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Grotte du Pape
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Landes (40))
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2007
Grotte du Pape submitted by thecaptain on 1st Apr 2007. The "Dame de Brassempouy".
A female head carved from ivory, found in the Grotte du Pape near to the village of Brassempouy in 1894.
The figure is only 3.6 cm big, and is thought to be the oldest representation of a human face, dating to almost 30,000 years ago.
The figure normally resides in the St Germain-en-Laye prehistory museum, but is seen here in an exhibition of Women in Art throughout history, which I saw at the Bougon Tumuli in 2005.
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Lanacombe 4
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 29th Mar 2007
Lanacombe 4 submitted by thecaptain on 29th Mar 2007. What did I find here ? Absolutely nothing. Not a Sausage. Diddley Squat.
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Clannon Ball
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2007
Clannon Ball submitted by thecaptain on 24th Mar 2007. The two Clannon Ball pillar like stones, seen here looking uphill, ina northish direction.
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Pig Hill (N)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2007
Pig Hill (N) submitted by thecaptain on 20th Mar 2007. The northern stone of Pig Hill (N) stone setting seen here in its position within the Exmoor landscape looking west.
I believe that the two bits of stone this side of the standing stone have been broken from it, while the slab on the far side was once another stone of this stone setting which has been moved and placed there from its original position elsewhere.
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Pig Hill (S)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Mar 2007
Pig Hill (S) submitted by thecaptain on 18th Mar 2007. Some of the stones at the lower, western, end of the oval.
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West Anstey Long Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Mar 2007
West Anstey Long Stone submitted by thecaptain on 16th Mar 2007. West Anstey Long Stone, looking eastwards along the ridge, although the stone is well below the top to the north.
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Pierre de Minuit Menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.237 Date Added: 5th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Centre:Loiret (45))
Visited: Yes on 18th Feb 2007. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pierre de Minuit Menhir submitted by thecaptain on 18th Feb 2007. Approaching the Pierre de Minuit.
It's a kilometre or so west of the village of Louzouer, behind the Chaise farmhouse.
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Log Text: I wouldn't have bothered with this one, but was told I should visit it by the farmers wife at Coinche. And my thanks must again go to her. It is a wonderful stone, the tallest menhir in the Departement of Loiret. It is almost 5 metres tall, up to 2 metres wide and very variable in thickness. The stone is half a sort of holed and pitted sarsen like stone, on the west face, while the east face is a puddingstone conglomerate of flints and gravel. Most lovely. Much of the puddingstone face is crumbling, and now makes wonderful shapes, with bits sticking out here and there.
Where the puddingstone layer is thin, there are a couple of holes right through the menhir. It is said that women wanting to become mothers should sit in the chair at the top of the stone. Fantastic. This stone can be found a kilometre or so west of the village, behind the Chaise farmhouse, and can easily be seen from the road.
Coinche polissoir
Trip No.204 Entry No.236 Date Added: 5th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Centre:Loiret (45))
Visited: Yes on 12th Feb 2007. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
Coinche polissoir submitted by thecaptain on 12th Feb 2007. Coinche polissoir stones can be seen here in the ploughed field.
The Coinche menhir stands in the field of sunflowers beyond the polissoir stones, towards the top end of the wood.
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Log Text: About 80 metres from the menhir are several large rocks laying flat in the next field. One of these stones has three lovely polishing grooves in the top at one side, each about 50 cm long, and a big cuvette basin for polishing the flat sides. As for the menhir, these stones are in a cropped field, and not normally possible to find, but I was again taken to them. There were more polishing grooves elsewhere on the rocks, but these have been broken off when the rocks were partly broken several hundred years ago to build houses. Somebody has a house with polishing grooves incorporated in their walls !
It is now all very dry land round here, but in the past this was an area of swamp and marsh, which would have provided the water necessary for the polishing task. The ancient people didn't live here, but had a village a bit further down the valley.
Also found near here in the past was a portable polishing stone, which is now in the safe keeping of a museum somewhere.
These two stones would have been impossible for me to find and see had it not been for the kindness and help of the farmers wife. And although she spoke quick French, I gained a lot of information from her that I would otherwise never have been able to find out. She is obviously very proud to have these stones on her land, and interested in them. Many thanks to her.
Col du Petit Saint-Bernard Cromlech
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Rhone:Savoie (73))
Visited: Yes on 4th Feb 2007
Col du Petit Saint-Bernard Cromlech submitted by thecaptain on 4th Feb 2007. There is a 75m diameter Cromlech which sits at the top of the Col du Petit Saint-Bernard. This col is historically a very important route through the Alps, nowadays between France and Italy, and across which Hannibal took his elephants with which to raid Rome.
The cromlech obviously cannot be seen in this photograph, but it gives a good overall picture of its position.
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Les Pierres Branlantes
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2007
Les Pierres Branlantes submitted by thecaptain on 15th Jan 2007. The situation of Les Pierres Branlantes seen from the farm track to the southeast. They are just inside the wood directly at the end of the hedge crossing the field.
It looks to me as though some of the original mound which covered them survives, as can be seen by the raise in the ground at the corner of the field.
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Hangman's Stone (Northleach)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jan 2007
Hangman's Stone (Northleach) submitted by thecaptain on 14th Jan 2007. The situation of the Hangman's Stone.
Easily found to the west of Northleach, near a radio mast.
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The Horestone (Lower Swell)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jan 2007
The Horestone (Lower Swell) submitted by thecaptain on 10th Jan 2007. The Horestone stands in a field to the southwest of the village of Lower Swell.
Almost certainly once part of a burial chamber from within a longbarrow, it's about 2 metres long, less than a metre in height and varies in thickness.
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Whittlestone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jan 2007
Whittlestone submitted by thecaptain on 9th Jan 2007. In the centre of the village of Lower Swell, just off the village green to the northwest side can be found the Whittlestone.
It sits on a grassy bank with a little sign stating that it was once part of a neolithic burial chamber, and had originally been further up the hill near to the churchyard.
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Hazleton North
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2007
Hazleton North submitted by thecaptain on 7th Jan 2007. Now completely destroyed after the excavations, all that there is to be seen of this ex longbarrow is a very slight raise in the middle of a ploughed field.
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Hazleton South
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2007
Hazleton South submitted by thecaptain on 7th Jan 2007. Hazleton South longbarrow is left clear in the field and is not currently ploughed up, although I would think it has been in the past. I would estimate the slight mound, maximum one metre in height, to be about 50 metres in length by 25 metres wide.
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Notgrove
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2007
Notgrove submitted by thecaptain on 7th Jan 2007. The completely hopeless and uninformative sign at the site of Notgrove longbarrow. This site is a disgrace to English Heritage and Gloucester Council.
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Cold Aston
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2007
Cold Aston submitted by thecaptain on 7th Jan 2007. Cold Aston longbarrow seen close up at the northwestern end.
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Lower Swell barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jan 2007
Lower Swell barrow submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jan 2007. The barrow can be seen under the bushes in its little enclosure at the far side of the cropped field - strangely well down the hillside.
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Ganborough
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jan 2007
Ganborough submitted by thecaptain on 4th Jan 2007. This was obviously once a large and substantial longbarrow sited on a hilltop ridge. But these days it is very easily missed as you drive past on the busy A424 which cuts through its southeastern end.
Viewed here looking north.
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Poles Wood East
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jan 2007
Poles Wood East submitted by thecaptain on 4th Jan 2007. Poles Wood as seen from the lane between Upper and Lower Swell.
There was no obvious route up into the wood, and I didn't have much time, so I didn't go into the woods to search out any of the long barrows within.
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