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Devil's Arrows
Date Added: 7th Jun 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2022. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Devil's Arrows submitted by Humbucker on 27th Apr 2019. All three Devils Arrows looking from the north. The light improved for a brief few minutes & the sun made a brief appearance while I was there before turning into a flat, grey evening.
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Log Text: Its not too far from York, so I went for a look at the Devil's Arrows, which were easy to find. Despite a new housing estate now encroaching and the very nearby A1 and A1(M), these are still at large in fields and feel wild and free. All three stones are magnificent and monsters with interesting rainules running down them. Magnificent.
Devils Den
Date Added: 8th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Devils Den submitted by thecaptain on 18th Sep 2007. The view of Devil's Den in its landscape.
As seen from the pathway down from the ridge from the northeast.
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Log Text: As I was driving westwards along the A4 Sunday afternoon, I decided to stop in at the Devils Den for a look round, having not been there for many years - the stony delights a bit further west usually taking my attention. Knowing it is difficult to park on the A4 in order to walk up the track from Clatford Bottom, I decided to take the little road to the north, I believe towards Manstone farm, where there is a fairly large car park near to the racing stables. From there it is a pleasant walk along the ridge before dropping down into the valley where the Devils Den resides, with some nice views over the site as a whole to be had on the way (it always strikes me what a strange place this is for such a monument, low down in the valley like it is).
Unfortunately, when down on the overgrown trackway along the sarsen scattered valley bottom, there was no way into the field of the dolmen, with fences, nettles and much scrub preventing access to its field. Even getting to a point quite close by is not recommended in shorts - quite a painful experience ! I can only assume that the landowners are perhaps letting a fairly large strip of land become completely overgrown in order to deter people from clambering over the fences to go for a closer look.
Devils Den
Date Added: 8th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jul 2002. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Devils Den submitted by Schofe on 22nd Sep 2014. Taken 21st Sept 2014. My first visit to the Devil's Den on a night organised through friends at Devizes Camera Club. Image made from forty-eight, 30sec exposures merged in Photoshop to create the star trail effect.
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Diévet Dolmen
Trip No.214 Entry No.3 Date Added: 23rd Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 16th Apr 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Diévet dolmen submitted by theCaptain on 29th Jun 2014. Now completely surrounded by cultivated fields, the remains of this allée couvert are easily found to the west of the hamlet of Diévet.
Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France
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Log Text: Now completely surrounded by cultivated fields, the remains of this allée couvert are easily found to the west of the hamlet of Diévet. What remains are two parallel rows of orthostats (12 in total), between 10 and 11 metres in length by 1.5 metres wide, and with a single large coverstone remaining in the middle.
Dinas Head (Trevose)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2014
Dinas Head (Trevose) submitted by theCaptain on 7th Jan 2014. Photo of Dinas Head, Trevose, taken during the recent storms, showing the waves washing over the height of the headland. Borrowed from Gregg Painter and Cornwall Holiday guide.
I thought this photo would be useful to compare with my recent notes from here, but it looks like I have yet to upload them and my pictures!
Have to say that only yesterday I was wishing I was here to check on my theory, that this whole headland may have been washed clear by the waves, now I know that it is in...
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Dinas Head Tumulus
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jan 2014
Dinas Head Tumulus submitted by theCaptain on 9th Jan 2014. Right on the top of the headland is the remains of what is described as Tumulus. The mound is about 8 metres diameter, still more than one metre in height, and largely composed of white quartzy looking rock.
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Diocletian's Palace
Date Added: 24th May 2023
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: Croatia
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2004. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Diocletian's Palace submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Dec 2005. Diocletian's Palace Wall in Split, from inside the compound.
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Log Text: Have to leave the boat by 9:00. Catch a bus into Split at 09:30 and after some problems finding our way around, get to the old part of town. Stop for a coffee and pastries on the Riva (harbour front) outside the Diocletian Palace walls. Then do a walking tour around old Split, taking in the town square, Temple of Jupiter, the city walls, market, Diocletian Palace (with a great art exhibition in the amazing vaults underneath) and up the Cathedral bell tower for some great views.
Dissignac Tumulus
Trip No.203 Entry No.16 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dissignac Tumulus submitted by Dipo on 6th Jun 2008. Overall view showing the two entrances and tumulus.
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Log Text: Signposted from miles around and it has its own little parking area picnic site bus stop and kiosk but when I arrived here (on a Saturday morning in mid May) it was all shut and fenced off and it looked pretty permanent. It’s a restored tumulus with two large passage graves inside with the chambers facing southeast. It was fairly substantially rebuilt at some point in the past which doubled the size of the mound and extended the chambers by 4 metres.
Dodman Point
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jul 2004
Dodman Point submitted by thecaptain on 28th Jul 2004. The Dodman is a massive defended headland projecting into the ocean south of Mevagissey.
Seen here from the sea to the southwest.
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Doghouse Hill
Date Added: 18th Oct 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 15th Oct 2020
Doghouse Hill submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Oct 2020. Seen from the top of Golden Cap, Doghouse Hill is the central of the three hilltops in the mid distance, just inland from the headland cliffs.
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Log Text: Seen from a distance during a walk from Seatown up the coast path up and over the Golden Cap and around Stanton St Gabriel and back.
Doigt de Gargantua (Côtes-D'Armor)
Trip No.203 Entry No.591 Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Doigt de Gargantua (Côtes-D'Armor) submitted by thecaptain on 26th Oct 2008. When I was here on a late June afternoon in 2005, the bushes surrounding the giant's finger had grown substantially since my previous visit several years earlier, and now the views from here are severely limited. Before there was a tremendous panorama of all the sea and headlands around, and with the fort below.
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Log Text: This 2.5 metre tall, thin menhir stands guard beside the footpath overlooking the splendid Forte de la Latte, at the headland of the same name to the east of Cap Fréhel. On a late June Monday afternoon it was very busy here, and getting a space in the car park was a problem. The bushes surrounding the giant's finger have grown substantially since my last visit several years ago, and now the views from here are severely limited. Before there was a tremendous panorama of all the sea and headlands around, and with the fort below. Not so now.
Doigt de Gargantua (Côtes-D'Armor)
Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 1992. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Doigt de Gargantua (Côtes-D'Armor) submitted by johnstone on 4th Mar 2019. The monolith with the fortress at the left side and the bushes not so high on June 6, 2004
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Emerald Coast, Brittany, day 3, Fort La Latte, Cap Frehel, Les Sables d’Or.
This 2.5 metre tall, thin menhir stands guard beside the footpath overlooking the splendid Forte de la Latte, at the headland of the same name to the east of Cap Fréhel.
Dolmen au Grand-Fâ
Trip No.204 Entry No.161 Date Added: 20th Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st Jul 2005
Log Text: I found no sign of any dolmen or other megalithic monument in this village, but there is a place called Pierre Brune on the 1:25000 map to the northwest of the village near the rubbish dump.
Dolmen d'A Fourna
Trip No.205 Entry No.93 Date Added: 5th Nov 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Dolmen d'A Fourna submitted by thecaptain on 9th Mar 2006. About four hundred metres from the Creu de la Llosa dolmen, following the little footpath through the scrub to the southwest, is another dolmen.
This dolmen is in a round cairn about 8 metres in diameter, and has an entrance passageway, wider than the chamber, 4 metres long.
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Log Text: About four hundred metres from the Creu de la Llosa dolmen, following the footpath through the scrub to the southwest (note, go back down the track for about 25 metres from the dolmen to find the path - it is not the "obvious" path leading away from the dolmen), around the southern side of the ridge, and you will find another dolmen of similar type.
This dolmen, which again I assume restored, is slightly smaller, in a round cairn about 8 metres in diameter. The dolmen chamber is about 2 metres long by 1 metre wide, and covered with two small capstones, sitting on blocky side supports, only to about 1.2 metres in height. It has an entrance passageway, wider than the chamber, which is 4 metres long and opens up on an alignment of 120°, directly pointing towards a large and significant mountain peak. The capstones are both engraved, the front, larger one having multiple cupules with the faintest of some lines and cupules, while the smaller backstone has an extremely clear cross, with maybe some other, more fainter markings.
What a lovely place it is up here, pity the sky is cloudy and the views unclear. It also makes me wonder just how many more of these dolmens there are to be discovered in the forests up on these mountains.
Dolmen d'Aubin
Trip No.203 Entry No.148 Date Added: 15th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Couldn't find on 25th May 2005
Dolmen d'Aubin submitted by ocdolmen on 29th Jun 2007. Aubin dolmen is very well hidden in oak woods. It's a large monument with an important capstone.
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Log Text: Marked on the ign map with a pink square and right beside a good road I thought I’d take a look. Could I find anything ? Could I flip. No way. No signs at all. Nothing. Not a sausage.
Dolmen d'Epennes
Trip No.204 Entry No.105 Date Added: 3rd Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 17th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Dolmen d'Epennes submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Sep 2013. Just to the east of the hamlet of Epennes, can be found the remains of this dolmen, but it's all a bit of a wreck and overgrown.
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Log Text: Not marked on any of my maps, but I found this mentioned from the same source that I found out the information about the nearby Pierre Folle. It is just to the east of the hamlet of Epennes, south of Bournand, about 300 metres from the road junction and across a field.
It looks to be a fairly standard 4 x 2.5 metre Angevine dolmen with its entrance to the south east, but it's all a bit of a wreck and overgrown. Unfortunately, the field it is in is cropped very close and damage looks to have been done by farm machinery recently.
Dolmen d'Escurettes
Trip No.203 Entry No.123 Date Added: 7th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 23rd May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dolmen d'Escurettes submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jan 2006. Hard to find dolmen in a hedge near Padirac, disguised as a large heap of stones and not helped by the fact that the thing is still mostly within its mound.
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Log Text: I couldn’t find this dolmen originally, and wondered whether it had been destroyed, as the fields here have recently been substantially re-arranged. I wondered whether I had found the sad remains in one of the hedges, and was about to give up, before I looked through a gap in the hedge. On the other side of the hedge I found the dolmen, disguised as a large heap of stones by the fact that the thing is still mostly within its mound. A capstone sits on two upright sideslabs, sticking out of the mound towards a caravan park on what is probably private land.
Dolmen d'Ors dit la Piare
Trip No.203 Entry No.247 Date Added: 22nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Yes on 4th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dolmen d'Ors dit la Piare submitted by theCaptain on 17th Dec 2014. The remains here consist of an approximately triangular capstone, sides of length 4 metres, and about a metre thick. Perhaps there are more stones underneath, and built into the sea wall. The stone is broken into two pieces.
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Log Text: Remains of a once fairly large burial mound with several chambers contained within it, now fairly well destroyed, on the southern tip of the Ile d’Oleron, within the community of Le Château-d'Oléron. The remains of this dolmen are easily found, but not signposted, right beside the seawall in a little picnic area right at the southeastern tip of Ile d’Oleron where the road bridge makes landfall. If you get to the first building (a restaurant) from the bridge, you have already passed it.
The remains here consist of an approximately triangular capstone, sides of length 4 metres, and about a metre thick. Perhaps there are more stones underneath, and built into the sea wall. The stone is broken into two pieces. Closer inspection shows there to be a few other large stones in the vicinity of the capstone, now covered by land and the sea wall. Just on the sea side of the wall is the possible remains of another dolmen, or a broken off part of the first, which seems to be a bit of capstone sitting on the beach, surrounded by the sea when I arrived. There are no other large rocks like this in the vicinity, and it doesn't look like it should naturally be there. I have discovered since my visit that this indeed did used to be a fairly large mound, with several burial chambers within it.
Dolmen d'Urbe
Trip No.204 Entry No.180 Date Added: 21st Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Limousin:Creuse (23))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen d'Urbe submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Jul 2013. In stark contrast to many places, the lovely medeival city of Crocq is proud of its dolmen. It's shown on all the town maps, and clearly signposted along Route du Dolmen from the town.
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Log Text: In stark contrast to many places, the lovely medeival city of Crocq is proud of its dolmen, which I wasn’t going to bother with as it looks difficult to find on the big map. However, its shown on all the town maps, and clearly signposted along Route du Dolmen from the town. And they sell postcards of it !!!
Its a pleasant 500 metre walk from a parking place, slightly uphill and into the forest. The dolmen is a pleasant, pretty thing made of granite blocks. The massive capstone sits on six closely spaced support stones making an oval chamber about 2.5 m by 1.5 m in size, and about 1.5 m high. Unfortunately a seventh support stone at the back has fallen inwards, leaving a big opening. All the support stones have flat face inwards, and lean slightly in towards the top, a bit like the wonderful Pierre Folle de Saint-Priest-la-Feuille. The entrance to this dolmen is at the eastern end.
To find their husband here, the local girls have to jump over the dolmen - quite a hard task I would imagine !
Dolmen Da Cova de l'Alarb
Trip No.200 Entry No.51 Date Added: 17th Jun 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66)
Visited: Yes on 26th Jun 2000. My rating: Access 3
Dolmen Da Cova de l'Alarb submitted by Petercastle on 31st Jul 2005. The dolmen seen from the east.
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Log Text: Weekend to explore Collioure area. Drive coast road Port Vendres, Banyuls-sur-Mer, Cerbere, into Spain, Portbou, Platja de Garbet to Figueras. Beautiful but slow. Signs to dolmens. Dali Museum brilliant. Back to Collioure through mountains, Argeles-sur-Mer. Look for the dolmens near Collioure, Fairly long walk up past the Chateau de Valmy, but only found one.