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Croazou chapel
Trip No.203 Entry No.524 Date Added: 28th May 2020
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Croazou chapel submitted by thecaptain on 3rd Jul 2005. The little chapel at Croazou in its modern road junction.
The cornerstone is an Iron Age Stele, and the three medieval crosses by the back wall are sitting on a fallen menhir.
How much more continuity of somewhere being a sacred place can you get.
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Log Text: This is an odd little place where many thousands of years of ritual and worship can all be seen together. In the middle of a fairly busy road junction is built a little chapel which is said to be the smallest in Finistère. This chapel has been built onto a stèle with it still standing there at one of the back corners about 2 metres tall.
Outside the back wall are three medieval crosses positioned on top of a fallen menhir supposedly in all being in their original positions. Around the outside of the chapel is also a fairly recent collection of other crosses from the region which includes one intriguing cross which has been mounted on the top portion of what was obviously once a lovely iron age stele with wonderful shaping and patterns carved into it.
Trouble is while I was there it must have been going home time and the junction was very busy and stopping and getting pictures was very difficult having enough time to stand in the road and get a photo without getting run down.
Croazou chapel
Trip No.214 Entry No.6 Date Added: 28th May 2020
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 16th Apr 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Croazou chapel menhir submitted by regina on 1st Oct 2019. Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France
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Log Text: Driving away from Men-Marz through the maze like country lanes and after about 10 mins I thought I was completely lost, and then all of a sudden I arrived at the road junction with this little chapel in the middle of it. Aha, fabulous, I hadn't intended coming here as there was no time, but now I'm here, better have a quick look. It's probably best not to just abandon your car in the middle of the junction, but I thought it would be OK for a few minutes!
This odd little chapel is said to be the smallest in Finistère, and is a place where many thousands of years of ritual and worship can all be seen together. The chapel has been built onto a stèle or menhir with it still standing there at one of the back corners about 2 metres tall. Outside the back wall are three medieval crosses positioned on top of a fallen menhir supposedly in all being in their original positions. Around the outside of the chapel is also a fairly recent collection of other crosses from the region which includes one intriguing cross which has been mounted on the top portion of what was obviously once a lovely iron age stele with wonderful shaping and patterns carved into it.
The door to the chapel was unlocked, so I had a quick butchers inside, but it was slightly disappointing in that the corner menhir could not be seen from inside.
Croazou chapel menhir
Trip No.214 Entry No.8 Date Added: 28th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 16th Apr 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Croazou chapel menhir submitted by regina on 1st Oct 2019. Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France
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Log Text: Laying outside the back wall of the chapel is a fallen menhir, a couple of metres in length, which has had three medieval crosses mounted onto it, all supposedly in their original position.
Croazou chapel menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.526 Date Added: 28th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Croazou chapel menhir submitted by regina on 1st Oct 2019. Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France
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Log Text: This is an odd little place where many thousands of years of ritual and worship can all be seen together. In the middle of a fairly busy road junction is built a little chapel which is said to be the smallest in Finistère. This chapel has been built onto a stèle with it still standing there at one of the back corners about 2 metres tall.
Outside the back wall are three medieval crosses positioned on top of a fallen menhir supposedly in all being in their original positions. Around the outside of the chapel is also a fairly recent collection of other crosses from the region which includes one intriguing cross which has been mounted on the top portion of what was obviously once a lovely iron age stele with wonderful shaping and patterns carved into it.
Croazou chapel stèles
Trip No.214 Entry No.7 Date Added: 28th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 16th Apr 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Log Text: A total of six Iron Age Stèles are to be seen at Croazou Chapel, of which four have been incorporated into its construction, three into the outside walls, and one internally. The largest of these is now the southeast corner of the chapel, and stands 2 m high. Two others are to be seen making part of the construction of this wall. Outside the front of the chapel is a fine stub of an 11 sided stele, now used for the base of a cross.
Croazou chapel stèles
Trip No.203 Entry No.525 Date Added: 28th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Log Text: This is an odd little place where many thousands of years of ritual and worship can all be seen together. In the middle of a fairly busy road junction is built a little chapel which is said to be the smallest in Finistère.
This chapel has been built onto a stèle with it still standing there at one of the back corners about 2 metres tall. Outside the back wall are three medieval crosses positioned on top of a fallen menhir supposedly in all being in their original positions. Around the outside of the chapel is also a fairly recent collection of other crosses from the region which includes one intriguing cross which has been mounted on the top portion of what was obviously once a lovely iron age stele with wonderful shaping and patterns carved into it.
Crock of Gold
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 2006
Crock of Gold submitted by thecaptain on 1st Aug 2006. The Crock of Gold is a fine cairn and cist which can be found just to the south of the track which runs east from Princetown as part of the Dartmoor way, and is named no doubt after a lucky find here by somebody in the past.
This is the view looking northeast.
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Croconnet Tumulus
Trip No.204 Entry No.214 Date Added: 27th Aug 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bourgogne:Côte-d'Or (21))
Visited: Couldn't find on 3rd Aug 2005
Log Text: I had a need to fill up with diesel, and so couldn’t spend long looking for this, having spent about an hour driving round every lane in the area trying to find it. I am wondering if there is a local law around here prohibiting any roadsigns for anything other than wine sellers. The tumulus wasn't to be obviously found up the trackway I walked up.
Croissonnière Dolmen
Trip No.204 Entry No.144 Date Added: 17th Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Croissonnière dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 16th Sep 2010. Croissonnière dolmen is not much now, more just a large capstone and a pile of stones, tight up against the back hedge and fences of the new houses. It has seen better times!
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Log Text: Up on the hill to the southeast of the village of Nanteuil, right behind a road of new houses (Rue du Dolmen) can be found the remains of this little dolmen, a few hundred metres walk from the road. It is not much of a dolmen now, more just a large capstone about 4.5 m by 3.5 m, and a pile of stones, tight up against the back hedge and fences of the new houses. It has seen better times!
While I was here, there is a young chap out in his back garden, sitting under an umbrella, seemingly randomly shooting at things with an air rifle.
Croix de Sandun Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.305 Date Added: 26th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Croix de Sandun Dolmen submitted by Dipo on 17th Mar 2008. Ruined Dolmen near GUERANDE
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Log Text: Despite asking, this dolmen was a difficult one to find. I parked and walked up Rue de la Butte expecting to find it there, but all I found was a natural rock outcrop with a cross on top However, the dolmen remains are about 50 metres to the north of this hillock, well hidden in the undergrowth.
There is not much to see of what was once an Allee Couverte, just a couple of stones left standing. There is the backstone and one sidestone standing, with several other bits of stone laying about, and remains of the passageway can be determined within what is left of its mound.
Croix Madame
Trip No.203 Entry No.11 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Croix Madame submitted by aolson on 3rd Aug 2020. Croix Madame tumulus 1 is rectangular, about 22 by 10 meters. Tumulus 2 is circular with a diameter of about 10 meters, the edge of which is just visible in the bottom of this picture. They are located on the south side of the path at 47.76436, -1.96858.
More information at t4t35.fr
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Log Text: At the western end of the village to the east of the Alignements du Moulin are the remains of some some bronze age burial chambers. At least four mounds are known, some of which have the remains of stone chambers within.
I did not find them initially and didn’t spend a lot of time looking for them on the way back as it was by now pouring with rain and everything was getting soaked. I expect that the humps and bumps seen in the ground here are the remains of these, with nothing spectacular to be seen.
Croix St Pierre east
Trip No.203 Entry No.6 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Croix St Pierre east submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Nov 2005. Croix St Pierre north and south dolmens can be seen in the background of this picture amongst the long grass, with in the foreground the simpler and smaller burial chamber.
I think these three structures were once in a single long mound, but I may be wrong, and perhaps they were once in seperate individual round mounds.
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Log Text: A large long mound with two large dolmenic chambers within it opening to the side and also a smaller one near one end. This has been excavated and restored in 1990/91 and was dated to 3500 to 4000 BC. As with all of these chambers it is fenced off to keep the masses out.
Croix St Pierre tertre
Trip No.203 Entry No.7 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Croix St Pierre tertre submitted by greywether on 27th Jun 2005. Tetre tumulaire from W
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Log Text: Another long mound this time in an east west alignment with a sort of rectangular arrangement of stones sticking up from within it rather like the peristalith stones from an allée couverte. There is a single larger block of stone near the western end.
Cromeleque da Portela de Mogos
Date Added: 13th Nov 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 13th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Cromeleque da Portela de Mogos submitted by Bak_teria on 7th Apr 2015. Hidden below the shadows of the trees, this cromlech has got a magical vibe.
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Log Text: I have time to look for one or two more sites, the Cromeleque da Portela de Mogos is not far off, and I now remember spending quite some time looking how to find this before the trip. Back to the road from Cromeleque de Vale Maria do Meio, and half a kilometre to the west it goes up over a wooded hill, and I find a place to park beside the road in a layby. The cromlech should be just away from the road on the south side up the hill. Indeed, there is a footpath which can be seen going off into the woodland from a sort of gap in the fence, which can be opened.
A hundred yards or so up into the woods and a large standing stone can be seen, and then the other stones can also be seen, forming a circular shape around the large one with arms going down the slope. Again it is very like Almendres and Vale Maria do Meio, in that it seems to make an open horseshoe facing down the slope towards the east, although with a circle at the top. There are about 40 stones, and again many are beautifully shaped and have motifs carved onto them.
I am alone here in this lovely wooded place, and think that this is perhaps my favourite place of all my visits, so just linger for a fair while before leaving. After this, it feels wrong to search out any other lesser places, so decide to head back to Evora via the Alto de São Bento viewpoint and the aquaduct.
Cromeleque de Vale Maria do Meio
Date Added: 8th Nov 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 13th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cromeleque de Vale Maria do Meio submitted by Ana on 20th Aug 2014. Site in Alentejo Portugal
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Log Text: Despite the satnav taking me to the wrong place, using my phone I was able to determine how to get there, and it was then easily found and driven to along a dirt and gravel road, which interestingly had a little bridge seemingly built in the middle of nowhere which turned out to be a sort of tunnel for a huge herd of goats.
There were quite a few people at the cromlech, including half a dozen including girl in Blondie tee shirt who were taking many posed photographs of themselves, made me wonder whether they were a band doing a publicity shoot!
The site itself struck me as being rather like a smaller version of Almendres, a sort of open horseshoe shape of about 40 stones with the open end facing to the east down a gentle slope, while the biggest stones are at the upper western side, many of which had been nicely shaped.
Another beautiful place, and I learned afterwards that some of the stones have carvings.
While I was here, the local farmer drove out to the bridge thing and made noise, whereupon hundreds or even thousands of goats appeared, which he penned in before opening the gate under the bridge. The goats all then charged off towards where the farmer had come from in a mad rush, no doubt this was going to be their feeding time or such like.
Cromeleque do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas
Date Added: 25th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cromeleque do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas submitted by Bak_teria on 22nd Sep 2014. A good view of all the 6 megaliths.
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Log Text: Hadn't planned on visiting or knowing of this site before visiting the Mora centre, where we were told of it by the girl there. As it was on the way to Pavia, just off the main road a couple of kilometers outside town, we stopped for a look. Re-erected in recent years, there is a video of this in the Mora centre. There is a single large stone almost 4 metres tall standing in a part circle of half a dozen smoothed and rounded smaller stones. Just nearby across the track is a further smaller stone, and approx a hundred metres distant to the northeast is a further outlier.
Cromeleque dos Almendres
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Cromeleque dos Almendres submitted by Magalhaes on 15th Apr 2006. View from the top, roughly facing SE. Évora on the horizon (left).
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Log Text: From the menhir parking, travel a couple more kilometres along the dirt road, and there is a large parking place for the cromlech, a short walk further along. What a fabulous place, especially in the late afternoon golden sun.
Once a double circle of stones, it now appears to be rather unclear, but the approximately one hundred stones are fabulously shaped, several with carvings, but mostly very difficult to make out.
It's a busy place with lots of visitors, and rather like the Pied Piper, I gain a following of people (including several American's over here from Nashville), who want to know my knowledge of the place and for all my thoughts as to why it is here. They struggle with comprehending that it is over 6000 years old, as old to them is a hundred years!
As I later find with the other two cromlechs I visit, it is positioned on a hilltop position on the gently east facing slopes. Could this be something to do with watching the sunrise at these places? This is a place I could come back to again and again if it was local to me!
Cromlech de Lervaut
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Aquitaine:Gironde (33))
Visited: Yes on 8th Feb 2011
Cromlech de Lervaut submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Feb 2011. In le jardin public de Bordeaux, is a cromlech from Lervaut near Lesparre-Medoc, which was moved here in 1875.
Picture taken Feb 2011 sent to me by a friend.
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Cross Shaft and Base at St Petroc's, Padstow.
Date Added: 8th Oct 2024
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 10th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Cross Shaft and Base at St Petroc's, Padstow. submitted by AngieLake on 5th Mar 2019. The cross shaft taken on May Day in 2013.
(What happened to Sunny100s photo?)
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Log Text: On my daily (for the week) walk down into town, I noticed this obviously old stone placed near the lower churchyard gate. How had I not obviously noticed this before? I must have passed right by it many times over the last 50 years!
Crow Tor
Date Added: 23rd Sep 2021
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Crow Tor submitted by Bladup on 10th Dec 2017. Crow Tor Cairn and Cist.
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Log Text: Day down to Dartmoor for a pilgrimmage to Beardown Man. From Beardown Cairn, and now back on the planned route but behind time, I see another chap out on the moor nearby, an old looking chap dressed in what looks like tweeds, and we exchange greetings. Head north towards Crow Tor, crossing a wall and small stream. Looking for the cairn below Crow Tor which is not marked on the map, and having an initial look where I think it is, I again resort to gps and there it is about 20 metres away. A lovely stone cairn with a fairly large cist inside, the capstones shifted off to one side. Up to Crow Tor to find somewhere to sit and have lunch, during which time a couple walking the other direction pass by and we exchange waves. I now head north across the featureless boggy high moorland to Rough Tor, with firing range huts, double checking it is the right one a couple of times!