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Le Wuy Menhir
Trip No.212 Entry No.17 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Seine-Maritime (76))
Visited: Yes on 27th Dec 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Le Wuy Menhir submitted by theCaptain on 1st Jan 2014. Described as a menhir, this site is more likely the remains of a burial chamber of some sort, which has been largely destroyed by agriculture.
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Log Text: Described as a menhir, this site is the remains of a burial chamber of some sorts, which has been largely destroyed by agriculture. The remains I found consist of one large standing stone, about 2 m width and just over a metre in height. Its a lovely slab of sarsen like stone, which is all smooth on the southern face, but all lumpy and holed on the northern face, as sarsen often is. Beside this stone is another slab of sarsen flat to the ground.
I am sure this is not a menhir as described, but a remaining slab from a burial chamber of some sort, whether a side slab or end slab is not clear. It is possible that this stone is not in its original position, but has been moved here to help clear the fields for ploughing.
Le Tribunal
Trip No.203 Entry No.9 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Le Tribunal submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Nov 2005. One of the stones in the arc of the Tribunal, at St Just.
An amazing rock, in an amazing place.
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Log Text: What is now an arc of 9 large white stones is the remains of what was once a 15 stone semicircle facing towards a single large white stone (the Judge) about 50 metres to the east. This is said to be an astronomical alignment of some kind. One of the stones at the southern end of the Tribunal is the most fantastically marked stone with black and white swirls everywhere.
I met some Americans here one of who asked if I knew anything much about the stones as she could see I was taking notes. They had been looking for information on the internet and had found about Saint Just being a focal point of many Ley lines. She had also found the megalithic portal. When I told them what I was doing they made sure they took my picture with some stones in action taking notes and said they would send the picture on. They also wanted my autograph on their little leaflet and map that they had ! A nice moment.
Le Trepied
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Guernsey)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2008
Le Trepied submitted by thecaptain on 11th Jun 2008. Postage stamp featuring Le Trepied Chambered Tomb beside the road close to Le Catioroc at Perelle Bay in Guernsey.
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Le Roi Gradlon
Trip No.193 Entry No.9 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993. My rating: Access 5
Le Roi Gradlon submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Jun 2020. Old postcard of Le Roi Gradlon
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones. A large granite outcrop which resembles a crowned kings head protruding up through the earth towers above the beach of la grêve blanche.
Le Rocher du Diable
Trip No.203 Entry No.543 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Le Rocher du Diable submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Apr 2011. This is a pleasant enough menhir in a field beside the road on the western slopes of the hill upon which the Chapelle St Michel is built. It's approaching three metres in height, nearly as wide at the base, and made of the local quarzite stone, which is pointed at the top.
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Log Text: This is a pleasant enough menhir in a field beside the road on the western slopes of the hill upon which the Chapelle St Michel is built. It's approaching three metres in height, nearly as wide at the base, and made of the local quarzite stone, which is pointed at the top. There is another block of stone beside it which is the top which was broken off after a lightning strike. With a name like this, there should be legends and stories, but I dont know of any.
Le Riverais 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.296 Date Added: 26th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Le Riverais 1 submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. 3 Meters tall irregular shaped menhir with holes, on farmer's field in center of Hamlet of Riverais 4.5 Km West from Saint-Pere-en-Retz. Other Menhir nearby.
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Log Text: Just beside the road in the hamlet of Riverais, to the west of St-Père-en-Retz, can be found this menhir beside a farmyard entrance. Its about 2.5 metres tall, but looks like the top has been broken off.
Le Rigourdou
Trip No.203 Entry No.88 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 20th May 2005
Le Rigourdou submitted by TheCaptain on 14th Jan 2011. These days, this cliff shelter is contained within a little visitor centre with bears.
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Log Text: Within this cliff shelter just a bit up the hillside from Lascaux found in March 1954 had the discovery made on 22 September 1957 of a complete Neanderthal skeleton in it. Not only this but also several burials of at least 5 bears were found suggesting some strange bear cult or activity. These days its fenced off with a little visitor centre and bears.
Le Quadrilatere
Trip No.203 Entry No.386 Date Added: 14th May 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Le Quadrilatere submitted by rw1 on 3rd Mar 2008. 09/2007
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Log Text: This is a quadrilateral of stones in the forest to the north of the alignements. It initially looks to me like the outside peristalith from a long gone passage grave, but closer inspection shows it to be more than that.
As I am here, a party of horse riders ride right through, and then a bus tour of people, who all turn up, take a picture, and then move on elsewhere. While here I met a couple of Brazilian ladies who saw I was writing, and came up to ask me some questions. They are looking out the old stones, and were interested in what I was doing, and wanted to take my internet address. I should have got them to take a picture of me beside the Giant.
Le Pont du Gard
Trip No.205 Entry No.198 Date Added: 26th Nov 2020
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Le Pont du Gard submitted by Humbucker on 25th Jul 2020. The Pont Du Gard in Provence on a beautiful May afternoon 2019
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Log Text: Rive Gauche or Rive Droite? I went to the first one signed, Rive Droite. Probably better to have gone to the other side as that’s where all the information is. The Rive Droite side all got washed away in a storm on the 9th September 2002, when the river rose over 29 metres. They have pictures. Incredible.
What a lovely place. Fantastic bridge (used for over 500 years to supply water to the city of Nimes), lovely river and some splendid walks round signed footpaths which take you to various viewpoints and other bits of the ancient aqueduct system. Yes, you could spend ages here walking around, visiting the various museums etc (I didn't). Two and a half hours disappeared in no time and I was being quick. I'd best buy a book of pictures. Beautiful colours. Blue sky, golden bridge, green forested banks, shimmering green water and nearly white rocks.
Beautiful.
Le Petit Ménec
Trip No.203 Entry No.369 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
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: This is a nice place to explore on a hot afternoon, a nice walk in a cool woodland filled with stones. There are hundreds of them to be seen, lined up through the woods, mostly less than a metre tall but some reach up to about 2 metres. There are round ones, pointy ones, square ones, thick ones, thin ones, indeed all shapes and sizes. Look a bit further into the woods away from the footpath and you'll find more stones.
The lines seem to get closer together, as does the spacing of the stones, the further east you go, but nothing seems very ordered or regular. From where I sit and have a contemplate, I can count 8 rows, but there are probably more hidden by trees or under walls.
Excellent. I later find out that there was once much more to be seen here, with the rows being destroyed and removed in order to build the Belle Ile lighthouse.
Le Petit Dolmen de Bagneux
Trip No.204 Entry No.94 Date Added: 20th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 16th Jul 2005
Le Petit Dolmen De Bagneux submitted by ocdolmen on 12th Oct 2009. Site in Site in Pays de la Loire: Maine-et-Loire 49:
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Log Text: High up on a cliff edge (because of a quarry) this dolmen can just about be seen through the trees from the roadside next to the cemetary. However, its on private land, and a proper viewing is not possible. It looks like a pretty big dolmen despite its name, and perhaps a more typical Angevine dolmen. It looks to be in fairly good condition.
Le Palet de Gargantua (Nottonville)
Trip No.204 Entry No.280 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Le Palet de Gargantua (Nottonville) submitted by theCaptain on 22nd Mar 2012. Just to the south of the La Brosse chateau and farm can be found the Palet de Gargantua dolmen, sitting right at the D.357 roadside.
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Log Text: Just to the south of the La Brosse chateau and farm can be found the Palet de Gargantua dolmen, sitting right at the D.357 roadside. It has a lovely capstone sitting at a jaunty angle partly on the ground, and partly on a couple of support stones. It is sort of trapezoidal shaped, about 4m by 4m. I found it difficult to make out any semblance of structure underneath, as most of the support stones have all collapsed.
Le Gros Dognon tumulus
Trip No.203 Entry No.54 Date Added: 2nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Le Gros Dognon tumulus submitted by thecaptain on 5th Dec 2005. To the east of the historic village of Tusson there are four tumuli which lie in a line along the top of a ridge. One of the central pair, Le Gros Dognon, is enormous.
Enter into the wooded area and the size of the mound that appears before you takes the breath away. Its probably about 150 metres in length 45 metres wide and more than 10 metres in height.
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Log Text: After the day I’d so far had finding these tremendous tumuli and dolmens where none are signposted I thought I’d go back to the big looking one as Tusson for a better look after all it has lots of signposts and looked fairly big so who knows what I might find. Although easy to find parking was a problem but I managed to find somewhere nearby at the edge of the lane.
What a monster ! This is really a big one. Enter into the wooded area and the size of the mound that appears before you takes the breath away. Its probably about 150 metres in length 45 metres wide and more than 10 metres in height. I had a good look around and despite several small pits and depressions which showed the thing to be constructed from small stones I found no obvious signs of any chambers or entrances.
As always with these places in woods and particularly with something so big getting a photograph which remotely does any justice is impossible.
Le Grand Dolmen de Bagneux
Trip No.204 Entry No.93 Date Added: 20th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Le Grand Dolmen de Bagneux submitted by thecaptain on 16th Dec 2004. The Dolmen de Bagneux, Saumur-Bagneaux, Maine-et-Loire, France.
This is the largest dolmen in France, and is currently for sale along with its own bar and restaurant. It has a large asking price !
I had a friend who visited last year, and who made the following observations, as well as taking this picture using a 28mm lens. "I visited this one last year, unfortunately its in a tiny backyard in a suburb...high walls all round or you would take a snap and move on .... not atmospheric at all, c...
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Log Text: This is now round the back and in the garden of a bar, but not in a very nice area of town. When I was here, it was €3 to visit the dolmen and a little visitor centre, but nearly impossible to get decent photos as its to enclosed between all the surrounding roads.
The dolmen itself is massive, 22 metres in length, by 7 metres wide and almost 4 metres high. Four large capstones sit supported by about four side slabs each side, and with one massive backstone. This cannot be just a burial chamber, it must have had some other purpose - perhaps an indoor sports hall ! There is one stone left of an internal partition, but the angevine entrance has been a bit mutilated.
Le Fuseau de la Madeleine
Trip No.203 Entry No.317 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 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Le Fuseau de la Madeleine submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Jun 2011. This is a nice stone, and must be about 5 metres high, with a possibly shaped outline, pointed at the top, and is covered in nice yellow lichens.
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Log Text: This is another one that, despite being signposted from the main road, and from several miles away, is inside a double fenced and ditched field, with no obvious access. It is a nice stone this, and must be about 5 metres high, with a possibly shaped outline, pointed at the top, and is covered in nice yellow lichens.
Le Four Sarrazin
Trip No.203 Entry No.10 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Le Four Sarrazin submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Nov 2005. Le Four Sarrazin is a lateral entry allée couverte near the western end of the St Just complex.
Some of the capstones have cupules, a few of which can be seen in the near stone here, but there is a much better arrangement underneath.
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Log Text: A little ruined allée couverte in a mound at the western end of the Saint Just megalithic wonderland almost overlooking the gorge down to the river. The chamber is aligned roughly east west on 109° with the entrance being near the east end on the southern side. There are three remaining fallen capstones one of which has a fine pattern of cupules in its underside. It has been dated to 2500 BC.
Le Cul du Diable
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 30th Dec 2007
Le Cul du Diable submitted by thecaptain on 30th Dec 2007. The stone is on the Manoir side of the road, perhaps 30 metres to the north of the entrance. Most of the stone is indeed enclosed within the hedgebank, but there is a clear part of it which is visible.
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Le Cleray
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2010
Le Cleray submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jun 2010. Initially I can’t find it, but I do see several large lumps of stone at the side of the road.
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Le chaos de Roquebert
Trip No.203 Entry No.114 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 22nd May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Le chaos de Roquebert submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Jan 2011. Les Trois Cromlechs.
I wasn't quite sure what to make of these. There are three massive stones (probably up to 7 metres high) within about 20 metres of each other looking for all the world like they have been stood upright surrounded by lots and lots of other stones.
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Log Text: Not quite sure what to make of these. There are three massive stones (probably up to 7 metres high) within about 20 metres of each other looking for all the world like they have been stood upright surrounded by lots and lots of other stones. There is a signpost saying something about the prehistoric stones and area. I have no idea what they are and suspect that they might be natural a bit like the top of a tor but it doesn’t all look fully natural and I suspect there has been some rearrangement of the rocks around them by man in the distant past.
But in the thick forest getting pictures was not easy especially in the rain and by now I was getting very anxious about getting down off the top of this hill with the campervan in one piece. Eventually I do get back to a tarmac bit of road and its not long before I pass a parking area with footpath signs pointing off in various directions the “Circuit des Dolmens” being one of them. It gives the impression there's lots more historic stuff up here including an ancient fort of some kind.
Le Cercle de Rennes-les-Bains
Trip No.200 Entry No.41 Date Added: 18th Jun 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2000. My rating: Access 3
Log Text: Visit Rennes-le-Chateau with some of the Americans. Walk into the hills to look for stone circle, but find nothing obvious.