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Plateau de Mons
Trip No.205 Entry No.259 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: France (Auvergne:Cantal (15))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 26th Sep 2005
Log Text: On top of the plateau is a large collection of earthen barrows dating to the iron age which can be seen from the track.
Dolmen du Chausse
Trip No.205 Entry No.258 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Auvergne:Cantal (15))
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen du Chausse submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Nov 2008. This little dolmen is still mostly contained within its large cairn of stones, except that it has been dug into from the southern side.
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Log Text: Signposted as tumulus from the village of Mons, just to the east of junction 28 of the A.75 Autoroute near to St Flour. The trackway leads you back over the A.75 and then about another 300 metres. It is probably possible to drive to it, but I parked and walked.
The little dolmen is still mostly contained within its large cairn of stones, except that it has been dug into from the southern side. The cairn is about 16 metres in diameter and 2 metres high, made of loose small volcanic rocks. The dolmen has a capstone 3m by 2m sat on top of a chamber 2m by 1m, with two side slabs but no obvious backstone.
The chamber is full of rocks, and opens southwards with fine views, spoiled slightly by the A.75 motorway screaming past ! A nice place to visit, with lots of yellow mullens growing on and around. Apparently there are many legends attached to this tomb, but I am not sure what any of them are.
Bois-Grand Dolmen
Trip No.205 Entry No.257 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Auvergne:Cantal (15))
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Bois-Grand dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 5th Nov 2008. Seen here in its position right at the edge of the cutting for the new road.
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Log Text: Just to the south of the village of Les Ternes, the new D.921 road goes up a fairly steep hill. On the right, halfway up the hill is a little layby and picnic table, with a sign to this dolmen, which can then be found less than 50 metres up the trackway from the layby. It is right beside the road, and part of its mound of stones has been cut away. The dolmen has a large and thick capstone, 3.5 metres by 2.5 metres, sitting on top of a little chamber, 2m by 1m, which has two side slabs and a back stone still nicely in place. The capstone looks much too large for the rest of the dolmen ! Around the dolmen are lots of loose basalt stones, obviously one a part of its cairn.
Bargueyrac Menhir
Trip No.205 Entry No.256 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Auvergne:Cantal (15))
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Bargueyrac Menhir submitted by thecaptain on 3rd Nov 2008. West of the village of Sériers, along the new D.990 road towards Pierrefort can be found this little menhir, right beside the road and with a little sign.
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Log Text: About half a kilometre further west along the D.990 road can be found this little menhir, right beside the road and with a little sign. Its only about 1.3 metres tall basalt, and in the past has obviously had something stuck on top, probably a cross, due to the hole which can be seen drilled into it.
La Table au Loup
Trip No.205 Entry No.255 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Auvergne:Cantal (15))
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2005. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 4
La Table au Loup submitted by thecaptain on 4th Nov 2008. The dolmen was undergoing excavation when I visited in 2005, and apart from a large side slab sticking up out of the middle, and obvious remains of a mound, there was nothing much I could see here.
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Log Text: West of the village of Sériers, along the new D.990 road towards Pierrefort, about 500 metres from the junction with the D.921 is a sign for the dolmen. It is then about an 800 metre walk along a signposted gravel trackway across marshy land before you reach the dolmen, or as I found, a fenced off plastic sheeting covered area! The dolmen was undergoing excavation, and apart from a large side slab sticking up out of the middle, and obvious remains of a mound, there was nothing I could see here.
Menhir de la Croix-Grosse
Trip No.205 Entry No.254 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Auvergne:Cantal (15))
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Menhir de la Croix-Grosse submitted by thecaptain on 31st Oct 2008. This christianised menhir stands just on the western outskirts of the village of Sériers, and is along the road to Peyrelade (no doubt once home to its own megalith).
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Log Text: This christianised menhir stands just on the western outskirts of the village of Sériers, and is signposted from there as Menhir Christianisée, and is along the road to Peyrelade (no doubt once home to its own megalith). There is a large basalt carved cross sat on top of a superb column of christalline basalt, octagonal and well over 2 metres high. With its cross, it stands a good 3.5 metres tall. This really is a lovely monument, the basalt column is perfectly upright, and always has been, its never been restored. Apparently the column must have been brought here from several kilometres away, so its obviously at a once very special place.
Pierre Levée dolmen 2 (Villedieu)
Trip No.205 Entry No.253 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Auvergne:Cantal (15))
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Pierre Levée dolmen 2 (Villedieu) submitted by thecaptain on 19th Dec 2008. The dolmen is in very poor condition, basically one large side slab in a hollow in the centre of its tumulus.
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Log Text: Unfortunately, this cannot be reached from its near neighbours, and instead it has to be walked to quite a distance (about 1 km) from a point where you start the walk to the Tombe du Capitaine. It's a pleasant walk along a well signposted track, and then across a hilltop field.
The dolmen is in very poor condition, basically one large side slab in a hollow in the centre of its tumulus. However, the tumulus is in fine condition, about 15 metres in diameter and up to 1.5 metres in height. Around the outside at certain places it seems to be encircled with a sort of stone slab walling. This is in a lovely spot, and was well worth the effort to get to. I wouldn't be surprised if there was once another dolmen in this mound.
Pierre Levée dolmen 1 (Villedieu)
Trip No.205 Entry No.252 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Auvergne:Cantal (15))
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Pierre Levée dolmen 1 (Villedieu) submitted by thecaptain on 19th Dec 2008. There is still quite a respectable mound of small stones, diameter about 12 metres, surrounding the remains of the dolmen, but the megalithic chamber has been largely destroyed, leaving not much more than a hollow in the centre of the tumulus.
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Log Text: The remains of this dolmen can be found just to the east of the D.44 road, about 30 metres from the menhir. There is still quite a respectable mound of small stones, diameter about 12 metres, surrounding the remains of the dolmen, but the megalithic chamber has been largely destroyed, leaving not much more than a hollow in the centre of the tumulus. One large side slab and an entry stone are all that obviously remain in place.
Pierre Levée (Villedieu)
Trip No.205 Entry No.251 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Auvergne:Cantal (15))
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Pierre Levée (Villedieu) submitted by thecaptain on 16th Dec 2008. This menhir is about 2 metres tall, and it stands just to the west of the road.
Its neighbourly dolmen can be seen in its mound just over the road.
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Log Text: Beside the D.44 road west of St Flour, near to the hamlet of Fraissinet can be found this megalithic collection of a standing stone and two dolmens, within 300 metres of each other. The menhir is about 2 metres tall, and it stands just to the west of the road. It consists of a nice lump of pointy topped basalt.
Tombe du Capitaine
Trip No.205 Entry No.250 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Auvergne:Cantal (15))
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Tombe du Capitaine submitted by thecaptain on 6th Oct 2005. Tombe du Capitaine, near St-Flour, Cantal, Auvergne.
I was thinking of making this my last visit on my long stonehunting tour of France for fairly obvious reasons, but just couldnt resist a few more sites on my way home.
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Log Text: In a field to the west of the hamlet of Bouzentes, a few kilometres to the south of St Flour, by the D.116 road to Tanavelle can be found this dolmen. It's about 800 metres walk down a signposted track from the road, just at the western edge of the hamlet, and was in a field of cows (and a bull I belatedly noticed) when I visited. The single capstone, with cupules and engraved lines, sits on top of two side supports amongst a pile of loose stone in the middle of the field.
Uh Oh, time to go. The bull is getting quite inquisitive. Quick exit from the field over the fence, as far from Tauro as possible ! Well, I did have to come here, but I don't want it to become this Captain's tomb ! The dolmen is made from large basalt blocks, brought here from over a kilometre away. In excavations made in the 19th century, amongst the usual pottery sherds, flints and bones was found a polished axe. There are lovely big views all around from here.
Menhir de Colobrières 1
Trip No.205 Entry No.249 Date Added: 7th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 25th Sep 2005
Menhir de Colobrières 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Oct 2010. The large Colobrières menhir seen on the skyline from the road across the top of the Bondons, near Vaissiere, September 2005.
The weather made me not bother to go for the walk to visit it !
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Log Text: The large Colobrières menhir can be seen on the skyline from the road across the top of the Bondons, near Vaissiere. The weather made me not go for the walk to visit it !
Baraque de l'Air Menhirs
Trip No.205 Entry No.248 Date Added: 7th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Access 4
Baraque de l'Air menhirs submitted by ocdolmen on 5th Aug 2006. Site in Languedoc:Lozère (48)
Baraque de l'Air menhirs, Lozère, France.
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Log Text: I drove for a look in the rain, I could see another hilltop covered in standing stones, where a possible cromlech has been identified.
Menhirs dit de la Maisonnette 2
Trip No.205 Entry No.247 Date Added: 7th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Access 4
Menhirs dit de la Maisonnette 2 submitted by Aska on 20th Oct 2010. Site in Languedoc: Lozère (48) France
Triangle of menhirs on the hill close to D35 road.
44.41490N,3.63194E
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Log Text: As I was driving past in the rain, I could see another hiltop covered in standing stones, where a possible cromlech has been identified here.
Vaissière Menhirs
Trip No.205 Entry No.246 Date Added: 7th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Access 4
Vaissière menhirs submitted by ocdolmen on 5th Aug 2006. Site in Languedoc:Lozère (48)
One of the 40 menhirs of la Vaissière menhirs group, Lozère, France.
This one is 2.50 metres tall.
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Log Text: The Vaissière menhirs consist of more than forty menhirs, mostly found along the ridge running south from the D.35 road. The tallest of these menhirs is 5 metres in height. Some of these menhirs stand up really proudly against the skyline as you drive along. I would love to walk out among them, but not in this horrible stormy weather. There is much thunder, rain and lightning all around, with no signs of it clearing.
Menhir de la Veissière (03)
Trip No.205 Entry No.245 Date Added: 7th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Veissière (03) submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd May 2010. Walking down the ridge from the hamlet, this is the second menhir I found before having to give up and return due to massive storms approaching.
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Log Text: Walking down the ridge in a small gap in the storms, I found two more menhirs before having to give up and return. The second menhir along the ridgetop track is also about 2 metres tall, and about 150 metres from the road.
Menhir de la Veissière (02)
Trip No.205 Entry No.244 Date Added: 7th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Veissière (02) submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd May 2010. Walking down the ridge from the hamlet, this is the first menhir I found before having to give up and return due to massive storms approaching.
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Log Text: Walking down the ridge in a small gap in the storms, I found two more menhirs before having to give up and return. This first menhir along the ridgetop track is about 2 metres tall, and about 100 metres from the road.
Menhir de la Veissière (01)
Trip No.205 Entry No.243 Date Added: 7th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Menhir de la Veissière (01) submitted by theCaptain on 29th Apr 2010. Near to the D.35 road in the hamlet of La Vaissière itself is a menhir incorporated into a wall, which has a plaque and an inscription on it, commemorating two young girls who died up here in the winter snows.
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Log Text: Near to the D.35 road in the hamlet of La Vaissière itself is a menhir incorporated into a wall, which has a plaque and an inscription on it, commemorating two young girls who died up here in the winter snows.
Trois Pierres de Chabusse
Trip No.205 Entry No.242 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
Trois Pierres de Chabusse submitted by TheCaptain on 4th May 2010. Trois Pierres de Chabusse are three menhirs in a row.
All of the menhirs are over 2 metres in height, and the spacing is 5 metres and 28 metres between them.
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Log Text: About a kilometre along the ridgetop path running southwest from the La Fage B menhirs, can be found three menhirs in a row, and there were probably once more here. All of the menhirs are over 2 metres in height, and the spacing is 5 metres and 28 metres between them.
It is time to scuttle off now, as there are big black clouds and a cold wind blowing over everything, and there is thunder in the air. I got back to the van just in time, as a massive storm has been following me up the valley, with torrential rain down lower. Might avoid the rain up on top of the hills, but I doubt it..... Here it comes now.
La Fage Dolmen
Trip No.205 Entry No.241 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
La Fage dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 9th May 2010. Half a kilometre along the ridgetop path running southwest from the La Fage B menhirs, is a 2 metre by 1 metre wide slab lined dolmen within a mound of stones 12 metres in diameter, and now only 1 metre in height.
There is no capstone, but it is in a superb position.
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Log Text: Half a kilometre along the ridgetop path running southwest from the La Fage B menhirs, is a 2 metre by 1 metre wide slab lined chamber within a mound of stones 12 metres in diameter, and now only 1 metre in height. There is no capstone, but it is in a superb position, not far from menhir K
Combettes menhirs 2
Trip No.205 Entry No.240 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Combettes menhirs 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 9th May 2010. One of the Combettes menhirs, this is a 1.5 metre tall menhir.
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Log Text: A 1.5 metre tall menhir.