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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 de Barral
Trip No.205 Entry No.170 Date Added: 24th Nov 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Barral submitted by thecaptain on 9th Dec 2009. The dolmen is visible from the road, although a visit is not readily possible as it is on private property.
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Log Text: At the eastern edge of the hamlet of Barral, built into a wall to the north of the road, across a field, can be seen this little dolmen. The stones are easily visible from the road, although a visit was not really possible.
Dolmen de Bartalbenque 1
Trip No.205 Entry No.33 Date Added: 18th Jun 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82))
Visited: Couldn't find on 2nd Sep 2005
Dolmen de Bartalbenque 1 submitted by weirwolf on 25th Jan 2006. This tomb is complete except for its disappeared capstones which, as seems to have been the rule in W. Europe, sat above the mound or cairn.
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Log Text: Marked on my map are two dolmens not too far from the road between Dardenne water tower and Bartelbenque. However, this area of land has recently all been divided up and fenced off for what looks like new housing projects. In the scrubland behind the fences it was not possible to see any dolmens. I wonder what their fate is to be.
Dolmen de Bartalbenque 2
Trip No.205 Entry No.34 Date Added: 18th Jun 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82))
Visited: Couldn't find on 2nd Sep 2005
Log Text: Marked on my map are two dolmens not too far from the road between Dardenne water tower and Bartelbenque. However, this area of land has recently all been divided up and fenced off for what looks like new housing projects. In the scrubland behind the fences it was not possible to see any dolmens. I wonder what their fate is to be.
Dolmen de Barzun
Trip No.205 Entry No.56 Date Added: 25th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Pyrénées-Atlantiques 64)
Visited: Couldn't find
Dolmen de Barzun submitted by irundarra on 24th Jul 2010. in Bearn
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Log Text: My maps have nothing marked in detail as to the whereabouts of this dolmen, and I could find no details or signs to it in the village. Somehow I didn’t find this dolmen which I learned later is pretty much in the centre of the village in a little square. Doh !
Dolmen de Bel-Air 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.172 Date Added: 19th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Couldn't find on 27th May 2005
Dolmen de Bel-Air 1 submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Mar 2006. I saw no obvious signs of this one, but it is supposed to be a bit of a wreck with no capstone, under some trees the far side of a field beyond a little ravine.
Is that it under the trees to the right of centre ?
Dolmen de Bel-Air 1
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Log Text: No obvious signs of this one, but it is supposed to be a bit of a wreck with no capstone, under some trees the far side of a little ravine. I gave up fairly easily.
Dolmen de Bel-Air 2
Trip No.203 Entry No.171 Date Added: 19th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dolmen de Bel-Air 2 submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Mar 2006. This dolmen is in the middle of a field of barley, so I didn’t get right to it. It looks a bit of a mess, and not much more than an overgrown pile of stones.
Dolmen de Bel-Air 2
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Log Text: This dolmen is in the middle of a field of barley, so I didn’t get right to it. It looks a bit of a mess, and not much more than an overgrown bump in a field.
Dolmen de Bercenay
Trip No.204 Entry No.233 Date Added: 4th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bourgogne:Yonne (89))
Visited: Couldn't find on 5th Aug 2005
Dolmen de Bercenay submitted by Flickr on 23rd Jan 2016. Dolmen de la Pierre Couverte Site in Bourgogne:Yonne (89) France
Constitué de deux dalles disposées parallèlement et orientées est-ouest. Elles sont reliées entre elles par une troisième disposée à l'ouest. Ce qui forme une chambre rectangulaire ouverte à l'est. La chambre est recouverte d'une dalle de 3 m de longueur pour 2 m de large. Image copyright: Ombre&Lumiere, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: Just off the edge of my map, the Pierre au Laurin, or Pierre Couverte, has no obvious signposts to it, and I could see no obvious signs of any dolmen in the locality, so I didn’t really look.
Which is a shame really, as I see later there are three good dolmens to be found here, much better than anything I did find!
Dolmen de Briande 1
Trip No.204 Entry No.116 Date Added: 4th Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dolmen de Briande 1 submitted by DrewParsons on 4th May 2010. The rising prow of the capstone is clearly seen in this photo. April 2010.
Site in Poitou:Vienne (86) France
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Log Text: A couple of hundred metres away from the large tumulus, towards the railway line and across a field can be found a nice dolmen 6 metres long, 2 metres wide and 2 metres high. Three capstones sit on three pairs of side stones, but there is no evidence of any entrance or closing slabs.
Dolmen de Briande 2
Trip No.204 Entry No.117 Date Added: 4th Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dolmen de Briande 2 submitted by Rubis on 2nd Oct 2010. Dolmen de Briande II Dolmen de Briande 2
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Log Text: A few more hundred metres across another field from the first dolmen, and there are the remains of another fairly large dolmen. This one is clearly of the Angevin type with a 5 m by 3 m main chamber with a single large capstone now fallen into the middle. At the southeast there is the remains of a collapsed porchway entrance.
While visiting this dolmen I ended up in the middle of a grasshopper attack frenzy !
Dolmen de Cambous
Trip No.205 Entry No.186 Date Added: 25th Nov 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Cambous submitted by regina on 20th Jan 2009. Cambous dolmens
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Log Text: Just outside the ancient village take a path eastwards along the edge of the wood from near to the sheep pond for about 200 metres, and you will get to this dolmen. There is a round cairn of stones about 10 metres in diameter, with two concentric circles of dressed stone around it. At the centre is a chamber, made with drystone walling except for the backstone and two entrance stones, but it is not very big at about 2m by 1m. There is no sign of any capstone.
Dolmen de Candare 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.116 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 4
Dolmen de Candare 1 submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jan 2006. Tiny little dolmen sitting on the remains of its mound, under a bush just to the south of the road between Miers and Floirac.
Not far from this dolmen is a peculiar, almost spherical black stone which looks most out of place, although I dont seem to have a photograph of it.
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Log Text: Tiny little dolmen sitting on the remains of its mound, under a bush just to the south of the road between Miers and Floirac. It has a rectangular chamber, less than 2 by 1 metre in size, with the entrance facing 060°. Not far from this dolmen is a peculiar, almost spherical black stone which looks most out of place.
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.
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.
Dolmen de Caux-Vieilles
Trip No.205 Entry No.32 Date Added: 19th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82))
Visited: Yes on 2nd Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Caux-Vieilles submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Nov 2007. A bit to the south of the track running along the southern edge of the airfield, in the scrubland, are several mounds of stones.
One of these mounds has a clear dolmen chamber within it, but was very difficult to photograph with all the trees and bushes around it.
I am lead to believe that there are many dolmens to be found within these woodlands, far more than the three that I found.
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Log Text: A bit to the south of the track running along the southern edge of the airfield, in the scrubland, are several mounds of stones. One of these mounds has a clear dolmen chamber within it, 3 metres in length by 1.5 metres in width. It consists of two side slabs and a backstone between them, but no capstone. The northern half of the mound still exists right up to the top of the side support, while the southern part is mostly missing. This chamber is very difficult to photograph with all the trees and bushes around it. I am lead to believe that there are many dolmens to be found within these woodlands, far more than the three that I found.
Dolmen de Champs Lochet
Trip No.204 Entry No.121 Date Added: 14th Nov 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Dolmen de Champs Lochet submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Oct 2010. This dolmen can be found about a kilometre walk along a farm track to the east of the Chantebrault dolmens.
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Log Text: This dolmen can be found about a kilometre walk along a farm track to the east of the Chantebrault dolmens, and then into a field by a wooded copse. It is fairly ruinous, just a large capstone balanced at a serious angle between the ground and one side support stone. It's about 4 metres square, and up to 2 metres from the ground. There are many more fallen stones here, but I cannot really make anything more out. The plough and crops come mighty close, and I suspect that they have wrecked much of what was here.
Dolmen de Cieurac
Trip No.205 Entry No.29 Date Added: 19th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Couldn't find on 1st Sep 2005
Log Text: Just over the Dordogne river from the town of Souillac should be found this dolmen. There are no signposts to it, and its not on any of my maps, but it is mentioned in a book I have, and is supposedly to be found at a corner of the road in the woods at the top of the hill. However, the woods are very thick and dense, and the hillside very steep, so without any better information, there is no way I am going to find this one.
Dolmen de Coëby 1
Trip No.204 Entry No.20 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Coëby 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Sep 2013. Just beside the D.766 road north of the Grande Loge can be found the remains of this dolmen. It's difficult to tell exactly what it is the remains of, but there are half a dozen large stones still standing.
I understand that there are more than half a dozen dolmens and chambers to be found in this piece of forest, but they are not easy to find. I am not at all surprised. It would be nice if a little woodland walk was arranged, as at many other communities.
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Log Text: In the thick forest, just beside the D.766 road north of the Grande Loge can be found the remains of this dolmen. It's difficult to tell exactly what it is the remains of, but there are half a dozen large stones still standing. It was possibly a large simple chamber of which the capstones have now fallen, of which the largest is approximately 4 m by 4m trapezoidal shape.
The forest was obviously undergoing a major clear out when I visited, after having become totally overgrown and impenetrable. I understand that there are more than half a dozen dolmens and chambers to be found in this piece of forest, but they are not easy to find. I am not at all surprised. It would be nice if a little woodland walk was arranged, as at many other communities.
Dolmen de Coëby 2
Trip No.204 Entry No.21 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Jul 2005
Dolmen de Coëby 2 submitted by regina on 30th Nov 2014. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
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Log Text: This is supposedly just beside the road, but the forest was far too thick for me to be able to find it.
Dolmen de Combets 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.179 Date Added: 19th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Combets 1 submitted by thecaptain on 19th Dec 2005. In a field just to the southwest of St Michel-de-Larzac in Aveyron, can be found the remains of this dolmen, which arent much these days.
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Log Text: Too windy to write anything as I visited this one, it was blowing my book and everything away, so only small notes !. There is not much left of this dolmen, just a single large sideslab and one end stone. There is no sign of any capstone remaining, and its mound has been well eaten into with ploughing. There are the remains of many other mounds to be seen nearby.