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Couinandré Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.536 Date Added: 29th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Couinandré menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 14th Apr 2011. This is a nicely curved menhir just down a little track and signposted east of Plouescat. Its about 4 metres tall, but in a strange position, not on top of the hill or by the stream.
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Log Text: This is a nicely curved menhir just down a little track and signposted east of Plouescat. Its about 4 metres tall, but in a strange position, not on top of the hill or by the stream. Despite a little area set aside for it to live in, its getting very overgrown.
Cour du Breuil Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.258 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Cour du Breuil dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 9th Dec 2005. Cour du Breuil dolmen
Right by the roadside, the remains of this dolmen are kept in a nicely tended but small garden like area.
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Log Text: Right by the roadside, this is a pleasant dolmen to find, with the large skeletal remains standing slightly hidden by a surrounding hedge, from where they suddenly jump out at you as you pass.
The main chamber would have been about 4 metres by 2 metres, but the single remaining capstone covers only half of this, balanced as it is on 3 side slabs at 1.5 metres above the ground. There are plenty of other stones laying around, and the remains are kept in a nicely tended but small gardenlike area.
Courades Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.238 Date Added: 22nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Courades Dolmen submitted by hewpop on 23rd Sep 2007. West side
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Log Text: Probably once very similar to the St Fort dolmen, but this one has collapsed, probably fairly recently, and the capstone is now in several fragments on the ground. The chamber was once 5 metres by 2.5 metres, with a big closing stone to the west, and the entrance to the east. It seems to have carved stones paving the floor area, with the side slabs fitted closely to these.
It is easy to find, and is signposted about 600 metres along a track from the DXXX road, and is adjacent to a small flying club which takes its name from the dolmen, Aeroclub de Pierre Levée.
Cournols allée couverte
Trip No.204 Entry No.190 Date Added: 24th Aug 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63))
Visited: Yes on 25th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Cournols allée couverte submitted by thecaptain on 6th Sep 2006. Cournols allée couverte, also known as La Grotta.
The sign nearby.
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Log Text: To the south of the village of Cournols, and on a signposted walk from there, can be found the remains of this curious dolmen. Excavated in 1841, various things were found which are now in the Clermont Ferrand museum. Said to be an allée couverte, its not much like any other allée couvertes I have seen!
It looks more to me like a sort of double dolmen, with two chambers beside one another, both about 3.5 by 2 metres in dimension, and rectangular. The entrance would have been from the east, and central to the two chambers. The back stones at the west and the southern side stones are all still in place, with various other bits and pieces of support stones. Only one broken capstone remains in place, but until fairly recently this was two capstones, with three present in 1835. There are bits and pieces of much broken stone laying around beside it.
The dolmen is now in a little country park area, with a sign, in a region of granite outcrops high above the gorge of the Monne river. Strangely, it also has a football pitch.
Cow Stone (Shropshire)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jan 2019
Cow Stone (Shropshire) submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Jan 2019. From Mitchell's Fold stone circle, we walked on along the trackway northeasterly direction to find the Dead Cow Stone, stated as being 400 metres away. Nothing. Kept walking and eventually found it right beside the track almost double that distance away.
November 2018
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Cox Tor north east
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 12th Sep 2007
Cox Tor north east submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Sep 2007. at the southern, most uphill end of the settlement are a couple of good huts.
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Craddock Moor circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2009
Craddock Moor circle submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Sep 2009. gps track plot of my wanderings round Craddock Moor stone circle on Sunday. Many of the stones can be seen in the picture.
I use an ageing Garmin etrex Venture pocket reciever, and the track is plotted out using GPSVisualizer, with only a few minutes fiddling.
I find it amazing the results that can now be obtained for things like this, using cheap, readily available technology, in a pocketsized device.
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Craddock Moor embanked avenue
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 7th Oct 2009
Craddock Moor embanked avenue submitted by thecaptain on 7th Oct 2009. The banks are still about half a metre to a metre in height, and in places seem to have got some stone slabs along the inner edges, perhaps once making a sort of kerb.
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Craddock Moor platform cairn
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2009
Craddock Moor platform cairn submitted by thecaptain on 1st Oct 2009. View northeast over Craddock Moor platform cairn, and right across the middle of Bodmin Moor.
Cornwall's very own mountain Brown Willy is in the distance.
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Craddock Moor stone row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2009
Craddock Moor stone row submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Sep 2009. gps track plot of my wanderings round Craddock Moor, along the embanked avenue and then the stone row on Sunday.
I use an ageing Garmin etrex Venture pocket reciever, and the track is plotted out using GPSVisualizer, with only a few minutes fiddling.
I find it amazing the results that can now be obtained for things like this, using cheap, readily available technology, in a pocketsized device.
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Craddock Moor Stone Setting
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 30th Sep 2009
Craddock Moor Stone Setting submitted by thecaptain on 30th Sep 2009. On the rocky slopes to the southwest of Goldiggings Quarry, a small stone setting is to be found. The obvious stones which are first seen are three or four standing stones about half a metre tall making a sort of circle, with a slab lying on top of a further stone within it.
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Craig-Y-Fan Ddu
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 14th Nov 2007
Craig-Y-Fan Ddu submitted by TheCaptain on 14th Nov 2007. On the southern slopes of Craig-Y-Fan Ddu are marked Stones on the 1:25000 OS map. They reminded me very much of the Exmoor stone settings.
View downhill towards the east.
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Cranbrook Castle
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 26th Feb 2019
Cranbrook Castle submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Feb 2019. Cranbrook Castle as seen from Butterdon Down
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Log Text: Cranbrook Castle hillfort can be seen to the northwest of Butterdon Down. I decide that with it only being February, and with it getting dark by 5:00pm, I will not visit, but go for a pint in the Union Inn at Moretomhampstead before heading out to Houndtor.
Cranham Corner Earthworks
Date Added: 10th Jun 2021
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st May 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Cranham Corner Earthworks submitted by TheCaptain on 10th Jun 2021. Small earthworks within the woodland at Cranham Corner.
I am not convinced they would have been of much use defensively, being on a slight slope not at the top of the hill, and not very large.
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Log Text: Walking a Cooper's Hill Circuit of the Cotswold Way from Cranham, and first off had a look at these small earthworks. I am not convinced they would have been of much use defensively, being on a slight slope not at the top of the hill, and not very large.
Créac'h Gallic
Trip No.203 Entry No.528 Date Added: 28th May 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Créac'h Gallic submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Apr 2011. Here are the remains of a fairly large megalithic structure, but it looks to be in a bit of a precarious state. Warning signs and a fence warn of climbing on or near to the stones.
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Log Text: Here are the remains of a fairly large dolmen, but it looks to be in a bit of a precarious state. Warning signs and a fence warn of climbing on or near to the stones. The basic chamber is about 4 metres by 2 metres and 2 metres high, with a single capstone resting (just) on three support stones. It looks like a fourth support has recently broken and fallen, and it looks most precarious and that it could fall at any time.
Strangely there are many large slabs around the outside, making a sort of wall, I cannot really make this out at all. Seems it was once a large allée couverte with a peristalith surrounding its mound, some of which still survives. But its a bit difficult to fully make out and understand, and has no doubt been damaged in the past with the construction of the farms and the lanes.
There are many other large stones laying around, I need to try and look this one up. Now I know what it is, it seems obvious what the remains are.
Créac’h-ar-Vrenn
Trip No.203 Entry No.535 Date Added: 29th May 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Créac’h-ar-Vrenn submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Jan 2009. What I found in 2005, behind the house at the top of the hill beside the water tower, was two rounded looking granite blocks.
With all the fences and undergrowth it was impossible to see if the stones were resting on any kind of supports, but these stones are certainly in the right position for where it is marked on the map.
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Log Text: I am not 100% sure that I found this. What I possibly found is just some natural rocks. I looked all over the place and asked a couple of people, who both pointed me in the other direction away from their house towards the others. Despite signposts to it down the same lane as the menhir, there was no further evidence for it down there, but the new house being built is probably where the path went.
What I did find, behind the house at the top of the hill beside the water tower, was two rounded looking granite blocks, but it is possible that they have been placed there. With all the fences and undergrowth it was impossible to see if the stones were resting on any kind of supports, but these stones are certainly in the right position for where it is marked on the map.
Crec'h Quillé
Trip No.203 Entry No.569 Date Added: 3rd Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Crec'h Quillé submitted by greywether on 26th Jun 2005. A well-preserved allee-couverte with entrance, E/W chamber and mound. Art on one of the chamber stones opposite the entrance.
Photo looking E, taken June 1994.
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Log Text: This allée couverte to the south of Perros Guirec is situated just to the east of the busy D.788 dual carriageway, and signposted from it, but most people will go whizzing straight past. From the parking area beside the main road, it is just a couple of hundred metres, but is walking access only. It's set in a nice little plot, probably originally intended for a house when it was discovered in about 1960.
It is surprisingly complete except for the capstones, and still has most of its surrounding mound and outer peristalith of alternating slabs and drystone walling. This is a rarity in these parts, a lateral entry allée couverte, with the main chamber running east west at 073°, and the entrance about two thirds the way along on the southern side.
The chamber is about 15 metres in length, by 1.7 metres width, but its surrounding mound is much larger. Just inside the main chamber, opposite to the entrance, is a smoothed and carved slab, which on one face, facing into the chamber, contains a pair of "breasts" with a large collar or crossed arms underneath. The adjacent face, which faces towards the smaller end of the monument, appears to have a "crosse" shape engraved on it. At this point are two capstones, which no doubt helped to preserve the engravings here. There is the base of a large stone just outside the entry, which is thought to be the base of an indicator menhir. The tumulus has been dated to about 2500BC.
I was going to drive past this myself in a rush to get somewhere else, but I am very glad I did stop to see it, and my visit lasted over an hour, which means I will be late to camp again tonight. A very nice monument.
Créchaudes Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.272 Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Créchaudes dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 13th Dec 2005. Créchaudes dolmen
This dolmen is either a wreck, not much more than several stones in a field, or alternatively, it may still be in its mound, of which there is an overgrown example at the side of the field.
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Log Text: Unless I somehow missed this dolmen, it is a wreck, not much more than several stones in a field. Alternatively, it may still be in its mound, of which there is an overgrown example at the side of the field.
Crickley Hill
Date Added: 11th Jun 2021
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Crickley Hill General submitted by vicky on 10th Sep 2002. Crickley Hill in Gloucestershire - Neolithic enclosure and Iron Age Hillfort.
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Log Text: Walking the Cotswold Way north around Crickley Hill, and the first thing seen is a large bank across the headland. After the turn at the point, progressing back along the northern side and it is seen that there were once substantial defences, and many modern day concrete markers show the points where the huts etc were found. A series of notice boards give a full history of the place and there is an information centre, which I did not have time to look round today. Somewhere to come back to on another time.
Fantastic views all around, the Malvern Hills to the north, the Forest of Dean and Black Mountains to the west, and all along the Cotswold edge in both directions.
Crippet's Barrow
Date Added: 11th Jun 2021
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Crippet's Barrow submitted by Humbucker on 17th Mar 2018. Crippet's / Shurdington Long Barrow from the south east. I visited late afternoon in the Autumn of 2017. I had heard of very inquisitive horses in the field, but it was empty when I visited.
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Log Text: Walking the Cotswold Way north from Crickley Hill, and I forgot to keep a look out for Crippet's Long Barrow, but at this point the footpath and separate bridleway are well fenced in, so I wouldn't have been able to get to the edge of the woodlands at the top of the hill to have a look anyway. I later got a long distance view from near the radio masts and reservoir entrance, just about making out the large barrow in its tree covered setting.