was altered recently to bypass all of that?
Mane Lud Dolmen
Date Added: 17th Oct 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Mane Lud dolmen submitted by greywether on 30th Jun 2005. The massive broken granite capstone over the chamber (8.5 x 4.9m).
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Log Text: This is currently one of the few passage graves/dolmens in the Locmariaquer area that you can get inside... at least legally. Several others have been fenced off and posted with official government warning signs urging visitors to keep out for safety reasons and view from a distance.
As for access, I parked at a public layby and lot located at 47.57362, -2.95311 off the Voie des Megalithes and walked a signposted dirt trail about 200 m east to what looks like a private paved driveway. Turn left here and walk a few more meters east on the driveway. The large knoll to the right is the tumulus. Walk up the hill and the huge chamber capstone should appear shortly, next to a Camping Interdit sign.
Er-Grah tumulus
Date Added: 13th Nov 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Er-Grah tumulus submitted by JJ on 8th Oct 2003. Er Grah tumulus, Grand Menhir Brisé, and La Table des Marchands, Locmariaquer.
Aerial photo copyright JJ Evendon
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Log Text: Er-Grah Tumulus is one of a triad of major Neolithic sites in Locmariaquer, all accessed via a visitor's center/museum for a small admission fee (although on the day I visited, the entry fee was waived for some reason). Plenty of parking is available in an adjacent gravel lot. The original burial vault and tumulus were built very gradually in several stages over the course of the 5th millenium BCE. It was subjected to significant and often harsh damage over the centuries since and what you see today is a complete modern restoration. Wide gravel paths flank the tumulus closely, but the cairn and vault are off-limits and not accessible.
La Table des Marchands
Date Added: 14th Nov 2024
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
La Table des Marchands submitted by JJ on 9th Nov 2002. La Table des Marchands
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Log Text: One of a triad of megalithic sites, all accessible via the Site des Megalithes Visitor Centre in Locmariaquer for a small admission fee. Like the Er-Grah Tumulus, parts of this passage grave were nearly buried or damaged but completely restored in the 1990s to what is thought to be its original appearance. Unlike Er-Grah, the passage and end chamber are open to the public and illuminated. Certain of the chamber pillars and capstone are covered with well preserved artwork.
Grand Menhir Brisé
Date Added: 17th Nov 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grand Menhir Brisé submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. Grand Menhir Brisé, Locmariaquer.
A megalithic tragedy.
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Log Text: The 4 broken sections of this massive menhir are lying on the ground very close to the Table des Marchands cairn. Access is via a short walking trail from the visitor's center (paid admission). The presumed socket holes of the 19 standing stones are laid out in a line of discrete gravel patches pointing towards the Er -Grah tumulus.
Menhir La Motte de Beurre
Date Added: 19th Nov 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Menhir La Motte de Beurre submitted by regina on 12th Nov 2014. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
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Log Text: Parking is problematic as the menhir is located in a small park squeezed in between two houses in a densely packed residential alley. My solution was to park farther south where the alley widens to a real street near the Chapelle St Michel with on-street spaces. It is not a long walk from there to either Mane Rethuel Dolmen or the menhir.
The menhir is broken with the base still in the ground and the other half recumbent. It was originally 7.4 m in length, including the part below ground level. One face of the base has engravings but they are darkened with age and hard to see.
Mane-Rethuel Dolmen
Date Added: 18th Nov 2024
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Mane-Rethuel dolmen submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Sep 2004. Dolmen de Mane-Rithual in central Locmariaquer viewed from North. Entrance is at oposite end.
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Log Text: This site is accessible via a short signposted trail west off of the Ruelle du Bronzo. The bigger challenge is finding a spot to park as the street (more like an alley) is densely residential and narrow with very limited parking. If you proceed farther south on the same road, the street widens with more parking spaces near the Chapelle Saint Michel. I parked here and walked back along the alley to the signposted trail (and later to visit the Motte de Beurre site nearby)
Unfortunately, as others have noted, the passage grave is fenced off for safety reasons and can only be viewed from the outside. It is not clear if or when the interior will be stabilized sufficiently to re-open the site.
Pierres Plates (Locmariaquer)
Date Added: 20th Nov 2024
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pierres Plates (Locmariaquer) submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. Les Pierres Plates
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Log Text: This is an allee coudee (angled passage grave) with a number of unique decorated stones. It sits on a bluff overlooking the sea, which becomes an extensive shellfish flat when the tide goes out.
Sadly, nothing much has changed regarding interior access. A low rope and sign discourage interior access to the passage and chamber, although they don't outright forbid it. Moreover, this is a very popular beach and there are always people milling around even during the off season. Had there been less "people presence", I might have been tempted to sneak inside, but I behaved myself.
Parking is at a beach lot maybe 200-300 yds away. A trail leads from there to the bluff edge, and it is a short walk to the right to the site.
Menhirs de Mané er Hroëck
Date Added: 22nd Nov 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhirs de Mané er Hroëck submitted by regina on 17th Nov 2014. Standing menhir
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Log Text: I looked for the two menhirs described in the text and at the location given. Didn't definitively find either of them. However I did find a standing (actually leaning) menhir about 60 mtrs south of the location that didn't really look the same as the original photo (see my photo). The whole site looks quite different now with extensive lawn mowing and clearing of the grounds, so it's still possible that it's the original standing menhir with a lot of the overgrowth removed.