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Dolmen dit des Pendus 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.126 Date Added: 7th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Couldn't find on 23rd May 2005
Log Text: After lots of trying from two separate start points I still could not find this one. Too many walls fences and thick hedges in the way and too much scrub to see through to see exactly where it is. The French Air Force is playing around above and having fun though.
Dolmen dit des Pendus 3
Trip No.203 Entry No.126 Date Added: 7th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Couldn't find on 23rd May 2005
Dolmen dit des Pendus 3 submitted by shamrockstone on 14th Jul 2012. Les Pendus
Site in Midi:Lot (46) France
Coordinates are: 44.855783N, 1.756800E, taken by GPS
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Log Text: After lots of trying from two separate start points I still could not find this one. Too many walls fences and thick hedges in the way and too much scrub to see through to see exactly where it is. The French Air Force is playing around above and having fun though.
Dolmen de Candare 2
Trip No.203 Entry No.117 Date Added: 7th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Couldn't find on 23rd May 2005
Dolmen de Candare 2 submitted by Team-Omega-25 on 26th Sep 2007. Found the remains of this dolmen at GPS coordinates: N 44 53.471 E001 40.876
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Log Text: A few hundred metres further up the track beyond Candare 1 dolmen can be found the remains of this dolmen within its mound. It has no capstone.
Maison du Loup dolmen 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.111 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 22nd May 2005
Maison du Loup dolmen 1 submitted by ocdolmen on 7th May 2006. Maison du Loup dolmen (also called Monpazier dolmen), Dordogne, France.
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Log Text: The book I have says this one is 100 metres from the D.2 road near Marsalès at a place called Borie-Neuve so I thought this one was findable and worth a go. I found Borie-Neuve easily enough but no obvious dolmen. So I looked round all the lanes and tracks in the vicinity but still found nothing. There was nobody here to ask so I had a look in the forest here but its all thick undergrowth and there's no way of finding anything without knowing where to look. Why oh why don’t they all have signposts or at least footpaths to them ?
Dolmen de Baneuil
Trip No.203 Entry No.108 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 22nd May 2005
Dolmen de Baneuil submitted by LaDragonne on 18th Jul 2022. Dalles de couverture du dolmen de Baneuil.
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Log Text: The book says this one is close to the Mairie and I found that OK but no signs of a dolmen nearby. I spend a fairly long time walking round all the lanes and ask a couple of locals but they know nothing. I also checked in the nearby wood nothing was obvious. These Perigord wild goose chases are pissing me off. Decide its time to leave here and stick to those on the maps.
Dolmen le Roc del Ser (Faux)
Trip No.203 Entry No.107 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Dolmen le Roc del Ser (Faux) submitted by LaDragonne on 16th Aug 2017. The huge slabs are at ground level.
Les énormes dalles sont au ras du sol
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Log Text: Supposedly very close to the D.19 is this 5 metre long stone the remains of a dolmen capstone but I couldn’t find it. Have to say that by now I wasn’t looking hard. It said that if you recite an Avé Maria to it the stone will turn nine times.
I really must try and find this one tomorrow. Its been one of those afternoons where I couldn’t find anything and became frustrated. Then it started to rain and then thunderstorms and I find I am driving around fairly aimlessly so decide to stop and find a camp site for the night which as seems to be the case at times like this isn’t easy. I find several closed ones until I find an open one back at Beaumont again but it only accepts tents.
Its got a tiny car park and someone has parked awkwardly behind me and I have to reverse out from a tight spot uphill between the cars. This I do successfully but believing I was out crunch and I have hit the gatepost on the other side and have buggered the new plastic trim at the back corner. It seems to be the only damage. Poor van.
I eventually find a campsite at Couze but with nobody around so I just take a place and plug in for the night. At least the showers work. Wonder who won the F.A. Cup this afternoon ?
Le Bourdil Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.106 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Le Bourdil Dolmen submitted by paulcall on 4th Sep 2007. This is the site looking south towards the road.
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Log Text: Supposedly close to the D.19 but I couldn’t find it. Have to say that by now I wasn’t looking hard. Maybe tomorrow.
Menhir dit le Caillou (Boisse)
Trip No.203 Entry No.105 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Menhir dit le Caillou (Boisse) submitted by LaDragonne on 16th Aug 2017. Site in Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) France
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Log Text: Could I find this ? Nope.
Dolmen de Pedorat
Trip No.203 Entry No.104 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Dolmen de Pedorat submitted by LaDragonne on 7th May 2023. Une des énormes dalles poussées dans le bois à Pedorat, Boisse ; Site in Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) France
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Log Text: Could I find this ? Nope.
Le Breil Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.103 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Le Breil Dolmen submitted by paulcall on 30th Aug 2007. A view of the dolmen from the south-west
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Log Text: Could I find this ? Nope.
Dolmen de Pincanelle
Trip No.203 Entry No.102 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Dolmen de Pincanelle submitted by LaDragonne on 16th Aug 2017. Dolmen rather hidden in a hedge in the middle of a field. Photo showing its capstone.
Commune de Ste Sabine
dolmen complètement caché dans une haie au milieu d'un champ. Photo de sa table.
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Log Text: I spent ages walking around many small lanes near the hamlet of Pincanelle looking for this 5 metre long dolmen capstone and asked an old lady in her garden but got nowhere. The lady apparently has no interest in such things and didn’t want to help although she was very interested in what I was doing !
Dolmen de Case du Loup
Trip No.203 Entry No.101 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Dolmen de Case du Loup submitted by LaDragonne on 16th Aug 2017. Huge capstone in balance. An orthostate has been removed.
Énorme table en équilibre. Un orthostate enlevé.
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Log Text: This dolmen is supposedly 2.5 metres high and three metres long. But beware it houses a giant and monstrous wolf with eyes burning with fire. I spent hours in the hamlet of Larocale looking for this and asked many people who didn’t know until I fond a man out strimmering in the garden who did at least know of its existence. It turned out he was a Professor of Prehistory but of older stuff than megaliths. He told me where to find the dolmen “turn right then right again and up a footpath into the wood on the left about a kilometre. Its small and difficult to find” but he knew of none of the others in the area.
Too right it was difficile a trouver. The wood was being cleared and logged by a man with a tractor splitting logs who I asked but he knew nothing. I had a look round but could find nothing. Just where is that monstrous Loup when you nee him ? On my way back to the Campingcar a couple of the people who I had asked enquired if I had found it. No such luck. One lady then told me about the dolmen at Nojals. At least they know of that one round these parts.
Cayre Levat
Trip No.203 Entry No.95 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Cayre Levat submitted by LaDragonne on 7th May 2023. Deux des dalles de grès de Cayre Levat, Carves ; Site in Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) France
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Log Text: I drove round all the lanes I could find north of St Amande looking for something here but other than signs pointing to the farm of the same name I couldn’t find that farm. None of them seem to have names. I saw a poste van and was tempted to stop it and ask the postman. I was not helped by long winding lanes with nowhere to turn and various road works.
Langlade Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.94 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Langlade dolmen submitted by regina on 21st Jun 2013. Site in Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) France
The dolmen is about 100 m. from the hamlet Langlade under chestnut trees.
coordinate N44.74965 E1.05031(GPS)
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Log Text: I spent hours looking for this after it looked easy on the 1:25000 map in the supermarket. To start with I was looking on the wrong ridge for a different stone called Cayrelevada. After asking some people logging in a forest they pointed me in the right direction which was several kilometres away ! The book says it’s a beau dolmen beside the road in a garden in the hamlet of Langlade. Try as I might I couldn’t find this. I even looked in the woods around here. I really do need the 1:25000 maps to hunt these things down but at €10 a time for such small areas that’s just not on.
Peyrebrune megalith
Trip No.203 Entry No.92 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 20th May 2005
Peyrebrune megalith submitted by LaDragonne on 2nd Mar 2024. La Peyre Brune à côté de gravats, sur un site dominant le paysage, Sainte-Orse, Site in Aquitaine: Dordogne (24) France
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Log Text: Near the hamlet of Rozas to the east of Saint-Orse is the farm called Peyre Brune where there are some megalithic remains. I understand it is a large menhir but with stories surrounding it that it is a meteorite which has crashed to earth. On the tiny roads in this area I could find nowhere to park or indeed turn round so gave up perhaps a bit too easily.
Pierre des Justices
Trip No.203 Entry No.81 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 19th May 2005
Log Text: Just off the main road from Perigueux to Les-Eyzies at the junction of the D32 west to Mauzens-et-Miremont is a little picnic and parking area. If you then follow this road west under the splendid railway viaduct after a few hundred metres pass the lavoir then take the little lane up to the left. Somewhere several hundred metres up the steep slope into these woods can be found the Pierre des Justices polissoir stone.
I was told by locals that unless you know exactly where to look then you will not find it. I had a quick look round and decided that there are better things to do than conduct a full search of a large steep overgrown wood.
Peyre Levade (Condat)
Trip No.203 Entry No.60 Date Added: 5th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 17th May 2005
Peyre Levade (Condat) submitted by alchemille on 3rd Aug 2013. Dolmen Peyre levade de Fouret, Condat sur Trincou, Dordogne.
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Log Text: A couple of kilometres east of Brantôme is marked a dolmen on my ign map but despite trying hard to find it I saw no signs of anything and there was nowhere at all to park on very small country lanes to get out and have a proper look.
La Frise Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.33 Date Added: 2nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Couldn't find on 15th May 2005
La Frise dolmen submitted by Rubis on 3rd Oct 2010. Coming from Les Magnils-Reigniers towards Corpe on the road D44, the dolmen can be found just a few meters before the crossroad of La Frise.
Site in Pays de la Loire: Vendée (85) France
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Log Text: I could see no signs of this in the flat farmland, nor any signs or other indications
Menhir du Boivre
Trip No.203 Entry No.25 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Couldn't find on 14th May 2005
Menhir du Boivre submitted by johnstone on 17th Mar 2018. The front side, July 6, 2013
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Log Text: This menhir is supposed to be 3.8 metes tall and nicely shaped but I could not find it. I took both the high road (a gravel track ) and the low road through the farmyard of the same name looking but I didn’t even catch a glimpse of it.
Pierre Tournante (Bosgouet)
Trip No.202 Entry No.97 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Normandie:Eure (27))
Visited: Couldn't find on 4th May 2005
Pierre Tournante (Bosgouet) submitted by TheCaptain on 6th May 2005. Pierre Tournante, Bosgouet, Eure.
When I got there I found that the track through the forest to get to it had been gated off, with lots of barbed wire and keep out notices everywhere, so I didn’t get to visit this one.
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Log Text: Marked on my ign map as a megalithic monument. When I got there I found that the track through the forest to get to it had been gated off with lots of barbed wire and keep out notices everywhere so I didn’t get to investigate.