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La Pierre Percée (La Chapelle-Basse-Mer)
Trip No.204 Entry No.63 Date Added: 16th Jul 2020
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2005. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 4
La Pierre Percée (La Chapelle-Basse-Mer) submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Jan 2012. I dont know whether there ever was an ancient menhir here, but today there is a modern sculpture of a woman (mermaid?) looking out over the river Loire, with a hole of course, and its rather nice.
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Log Text: I dont know whether there ever was an ancient menhir here, but today there is a modern sculpture of a woman looking out over the Loire, with a hole of course, and its rather nice.
La Pierre Pointue (Montacher)
Trip No.204 Entry No.234 Date Added: 5th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bourgogne:Yonne (89))
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
La Pierre Pointue (Montacher) submitted by thecaptain on 15th Feb 2007. La Pierre Pointue, Montacher-Villegardin.
It is about 2.3 metres tall, and very pointed as its name would suggest.
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Log Text: A few kilometres to the south of the village of Montacher-Villegardin via windy unmarked roads, and about a kilometre walk to the west of the little road which runs south from the village, along farm tracks and you can find this menhir in a field. It is about 2.3 metres tall, and very pointed as its name would suggest. Around the stone are lots more rocks, whether broken from it or field clearance I cannot say.
La Pierre qui Tourne (Morancez)
Trip No.204 Entry No.265 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 2 Access 5
La Pierre qui Tourne (Morancez) submitted by theCaptain on 29th Mar 2012. La Pierre qui Tourne, or Morancez dolmen, can be found amongst the houses of Residence du Dolmen, just off the main D.935 road through the village.
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Log Text: Not much more than a pile of stones, La Pierre qui Tourne, or Morancez dolmen can be found amongst the houses of Residence du Dolmen, just off the main D.935 road through the village, a bit to the north of the church. I suspect the locals think of it as a bit of a nuisance, getting in the way of the road and car parking.
It was obviously once very large, the capstone remains here on the ground at 7 metres long by 4 metres wide, with a few other bits of stone standing nearby.
While I was here, there were several young children playing on it, who were very inquisitive as to what I was doing there, and why I couldn't speak properly !
La Pierre qui Vire (Rochepot)
Trip No.204 Entry No.208 Date Added: 27th Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bourgogne:Côte-d'Or (21))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
La Pierre qui Vire (Rochepot) submitted by thecaptain on 16th Sep 2006. There's not much left to see, except the big capstone which is sort of triangular shaped.
There are traces of a mound, and a chamber underneath, but nothing really substantial remains.
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Log Text: High up on the ridge to the south of the village of Rochepot, with its fantastic chateau and well known wines, can be found this stone which turns. There's not much left to see, except the big capstone which is sort of triangular shaped, 4 metres by 3 metres. There are traces of a mound, and a chamber underneath, but nothing really substantial remains.
There are supposedly several dolmens and an allee couverte in the Rochepot community, but if this is the only one on the maps, I doubt I will find any of the others, so decide to give up now on looking for more.
La Pierre Sorcière
Trip No.204 Entry No.291 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41))
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
La Pierre Sorcière submitted by theCaptain on 19th Dec 2011. La Pierre Sorcière is both a dolmen and a polissoir, and can be found by the roadside just outside the village of Villiersfaux, and signposted from the Mairie.
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Log Text: I have seen this referred to as both a dolmen and a polissoir, and can be found by the roadside just outside the village of Villiersfaux, and signposted from the Mairie. It is a big 5 m by 3 m lump of puddingstone, with a few other stones around and about it. It may well be the capstone of a collapsed dolmen, but on the top it has clearly been used as a polissoir stone. There are at the south end a couple of small grooves, and a couple of flats. This is not overly impressive, but its certainly here, and findable, unlike lots round here.
La Pierre Tournoire, La Courbe
Trip No.202 Entry No.61 Date Added: 28th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
La Pierre Tournoire, La Courbe submitted by TheCaptain on 11th May 2005. La Pierre Tournoire, La Courbe, Orne.
Its about 1.5 metres tall, and made of a funny crumbly orangey sandstone full of holes.
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Log Text: Marked on one of my maps as a menhir and another as a dolmen I have no reason to believe there are not the remains of both somewhere in the vicinity as well as an Iron Age encampment. What I found was a single stone standing on the ridge of a promontory overlooking the river Orne.
It's about 1.5 metres tall and made of a funny crumbly orangey sandstone full of holes. There was lots of other loose stone around its base probably fallen from the disintegrating menhir which is 1.5 metres wide at its base and about 0.7 m thick.
La Pierre-Aux-Sorcières
Trip No.204 Entry No.223 Date Added: 4th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bourgogne:Yonne (89))
Visited: Couldn't find on 4th Aug 2005
La Pierre-Aux-Sorcières submitted by TheCaptain on 19th Mar 2020. La Pierre-Aux-Sorcières, Vaumort
photo from patrimoine-de-france.com
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Log Text: La Pierre-Aux-Sorcières, or La Pierre-Enlevée is to be found in the community of Vaumort. I'd have liked to have found the Witch's stone, but I don’t have a map with it marked on, and there are no signs or notices in the village to help. Shame.
La Pierre-des-Fievres
Trip No.204 Entry No.198 Date Added: 24th Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Auvergne:Haute-Loire (43))
Visited: Yes on 28th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 1 Access 4
La Pierre-des-Fievres submitted by TheCaptain on 26th Aug 2020. La Pierre-des-Fievres in the Cathedral of Puy-en-Velay
Pic from wikimedia commons
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Log Text: The Cathedral of Puy-en-Velay is said to be built on the site of an ancient dolmen, part of which is still in existance as La Pierre des Fievres which is kept and presented near to one of the entrances. It is said that this stone is a part of the coverstone for the dolmen which stood in this sacred place for thousands of years before the coming of Christianity. It is believed that the dolmen was complete until the 9th century, when it was broken by a bolt of lightning, but that the Pilgrims to this place ensured that a part of it was kept here. The stone is highly venerated, and many miracles are attributed to it, including many which involve curing fever, after which it is named. For many years the stone was kept within the Cathedral, but then was put in a place outside so that ill people could have easier access to touch it. To this day, the Cathedral and a dolmen are a symbol of this town of Pilgrimmage, which is an important stopping place on the way of St James.
La Pierre-Folle allée couverte
Trip No.204 Entry No.104 Date Added: 3rd Aug 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Couldn't find on 17th Jul 2005
La Pierre-Folle allée couverte submitted by Rubis on 21st Sep 2010. Side: opening gate.
The lady that was there for the Journées du Patrimoine said that is was longer that the one of Bagneux but Bagneux is upper!
Site in Poitou:Vienne (86) France
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Log Text: To the north of Bournand, but in a very vaguely marked place on my map, is marked the Pierre Folle allée couverte. In the village of Bournand, there is a sign pointing to the Pierre Folle, but as is often the case, there are no more signs later, and try as I might, without a detailed map I could not find this. After my failed visit, I found out that it is an 18 metre long allée couvert, on inaccessible private land within a Renaissance Lodge. It is said to be a superb megalithic monument.
La Pierre-Levée (Poitiers)
Trip No.204 Entry No.149 Date Added: 17th Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
La Pierre-Levée (Poitiers) submitted by thecaptain on 24th Aug 2005. This nice dolmen can be found right in suburban Poitiers, fenced in a little park amongst the flats and houses.
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Log Text: Leaving a major shopping complex having been to buy a new camera, I saw a sign to dolmen, so just followed the signs. Past the Gymnasium de dolmen, past a school and along Rue du Dolmen, and there it is. This suburban dolmen is in a little well tended garden park area amongst the houses in southeastern Poitiers. It has a rectangular chamber about 4 m by 2 m and a large capstone sat on several supports along the south side, but fallen to the ground at the northern side. What a strange place to find something like this.
La Pierre-Levée de Maisonneuve
Trip No.204 Entry No.114 Date Added: 4th Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Couldn't find on 18th Jul 2005
Log Text: This is marked on my ign 1:100,000 map, but down a dead end lane into a forest southeast of Loudun. I had a good look round, but there were no signs or anything, and in the thick bushy forest I didn't really stand a chance.
La Pointe de l'Herbaudière dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.291 Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Couldn't find on 7th Jun 2005
Log Text: I camped for the night at the large campsite which now occupies most of the northern point of the Ile Noirmoutiers, but could find no signs of any dolmen. The chap running the campsite said he had no knowledge of any dolmen there. There are however, lots of concrete bunkers, blockhouses and gun emplacements, no doubt built by the Germans in World War 2 as part of the Atlantic defenses. These have no doubt been built on and destroyed any dolmen which might once have been here.
There was a fantastic sunset over the sea and smaller offshore islands from here, with many lighthouses flashing away at various points all around. The swallows flying around here are amazing, into and out of the bunkers, swooping low over the grasslands and in and out of the little cliff faces. Wish I could fly like them. Then the bats came out to play. What a lovely place.
La Pointue Rocque
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Guernsey)
Visited: Yes on 10th Feb 2019
La Pointue Rocque submitted by TheCaptain on 10th Feb 2019. From Saxon101
photograph taken of the remains of this site, which was incorporated into a boundary wall, probably in the 18th century.
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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.
La Roche (Uzel)
Trip No.203 Entry No.587 Date Added: 8th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 26th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
La Roche (Uzel) submitted by theCaptain on 4th Jul 2012. This little menhir is probably about 2.5 metres tall, standing on the slopes above the road and stream, positioned just outside a wood, making it visible from the road.
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Log Text: This little menhir is probably about 2.5 metres tall, standing on the slopes above the road and stream, positioned just outside a wood, making it visible from the road. I thought this to be a strange place for a menhir, on a slope this steep.
La Roche au Diable (Paley)
Trip No.204 Entry No.246 Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Ile-de-France:Seine-et-Marne 77)
Visited: Couldn't find on 6th Aug 2005
Log Text: Marked near to the menhir is a polissoir stone, in the woods down by the little river. I could find no obvious signpost or footpath towards where it is marked, and having now found out how difficult to find some of these polissoir stones are to find, I didnt spend any time looking.
La Roche Blanche
Trip No.204 Entry No.4 Date Added: 22nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
La Roche Blanche submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Jun 2007. This is a nice shining white quartz block within a circle of local schist stones.
It is thought to probably mark the grave of an individual, rather than being a collective grave.
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Log Text: This is a nice shining white quartz block within a sort of circle of local schist stones. It is thought to probably mark the grave of an individual, rather than being a collective grave. It can be found about a kilometres walk from the Monteneuf visitors centre, through the forests along a marked trail.
La Roche Longue (St-Marcan)
Trip No.203 Entry No.603 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
La Roche Longue (St-Marcan) submitted by thecaptain on 6th Mar 2007. Probably 3 to 4 metres tall, in a field near the cemetary to the east of the village of St Marcan, on a slope overlooking the marshes of the bay of Mont St Michel.
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Log Text: A large slab sided menhir, about 3 metres tall with its wide sides oriented east and west, in a field near to the cemetary to the east of the village of St Marcan, on a slope overlooking the marshes of the bay of Mont St Michel. Whilst I couldn’t get right to it, the menhir is easily visible from the roadside. About 800 metres to the south of this menhir used to stand another similar menhir 2 metres tall, which was destroyed in the 1930s
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.
La Roche Piquée (Baudouinais)
Trip No.204 Entry No.325 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 3
La Roche Piquée (Baudouinais) submitted by thecaptain on 24th Feb 2007. When I visited, the field was well fenced off, and full of cows, so I didn't get to visit the stone properly, but I would estimate it to be about 4 metres tall.
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Log Text: A few kilometres to the west of the village of Livré-sur-Changeon, and a few kilometres to the south of the little town of St-Aubin-du-Cormier, near to the hamlet of Baudouinais can be seen this menhir marked on some of my maps as Pierre Piquée. It is signposted, and after a little walk along a farm track it can be seen across the fields. When I visited, the field was well fenced off, and full of cows, so I didn't get to visit the stone properly, but I would estimate it to be about 4 metres tall.