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Menhir de la Veissière (02)
Trip No.205 Entry No.244 Date Added: 7th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Veissière (02) submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd May 2010. Walking down the ridge from the hamlet, this is the first menhir I found before having to give up and return due to massive storms approaching.
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Log Text: Walking down the ridge in a small gap in the storms, I found two more menhirs before having to give up and return. This first menhir along the ridgetop track is about 2 metres tall, and about 100 metres from the road.
Menhir de la Veissière (01)
Trip No.205 Entry No.243 Date Added: 7th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Menhir de la Veissière (01) submitted by theCaptain on 29th Apr 2010. Near to the D.35 road in the hamlet of La Vaissière itself is a menhir incorporated into a wall, which has a plaque and an inscription on it, commemorating two young girls who died up here in the winter snows.
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Log Text: Near to the D.35 road in the hamlet of La Vaissière itself is a menhir incorporated into a wall, which has a plaque and an inscription on it, commemorating two young girls who died up here in the winter snows.
Menhir de la Roche (Gorron)
Trip No.202 Entry No.24 Date Added: 26th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53))
Visited: Couldn't find on 24th Apr 2005
Menhir de la Roche (Gorron) submitted by SMD on 25th Oct 2007. Site in Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53)
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Log Text: Unlike all the rest of the menhirs in this area I could find no signpost to this one despite it being clearly marked on the ign map and there being a large warehouse called Menhir Meubles or similar in the vicinity. After a while looking around I gave up not finding this one.
Menhir de la Pierre Fichée (La Pinelais)
Date Added: 12th Oct 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Pierre Fichée (La Pinelais) submitted by thereddragon on 9th Oct 2012. Pierre Fichée (La Pinelais)
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Log Text: A bit like busses, this menhir has been ignored by the megalithic portal's stonehunters for many years, and then 2 come along in 2 days!
Menhir de la Grurie
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jan 2014
Menhir de la Grurie submitted by theCaptain on 3rd Jan 2014. This stone can be found in a field to the west of the village of Villiers Canivet, to the south of the big water tower between here and the village of Ussy.
A strange rectangular section stone, is it a fallen (but on edge) menhir, or perhaps a backstone or fallen capstone from a burial chamber?
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Menhir de la Fage B09
Trip No.205 Entry No.237 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Menhir de la Fage B09 submitted by theCaptain on 26th Apr 2010. One of the La Fage B menhirs, this is a 2.0 metre tall menhir, probably broken, with a pointed top. It is positioned at the top of the comb.
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Log Text: A 2.0 metre tall menhir, with a pointed top, positioned at the top of the comb.
Menhir de la Fage B08
Trip No.205 Entry No.236 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Menhir de la Fage B08 submitted by theCaptain on 26th Apr 2010. One of the La Fage B menhirs, this is a 1.7 metre tall menhir, on the high hilltop further to the east than most.
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Log Text: A 1.7 metre tall menhir, on the high hilltop further to the east than most.
Menhir de la Fage B07
Trip No.205 Entry No.235 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Fage B07 submitted by theCaptain on 26th Apr 2010. One of the La Fage B menhirs, this is a 1.6 metre tall menhir.
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Log Text: A 1.6 metre tall menhir.
Menhir de la Fage B06
Trip No.205 Entry No.234 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Fage B06 submitted by theCaptain on 26th Apr 2010. One of the La Fage B menhirs, this is a 1.4 metre tall menhir.
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Log Text: A 1.4 metre tall menhir.
Menhir de la Fage B05
Trip No.205 Entry No.233 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Fage B05 submitted by theCaptain on 26th Apr 2010. One of the La Fage B menhirs, this is a 1.4 metre tall menhir.
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Log Text: A 1.4 metre tall menhir.
Menhir de la Fage B04
Trip No.205 Entry No.232 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Fage B04 submitted by theCaptain on 26th Apr 2010. One of the La Fage B menhirs, this is a 1.5 metre tall menhir.
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Log Text: A 1.5 metre tall menhir.
Menhir de la Fage B03
Trip No.205 Entry No.231 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Fage B03 submitted by theCaptain on 26th Apr 2010. One of the La Fage B menhirs, this is a 1.5 metre tall menhir.
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Log Text: A 1.5 metre tall menhir.
Menhir de la Fage B02
Trip No.205 Entry No.230 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 26th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Fage B02 submitted by theCaptain on 26th Apr 2010. One of the La Fage B menhirs, this is a 1.6 metre tall menhir.
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Log Text: A 1.6 metre tall menhir.
Menhir de la Fage B01
Trip No.205 Entry No.229 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Fage B01 submitted by theCaptain on 26th Apr 2010. One of the La Fage B menhirs, this is a 1.3 metre tall menhir, with the top broken off and laying nearby.
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Log Text: A 1.3 metre tall menhir, with the top broken off and laying nearby.
Menhir de la Demoiselle de Bracqueville
Trip No.206 Entry No.5 Date Added: 25th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Demoiselle de Bracqueville submitted by thecaptain on 11th Oct 2006. To visit this stone, find your way from Beny-sur-Mer to the south along small tracks to Bracqueville farm. Park near to the farm, and walk about 500 metres along the track which passes in front of the farm till you get to a junction of trackways. Take the grassy track to the left, and the menhir is a further 500 metres along and just into the field on the left.
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Log Text: Found this at last, on probably my third attempt. Find your way from Beny-sur-Mer to the south along small tracks to Bracqueville farm. Park near to the farm, and walk about 500 metres along the track which passes in front of the farm till you get to a junction of trackways. Take the grassy track to the left, and the menhir is a further 500 metres along and just into the field on the left.
Its about 1.4 metres tall, 0.7 metres wide and 0.3 metres thick, and leaning towards the north. The farmer has left very little room around it, and it has some very recent scrapes and damage done to it, no doubt from farm machinery. It is likely that this menhir often gets obscured by crops in the summer. Nice to have found it, its a nice stone. Stupidly I forgot to take my gps with me to get a proper position.
Menhir de la Demoiselle de Bracqueville
Trip No.202 Entry No.4 Date Added: 25th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Couldn't find on 23rd Apr 2005
Menhir de la Demoiselle de Bracqueville submitted by thecaptain on 11th Oct 2006. la Demoiselle de Bracqueville, near Caen in Calvados. Its about 1.4 metres tall, and leans towards the north.
The farmer has left very little room around it, and it has some very recent scrapes and damage done to it, no doubt from farm machinery.
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Log Text: Despite being marked on the ign map and having a description of how to find this 1.4 metre tall stone I could find no reasonable place to park down the farm track to Bracqueville before a 500 metre walk so didn’t bother. I could see no sign of the stone from anywhere in the vicinity.
Menhir de la Crulière
Trip No.203 Entry No.285 Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Menhir de la Crulière submitted by thecaptain on 20th Dec 2005. This menhir, 2.4 metres tall, is in a well fenced field, near to the village of Brem-sur-Mer in Vendée.
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Log Text: Signposted from the road, 0.5 kilometres walk, and having a little white signpost at the field entrance, I somehow walked right past, and took ages before I turned round and came back. How on earth did I miss it ? I probably wasted almost an hour here ! The menhir, 2.4 metres tall, and a triangular block of white granite, is in a field which is well fenced. The sign tells me that it is the last of four megaliths which existed in the commune of Brem-sur-Mer only a hundred years ago. There is a legend that a fifteen year old boy and his cow were crushed beneath the stone, which was thrown by the devil.
Menhir de la Croix-Grosse
Trip No.205 Entry No.254 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Auvergne:Cantal (15))
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Menhir de la Croix-Grosse submitted by thecaptain on 31st Oct 2008. This christianised menhir stands just on the western outskirts of the village of Sériers, and is along the road to Peyrelade (no doubt once home to its own megalith).
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Log Text: This christianised menhir stands just on the western outskirts of the village of Sériers, and is signposted from there as Menhir Christianisée, and is along the road to Peyrelade (no doubt once home to its own megalith). There is a large basalt carved cross sat on top of a superb column of christalline basalt, octagonal and well over 2 metres high. With its cross, it stands a good 3.5 metres tall. This really is a lovely monument, the basalt column is perfectly upright, and always has been, its never been restored. Apparently the column must have been brought here from several kilometres away, so its obviously at a once very special place.
Menhir de la Croix Saint Jacques
Trip No.204 Entry No.248 Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Ile-de-France:Seine-et-Marne 77)
Visited: Yes on 6th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Croix Saint Jacques submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Feb 2007. Menhir de la Croix Saint Jacques can be found in a field just to the south of the village of Tousson.
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Log Text: This menhir can be found in a field just to the side of the D.410 road, about 500 metres to the south of the village of Tousson. It stands about 3.3 metres tall, and is a rectangular section lump of sarsen. I found it difficult to park here.
Menhir de la Croix Carrée (Landigou)
Trip No.205 Entry No.2 Date Added: 13th Oct 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Menhir de la Croix Carrée (Landigou) submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Feb 2006. Menhir de la Croix Carrée (Landigou)
Looking for a menhir marked on my map, I could find nothing, so asked a lady walking her dog, and she directed me to this roadside cross, a couple of kilometres away.
It has a historic monument signpost, which states that it is a megalithic monument of unknown origin.
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Log Text: Looking for a menhir marked on my map, I could find nothing, so asked a lady walking her dog, and she directed me to this roadside cross. It has a historic monument signpost, which states that it is a megalithic monument of unknown origin. About 1.2 metres tall, it is of square section, with large crosses carved into each face, joining each other around the corners. Perhaps it was once a menhir, perhaps once an iron age stele. Its hard to tell. But it is not the menhir I was looking for !