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Menhir de Ferrussac 1
Trip No.205 Entry No.151 Date Added: 11th Nov 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Couldn't find on 18th Sep 2005
Menhir de Ferrussac 1 submitted by regina on 18th Oct 2011. Coördinates: N43.79046 E3.48343
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Log Text: Between 50 and 100 metres to the northwest of the Grand Dolmen du Ferrussac, is a fallen menhir, 1.7 metres in length. However, this land is fenced off, and with some pretty mean looking horned cattle in there, so I wasn't going to look too hard.
Menhir de Crucuny 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.372 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 12th Jun 2005
Menhir de Crucuny 1 submitted by stollentroll on 14th Dec 2005. Menhir on top of the tumulus Crucuny.
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Log Text: On top of the tumulus, to the north of the hamlet, is a menhir, 2.8 metres tall, with axes carved on it. But it is all very overgrown and covered in gorse, and I could not get to see anything at close quarters.
Menhir de Courégant
Trip No.203 Entry No.448 Date Added: 23rd May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 2
Menhir de Courégant submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Jan 2019. Courégant menhir is 5 metres tall, and can be found just outside the back of a holiday homes complex.
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Log Text: Courégant menhir is 5 metres tall, and can be found just outside the back of a holiday homes complex. There is no obvious path through to it, but some people in one of the chalets let me take a picture from their decking ! Thanks to them !
Menhir de Couëtcas
Trip No.203 Entry No.303 Date Added: 26th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Couldn't find on 8th Jun 2005
Menhir de Couëtcas submitted by johnstone on 15th Mar 2018. This menhir may be an inclined capstone of a dolmen, July 2, 2013
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Log Text: At the village of Avrillac, near St-André-des-Eaux, is marked a dolmen and menhir on my maps. I parked my van and had a good look all around, including a 3 kilometre walk around various lanes, but I saw nothing, and there was nobody to ask. Whatever megalithic remains there might be here are either in somebodies garden, or hidden away out of sight in the large wooded area.
Having just crossed the Loire, I am now in Brittany, and I thought that finding these stones would get easier from now on, especially after the multitudes of signposted menhirs I had found this afternoon.
Menhir de Condé
Trip No.203 Entry No.320 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Menhir de Condé submitted by Dipo on 28th Apr 2008. Site in Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique Menhir de Condé
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Log Text: In the midst of an industrial estate, sandwiched between a quarry and France's equivalent of Middlesbrough, with all the chemical works beside the Loire estuary, and not to forget the nearby airport and motorway, this poor stone doesn’t seem to stand a chance. However, here it still is in a hayfield amongst all the noise. The stone is probably three and a bit metres tall, with the top almost certainly broken off.
Menhir de Colobrières 1
Trip No.205 Entry No.249 Date Added: 7th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 25th Sep 2005
Menhir de Colobrières 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Oct 2010. The large Colobrières menhir seen on the skyline from the road across the top of the Bondons, near Vaissiere, September 2005.
The weather made me not bother to go for the walk to visit it !
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Log Text: The large Colobrières menhir can be seen on the skyline from the road across the top of the Bondons, near Vaissiere. The weather made me not go for the walk to visit it !
Menhir de Coinche
Trip No.204 Entry No.235 Date Added: 5th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Centre:Loiret (45))
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Menhir de Coinche submitted by thecaptain on 12th Feb 2007. Coinche menhir is a lovely multicoloured puddingstone menhir, perhaps 1.5 metres high and at least as wide, and about 0.5 m thick.
Near to the top there is a hole which goes right through the stone. It is not known whether this is a much more recent modification to the stone or original.
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Log Text: This menhir is in the middle of a cropped field just behind the farmhouse, down a track and then turn left near the wood. It is not normally possible to get right to it, but I was proudly shown the stone by the wife of the farmer. The field is full of sunflowers this year, and the stone was not visible from the road, and proved difficult to find, even for the farmers wife and daughter.
It stands in a little area left uncropped for its protection. It is a lovely multicoloured puddingstone menhir, perhaps 1.5 metres high and at least as wide, and about 0.5 m thick. Near to the top there is a hole which goes right through the stone. It is not known whether this is a much more recent modification to the stone or original. Beside the stone there are two smaller stones, one each side. I was told that it is thought that these two stones were used to place lamps on when ceremonies were carried out here.
Menhir de Coat Mocun nord
Trip No.203 Entry No.550 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Couldn't find on 23rd Jun 2005
Menhir de Coat Mocun submitted by Liamean on 27th Jul 2016. Menhir de Coat Mocun.
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Log Text: Supposedly 8 metres tall, and re-erected recently when they built the new road, I could not find this. I asked an old gent with a straw hat and waving a stick, who was pushing a wheelbarrow of grass. He took great delight in telling me how I could get to see it, although it was on private land, but he was fairly difficult to understand. From what I did understand, I thought he said it was in a quarry area, I had several looks, from various points of attack, but could not find it. Bummer.
Menhir de Coat Mocoun (sud)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 26th Jul 2016
Menhir de Coat Mocoun (sud) submitted by TheCaptain on 26th Jul 2016. Spent some time looking for various menhirs here while travelling through the area. To the south of the road junction I followed a pathway through some newly cut scrubland which was until revently forest, heading towards the noise of the quarry. The path eventually entered into some wooded land, with many boulders laying around, the remnants of quarrying.
Then I saw something. Not an 8m tall menhir, but a 4 metre tall stone standing amongst noulders. I am pretty convinved that this stone...
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Menhir de Clotte
Trip No.203 Entry No.223 Date Added: 21st Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Aquitaine:Gironde (33))
Visited: Couldn't find on 2nd Jun 2005
Log Text: I found both a Chateau de Clotte and a Moulin de Clotte but not the menhir.
Menhir de Clos-et-Bé 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.339 Date Added: 4th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de Clos-et-Bé 1 submitted by thecaptain on 13th May 2006. This menhir which is about 3 metres tall, and just 40 metres from its neighbouring dolmen, is getting swamped by undergrowth in the middle of a field
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Log Text: This menhir which is about 3 metres tall, and just 40 metres from its neighbouring dolmen, is getting swamped by undergrowth in the middle of a field, which was empty at the time of my visit. It has got some lovely lichens growing all over the the sparkly granite.
Menhir de Boulay-Filleul
Trip No.202 Entry No.74 Date Added: 29th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 2nd May 2005
Menhir de Boulay-Filleul submitted by HOMER27000 on 7th Jan 2012. Boulai menhir
Site in Normandie:Orne (61) France
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Log Text: A menhir in woodland visible just to the west side of the road to L’Aigle a couple of kilometres south of the village. As is becoming typical of round here there is nowhere at all to park on a very busy road. Those damned Normadie ditches alongside all the roads. Couldn’t stop to take a picture and it took miles before I was able to turn round and have another look on the way back.
Menhir de Bordères-Louron
Trip No.205 Entry No.62 Date Added: 25th Oct 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65))
Visited: Couldn't find on 8th Sep 2005
Log Text: I asked at Tourist Office, but they, as usual, knew nothing, and said I must have the wrong village !
Menhir de Blainville-sur-Mer
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 4th Jan 2010
Menhir de Blainville-sur-Mer submitted by theCaptain on 4th Jan 2010. In the little square beside the Mairie and church of Blainville-sur-Mer, stands a little granite menhir, recently rediscovered during roadworks here in 1992.
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Menhir d'Uxelles
Trip No.204 Entry No.201 Date Added: 26th Aug 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bourgogne:Saône-et-Loire (71))
Visited: Couldn't find on 2nd Aug 2005
Menhir d'Uxelles submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Apr 2016. Menhir d'Uxelles - Saône et Loire Image copyright: Vaxjo, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: I see in my notes that there is a menhir to be found in the commune of Uxelles, but there is nothing to be found on any of my maps, and I could find no signposts to it or reference to it on any of the village signs.
Menhir d'Outres
Trip No.202 Entry No.55 Date Added: 28th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Couldn't find on 1st May 2005
Menhir d'Outres submitted by foz750 on 25th Nov 2023. Site in Normandie:Orne (61) France
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Log Text: Marked on my map pretty much near the centre of the village of Joué-de-Bois but I failed to find this menhir.
Menhir d'Irvit
Trip No.203 Entry No.534 Date Added: 29th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir d'Irvit submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Apr 2011. Just below 4 metres tall, this tapered menhir has a sort of hook at the top of it. Perhaps it is intended as a washing line post! It looks to me, by the patterns in the lichen, that it had a sign attached to it for many years.
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Log Text: Just below 4 metres tall, this tapered menhir has a sort of hook at the top of it. Perhaps it is intended as a washing line post! It looks to me, by the patterns in the lichen, that it had a sign attached to it for many years. It can be found down a track into a field just east of the D.330 road south of Poulfoen.
Menhir Couché Lieu Gobin
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 4th May 2012
Menhir Couché Lieu Gobin submitted by TheCaptain on 4th May 2012. at the corner of the wet and rough trackway, the stone can be seen in the field by the fence.
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Menhir Bois-es-Lucas
Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Couldn't find on 19th Sep 1992
Menhir Bois-es-Lucas submitted by regina on 30th Sep 2018. Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) France
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Emerald Coast, day 2, Dinan, Corseul, St Caste. Roman tower, dolmens, Lunch at Le Guildo castle. Failed to find
Menhir a Vertu
Trip No.203 Entry No.561 Date Added: 3rd Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Menhir a Vertu submitted by thecaptain on 6th Jul 2005. Menhir a Vertu, right outside the front door of St Samson chapel.
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Log Text: Oooh errrr, this one's a bit rude ! This is a wonderful little menhir, less than 2 metres tall, but a tremendous phallic shape, which was no doubt recognised by the ancient people. It has been revered so much over time that it is still standing erect, and indeed has had a chapel built with its front door no more than 8 metres from the stone, and opening directly onto it. This place has been christianised not only by the chapel, but the head of the menhir has at some point been attempted to be shaped into a cross, but in some ways this just accentuates the phallic nature of the stone.
At the time of my visit, there was a little offering of flowers and sea shells placed very neatly on a little ledge at the base of the stone. This is very definately one for the ladies, and no doubt has great powers.