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Pierre Blanche (Pocé-les-Bois)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2010
Pierre Blanche (Pocé-les-Bois) submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2010. The Pierre Blanche of Pocé-les-Bois, south of Vitré, is a nice 4 metre tall menhir. It has a nice pointy top, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it has been hit and broken by lightning on occasion.
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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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Bringnerault Alignement
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 17th Jul 2010
Bringnerault alignement submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Jul 2010. Further to the south of stone No.3 is now a pond, on the far side of which is a large stone, 2 metres plus in length.
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Roche Buquet
Date Added: 12th Oct 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2012
Roche Buquet submitted by thereddragon on 9th Oct 2012. Site in Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) France
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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!
Alignements du Moulin N
Trip No.203 Entry No.1 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Alignements du Moulin N submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Nov 2005. St Just megalithic wonderworld. The Alignements du Moulin north row, looking east.
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Log Text: There are two long roughly parallel lines running east west with a third less well defined row to the southwest running in a north south direction. The first row reached is the northernmost and consists of at least 14 large white quartz blocks with a few grey stones in it as well with an alignment of 099°. One of the large stones towards the western end has been used at some later stage as a part of a burial chamber with at least two burial cists to be seen adjacent to it.
Just to the south of this row is another row, with an alignment of 111° but this time consisting of taller thinner stones of various types and colours, which get bigger in size towards the middle where the row runs over a cairn and then get smaller again. The stones start off about a metre high but the stones in the middle are up to 5 metres tall. These central stones alternate between white blocks and black blocks of stone with various other colours and shapes being mixed in as well.
I absolutely love this row. It is completely bonkers. So weird. The whole place is odd and not like anything else I have seen. Large white blocks and tall thin black stones. All mixed up and running across this ridge.
The third row I found consists of about 5 white quartz blocks to the west of the ends of the two main rows and running in a north south direction. I am not sure if this is the third row considered to be a part of these same alignments. All three rows appear to converge on a point to the northwest. They have started to clear the gorse away from these stones and I disturbed a large vividly coloured green lizard at one point here.
Pierre Longue de Saint-Jouan
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 17th Oct 2010
Pierre Longue de Saint-Jouan submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Oct 2010. Despite the menhir being so big, it still manages to play a game of hide and seek before finding it along chestnut lined trackways through fields of maize!
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Pierre Longue (Noyal-sous-Bazouges)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 18th Oct 2010
Pierre Longue (Noyal-sous-Bazouges) submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Oct 2010. This is a more than 5 metre tall menhir, which leans slightly towards the south, which stands beside the D796 roadside a kilometre or so to the west of Bazouges-la-Pérouse.
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Mont-Dol
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2010
Mont-Dol submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Oct 2010. Mont Dol is a large granite rock outcrop, dramatically jutting up through the flat coastal marshlands of the Baie de Mont St-Michel to the north of the ancient city of Dol-de-Bretagne, and in some ways is rather like Mont St-Michel itself, although nowadays completely enclosed within farmed lands.
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Alignements du Moulin W
Trip No.203 Entry No.3 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Alignements du Moulin W submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Apr 2011. The third row I found consists of about 5 white quartz blocks to the west of the ends of the two main rows and running in a north south direction.
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Log Text: There are two long roughly parallel lines running east west with a third less well defined row to the southwest running in a north south direction. The first row reached is the northernmost and consists of at least 14 large white quartz blocks with a few grey stones in it as well with an alignment of 099°. One of the large stones towards the western end has been used at some later stage as a part of a burial chamber with at least two burial cists to be seen adjacent to it.
Just to the south of this row is another row, with an alignment of 111° but this time consisting of taller thinner stones of various types and colours, which get bigger in size towards the middle where the row runs over a cairn and then get smaller again. The stones start off about a metre high but the stones in the middle are up to 5 metres tall. These central stones alternate between white blocks and black blocks of stone with various other colours and shapes being mixed in as well. I absolutely love this row. It is completely bonkers. So weird. The whole place is odd and not like anything else I have seen. Large white blocks and tall thin black stones. All mixed up and running across this ridge.
The third row I found consists of about 5 white quartz blocks to the west of the ends of the two main rows and running in a north south direction. I am not sure if this is the third row considered to be a part of these same alignments. All three rows appear to converge on a point to the northwest. They have started to clear the gorse away from these stones and I disturbed a large vividly coloured green lizard at one point here.
Pierre de Richebourg
Trip No.204 Entry No.323 Date Added: 16th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Pierre de Richebourg submitted by TheCaptain on 14th Aug 2013. This menhir is fenced off in the grounds of a big house, beside a pond. It is about 3 metres tall, and looks fairly much just like a big lump of rock.
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Log Text: I could initially find no evidence of this stone, looking for it from the east, and thought that it is probably somewhere in the fenced off woodland grounds of the big house on the top of the hill. Further investigation from the north, the D.41 road to Retiers, and I found a trackway which takes you to right besides it, and it is signposted.
The menhir is behind the fence, beside a pond. The stone is about 3 metres tall by 3 metres wide, and looks fairly much just like a big lump of rock. Very difficult to photograph, with not only the fence in the way, but also the dark from being within the woodland.
Demoiselles Piquées
Trip No.203 Entry No.4 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Demoiselles Piquées submitted by greywether on 27th Jun 2005. Showing all three stones.
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Log Text: Three large white quartz menhirs one now fallen. The stone of the westernmost menhir is a really lovely thing with all sorts of coloured patterns and swirls within it.
Croix St Pierre tertre
Trip No.203 Entry No.7 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Croix St Pierre tertre submitted by greywether on 27th Jun 2005. Tetre tumulaire from W
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Log Text: Another long mound this time in an east west alignment with a sort of rectangular arrangement of stones sticking up from within it rather like the peristalith stones from an allée couverte. There is a single larger block of stone near the western end.
Croix Madame
Trip No.203 Entry No.11 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Croix Madame submitted by aolson on 3rd Aug 2020. Croix Madame tumulus 1 is rectangular, about 22 by 10 meters. Tumulus 2 is circular with a diameter of about 10 meters, the edge of which is just visible in the bottom of this picture. They are located on the south side of the path at 47.76436, -1.96858.
More information at t4t35.fr
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Log Text: At the western end of the village to the east of the Alignements du Moulin are the remains of some some bronze age burial chambers. At least four mounds are known, some of which have the remains of stone chambers within.
I did not find them initially and didn’t spend a lot of time looking for them on the way back as it was by now pouring with rain and everything was getting soaked. I expect that the humps and bumps seen in the ground here are the remains of these, with nothing spectacular to be seen.
Alignement dit le Rocher
Trip No.203 Entry No.12 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 13th May 2005
Alignement dit le Rocher submitted by johnstone on 10th Mar 2018. This menhir stands at the beginning of the road “Le Rocher” almost hidden in the bushes.
It may be the first stone belonging to the alignment further on, June 26, 2013
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Log Text: To the east of Saint Just village I spent no time looking for this menhir as it was by now pouring with rain, although I thought I saw something near a farmhouse as I drove past.
Grotte-aux-Fées (Tréal)
Trip No.203 Entry No.13 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 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grotte-aux-Fées (Tréal) submitted by greywether on 27th Jun 2005. From NW. June 1994 - shortly after it was restored.
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Log Text: A fine lateral entry allée couverte at the top of a hill just to the northwest of the Saint Just megaliths and signposted from there. The main chamber is about 13 metres long 1.2 m wide and oriented 102°. The entrance is on the south side with a couple of laterally set portal stones near the east end. There are 8 capstones in place and all the stones get larger to the west end. The stones are made from the strange lumpy local Schist.
La Maison des Feins
Trip No.208 Entry No.5 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
La Maison des Feins submitted by thecaptain on 16th Apr 2008. La Maison des Feins is about 12 metres long, but it is not much more than a metre wide or high. Truly a house for the fairies.
My Dad adds scale to the fairies house, viewed here from the southeastern end.
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Champ Dolent Menhir
Trip No.208 Entry No.6 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Champ Dolent menhir submitted by rw1 on 2nd Mar 2008. 09/2007
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La Roche Longue (St-Marcan)
Trip No.209 Entry No.13 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
La Roche Longue (St-Marcan) submitted by thecaptain on 30th Jun 2009. View of La Roche Longue seen from the west.
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Log Text: This well shaped menhir is just under 3 metres tall in a field to the east of the St Marcan cemetary. As with my previous visit, the field is planted with maize, and is today sodden wet, which prevents me from being abole to walk right up to the stone. However, this time I can walk up the western edge of the field by the cemetary, and photograph its other side in the afternoon sunshine.
Menhir du Perron (St-Marcan)
Trip No.209 Entry No.14 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition -1
Log Text: A 2 metre tall menhir similar to the Roche Longue of St Marcan, once stood in the fields of Perron, about 800 metres south of La Roche Longue. It somehow disappeared in the 1930's.