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Tumulus de Chateaurenaud
Trip No.203 Entry No.46 Date Added: 5th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 16th May 2005
Tumulus de Chateaurenaud submitted by TAUPIN on 15th Nov 2011. Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France
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Log Text: Another big obvious wood covered tumulus up on the hills above the village. But to get to this one would have meant quite a long walk from anywhere I could have parked and there was no obvious way to it so I did not bother as there are many others to explore locally.
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.
La Justice tumulus
Trip No.203 Entry No.41 Date Added: 2nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 15th May 2005
Vieux Breuil tumulus submitted by thecaptain on 5th Dec 2005. To the east of the historic village of Tusson there are four tumuli which lie in a line along the top of a ridge.
The Pierre Blanche and Magnez dolmens are on the same line to the north.
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Log Text: There are four tumulus here to the east of the village of Tusson which lie in a line along the top of a ridge. One of the central pair is enormous and deserves further exploration. The Pierre Blanche and Magnez dolmens are on the same line to the north.
Vieux Breuil tumulus
Trip No.203 Entry No.39 Date Added: 2nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 5th Dec 2005
Vieux Breuil tumulus submitted by thecaptain on 5th Dec 2005. To the east of the historic village of Tusson there are four tumuli which lie in a line along the top of a ridge.
The Pierre Blanche and Magnez dolmens are on the same line to the north.
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Log Text: There are four tumulus here to the east of the village of Tusson which lie in a line along the top of a ridge. One of the central pair is enormous and deserves further exploration. The Pierre Blanche and Magnez dolmens are on the same line to the north.
Tusson tumulus
Trip No.203 Entry No.38 Date Added: 2nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 15th May 2005
Tusson tumulus submitted by thecaptain on 5th Dec 2005. To the east of the historic village of Tusson there are four tumuli which lie in a line along the top of a ridge.
This is the most northerly, the name of which I am unsure.
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Log Text: There are four tumulus here to the east of the village of Tusson which lie in a line along the top of a ridge. One of the central pair is enormous and deserves further exploration. The Pierre Blanche and Magnez dolmens are on the same line to the north.
Alignement dit le Rocher
Trip No.203 Entry No.12 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 13th May 2005
Alignement dit le Rocher submitted by johnstone on 10th Mar 2018. This menhir stands at the beginning of the road “Le Rocher” almost hidden in the bushes.
It may be the first stone belonging to the alignment further on, June 26, 2013
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Log Text: To the east of Saint Just village I spent no time looking for this menhir as it was by now pouring with rain, although I thought I saw something near a farmhouse as I drove past.
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.
Dolmen de l'Hôtel-Dieu
Trip No.202 Entry No.80 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Normandie:Eure (27))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 3rd May 2005
Dolmen de l'Hôtel-Dieu submitted by thecaptain on 19th Oct 2005. Pierre des Druides, or Hotel Dieu dolmen, near to the village of Les Ventes, seen in its field on a terribly wet morning in May.
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Log Text: Seen a couple of hundred metres away in the middle of a field just to the northeast of the crossroads at La Trigalle It looks fairly similar to the nearby Pierre Courcoulée.
Menhir dit la Pierre de Gargantua (Neaufles)
Trip No.202 Entry No.78 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Eure (27))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 3rd May 2005
Menhir dit la Pierre de Gargantua (Neaufles) submitted by thecaptain on 19th Oct 2005. Pierre de Gargantua, Neauffles-Auvergny.
Seen at a distance of about 250 metres across fields from the little bridge across the Risle river.
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Log Text: Seen at a distance of about 200 metres across fields from the little bridge across the Risle river. There wasn’t really anywhere to park and there looked no way to get to the menhir so I contented myself with a long distance shot. It must be nearly 4 metres tall in a large flat pasture beside the river.
Menhir de Boulay-Filleul
Trip No.202 Entry No.74 Date Added: 29th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 2nd May 2005
Menhir de Boulay-Filleul submitted by HOMER27000 on 7th Jan 2012. Boulai menhir
Site in Normandie:Orne (61) France
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Log Text: A menhir in woodland visible just to the west side of the road to L’Aigle a couple of kilometres south of the village. As is becoming typical of round here there is nowhere at all to park on a very busy road. Those damned Normadie ditches alongside all the roads. Couldn’t stop to take a picture and it took miles before I was able to turn round and have another look on the way back.
La Pierre Levée (Echauffour)
Trip No.202 Entry No.69 Date Added: 29th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 2nd May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 3
La Pierre Levée (Echauffour) submitted by thecaptain on 4th Nov 2005. La Pierre Levée (Echauffour).
Seen in a field of stinking rapeseed, from a busy road.
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Log Text: About half a kilometre south of the village of Echauffour can be seen in a field to the east of the road the remains of a dolmen of which a large capstone can be seen resting on some uprights.
I could find nowhere to stop nearby so I parked some distance away and walked to try and get a closer look. This is a nasty busy road with lots of lorries thundering past and I found no way into the field and only got a couple of distant shots. I hate the smell of rapeseed and it brings on my asthma but the yellow flowers of it in a distant field made a reasonable background to the pictures helping the stones stand out against their surroundings.
Les Gastines
Trip No.202 Entry No.70 Date Added: 29th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 2nd May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Les Gastines submitted by thecaptain on 9th Nov 2005. Les Gastines menhirs.
Not too long ago a field with at least 4 menhirs in it, but these days seems to have been cleared except for the big one, which can just about be seen here poking out of the top of the dark bush in the middle.
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Log Text: At the hamlet of La Métairie, a couple of kilometres south of Saint Hilaire-sur-Risle, in Orne, used to be a field with several stones in it including 4 menhirs one of which was more than 4 metres high and had been split by a tree which had grown in a crack in the stone.
Recent fate seems not to have been kind to these stones as when I visited, the field had been cleared of these stones and ploughed over and planted with crops. What appeared to be a bush growing over the top of the ridge was on closer inspection a trimmed tree with signs of a large stone mixed in with it.
I could get no closer to look properly, but at least the large split menhir seems to be in place still. When driving along the lane to the south of the field I saw three large stones and many smaller ones piled within the hedge. Is this the sad fate of Les Gastines ? Succombed to a farmers greed after 5000 years ?
La Bertinière
Trip No.202 Entry No.53 Date Added: 28th Mar 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st May 2005
La Bertinière submitted by TheCaptain on 11th May 2005. La Bertinière, La Sauvagère, Orne.
I estimate it to be about 10 cow lengths long, and a cow high.
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Log Text: Despite being a monument of national historic importance and signposted as such half a kilometre walk from the main road I assume a new farmer has taken up residence and all the fields are now well fenced off with barbed and electric wire and countless signs so I wasn’t able to pay a proper visit. It can however be seen to the south of the main road west of the village and was in a field of cows. It looks to be a fairly large monument much bigger than most in these parts. I estimate it to be about 10 cow lengths long and a cow high.
Menhir de la Bergerie des Etennevaux
Trip No.202 Entry No.29 Date Added: 26th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 26th Apr 2005
Menhir de la Bergerie des Etennevaux submitted by TheCaptain on 7th May 2005. La Bergerie des Etennevaux, menhir, St Germain-des-Vaux, Manche.
Menhir about 2 metres tall right at the northwestern tip of the Cherbourg peninsular, seen from two fields distance in a downpour.
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Log Text: Menhir about 2 metres tall northwest of the village of St Germain-des-Vaux on Cap de la Hague right at the northwestern tip of the Cherbourg peninsular. I couldn’t get right up to this menhir and could only see it from two fields distance and judged the height from the size of the cows in the field with it.
Langrais menhirs
Trip No.202 Entry No.12 Date Added: 26th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 23rd Apr 2005
Langrais menhirs submitted by TheCaptain on 6th May 2005. Langrais menhirs, Soumont-Saint-Quentin, Calvados.
2 large menhirs in a field to the east of the village near Mont Joly, but which are 500 metres from the road across a field surrounded by barbed wire and with very clear keep out signs. One of the two menhirs stands 3.6 metres high, while the other is fallen.
The standing menhir can be seen here between the third and fourth fencepost along to the right of the sign.
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Log Text: Two large menhirs in a field to the east of the village near Mont Joly but which are 500 metres from the road across a field surrounded by barbed wire and with very clear keep out signs. One of the two menhirs stands 3.6 metres high while the other is fallen.
In the region around here are many other large stones some of which may well be fallen menhirs and indeed perhaps a row can be determined in the lane called “Route des Menhirs”.
La Butte du Hu
Trip No.202 Entry No.10 Date Added: 25th Mar 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 23rd Apr 2005
La Butte du Hu submitted by thecaptain on 8th Oct 2006. Plan of La Butte du Hu, Ernes, as shown on the sign at Colombiers-sur-Seulles.
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Log Text: North of the village of Ernes several hundred metres up a farm track from the hamlet of Vey d’Ifs on the top of the ridge this large chambered tumulus can be seen just within a field growing crops so I did not enter.
La Hogue
Trip No.202 Entry No.6 Date Added: 25th Mar 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 23rd Apr 2005
La Hogue submitted by TheCaptain on 6th May 2005. La Hogue Tumulus, Fontenay-le Marmion, Calvados
The excavated remains of this large round barrow with 12 internal burial chambers is fenced off within a field of rapeseed. What was once a guardian with a key to the site in the nearby house was today a lady who told me that “Il est fermée monsieur”.
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Log Text: Despite being signed from the main road and having a Bar le Tumulus nearby the excavated remains of this large round barrow with 12 internal burial chambers is fenced off within a field of rapeseed. What was once a guardian with a key to the site in the nearby house was today a lady who told me that “Il est fermée monsieur”.
Gruta do Escoural
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 13th Oct 2019
Gruta do Escoural submitted by Magalhaes on 30th Apr 2006. Wall from the neolithic (?) settling, straight uphill from the cave.
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Log Text: Next I go for a quick look at the Escoural caves, which are all fenced off and locked up, with a sign telling how to book a visit with at least 24 hours notice. Hey Ho.
Anta do Barrocal 2
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 13th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Anta do Barrocal 2 submitted by Bak_teria on 9th Mar 2015. A view from near by Barrocal 2 in 2015.
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Log Text: From the dolmen 1, I see a gate with signpost into the field, so use that to get out, and start to look for the dolmen number 2, which is on the other sde of the trackway. I see it up on the hillside a hundred yards or so away, and with no obvious way in, and cattle in the field.
Compared to the number 1, its a bit of a wreck anyway, so I make do with a couple of pictures from the trackway. At this point, while going back to the car, I see somebody on a quadbike haring up the lane towards me, so I nod and wave at him as he approaches. He slows down and looks like he's heading into the nearby field, but just looks at me, turns round and heads back from whence he came. I guess he had seen me from the farm and was just checking me out, but as I was obviously leaving anyway said nothing.
Anta de Folgos I
Date Added: 26th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 13th Oct 2019. My rating: Access 4
Log Text: Saw this from the car while driving south east. Nowhere obvious to park to go back and have a look, so didn't.