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Fort Harrouard
Trip No.202 Entry No.84 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 3rd May 2005
Fort Harrouard submitted by thecaptain on 10th Nov 2005. Fort Harrouard seen above the river Eure.
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Log Text: This ancient defended settlement is positioned on a steep hillside high above the river Eure near the village of Marcilly-sur-Eure.
Forresters' Oaks Round Barrow
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Forresters' Oaks Round Barrow submitted by thehappydruid on 11th Aug 2020. Forresters' Oaks Round Barrow
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Log Text: Breezy but sunny afternoon walk up Gray Hill to check out the old stones, then a walk around Wentwood Forest. Just before the end of the walk, this round barrow can be found, with views up to Gray Hill.
Fordsland Ledge Chambered cairn
Date Added: 19th Aug 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Fordsland Ledge Chambered cairn submitted by Bladup on 5th Oct 2014. Fordsland Ledge Chambered cairn.
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Log Text: A walk up to the top of southern England, I park at Meldon reservoir and head over the dam then around the lake and up the West Okement river to an area of woodland and waterfalls, at which point I head up towards the top of the ridge north of Black Tor. I almost instantly regret this decision, as it is very hard going in very steep rough and wet ground, and I have a couple of falls, in the meantime seeing several other people descending much further upstream below the tor outcrop. Once up to Black Tor, and extremely weary, I have a serious talk to myself about heading directly back to the car along the track via Longstone Hill, as the weather is worsening and I am really starting to ache. However, after eating a sticky bun I feel the worst is over and decide to carry on up to Fordsland Ledge with its army huts and nice cairn with large stones protruding, seeing heavy rainshowers passing around, but none on me.
Fontaine St Michel
Trip No.203 Entry No.412 Date Added: 21st May 2020
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Fontaine St Michel submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Jun 2011. Round the back of the massive tumulus there is a nice well with a little well house and offerings area above a clear pool of water slowly bubbling up from the ground.
I have no doubt that this spring has been here for thousands of years and indeed quenched the thirst of the men building the tumulus.
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Log Text: Following the path round the back of the tumulus looking to get a good photograph there was a sign to Fontaine St Michel which I followed. After a few hundred metres there is a nice little well with a little well house and offerings area above a clear pool of water slowly bubbling up from the ground.
I have no doubt that this spring has been here for thousands of years and indeed quenched the thirst of the men building the tumulus. And this turned out to be site 500 in my French stonehunting trip catalogue of site visits. Incredible really that I am seeing hundreds of dolmens and menhirs yet a well gets to be site 500. Probably only my third well !
Fontaine St Jean-du-Doigt
Trip No.193 Entry No.23 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 1992. My rating: Access 5
Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 3. Breton Corniche, Treburden, Lannion, Corniche Armorique to Primel Tregastel.
Ellie of course wanted to see St John the Baptist's finger, but I think the church was closed and we couldn't see it. Wonderful camp-site right on the Pointe de Primel, and meal round the other side of the bay at Le Diben, where I made the waitress laugh because of my Quebec accent and expressions!
Fontaine Saint Gré tumulus
Trip No.203 Entry No.278 Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2005. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 4
Fontaine Saint Gré tumulus submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2005. Not far from the Fontaine Saint Gré spring, is the remains of a large long mound.
At the eastern end of this mound is a large granite slab, which is the remains of a burial chamber.
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Log Text: Not far from the Fontaine Ste Gré spring is the remains of a large long mound. At the eastern end of this mound is a large granite slab, which is the remains of a burial chamber.
Fontaine Saint Gré menhirs
Trip No.203 Entry No.279 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 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Fontaine Saint Gré menhirs submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2005. Near to the Fontaine Ste Gré spring there are two menhirs to be seen.
In the hedge beside the lane which leads to the Fontaine Ste Gré, just beside the entrance to the field within which the spring is, can be found this menhir, about 2.5 metres tall, but very well hidden and overgrown within the hedge.
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Log Text: In the hedge beside the little lane which leads to the Fontaine Ste Gré, just beside the entrance to the field within which the spring is, can be found this menhir. It is about 2.5 metres tall, but very well hidden and overgrown within the hedge.
The other menhir is somewhere in a hedge beside the big pond below the spring, inside a private garden. I couldn’t find this one.
Fontaine Saint Gré
Trip No.203 Entry No.277 Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2005. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 4
Fontaine Saint Gré submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2005. This is an ancient spring with little pond in amongst some large granite blocks near to the village of Avrillé.
The spring water seeps into the pond from out of a fissure in one of the granite slabs at the side, from quite well above the water line.
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Log Text: This is an ancient spring and little pond in amongst some large granite blocks. The spring water seeps into the little pond from out of a fissure in one of the granite slabs at the side, from quite well above the water line.
There are two menhirs, a tumulus and ruined dolmen within a hundred metres of the spring, although they are quite difficult to determine amongst the natural stone in the area. The Fontaine is signposted from nearby and in the village.
Fontaine des Chartreux
Trip No.203 Entry No.214 Date Added: 21st Apr 2020
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2005. My rating: Access 4
Fontaine des Chartreux submitted by theCaptain on 16th Jan 2012. Cross the wonderful Pont Valentré from the old town of Cahors, contained within its loop of the Lot river, and walk south along the riverside for a few hundred metres, and you will find this huge spring in the cliffside, with the crystal clear water surging out.
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Log Text: Cross the wonderful Pont Valentré from the old town of Cahors, contained within its loop of the Lot river, and walk south along the riverside for a few hundred metres, and you will find this huge spring in the cliffside, with the crystal clear water surging out. Two thousand years ago, the Fontaine des Chartreux was used for the worship of Divona, or Divona Cadurcorum, "Divona of the Cadurci," a Celtic people of Gaul before the Roman conquest in the 50s BC. Many coins, minted between 27 BC and AD 54 and thrown into the water as offerings, have been discovered by archaeologists here.
Fontaine de Trois Seigneurs tumulus
Trip No.205 Entry No.50 Date Added: 25th Oct 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65))
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Fontaine de Trois Seigneurs tumulus submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Jan 2006. Remains of a large round mound, probably with a chambered tomb inside, which can be seen near to the more well known Pouey-Majou, a few kilometres to the southwest of Tarbes in southwestern France.
There are many of these large mounds around on the hills here, but many more have been destroyed in the last century. This one has recently been attacked with earthmoving equipment on its far side, some of which can be seen by the steep side on the right, and the loose earth to the side.
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Log Text: When at the Fontaine de Trois Seigneurs, instead of turning left towards the Pouey-Majou dolmen continue southwest for a few hundred yards along the farmtrack, and there is a large mound at the top of the hill. It can be clearly seen against the skyline while walking towards it from quite some distance off, all covered in bracken and scrub. Unfortunately, it has all been fenced off, so I couldnt get a closer look. It looks to be about 20 metres in diameter, by 3 metres high. The northwest side looks to have been recently cut away with earth moving equipment. In fact, it is in such a badly cared for state, that at first I assumed that it might be just a modern mound of earth, for some reason piled there by the farmer. But it is indeed an ancient burial mound, which is in desperate need of some proper care. It wouldn't be the only one of these large burial mounds round here to be destroyed in recent times, as one was ploughed out less than 10 years ago.
Font-de-Gaume
Trip No.203 Entry No.71 Date Added: 5th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Font-de-Gaume submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2010. The cliff face within which the spectacular Font-de-Gaume cave with its wonderful paintings is to be found.
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Log Text: Walk quickly the 2km from Les Eyzies to the entrance building for the cave, and am just in time to be a part of the 10:00 trip. Hooray. It is fantastic.
The colours don't seem so vivid as I recall, (probably from seeing pictures), but I am actually in the cave with these paintings, and could almost touch them if I wanted) strictly forbidden!) they are that close and available. They are said to date from 14000 years ago, dated by means of calcite build up dating methods as there is no charcoal in any of the paintings. There are bison, horses, reindeer, normal deer, a mammoth... Superb. In red and black but they look totally different with the lights on and off.
Entering the cave from the old entrance, the animals would have passed you by as you proceeded into the cavern, it is intended as a moving picture. These people could paint with perspective, something which became lost until the renaissance period only 500 years ago. Some of the animals are painted on flat surfaces. Some are made to fit the cave features. Some have been carved. The two deer, one licking the other, are amazing. I want to rate this place as 10 out of 5.
Font-de-Gaume
Date Added: 21st Oct 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 1978
Font-de-Gaume submitted by ocdolmen on 26th May 2006. Site in Aquitaine: Dordogne (24)
Entrance of Font de Gaume cave, Dordogne, France.
The entrance is on the right on the photo (the cave on the left is a dead end and presents no drawing)
Inside the cave, a great number of buffalos and horses drawings and some engraved drawings.
Magdalenian period (about 20.000 BCE)
One of the rare prehistoric cave with drawings still open to public.
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Log Text: Hitch Hiking Trip round France in the summer of 1978. Camped for a couple of days at Les Eyzies to visit and wonder at the ancient sites here.
Folatière tumulus
Trip No.203 Entry No.44 Date Added: 5th Apr 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 16th May 2005
Folatière tumulus submitted by thecaptain on 4th Dec 2005. Folatière tumulus can be seen from miles around and dwarfs the nearby farmhouse.
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Log Text: This tumulus is obvious it can be seen from miles around up on top of a hill all covered in woodland.I parked and walked up “Rue de Tumulus” but could find no way of closer inspection as its all fenced off private land. The tumulus is really massive though and dwarfs the nearby farmhouse. Shame as its marked on my ign map so must have something worth seeing.
Folatière Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.45 Date Added: 5th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Folatière dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 5th Dec 2005. Folatière dolmen, the remains of a capstone in an orchard, to the northeast of the massive nearby tumulus.
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Log Text: Much wrecked remains of a dolmen, near to the hamlet of Bel Air, a couple of kilometres to the northeast of the village of Luxé in Charente. At first I assumed the dolmen would be part of the tumulus and so was disappointed that I could not get to see it. However later in the day having seen a detailed map of the area I saw that the dolmen was marked a bit to the northeast of the tumulus so I went for another look. This time I saw a large stone in an orchard area ao went for a closer look. It would appear to be the capstone of a dolmen lying on the ground at a very steep angle. I could not tell whether it was on its own or there were any support stones underneath.
Foamhenge (Natural Bridge)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: United States (Mid Atlantic)
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2007
Foamhenge (Natural Bridge) submitted by thecaptain on 7th Aug 2007. Foamhenge, in Virginia, USA.
Photo sent to me by a friend, who's brother passed by here a year or so ago, and knew a photo would be appreciated.
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Flower's Barrow
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 27th Apr 2019
Flower's Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Apr 2019. The cross dyke to the east of Flowers Barrow hillfort
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Flouirac Dolmen
Trip No.205 Entry No.171 Date Added: 24th Nov 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Couldn't find on 19th Sep 2005
Flouirac dolmen submitted by ocdolmen on 9th Apr 2006. Flouirac dolmen, also known as Ostalet de la Fada
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Log Text: This dolmen is supposedly about 1.5 kilometres to the east of the hamlet of Barral, and just 25 metres to the nmorth of the road. However, it is so well hidden , that even after exensive searching, I could find no traces of it.
Fire Beacon Cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2018
Fire Beacon Cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 21st May 2018. Fire Beacon Cairn seen from the Drove Road along the top of the Quantock ridge
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Finelle Dolmen
Trip No.205 Entry No.31 Date Added: 19th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82))
Visited: Yes on 2nd Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Finelle Dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Nov 2007. A bit to the west along the track running along the southern edge of the airfield, and you soon come to another dolmen.
This one has lost its mound, which has no doubt been used to build the local walls, and it is standing proud at the edge of a flat area used for dumping rubble etc.
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Log Text: A bit to the west of the first dolmen, along the track running along the southern edge of the airfield, and you soon come to another dolmen. This one has lost its mound, which has no doubt been used to build the local walls, and it is standing proud at the edge of a flat area used for dumping rubble etc. Its a fairly standard southern French dolmen, with two 4 metre long sideslabs and a backstone between them, topped with a capstone, making a chamber 3 metres by 2 metres. There is some evidence of a front closing stone, and the chamber faces eastwards on a bearing of 095°.
Fieux Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.129 Date Added: 7th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Couldn't find on 23rd May 2005
Fieux dolmen submitted by alchemille on 25th Mar 2014. Near the Dolmen of Peyrebru we can find this small dolmen in the area of the Archeological site of Les Fieux. Miers. Lot.
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Log Text: This should have been a banker before moving on late in the afternoon it supposedly being just a hundred metres from the road at a very recognisable corner. I found the corner and parked and went for a look. I searched and searched but the area has become overgrown with scrub thorny bushes brambles wild rose etc. In fact I almost got lost and couldn’t find my way back. This 5 minute banker had turned into about an hour of frustration getting ripped to shreds and bleeding !