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Freydefond Menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.186 Date Added: 24th Aug 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63))
Visited: Yes on 25th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Freydefond menhir submitted by thecaptain on 27th Jun 2006. This is a superbly positioned menhir, made from a hexagonal block of crystalline volcanic basalt, up on top of the high hills overlooking St-Nectaire (of cheese fame) in the deep valley below.
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Log Text: This is a superbly positioned menhir, made from a hexagonal block of crystalline volcanic basalt, up on top of the high hills overlooking St-Nectaire (of cheese fame) in the deep valley below, and with splendid views all around, except for the various trees and woods in places. It is now only about 1.5 metres tall, but the top has obviously been broken off, and indeed something has been cemented on to it at some point. This menhir is easily found down a trackway from the road above Sailles, and can be seen from quite long distances.
Fridd Wanc
Date Added: 30th Oct 2023
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Fridd Wanc submitted by TimPrevett on 13th Sep 2004. Remains of a round barrow not far from Circle 275; see main entry for details.
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Log Text: Moving on and the next site just to the north of the trackway is the Fridd Wanc mound, with a telegraph pole standing from its centre. Just to the southeast are several boulders, three obvious large stones, with a couple more not so obvious. Is it the remains of an ancient burial chamber? Or on later thinking, another little circle?
Furzehill Common 0
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2010
Furzehill Common 0 submitted by TheCaptain on 16th May 2010. From the first large stone, I walked off in a south-easterly direction towards my next target, and found several more stones standing or fallen on the moorland amongst the heather. Some of the stones were fairly big and evenly spaced, standing in a line diagonally up the hillside to a square of stones at SS 7339 4449.
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Furzehill Common 1
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2010
Furzehill Common 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 18th May 2010. On the western slopes of Furzehill Common ridge, I first found a large boulder like stone, and with some further searching around, I found a sort of line of stones running down the side of the hill.
I found two stones high up the slope which are spaced at about 10 metres from each other, marked here by my hat and bag.
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Furzehill Common 2
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2010
Furzehill Common 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 14th May 2010. Supposedly a stone setting of three stones, I found one stone standing just over a foot high surrounded by couch grass. With a good hunt around, I found only one other stump of a stone nearby, marked by my bag.
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Furzehill Common 5
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2010
Furzehill Common 5 submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Jul 2010. View southeast over where this excellent stone setting is to be found, off of the steep eastern slopes of Furzehill Common ridge, overlooking the splendid Hoaroak Water valley, with fantastic views to Cheriton Ridge and beyond.
I almost didn’t come and look for this one as time was getting on, the hillside was in shadow, and when I got near, I saw that the hillside was covered in ferns. I am glad to say that I did go for a quick look, and eventually found the best stone setting I had see...
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Furzehill Common Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2010
Furzehill Common Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 14th May 2010. On the western slopes of Furzehill Common, having crossed from Warcombe, I found this tumulus easily, which is fairly large and prominent on the slopes down the side of the ridge.
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Furzehill Common cairn
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2010
Furzehill Common cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 16th May 2010. The cairn is in a patch of shortly trimmed grass, and hence easily found. There is a 5 metre diameter raised ring, with a hollow in the centre, which is filled with some large stones, which may or may not be an original feature.
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Furzehill Common Standing Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Sep 2009
Furzehill Common Standing Stone submitted by thecaptain on 14th Sep 2009. The recently broken Furzehill Common standing stone, viewed here looking southwest over the common.
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Furzehill Common stone row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 19th May 2010
Furzehill Common stone row submitted by TheCaptain on 19th May 2010. Here I found four little stumps of stone in a row, in a boggy hollow on top of the ridge. They are spaced 2.5, 5, 2.5 metres apart, suggesting a missing stone in between those I could find.
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Gabaudet Dolmen 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.134 Date Added: 10th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Couldn't find on 24th May 2005
Gabaudet dolmen 1 submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Nov 2006. GABAUDET 1 DOLMEN
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Log Text: There are supposedly a couple of lovely dolmens here in the woods. I had a good walk and look around, but could find nothing. I really needed to get the 1:25000 map this morning. They should be found about 600 metres to the east of the hamlet, in the forest to the south of the road. For the first dolmen, a 4 metre by 3 metre capstone sits on top of a 3.5 by 2 m chamber, with some remains of a vestibule.
Gabaudet Dolmen 2
Trip No.203 Entry No.135 Date Added: 10th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Couldn't find on 24th May 2005
Gabaudet dolmen 2 submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Nov 2006. GABAUDET 2 DOLMEN
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Log Text: In the forest 200 metres from the first dolmen can be found the second. A chamber 3 metres in length and 1.5 metres wide is covered by a large slab, now broken into three pieces.
Gaer (Trellech)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 16th Nov 2006
Gaer (Trellech) submitted by thecaptain on 16th Nov 2006. Depending on the scale of map you are using, this hilltop earthworks a mile or so to the south of the ancient village of Trellech is variously described as fort or settlement.
Some of the earthworks can clearly be seen in the low November afternoon sunlight of this picture from the south.
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Galerie des Forges
Trip No.201 Entry No.9 Date Added: 25th Mar 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Couldn't find on 22nd Nov 2004
Log Text: The remains of a third Allée Couverte said to be found to the northeast of Rocheville, in the Bois de la Tombette, at the foot of a hill northeast of a track called La Chasse-aux-Forges, but which are difficult to find.
Well, with my luck at finding these Normandie megaliths, and with a full day planned for hunting down other sites, I drove past the suggested area in the vain hope of seeing a signpost or similar (some chance!) but in the absence of which I spent no more time looking. The Allée Couverte is reported to be 16 metres in length, with an east west aspect, width and height 1 metre, closed at the east, open to the west.
Galitorte Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.167 Date Added: 16th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 26th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Galitorte dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 26th Nov 2005. Perhaps importantly, the chamber opening frames perfectly a significant hill on the horizon.
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Log Text: This one is a nice find in the evening sun towards the end of a long and mostly fruitless day, and is signposted from several places around.
The dolmen stands proud on the eastern end of a long oval mound, its chamber made with two enormous side slabs each 4 metres long by 2 metres high. The capstone sits nicely on top, but is not as long as the chamber below, which faces east with a bearing of 102°. Perhaps more importantly than the bearing is that the opening frames perfectly a significant hill on the horizon.
After taking the picture from within the chamber, I nearly knocked myself out by quickly standing up inside. I can report that the capstone gives a nice ringing clang when hit in this manner, and I had to sit down to recover for several minutes afterwards, before I could walk back to the van !
Gallardet Dolmen
Trip No.205 Entry No.145 Date Added: 11th Nov 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Gallardet Dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 11th Mar 2009. The wonderful Gallardet dolmen sits on this uncultivated piece of land, seen here in its ridgetop position amongst the vines.
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Log Text: This really was a bugger to find, but when you find it, you wonder why.
Initially I went to where it is marked on the map, there's a big farm there called Ferme-le-dolmen, but no obvious sign to it. Reading my book says that go to the town centre and follow signs from there. I eventually found the town centre but missed any signs, so I had a second go. The roads are tiny, and no way the camper van will get through there, and probably not a car either. Perhaps its a park and walk job, but I could find nowhere to park. Oh well, maybe tomorrow, time is getting on and I don't know where to camp for the night.
The next day, on my third attempt to find it, it took me half an hour to park in the village, then over an hour to find the dolmen, having asked several people. The trick is not to miss the right turn on the road out of the village, and keep going almost to the end of the ridge, above the farm.
The dolmen has been much restored, but it is well worth the effort to get here. It is completely within its mound, and the access corridor, which is 5 metres long and between 1 and 1.5 metres wide, leads to an outside chamber 2.5 metres long and 2.5 metres wide. This leads on to a wonderful oven door stone, which has been put back together from three pieces. The stone is 2 metres high, and has a door 1 metre wide and 1.2 metres in height cut into it.
Beyond this is the main chamber, 6 metres long and up to 4 metres wide, and easily high enough to stand up in. It is constructed with a sort of barrel vaulting, and then capped with large slabs, three of which are in place (of a probable four). There is a lovely shaped backstone. Unfortunately the chamber fills with rainwater and mud. All of the three parts of the passage are dry stone walled, there are no upright slabs except to divide the sections. The entrance passageway opens towards the west, at 232°, with a slight uphill slope.
This is a really lovely dolmen, but thats the entire morning gone. There are gorgeous views northwards over the Hérault valley.
Ganborough
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jan 2007
Ganborough submitted by thecaptain on 4th Jan 2007. This was obviously once a large and substantial longbarrow sited on a hilltop ridge. But these days it is very easily missed as you drive past on the busy A424 which cuts through its southeastern end.
Viewed here looking north.
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Garde Epée Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.240 Date Added: 22nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 4th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Garde Epée dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Jul 2007. This is a big dolmen, the chamber of which is about 4 metres in length by 3 metres wide and 2 metres high.
It has a single large backstone, with two side stones on the south side.
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Log Text: This is a big dolmen, the chamber of which is about 4 metres in length by 3 metres wide and 2 metres high. It has a single large backstone, with two side stones on the south side, only one on the north (the other is missing) and one at the eastern end. The capstone is two pieces, the larger western stone having several delightful holes in it and a warning sign saying not to climb onto it or stand underneath, as the stone is cracked and ready to break.
This dolmen is also suffering from graffitti and rubbish, but otherwise well looked after in a little clearing amongst the vines with its own sign. It can be found just to the south of the D.157 road, a couple of kilometres west of Jarnac.
Garennes-sur-Eure Menhir
Trip No.202 Entry No.87 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Eure (27))
Visited: Couldn't find on 3rd May 2005
Log Text: Despite a good look around I could find nothing. I drove around many roads looking all over the place but it was a nasty busy road alongside the river at going home time which didn’t help.
Garivals Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.141 Date Added: 10th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 24th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Garivals dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 7th Nov 2005. Garivals dolmen, near the village of Assier in Lot is much unloved.
It has not only had a wall built through it, but also a trackway which cuts through, along where this photo is taken from.
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Log Text: To the west of the village of Assier, about 1.5 kilometres along the D.92 road, there is a trackway leaving at an angle to the north, nearby what seems to be a road repair depot. A few hundred metres along this trackway can be found the Dolmen de Garivals, much unloved, fenced in and with a wall built through it. The chamber is about 3 m by 1.5 m, and a single capstone now covers only half of it. Much of its mound remains, and there is a strange sort of triangle stone on top.