Landigou Menhir

Trip No.205  Entry No.1  Date Added: 13th Oct 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir) Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Couldn't find on 29th Aug 2005

Log Text: Looking for this menhir marked on my map, I could find nothing

Avebury Down Stone Circle

Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Couldn't find on 18th Sep 2019

Log Text: I was foiled in my attempt to get to visit this due to a herd of boisterous bullocks blocking my way through the gate into the field. I chickened out and went back and around the long way.

Dolmen de la Petifaie

Trip No.204  Entry No.319  Date Added: 12th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Couldn't find on 12th Aug 2005

Log Text: This is on private property in a dense woodland beside the road, and is well fenced off.

Dolmen de Laurière

Trip No.204  Entry No.311  Date Added: 12th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Couldn't find on 12th Aug 2005

Log Text: Probably what was under that tree and those bushes in the lump in the middle of the field where I was trying to find the menhir.

L'Aurière menhir

Trip No.204  Entry No.310  Date Added: 12th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir) Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Couldn't find on 12th Aug 2005

Log Text: This menhir is by the little picnic area at the place where I was stopped from turning by another car going into there.

Dolmen du Moulin à Vent

Trip No.204  Entry No.309  Date Added: 12th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Couldn't find on 12th Aug 2005

Log Text: I found the old windmill to the northeast of Broc, but saw no signs of any dolmen.

Dolmen dit Pierre Couverte de Vaas

Trip No.204  Entry No.306  Date Added: 12th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Sarthe (72))
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Aug 2005

Log Text: I saw something that stated that this dolmen is supposedly on an island in the middle of the Loir river somewhere. I could find no sign for it, and it wasn't on my map, so didn’t try too hard. But there is marked on my maps a dolmen up in the forested hills to the north of the village, which is a fair old walk from anywhere.

Menhir des Ventes

Trip No.204  Entry No.305  Date Added: 12th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir) Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Sarthe (72))
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Aug 2005

Log Text: Now I can see the ign 1:25,000 map, there is another menhir nearby, much nearer to the road about half a kilometre to the northwest of the Gobianne menhir.

Dolmen de la Haute Barde

Trip No.204  Entry No.301  Date Added: 12th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: France (Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37))
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Aug 2005

Log Text: This dolmen is either in dense woodland, or else on private property for the large chateau, as I can find no sign of it anywhere.

Dolmen des Louettes

Trip No.204  Entry No.289  Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: France (Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41))
Visited: Couldn't find on 9th Aug 2005

Log Text: Marked on my ign 1:100,000 map, but I could find no sign of this dolmen on the ground. What I did find was lots of fishing places along the banks of the pleasant Loir river near to a lovely old papermill. I asked a few people if they knew of any dolmens around here and none of them had any idea what I was talking about. The best I got offered was the Donjon de Fréteval as ancient stones !

Since my visit, and with the help of geoportail and its 1:25,000 ign maps, I have now been able to identify not only one, but two dolmens in this region, which are on the northern river banks, just to the south of the large road junction, and should be fairly easily accessible. I was even looking in the right woodland for the first. So close yet so far...

Mondétour polissoirs

Trip No.204  Entry No.290  Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir Country: France (Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41))
Visited: Couldn't find on 9th Aug 2005

Log Text: This polissoir is signposted up a trackway from the D.917 roadside to the southwest of Vendome. The trouble is, there are no more signs to be found once away from the road, and the track splits into three ways. A railway cuts the straight on, obvious path, and I could find no stone up there. The other ways all split again and again, and even after crossing under the railway, there is no obvious way. Just how the heck are we meant to find this stone ???

Since my visit, and with the help of geoportail and its 1:25,000 ign maps, I have now been able to identify where this polissoir is, and it is a fair bit to the south of the railway. Obviously, in order to find it, the ign 1:25,000 maps are needed, as the signposts are hopeless. So all I needed was all 1200 1:25,000 maps !!!!! Or geoportail up and running back then. Its odd. The village map in Fréteval say that there are megalithic walks in Marcilly-en-Beauce, but nothing about its own dolmens. The sign at Marcilly-en-Beauce on the other hand, has nothing about itself, yet says that there are dolmens to be seen in Fréteval. Its enough to make me want to give up.

Les Grosses Pierres (Breuil)

Trip No.204  Entry No.288  Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: France (Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41))
Visited: Couldn't find on 9th Aug 2005

Log Text: I could find no trace of this despite spending a lot of time looking. It should be somewhere beside the river Loir south of Cloyes near to Le Breuil farm, but a longish way from any road. All the land in this region is either flooded for lakes, planted with tall sweetcorn, or private, and I could find no dolmen. Its a very pleasant spot though.

Dolmen du Val d’Avril

Trip No.204  Entry No.282  Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: France (Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41))
Visited: Couldn't find on 8th Aug 2005

Log Text: I could see mothing obvious of the Butte de Champart to the south of the village of Tripleville, despite walking all around the area. It is perhaps all in the trees in the back garden of a house, behind the large woodshed.

Bonneval dolmen

Trip No.204  Entry No.272  Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Couldn't find on 8th Aug 2005

Log Text: I could find nothing of this, despite having a good look all around. There are likely remains of a round mound in the fields here though.

Polissoir de la Vieuville

Trip No.204  Entry No.271  Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Couldn't find on 8th Aug 2005

Log Text: I was told by the lady I met at Pierre de Beaumont that there is another dolmen in Vieuville, but she didn't know how to find it. I had a look around but could find nothing obvious myself.

Hertubise dolmen

Trip No.204  Entry No.269  Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Couldn't find on 8th Aug 2005

Log Text: On my ign map, there is a dolmen symbol just to the south of the village of Alluyes, but its on the opposite side of the river to where I could drive to. Between the road and the river are houses and gardens, with lots of trees and high hedges, which prevented me from seeing anything of the Hertubise dolmen. There was a farm here with the right name though, so the dolmen probably exists somewhere.

Menhir dit la Roche

Trip No.204  Entry No.262  Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Couldn't find on 7th Aug 2005

Log Text: I had a good look around, but could not find this

Musée des Sciences Naturelles et de Préhistoire

Trip No.204  Entry No.254  Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Museum Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Couldn't find on 7th Aug 2005

Log Text: The picture I have seen of the Maison de l'Archaeologie has a dolmen in the front yard, so I go for a look. But it's moved ! I found where the museum was, but its now a private residence. I have no way of knowing where to, so this must go down as the first museum I have failed to find ! Wonder what happened to the dolmen in the yard outside the museum when it moved.

Dolmen des Grès de Linas

Trip No.204  Entry No.250  Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: France (Ile-de-France:Essonne (91))
Visited: Couldn't find on 6th Aug 2005

Log Text: I spent ages looking for this. I can only assume it is somewhere in the very dense fenced off woodland, in amongst the open fields. I am getting fed up of all this again.

Menhir dit la Pierre aux Prêtres

Trip No.204  Entry No.249  Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir) Country: France (Ile-de-France:Seine-et-Marne 77)
Visited: Couldn't find on 6th Aug 2005

Log Text: I could find nowhere to stop beside a nasty busy road to go and look for this stone. I could see nothing obvious.