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Dolmen de Coëby 1
Trip No.204 Entry No.20 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Coëby 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Sep 2013. Just beside the D.766 road north of the Grande Loge can be found the remains of this dolmen. It's difficult to tell exactly what it is the remains of, but there are half a dozen large stones still standing.
I understand that there are more than half a dozen dolmens and chambers to be found in this piece of forest, but they are not easy to find. I am not at all surprised. It would be nice if a little woodland walk was arranged, as at many other communities.
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Log Text: In the thick forest, just beside the D.766 road north of the Grande Loge can be found the remains of this dolmen. It's difficult to tell exactly what it is the remains of, but there are half a dozen large stones still standing. It was possibly a large simple chamber of which the capstones have now fallen, of which the largest is approximately 4 m by 4m trapezoidal shape.
The forest was obviously undergoing a major clear out when I visited, after having become totally overgrown and impenetrable. I understand that there are more than half a dozen dolmens and chambers to be found in this piece of forest, but they are not easy to find. I am not at all surprised. It would be nice if a little woodland walk was arranged, as at many other communities.
Menhirs de Coëby 1
Trip No.204 Entry No.22 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Menhirs de Coëby 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 10th Sep 2013. In the thick Coëby forest can be found the remains of many dolmens and other megalithic structures, although most are very difficult to find.
At the junction of lanes in the forest, there are a couple of easily found menhirs. Both are about 3 metres high, and they are about 15 metres apart.
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Log Text: At the junction of lanes in the forest, there are a couple of menhirs. Both are about 3 metres high, and they are about 15 metres apart. Not marked on any map I have seen, they are however easy to find.
Roche de Migourdy
Trip No.204 Entry No.28 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Roche de Migourdy submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Sep 2013. What you find is a nice 25 metre diameter mound at the top of the hill in a field, covered in 2005 with trees and dense undergrowth.
Within this mound is the remains of a very nice dolmen a couloir, still mostly buried within it.
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Log Text: This was a nice one to find, and is a few hundred metres walk up a track and then across a field to the south of the village of Kergoff, which itself is a few kilometres south of Plumelic. What you find is a nice 25 metre diameter mound at the top of the hill in a field, covered as usual with trees and dense undergrowth.
Within this mound is the remains of a very nice dolmen a couloir, still mostly buried within it. The chamber is about 3.5 m by 2.5 m and lined with large slabs. The whole thing is topped by a single large capstone, and there is room enough to stand up within it. A couple of stones remain from the entrance passageway.
I understand that this mound once had two dolmens within it, one of which has now been wrecked. I found no sign of another chamber anywhere, but that is not to say that there aren't remains hidden in the thick undergrowth somewhere.
La Pierre Branlante (Trédion)
Trip No.204 Entry No.19 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Jul 2005
La Pierre Branlante (Trédion) submitted by johnstone on 1st Apr 2018. The so called dolmen on June 22, 2012
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Log Text: The track up to this from the road between Tredion and Ervan was gated and with a keep out sign. I hoped I would be able to perhaps get to this later from the other side in the forest, but there was no such luck.
Dolmen de Coëby 2
Trip No.204 Entry No.21 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Jul 2005
Dolmen de Coëby 2 submitted by regina on 30th Nov 2014. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
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Log Text: This is supposedly just beside the road, but the forest was far too thick for me to be able to find it.
Pierre Tabulaire de la Bataille
Trip No.204 Entry No.23 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Pierre Tabulaire de la Bataille submitted by johnstone on 1st Apr 2018. The big megalith in the wood, June 22, 2012
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Log Text: This is a massive slab of rock deep in the forest, found by following a trackway which now has a private sign on it, but I went for a look anyhow. I would think it is a natural slab of granite with its dimensions 10 metres by up to 5 metres, but it would appear to have been used as a capstone to a burial chamber under the eastern end, which has been dug underneath and surrounded with a couple more slabs. Whatever it is, this is a nice place to find.
La Quenouille de Gargantua
Trip No.204 Entry No.29 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Jul 2005
La Quenouille de Gargantua submitted by ogham on 19th Mar 2013. Still standing after all the others were pulled down.
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Log Text: I could not find this.
Dolmen de Men-Gouarec
Trip No.204 Entry No.30 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Dolmen de Men-Gouarec submitted by Ogham on 8th Jul 2011. Passage grave at Mein Gouarec, it is well sign posed and the farmer has ensured it is accessable even when crops are growing
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Log Text: This allée couverte with carved breasts on the back stone is signposted from miles around, and with its own little parking place and signpost. However, when I visited, I was not able to reach it as the farmer has a crop of sweetcorn growing all around it and there was absolutely no way through. this is not supposedly allowed, a pathway should have been kept clear, but what can I do about it ?
La Loge au Loup
Trip No.204 Entry No.18 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
La Loge au Loup submitted by stollentroll on 14th Dec 2005. Dolmen La Loge au Loup.
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Log Text: Easily found a few kilometres south of Trédion just to the west of the D.1 road to Elven, this nice site is signposted and has a parking place from where it’s a couple of hundred metres walk up into the lovely woodland on the ridgetop. I thought it to be a strange monument, which looks in some ways to be an Arc Boutté type allée couverte with a V dolmen built on top of it!
The passageway is about 9 metres long and faces 120°, with its paired stones leaning against each other. At the west end is a large capstone, 4 m by 3 m, sitting on top of extra support stones making a sort of chamber 2,5 metres wide, but it is filled up with the leaning stones of the passage. Its almost as if there is a complete V form dolmen built on top of the allée couverte using the same entrance, as there are extra rows of stones outside the passageway. Perhaps the allée couverte was built within the V dolmen. Around the outside are several other shaped stones, no doubt a peristalith of the original mound, of which much remains.
This is a lovely little place to sit in the shade on a hot day, and well worth a visit.
Colého Menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.31 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Jul 2005
Colého menhir submitted by Ogham on 19th Dec 2011. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
The menhir is well hidden in the woods at GPS location
47 47.943N 002 45.029W it is 6m in height, 1m in width and 0.5m in depth.
The location was obtained by hand held GPS.
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Log Text: Marked on my map as not far from the roadside near to a junction, I thought that this would be an easy menhir to visit. However, the woodland is very thick and filled with bracken, and I could not get to see it.
Cosquéro Menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.48 Date Added: 11th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 12th Jul 2005
Cosquéro menhir submitted by Ogham on 9th Aug 2012.
The path is open now and well used from the road to the menhir.
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Log Text: The trackway through to this menhir was barricaded off with private signs on it, so I didn’t get to the menhir. It is said to be the largest still standing menhir in Morbihan.
La Moustoir stèle
Trip No.204 Entry No.36 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
La Moustoir stèle submitted by TheCaptain on 5th May 2011. Just round the southwest side of the little chapel at Moustoir can be found this nice granite stele. Its about 2.3 metres tall and nicely shaped, with a flat face facing to the southeast. Onto this face has been carved a cross.
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Log Text: Just round the southwest side of the little chapel at Moustoir can be found this nice granite stele. Its about 2.3 metres tall and nicely shaped, with a flat face facing to the southeast. Onto this face has been carved a cross.
Kerjagu Menhirs
Trip No.204 Entry No.41 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Kerjagu menhirs submitted by TheCaptain on 6th May 2011. Just to the north of the allée couverte and almost in the garden of a house are a couple of menhirs, one standing about 3 metres tall, the other broken and fallen beside it.
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Log Text: Just to the north of the allée couverte and almost in the garden of a house are a couple of menhirs, one standing about 3 metres tall, the other broken and fallen beside it. This fallen stone would have probably been taller than the one still standing.
Kerjagu allée couverte
Trip No.204 Entry No.40 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Kerjagu allée couverte submitted by TheCaptain on 6th May 2011. A pleasant little allée couverte which can be found round the back of the farm of the same name. Although the eastern end is very damaged, the passageway can be seen to be about 10 metres long.
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Log Text: A pleasant little allée couverte which cn be found round the back of the farm of the same name. Although the eastern end is very damaged, the passageway can be seen to be about 10 metres long. Many of the sidestones lean on each other, and with the lack of capstones I wonder whether it is of the Arc Boutté type.
At the western end there is a fairly large chamber covered by a single capstone, making it look almost like a dolmen a couloir. Behind the closing stone is a little extra chamber, as is often the case.
Menhir du Mené
Trip No.204 Entry No.49 Date Added: 11th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Menhir du Mené submitted by TheCaptain on 11th May 2011. This tall thin menhir is built into a roadside bank, and is more than 4 metres tall from the top of that. If the ground level is at the road level, the menhir would be 7 metres tall.
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Log Text: This tall thin menhir is built into a roadside bank, and is more than 4 metres tall from the top of that. If the ground level is at the road level, the menhir would be 7 metres tall. It is difficult to get to see due to all the undergrowth, but when round the back, in amongst the brambles, it looks like it has a crook carved onto it.
Kerherne-Bodunan dolmen
Trip No.204 Entry No.37 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Kerherne-Bodunan dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 4th May 2011. This lovely monument is to be found in some lovely oak woodland high on top of a hill overlooking a stream. It is signposted from nearby, but there is nowhere really to park, and it’s a fair walk along a track and then up a woodland footpath. The monument is a strange one, which uses a natural rock outcrop as its base.
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Log Text: This lovely monument is to be found in some lovely oak woodland high on top of a hill overlooking a stream. It is signposted from nearby, but there is nowhere really to park, and it’s a fair walk along a track and then up a woodland footpath.
The monument is a strange one, which uses a natural rock outcrop as its base. The first thing you reach is a massive chamber, 4 mtres long by 2.5 metres wide covered by a single massive slab. It would seem that the chamber has been made by splitting the rock outcrop and pushing some of it outwards, but leaving the top of the stone in place to act as its cover. The cover slab is 5.5 by 3.5 metres in size. To the north of this main chamber has been made a passage, running off for about 10 metres, and again using many natural rocks. A few cover stones are in place still, but most have fallen. Oddly it runs away from the large main chamber and I doubt the two would have originally connected on the inside. Perhaps its either two seperate chambers, or like the passage and antechamber in many other allée couvertes. Lovely, and well worth a visit.
Kermorvan Dolmen
Trip No.204 Entry No.50 Date Added: 11th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Kermorvan dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 11th May 2011. This little dolmen is found at the roadside to the southwest of Moustoir-Ac. The single capstone sits on top of four or five uprights.
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Log Text: This is the remains of a little dolmen at the roadside to the southwest of Moustoir-Ac. There is a single capstone, approximately round with diameter 2.5 metres, sitting on top of four or five uprights. There are a few more stones around the area. It is possible that this is the end of an allée couverte which has been wrecked by the road being built through it.
Dolmen de Roh Du 1
Trip No.204 Entry No.51 Date Added: 11th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen de Roh Du 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 16th May 2011. This simple dolmen, still half within its small round mound, can be found a few hundred metres walk into the forest from a signposted parking place nearby.
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Log Text: This simple dolmen, still half within its small round mound, can be found a few hundred metres walk into the forest from a signposted parking place nearby. It has been dated to between 2000 and 2400 BC, and has a very simple form, reminiscent to the dolmens to be found further to the south of France. There are two side slabs and an end stone making a chamber about 2 metres long by 1,5 metres wide, with a single capstone sitting on top. The remains of the mound are about 10 metres in diameter.
Kerara Menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.46 Date Added: 11th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Kerara menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 17th May 2011. This is a nicely shaped menhir, just under 4 metres tall, standing in a little clearing in an area of many natural granite rocks.
Its got some lovely shade for this very hot and sunny afternoon.
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Log Text: This is a nice shaped menhir, just under 4 metres tall, standing in a little clearing in an area of many natural granite rocks. It is just beside the road and has a parking place and signpost, from which it is about a 50 metre walk. Its got some lovely shade for this very hot and sunny afternoon. It is only a few hundred metres from the large Kermarquer menhir.
Kerarmel Menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.39 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Kerarmel menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 19th May 2011. This nice pointed deltoid menhir must be over 5 metres in height, and is easily found just beside the D.778 road south of St Jean-Brévelay by the farm of the same name.
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Log Text: This nice pointed deltoid menhir must be over 5 metres in height, and is easily found just beside the D.778 road south of St Jean-Brévelay by the farm of the same name. It seems a strange position to me, on a hillside. It has a chestnut tree growing beside it, and from many angles it looks like the stone is the trunk of the tree.