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Bretteville-le-Rabet
Trip No.202 Entry No.9 Date Added: 25th Mar 2020
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Apr 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Bretteville-le-Rabet submitted by TheCaptain on 8th May 2005. Bretteville-le-Rabet flint quarries, Calvados.
I spent just 5 minutes looking around the edge of this freshly ploughed field and found four bits of worked flint, including a nice scraper tool.
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Log Text: Not marked on any map I was told of this place by a man who collects flint artefacts I met at Cairon so I went for a quick look. Nothing much to see but the fields here were freshly ploughed and within 5 minutes of looking along the edges of the fields by the roadside I had found 4 worked flint artefacts.
Menhir dit Pierre Debout (Reviers)
Trip No.202 Entry No.3 Date Added: 25th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Couldn't find on 29th Dec 2005
Menhir dit Pierre Debout (Reviers) submitted by thecaptain on 29th Dec 2005. Reviers menhir.
Just inland from the D-Day beaches can be found (when the crops are down) the sad remains of this menhir.
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Log Text: Despite being marked on the ign map and having a good look all around I could find no sign of any menhir here. Perhaps it is fallen and somewhere within a field of oilseed Rape.
Later note. Having seen the 1:25000 ign map of the area the menhir is marked fairly close to the corner of the road and farm track right where I was looking originally. As I suspected the menhir must be fallen and hidden within the crop.
La Butte du Hu
Trip No.202 Entry No.10 Date Added: 25th Mar 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 23rd Apr 2005
La Butte du Hu submitted by thecaptain on 8th Oct 2006. Plan of La Butte du Hu, Ernes, as shown on the sign at Colombiers-sur-Seulles.
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Log Text: North of the village of Ernes several hundred metres up a farm track from the hamlet of Vey d’Ifs on the top of the ridge this large chambered tumulus can be seen just within a field growing crops so I did not enter.
Tumuli de Condé-sur-Ifs
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 8th Oct 2006
Tumuli de Condé-sur-Ifs submitted by thecaptain on 8th Oct 2006. Condé-sur-Ifs tumuli, as shown on the sign at Colombiers-sur-Seulles.
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Menhir de la Demoiselle de Bracqueville
Trip No.206 Entry No.5 Date Added: 25th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2006. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Demoiselle de Bracqueville submitted by thecaptain on 11th Oct 2006. To visit this stone, find your way from Beny-sur-Mer to the south along small tracks to Bracqueville farm. Park near to the farm, and walk about 500 metres along the track which passes in front of the farm till you get to a junction of trackways. Take the grassy track to the left, and the menhir is a further 500 metres along and just into the field on the left.
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Log Text: Found this at last, on probably my third attempt. Find your way from Beny-sur-Mer to the south along small tracks to Bracqueville farm. Park near to the farm, and walk about 500 metres along the track which passes in front of the farm till you get to a junction of trackways. Take the grassy track to the left, and the menhir is a further 500 metres along and just into the field on the left.
Its about 1.4 metres tall, 0.7 metres wide and 0.3 metres thick, and leaning towards the north. The farmer has left very little room around it, and it has some very recent scrapes and damage done to it, no doubt from farm machinery. It is likely that this menhir often gets obscured by crops in the summer. Nice to have found it, its a nice stone. Stupidly I forgot to take my gps with me to get a proper position.
Luc-sur-Mer menhir
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 29th Dec 2006
Luc-sur-Mer menhir submitted by thecaptain on 29th Dec 2006. Remains of a menhir about a metre tall, which can be found beside a garden hedge at the eastern end of Rue du Menhir.
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Les Pierres Branlantes
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2007
Les Pierres Branlantes submitted by thecaptain on 15th Jan 2007. The situation of Les Pierres Branlantes seen from the farm track to the southeast. They are just inside the wood directly at the end of the hedge crossing the field.
It looks to me as though some of the original mound which covered them survives, as can be seen by the raise in the ground at the corner of the field.
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La Loge aux Sarrasins
Trip No.202 Entry No.17 Date Added: 26th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Couldn't find on 17th Apr 2005
la Loge aux Sarrasins submitted by thecaptain on 28th Sep 2007. Despite the overgrown signs, this looked all very promising, and that I could add this elusive, rare Normandy dolmen to my list !
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Log Text: Despite an accurate description of how to find this dolmen I could find nothing that looked like the picture from 1980. I did however find some large stones in about the right place a large single stone standing in the middle of the field and a couple of smaller ones with a small stone on top and a further large stone nearby. Perhaps I was looking in the wrong field but I think more likely is that this dolmen has recently been destroyed. A closer inspection of the photographs and I think that the large stone lying near the edge of the field might be the capstone from the dolmen upside down. A criminal shame that these things survive so long only to be destroyed in these modern times due to greed and laziness of a farmer.
Later note. Having seen the 1:25000 ign map of the area the dolmen is marked in a field further to the north than where I was looking beside the farm buildings which begs the question of what are the stones I did find.
Domaine de Castillon
Date Added: 30th Dec 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 27th Dec 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Domaine de Castillon submitted by theCaptain on 30th Dec 2013. View across the swollen river to the northern end of the hill where the C17th Chateau has been built on top of the ancient site.
It was such horrible wet weather, I wasn't going to explore away from the road.
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Log Text: Stopped off for a quick look while travelling home after Christmas at my sisters. The weather was foul and everything completely sodden, so didn't spend any time exploring other than driving around the local roads. One to come back to sometime, for a better look for some of the ramparts, and a look round the chateau gardens.
Langrais menhirs
Trip No.202 Entry No.12 Date Added: 26th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 23rd Apr 2005
Langrais menhirs submitted by TheCaptain on 6th May 2005. Langrais menhirs, Soumont-Saint-Quentin, Calvados.
2 large menhirs in a field to the east of the village near Mont Joly, but which are 500 metres from the road across a field surrounded by barbed wire and with very clear keep out signs. One of the two menhirs stands 3.6 metres high, while the other is fallen.
The standing menhir can be seen here between the third and fourth fencepost along to the right of the sign.
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Log Text: Two large menhirs in a field to the east of the village near Mont Joly but which are 500 metres from the road across a field surrounded by barbed wire and with very clear keep out signs. One of the two menhirs stands 3.6 metres high while the other is fallen.
In the region around here are many other large stones some of which may well be fallen menhirs and indeed perhaps a row can be determined in the lane called “Route des Menhirs”.
Grosse Pierre de la Bergerie
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 7th Nov 2011
Grosse Pierre de la Bergerie submitted by theCaptain on 7th Nov 2011. Tried to visit this stone while driving on a different ferry route from Le Havre to my Sisters's, and drove to a place to the south where some tracks are marked on the map which would lead to the orchard. However, once we got to the orchard, we found it had been newly and securely fenced, with no way in.
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Pierre du Hu
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 15th Nov 2011
Pierre du Hu submitted by theCaptain on 15th Nov 2011. At the northeastern corner of the field of the Montchauvin Alignements, the largest, The Pierre du Hu, stands just under three metres tall.
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Menhir des Planches
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 29th Dec 2011
Menhir des Planches submitted by theCaptain on 29th Dec 2011. The stone can be seen clearly against the skyline, although it is not on the top of the hill.
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Les Grosses Devises (W)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2012
Les Grosses Devises (W) submitted by theCaptain on 15th Jan 2012. The western of the two main Les Grosses Devises stones still standing, seen here on a sunny winter morning looking north from the farmtrack which leads up from the west at Barbieres.
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Les Grosses Devises (E)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2012
Les Grosses Devises (E) submitted by theCaptain on 15th Jan 2012. The eastern of the two main Les Grosses Devises stones still standing, seen here on a sunny winter morning looking northeast from the farmtrack which leads up from the west at Barbieres.
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Menhir Couché Lieu Gobin
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 4th May 2012
Menhir Couché Lieu Gobin submitted by TheCaptain on 4th May 2012. at the corner of the wet and rough trackway, the stone can be seen in the field by the fence.
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Menhir de Soulangy
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2012
Menhir de Soulangy submitted by theCaptain on 15th May 2012. Menhir discovered during the construction of the RN 158 near to Soulangy. It has now been re-erected in the parking area of the Soulangy rest area, on the western (southbound) side.
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Montchauvet Alignements
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 29th Oct 2012
Montchauvet alignements submitted by theCaptain on 29th Oct 2012. I found nine large stones in the field, mostly flat to the ground, but one or two upright.
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Pierre du Pôt
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jan 2014
Pierre du Pôt submitted by theCaptain on 2nd Jan 2014. I found this remarkably easily, travelling thriugh Ussy past the school, and I pulled off the road into a large parking area to look at the village map on the street nearby. Lo and behold, I had pulled into the sports centre, and the stone was standing there right in front of the car!
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Menhir de la Grurie
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jan 2014
Menhir de la Grurie submitted by theCaptain on 3rd Jan 2014. This stone can be found in a field to the west of the village of Villiers Canivet, to the south of the big water tower between here and the village of Ussy.
A strange rectangular section stone, is it a fallen (but on edge) menhir, or perhaps a backstone or fallen capstone from a burial chamber?
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