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Montchauvet Alignements
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 29th Oct 2012
Montchauvet alignements submitted by theCaptain on 29th Oct 2012. I found nine large stones in the field, mostly flat to the ground, but one or two upright.
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Monte à Peine menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.242 Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Centre:Loiret (45))
Visited: Yes on 6th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Monte à Peine menhir submitted by thecaptain on 16th Feb 2007. Monte à Peine menhir is right beside the road, but almost lost in bushes and undergrowth.
It's just over 2 metres tall, and looks to be a lump of sarsen type stone.
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Log Text: Take Rue du Menhir east from the village of Pers-en-Gâtinais, and just after the first road junction the road bears round to the right. The menhir is right beside the road, but almost lost in bushes and undergrowth. It's just over 2 metres tall, and is a lump of sarsen type stone.
Montemain stone
Trip No.204 Entry No.267 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Montemain stone submitted by theCaptain on 2nd Apr 2012. On the top can be seen two grooves and three large flattish polishing areas, while further down there are another two basin type areas.
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Log Text: Driving through the village of Saumeray, I saw a sign to Polissoir, so stopped for a look. Right in the middle of the village, on a little green square behind the church can be found this combination menhir and polissoir. There is a little board stating that the stone was moved here in 1998 after being found in a "ballastiere" (gravel pit) at nearby Montemain.
It is thought that the stone was once a menhir which had fallen and was used after that as a polishing stone. The stone itself is a big block of yellowish coloured rock mixed with puddingstone, and is about 4 metres long, 1.5 metres wide and high. On the top of it can be seen two grooves and three large flattish polishing areas, while further down there are another two basin type areas. This was a nice find which I was not expecting.
Montezuma Castle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 25th May 2009
Montezuma Castle submitted by thecaptain on 25th May 2009. Montezuma Castle, on a hot day in November 1990.
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Montjoie de la Can de l'Hospitalet A
Trip No.205 Entry No.218 Date Added: 1st Dec 2020
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 24th Sep 2005. My rating: Access 5
Montjoie de la Can de l'Hospitalet A submitted by regina on 22nd Dec 2020. Site in Languedoc:Lozère (48) France
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Log Text: Seen while driving north along the Corniche-des-Cévennes road passing over the high ground to the north of Le Pompidou.
Montjoie de la Can de l'Hospitalet C
Trip No.205 Entry No.217 Date Added: 1st Dec 2020
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 24th Sep 2005. My rating: Access 5
Montjoie de la Can de l'Hospitalet C submitted by regina on 24th Dec 2020. Site in Languedoc:Lozère (48) France
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Log Text: Seen while driving north along the Corniche-des-Cévennes road passing over the high ground to the north of Le Pompidou.
Montjoie de la Can de l'Hospitalet D
Trip No.205 Entry No.216 Date Added: 1st Dec 2020
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 24th Sep 2005. My rating: Access 5
Montjoie de la Can de l'Hospitalet D submitted by regina on 24th Dec 2020. Site in Languedoc:Lozère (48) France
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Log Text: Seen while driving north along the Corniche-des-Cévennes road passing over the high ground to the north of Le Pompidou.
Montmirat menhirs
Trip No.205 Entry No.221 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Montmirat menhirs submitted by ocdolmen on 29th Aug 2006. The menhir of the Col de Montmirat is the only survivor of an initial group of 9 menhirs. It was christianized with the installation of an iron cross at the top of the stone. The holes on the stone are old tests of cutting up by carriers. Height: 1.70 meter.
With a few meters from there, one can see the vestiges of 2 broken and cut down menhirs.
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Log Text: At the top of the Col de Montmirat, on the main road from Florac to Mende, can be found this menhir. It is just beside the road which goes west towards Montmirat hamlet, at an altitude of 1050m. About 2 metres tall, it has an iron cross mounted on top of it, and has also been used as a roadsign in the past. Supposedly it is the only survivor of a group of menhirs once here.
Montségur
Trip No.200 Entry No.23 Date Added: 18th Jun 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Midi:Ariège (09))
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2000. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Montségur submitted by thecaptain on 16th Feb 2005. Montségur Pog. The castle where the last stand of the Cathars took place against the Catholic Church can be seen here on top of the sacred hill known as the Pog. More than 200 unarmed Parfaits were defeated and burned here in 1244.
However, the Pog, seen here from the northwest, has been inhabited since neolithic times.
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Log Text: A lovely sunny day to explore. Puivert castle. Fontestorbes. Montsegur Castle. Pass de ? closed. Plain de ? Ax-les-Thermes, Col de Portel, scary roads. Mas D’Azil. Toulouse late.
Ancient defended settlement on top of the sacred hill known as The Pog at Montségur in Ariège. Although the main remains of the castle date back to the time of the Cathars, there is plenty of evidence that this hill has been inhabited since time immemorial. There is a little museum with lots of items in the village below the Pog.
Montségur is more well known as the site of the slaughter of the last of the Cathars by the catholic church in 1244, where after a long siege, 200 unarmed Cathar Parfaits were defeated and burned in a pyre by an army numbering 10,000. The Castle dungeon has a strange solar event each summer solstice, as the first rays of the rising sun shine right through the two arrow slots on one side, and straight out through two others on the far side. Was this built into it deliberately ? One might be a fluke, but two ?
Montségur
Trip No.200 Entry No.36 Date Added: 18th Jun 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Midi:Ariège (09))
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2000
Montségur submitted by thecaptain on 16th Feb 2005. Montségur Pog, seen here from the southwest, has been inhabited and defended since neolithic times.
But it is more well known for its Cathar castle, and as the site of the slaughter of the last of the Cathars by the catholic church in 1244.
The Castle dungeon has a strange solar event each summer solstice, as the first rays of the rising sun shine right through the two arrow slots on one side, and straight out through two others on the far side. Was this built into it deliberately ? One mi...
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Log Text: Dad over to Toulouse for a long weekend. Explore Mirepoix. Montsegur, Couiza, Rennes-le-Chateau, very strange place. Gorges St George upper Aude valley, Col de Pailleres (2001m). Ax-les-Thermes, Tarascon, Foix, and back to Toulouse.
Montségur museum
Trip No.200 Entry No.24 Date Added: 18th Jun 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Midi:Ariège (09))
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2000. My rating: Access 4
Montségur museum submitted by thecaptain on 16th Feb 2005. Montségur village. Looking down onto the village from the walls of the hilltop castle. There is an interesting museum in the village with all sorts of ancient stuff found here contained within.
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Log Text: Small museum with lots of items in the village of Montségur below the sacred hill known as Le Pog.
Monument 280
Date Added: 5th Nov 2023
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Monument 280 submitted by nigeynoo on 21st May 2018. Monument 280 taken May 20 on a very peaceful afternoon
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Log Text: Over a couple of mounds, and there is another catchily named site, Monument 280, of which I have no idea what type of site this is. There are many stones stood and arranged, but with no obvious pattern. There is a circle in the middle of them, and several in a straight line through the middle. Is that a burial cist beside one of the large stones? I see online something which states that in 1845 this was described as three circles. Time for lunch, and I notice a pair of glasses within what looks to me like a burial cist, with a leather strap hanging over the large stone beside it.
Moor Divock 2
Date Added: 22nd Nov 2022
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Moor Divock 2 submitted by Anne T on 16th May 2022. A view of the stones looking almost due west. The handle of my walking pole is pointing due north.
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Log Text: From the Cop Stone, I head off along the trackway until I see the stones of the little cairn circle Moor Divock 4 off in the distance, so then head off along a smaller path towards that. There are a couple of large stones standing proud of the ground which I go to look at, and it seems they are clearly stood up and standing in their positions with a few smaller stones also. Clearly not natural. I later find this to be Moor Divock 2.
Moor Divock 3
Date Added: 22nd Nov 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Moor Divock 4 submitted by postman on 25th Oct 2012. Sometimes a friend at work will ask why I do this , but the question isn't why I do, it's why don't you ? (though really I know the answer)
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Log Text: From MD4 I head back to the main trackway, where my attention is drawn to a couple of large stones laying just off the trackway to the right. I wonder if this was once a cairn with a few kerbstones. I look at the portal again, and see a cup marked stone somewhere around here, and wonder if it is that? No, its not that, which is marked further to the north. Thinking back now home, three weeks later and having got the old plan in front of me, I wonder if this is the remains of MD3. Unlike me, I did not take or keep any pictures of this, probably convinced that there was nothing of any ancient importance at this place! Doh!
Moor Divock 4
Date Added: 22nd Nov 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Moor Divock 4 submitted by h_fenton on 7th Oct 2010. An oblique Kite Aerial Photograph of 'Moor Divock 4' ring cairn, viewed from roughly south.
11 September 2010
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Log Text: From the MD2 stones, there is a path out to the clearly seen standing stones of Moor Divock 4, marked as Cairn Circle on the OS map. This consists of a round cairn of stones, surmounted by a ring of about 10 large stones standing proudly on top. It’s a lovely little thing, and from it can be quite clearly seen several other cairns on this moorland plateau. I sit here for a while just looking at the world around me and start to wonder. If this is Moor Divock 4, the previous stones were MD2, then what happened to MD3? I have good phone signal up here and so fire up the megalithic portal, only to find that MD3 is shown as beyond MD5. The pictures for it are mostly of MD4, so that can't be right.
Moor Divock 4 to 5 Stone Avenue
Date Added: 23rd Nov 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Couldn't find on 20th Sep 2022
Log Text: Having walked back to the main trackway, I headed along it in a northwesterly direction, before taking a small path out towards the obvious cairn of MD5. As a result, I didn't see anything of the MD4-5 avenue, as I didn't know it was here to look for, and wouldn't have been in the right place by fate.
Moor Divock 5
Date Added: 23rd Nov 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Moor Divock 5 submitted by stu on 16th Jul 2004. NY 4930 2217.
Round cairn with 3 stones on its western side aligned N-S.
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Log Text: I walked further along the main trackway, before taking a small path out towards the obvious cairn of Moor Divock 5. It is an obvious large round cairn with three large stones in a sort of row sticking out across the top and many others laying around, presumably once making up a ring around a hollow in the centre of the cairn. Nearby to the north is another raised mound which initially looks to be another cairn, which the sheep like to sit on. When I do get to have a closer look, there seems to be possibly a cairn, but I am not 100% convinced this is anything other than a natural lump in the ground.
Moor Divock 6, 7 and 8
Date Added: 24th Nov 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Couldn't find on 20th Sep 2022
Log Text: Now much later than my explorations, I am looking at an old antiquarian article, "The Prehistoric Remains on Moordivock, near Ullswater. — By M. WAISTELL TAYLOR". I see that in approximately where the shake hole and gulley was, there are marked cairn circles MD6, MD7 and MD8. These are nowhere near where they were recorded on the megalithic portal, which I had been to look for at the end of my visit, right up near Heughscar Hill. Cairn MD6 is recorded as a ring of seven stones, 25 feet in diameter. Cairn MD7 is recorded as a double ring of five stones each, just 14 feet in diameter. Cairn MD8 is recorded as a ring of seven stones, just 9 feet in diameter.
Moor Divock carved stone
Date Added: 23rd Nov 2022
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022
Moor Divock carved stone submitted by nicoladidsbury on 16th Feb 2005. Possible carved stone on Moor Divock close to Moor Divock 4 ring cairn
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Log Text: Having got the portal details of this I had a good look in a couple of places where I found two cairn/shooting butt structures in a sort of wall. The best I found was a stone with several holes in it, which I didn't think were anything other than natural or perhaps quarrying marks. But I probably didn't find the listed stone.
Moor Divock Round Cairn D
Date Added: 13th Feb 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Moor Divock Round Cairn D submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Nov 2022. Nearby to the north of Moor Divock 5 is another raised mound which initially looks to be another cairn, which the sheep like to sit on. When I do get to have a closer look, there seems to be possibly a cairn, but with no further info I am not 100% convinced this is anything other than a natural lump in the ground.
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Log Text: Nearby to the north of Moor Divock 5 is another raised mound which initially looks to be another cairn, which the sheep like to sit on. When I do get to have a closer look, there seems to be possibly a cairn, but with no further info I am not 100% convinced this is anything other than a natural lump in the ground.