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Dolmens de Bignon
Trip No.203 Entry No.231 Date Added: 10th Jul 2024
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Gironde (33))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 3rd Jun 2005
Dolmens de Bignon submitted by thecaptain on 9th Jan 2006. Supposedly there is one large allée-couverte and two simple dolmens to be found, and I must have spent over an hour looking along all tracks and in all fields here.
The best I found is this pile of stones in the middle of a field - could it be one of the small dolmens under there ?
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Log Text: I knew things were going too well this morning. I found Frontenac, and from there I eventually found Bignon, but after much searching and some very difficult to understand directions from an old lady living near the farm (they are very big, and only 800 metres away) I could find no signs of the three dolmens here. Supposedly there is one large allée-couverte and two simple dolmens to be found, and I must have spent over an hour looking along all tracks and in all fields. Perhaps they are deep in some woods beside the stream.
Dolmens des Grays
Trip No.203 Entry No.326 Date Added: 4th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4
Dolmens des Grays submitted by thecaptain on 19th Jul 2006. Dolmens des Grays
The deteriorating signboard.
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Log Text: Walking to the west along the coast path from the big carpark near the beach at Penlann headland, and you get to the remains of this large cairn after about 500 metres. It is difficult to make anything out nowadays, other than there are lots of large rocks on the remains of a large mound, overlooking the Villaine estuary. Closer inspection shows this to have once been a large 30 metre diameter cairn, with at least three passage tombs within it, two of which still have a few capstones in position.
Dolmens des Sept Saints
Trip No.203 Entry No.439 Date Added: 23rd May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Dolmens des Sept Saints submitted by maengurta on 5th Apr 2008. View from the rear of this petite dolmen.
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Log Text: This is a site which until a few days before I visited would have been completely overgrown, but thankfully has had all the gorse, blackthorn etc cut back and cleared.
What you get is a round mound, about 20 to 25 metres in diameter, with the very ruinous remains of three chambers with entry corridors. The central was probably the largest, but this is not much more than a depression in the mound. The northern still has its capstone and a recogniseable passageway, while the southern has an entry passage with one capstone still in place, but only half of a recognisable chamber.
Dolmens du Bois de la Chenaise
Trip No.204 Entry No.95 Date Added: 20th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Couldn't find on 16th Jul 2005
Dolmens du Bois de la Chenaise submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Jul 2020.
This is within a fenced off and private area. There was no way I could get to see this one, which is in a wood on top of a hill.
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Log Text: This is within a fenced off and private area. There was no way I could get to see this one, which is in a wood on top of a hill.
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.
Doulting Quarries barrow
Date Added: 20th Mar 2023
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2023. My rating: Access 5
Doulting Quarries barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Mar 2023. In some open land behind the bus stop at Doulting, opposite to the stone quarries entrance, I saw what looked like a longbarrow with stone entrance. Closer inspection showed this to be a modern interpretation, with a large stone standing on the top.
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Log Text: In some open land behind the bus stop at Doulting, opposite to the stone quarries entrance, I saw what looked like a longbarrow with stone entrance. Closer inspection showed this to be a modern interpretation, with a large stone standing on the top.
Down Ridge
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 11th Apr 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Down Ridge submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Apr 2019. Approaching from the northwest
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Log Text: I am not really sure what to make of this, the remains of which are on sloping ground on the northeastern flank of Down Ridge above Hexworthy, just above the enclosed areas below. There is not a huge amount left, and much of that is at the uphill side, large slabs set on their long sides, several of which are adjacent to each other sort of making a solid wall. There are also a couple of standing stones forming part of the same arc, indicating a diameter of about 25 metres. On the lower side of the circle are several fallen slabs, which seem to have been moved about and not in their original positions. It's all a bit sad really, I would like to have seen this in better condition. The views over to the north and east over the river Dart are fabulous.
Down Ridge Outlier
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 11th Apr 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Down Ridge Outlier submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Apr 2019. About 100 metres away to the southeast from the stone circle is a small standing stone, just under a metre tall.
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Log Text: About 100 metres away to the southeast from the stone circle is a small standing stone, just under a metre tall.
Down Tor cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2010
Down Tor cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Nov 2010. About 50 metres to the northwest of the beautiful cairn circle, around the edge of the hillside, is the remains of another cairn, 14 metre diameter and more than a metre high. There are no signs of any kerb stones or structure within the cairn.
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Down Tor circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2010
Down Tor circle submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Sep 2010. Hingstone Hill or Down Tor circle and stone row. Late afternoon, September 26 2010
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Down Tor stone row
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2010
Down Tor stone row submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Sep 2010. Hingstone Hill or Down Tor stone row. Late afternoon, September 26 2010
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Dozmary Pool
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2017
Dozmary Pool submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Sep 2017. Schoolgirl On Holiday In Cornwall Pulls Legendary Excalibur Sword From Bodmin Moor Lake !
See story here.
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Drakestone Camp
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Aug 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Drakestone Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 6th Jul 2011. One of the middle banks and ditches
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Log Text: Walk round the Korea Friendship Trail from Dursley on a bright and breezy Sunday afternoon with a pint in the Old Spot afterwards. The views up here are tremendous, and with various other nearby viewpoints you get a full 360 degrees. Even on this not very clear day, as well as almost the entire length of the Cotswold Edge, I could make out the Mendip Hills, Bristol Channel, Black Mountains, Malvern Hills.
Draycot Foliat Bowl Barrow
Date Added: 24th Apr 2022
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Draycot Foliat Bowl Barrow submitted by HarryTwenty on 7th Jan 2019. The barrow is buried under trees. Looking NE.
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Log Text: Not the nicest of walks along the old Ridgeway which is now a dusty/muddy/rutted gravel farm track, with several bits fenced and rerouted, I eventually get to the first of two barrows marked. On the north of the track is a large overgrown mound, which is well dug by badgers. A bit further east and to the south of the track where the other barrow is marked, there is nothing to see other than a difference in the growth of the yellow flowering rapeseed.
Drift Stones
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2008
Drift Stones submitted by thecaptain on 1st Oct 2008. Snails and Lichen
Drift Menhirs, Sunday 28th September 2008.
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Drizzlecombe
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2007
Drizzlecombe submitted by TheCaptain on 16th Jun 2007. The wonderful Drizzlecombe site, with the main rows and cairns marked on.
Seen here approaching from the southwest up the Plym valley from Ditsworthy Warren.
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Drizzlecombe cairn 14
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jan 2008
Drizzlecombe cairn 14 submitted by thecaptain on 19th Jan 2008. Seven side set stones touching together make up the remains of a stone ring here, less than half of the circumference, and about 3.5 metres in diameter.
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Drizzlecombe cist 21
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jan 2008
Drizzlecombe cist 21 submitted by thecaptain on 20th Jan 2008. Drizzlecombe cist 21 is a splendid box cist, found further up the Drizzlecombe valley from the main sites, on the eastern side of the stream.
The remains of the tin workings in this picture should give some clues for finding it.
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Drizzlecombe cist 22
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2007
Drizzlecombe cist 22 submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Jul 2007. To the south of the main Drizzlecombe sites can be found this cairn with cist.
The possible capstone is displaced to the west.
Viewed here looking southeast towards Shavercombe.
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Drizzlecombe Cist 6
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Feb 2008
Drizzlecombe Cist 6 submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Feb 2008. Drizzlecombe Cist 6 looking southwest, with the upper end of row1 at the upper left of the picture.
There is a capstone 1.8 m by 1.2 m sitting on top of a broken box, which is now three side set slabs, probably two side slabs and a single end stone.
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