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Menhirs du Bois du Fourgon
Trip No.203 Entry No.274 Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Couldn't find on 6th Jun 2005
Menhirs du Bois du Fourgon submitted by Flickr on 31st May 2016. Avrillé - Alignement mégalithique G2 du Bois de Fourgon Image copyright: jpdelalune, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: There are several sets of alignements to be found in the grounds of the Chateau, of which you have to pay for entry to be able to get in and see them. I didn’t have tome to do a tour of the Chateau, so was not able to visit these stones, of which at least three rows exist.
Menhirs du Col des Faïsses
Trip No.205 Entry No.220 Date Added: 1st Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 24th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Menhirs du Col des Faïsses submitted by johnstone on 29th May 2018. The big one measures about 2m, in front of the information panels, June 23, 2008
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Log Text: At the north western end of the section of the Corniche-des-Cévennes along the high Causse near Le Hospitalet, can be seen several other similar looking standing stones.
Menhirs du Plessis
Trip No.203 Entry No.270 Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhirs du Plessis submitted by thecaptain on 13th Dec 2005. Menhirs du Plessis, Le Bernard, Vendée
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Log Text: At this site, there was once an equilateral triangle of three large menhirs, each 100 metres apart, but now only two remain after the eastern one was destroyed in 1860. They are easily found and well signposted in the locality.
The northern stone is a lovely dressed menhir 7.5 metres tall. It fell and was re-erected in 1977.
The southern menhir is much smaller than its neighbour, at about 4 metres high, but again is a very nicely dressed piece of granite. It is said that there was once a stone block with engravings at its foot, but this stone has now disappeared.
Menir do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas
Date Added: 25th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menir do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas submitted by TheCaptain on 26th Oct 2019. Outlying menhir to the northeast of the Cromeleque do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas, standing in open ground surrounded by cork bark oaks.
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Log Text: Outlying menhir to the Cromeleque do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas, standing in open grownd surrounded by cork bark oaks.
Menir dos Almendres
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Menir dos Almendres submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Oct 2019. A walk around the Menir dos Almendres.
It casts a long shadow in the late afternoon sun
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Log Text: Driving towards Evora from Pavia, and after the town of Arraiolos, we see a large brown sign stating something like Recinto do megalithica, which I think is directions to a local megalithic cromlech. However, we see no further signs in the locality, and realise that perhaps the sign is for a megalithic tour drive. We find no other megalithic sites in the vicinity (this was before I figured out how this all works), and it ends up taking us out of the way to Almendres. However, the late afternoon light is fantastic, we still have an hour or so to spare, the others are fairly keen that we should go see it, and it would help me with my tomorrows megalithic tour route if we did visit this now.
After the village of Guadelupe there is an interpretation centre and shop, then it is several miles of dirt road, before a parking place and fenced footpath up to the beautifully shaped menhir, which is about 4 metres tall. It has a carving of a "crook" near to the top, and is apparently a marker for summer solstice sunrise from the cromlech. Pity about the grain silos.
Menoignon menhir
Trip No.214 Entry No.4 Date Added: 23rd Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 16th Apr 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Menoignon menhir submitted by theCaptain on 5th May 2014. Absolutely splendid menhir which is easily found near to a corner in a little open farmland lane, just behind a little scrubland area.
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Log Text: Absolutely splendid menhir which is easily found near to a corner in a little open farmland lane, just behind a little scrubland area. The menhir must be about 8 metres in height, of large girth at the bottom, slowly tapering up to a pointed top. The southeastern face of the menhir has been worked into an extremely flat surface, of triangular shape, something which clearly took a lot of time to produce. One can only speculate at what this was used for, I have no doubt that it may well have been painted on.
The locality of the stone is a bit marshy, and perhaps there is a spring nearby, underneath some of the wooded glades. Not far away to the east (~20 metres) is another large stone, which looks fairly natural, but I have no doubt it has some relation to the menhir.
Mentoul Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.452 Date Added: 23rd May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Mentoul Menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Jan 2019. This menhir is found in a little grassy area just to the north of Moelan-sur-Mer town centre, between the houses.
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Log Text: This menhir is found in a little grassy area just to the north of the town centre, between the houses. Its about 3 metres high and 2 metres wide.
Mérinville Polissoir
Trip No.204 Entry No.239 Date Added: 5th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Centre:Loiret (45))
Visited: Couldn't find on 5th Aug 2005
Log Text: The Mérinville Polissoir is another stone the farmers wife at Coinche said I should go to see. However, I am not exactly sure where to find it, and it is now pouring with rain, so I am not going to go for a long walk now, especially as it is getting late and starting to get dark. There is no sign to it, so I will for now leave it.
Mérinville Polissoir
Trip No.204 Entry No.243 Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Centre:Loiret (45))
Visited: Couldn't find on 6th Aug 2005
Log Text: Today I went back for a proper look for the Mérinville Polissoir, which is another stone the farmers wife at Coinche said I should go to see. I walked a lot down the forest track near to where it is marked on my map, but there was no chance of finding it without knowing exactly where to look. There is lots of marsh and ponds in the forest which doesn't help in trying to find anything. After quite some time going to look at any rock I can see, I decide its time to give up ! Shame.
Merlin's Cave (Cornwall)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2014
Merlin's Cave (Cornwall) submitted by theCaptain on 23rd Mar 2014. Inside Merlin's Cave back in 1986.
Note my friend giving scale to the place.
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Merrivale
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 29th Oct 2004
Merrivale submitted by thecaptain on 29th Oct 2004. Merrivale site overview.
This is the view looking west overlooking the Merrivale site. I have tried to mark out where the various features are.
The stones in the foreground are remains of bronze age reaves and ancient settlement huts and field walls.
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Merrivale Centre N
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale Centre N submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. The remains of the cairn with its central cist and surrounding stone circle which is in the middle of the southern (or central) avenue
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Merrivale Centre Row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale Centre Row submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. One of the larger and/or shaped "special stones" which make up part of the Merrivale central Avenue.
View looking south, with the unusual large capstone of the cist beyond.
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Merrivale Centre S
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale Centre S submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. Looking northish at the end of row 3 and the remains of its cairn.
The stones in the background are some of those in the southern (or central) avenue.
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Merrivale circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 10th Nov 2004
Merrivale circle submitted by thecaptain on 10th Nov 2004. the small stones of Merrivale stone circle poking up above the skyline beyond the great menhir.
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Merrivale Cists
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale Cists submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. View loking north at the large cist with its broken capstone, just to the south of the Merrivale central avenue. The capstone has been split by stoneworkers a couple of centuries ago, with the middle part of it taken away for some other use, leaving us a view into the stone lined cist below.
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Merrivale Menhir
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 4th Sep 2007
Merrivale Menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Sep 2007. The last rays of an August setting sun light up the Merrivale longstone.
The little stone row (4) and Kings Tor behind it.
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Merrivale NE circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale NE circle submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. At the eastern end of the Merrivale northern double row is the remains of a cairn with a surrounding stone circle.
These stones can be seen here, along with the large stones at the end of the rows extending away from the circle in this view looking west.
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Merrivale North Row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale North Row submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. Roughly in the middle of the Merrivale northern double row can be seen a few stones which may or may not have gone to make up a circle or other structure, perhaps in a similar manner to the cairn and circle in the southern avenue, not more than a few yards away from here.
This is a view looking east along the northern rows, and some extra stones can be seen here.
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Merrivale NW
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Nov 2004
Merrivale NW submitted by thecaptain on 6th Nov 2004. Just to the south of the western end of the Merrivale southern avenue are the remains of a once large cairn with retaining circle.
The stones from this cairn were removed in 1851 to mend the road, leaving just a circle of uneven ground, with a few slabs remaining in an outer bank.
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