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Ginestous menhir 3
Trip No.205 Entry No.179 Date Added: 25th Nov 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
Ginestous menhir 3 submitted by thecaptain on 31st Oct 2005. Ginestous menhir 3.
Ginestous menhir 3 is about 2.7 metres tall, and a very carefully formed rectangular shape.
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Log Text: Ginestous menhir 3 is about 2.7 metres tall, and a very carefully formed rectangular shape, standing proudly overlooking the valley. The top has crumbled and broken a bit, so maybe it was once taller. It can be seen from the Almond menhir, which is about 100 metres away to the east, across a valley, with a little path leading between the two.
Ginestous menhir 4
Trip No.205 Entry No.180 Date Added: 25th Nov 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Ginestous menhir 4 submitted by thecaptain on 31st Oct 2005. Ginestous menhir 4
Fallen and broken menhir, close to the Ginestous 3 menhir.
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Log Text: Ginestous menhir 4 is fallen and broken into several pieces. It is only about 8 metres away from menhir 3.
Ginestous menhir 5
Trip No.205 Entry No.182 Date Added: 25th Nov 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Ginestous menhir 5 submitted by thecaptain on 31st Oct 2005. Ginestous menhir 5.
Fallen and broken into several pieces, this menhir is just to the west of the ruined dolmen.
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Log Text: Ginestous menhir 5 is fallen and broken into several pieces. This was once quite a large menhir, of a tapered shape, significantly more than 2 metres long and almost 2 metres wide at the base. It can be found about 40 metres to the west of the dolmen.
Ginestous menhir 7
Trip No.205 Entry No.183 Date Added: 25th Nov 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Log Text: Ginestous menhir 7 remains as a small stump, which can be seen at the edge of the little road which leads up to the chateau, just uphill from the corner after the railway crossing.
Gisement de Fieux
Trip No.203 Entry No.122 Date Added: 7th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 23rd May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Gisement de Fieux submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jan 2006. Although signposted, and with a car parking area, I was not sure what this was while I was visiting, except for a big hole in the ground, and some little holes also, with excavations going on.
I later found out that it is an ancient settlement and encampment for mammoth hunters.
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Log Text: Excavations are being done here, and planning permission for a visitor centre with shop and toilets applied for. I was not sure what is here while I was visiting, except for a big hole in the ground, and some little holes also. I later find out that it is an ancient settlement and encampment for mammoth hunters.
Gisement du Pataud
Trip No.203 Entry No.68 Date Added: 5th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 17th May 2005. My rating: Access 4
Gisement du Pataud submitted by theCaptain on 6th Jan 2011. There’s a museum built into the cliff face here and a covered area which looks like some sort of exhibition of an archaeological dig.
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Log Text: There’s a museum built into the cliff face here and a covered area which looks like some sort of exhibition of an archaeological dig. Its between Cro Magnon and the Les Eyzies museum halfway up the cliff face.
Giverzac Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.215 Date Added: 21st Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 16th Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Giverzac dolmen submitted by theCaptain on 16th Jan 2012. Remains of a little dolmen now outside the gates to the Banque de France’ Giversac Enterprise Centre, where it is used for sheltering a couple of floodlights.
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Log Text: Remains of a little dolmen now outside the gates to the Banque de France’ Giversac Enterprise Centre and it shelters a couple of floodlights. The capstone is about 2.5 by 2 metres broken at one end and it sits on a few various support stones. I suspect it’s been jumbled about a bit.
Finding this involved some extremely steep and narrow lanes up the vertiginous sides of the Dordogne river from Vitrac and getting away again after was just as bad as the roads through Domme are banned to campervans due to the small narrow cliff face hanging roads so although you can park next to the dolmen an access rating of 5 is perhaps a bit high ! There are no signs.
Glanum
Trip No.205 Entry No.207 Date Added: 29th Nov 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Provence:Bouches-du-Rhône (13))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Glanum submitted by XIII on 19th Jul 2015. Site in Provence:Bouches-du-Rhône (13) France
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Log Text: Just outside St Remy-de-Provence is this ancient city, only discovered last century, and with ongoing excavations. The Roman city was built on top of a previous Hellenic (Greek) city dating from before 300BC, which in turn was built on an old Gallic living place and Oppidum. All the focus seemed to be on the water spring, and there are lots of temples around it. A very interesting place to have a look around.
Glasscombe Ball North
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2004
Glasscombe Ball North submitted by thecaptain on 14th Jul 2004. Glasscombe Ball stone row, Dartmoor, Devon SX657604
The remains of this row would have started at a cairn on top of the ridge and progressed in a south-easterly direction away from it. With all the stones flattened to the ground, the layout of the original row is not easy to determine, but would have been at least 80 metres in length.
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Glasscombe Corner Stone Row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jul 2004
Glasscombe Corner Stone Row submitted by thecaptain on 16th Jul 2004. Glasscombe Corner stone row, Dartmoor, Devon SX661608
Just above Glasscombe Corner can be found the remains of this fine stone row. Unusually, it has its cairn at the lower end, and marches off up the hill for about 150 metres in a south westerly direction.
View here of the cairn and looking up the row. The cairn is fairly small and insignificant, although the remains of what was once possibly a ring of slabs can be seen.
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Goarivan Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.523 Date Added: 28th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Goarivan menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Jun 2011. This is a nice 3.6 metre tall menhir in a field just to the north of the hamlet of Goarivan, which can be reached along a farm track round the back of the houses.
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Log Text: This is a nice 4 metre tall menhir in a field just to the north of the hamlet of Goarivan, which can be reached along a farm track round the back of the houses. It's got a very curious thing near the base of its northern side, which looks like a marble in a case. There is a rounded white quartz lump which has been worn away from the grey surrounding granite and smoothed spherical. It looks like it should rattle around in the hole, but unfortunately it doesn't. I have no doubt that there are some stories and legends associated with this, but I do not know of any.
Gobiane Menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.304 Date Added: 12th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Sarthe (72))
Visited: Yes on 11th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 2
Gobiane Menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Apr 2011. This is a fairly big menhir, I would estimate over 4 metres tall halfway between the villages of Flée and Chahaignes.
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Log Text: This was a difficult one to find. Halfway between the villages of Flée and Chahaignes is a track south from the D.255 road up to Gobianne farm. I parked and walked up the track for at least 800 metres, and eventually I saw the menhir in a field up on the hillside. The field is well ditched, fenced and hedged, and there was no way in. The best I got was a long distance photo.
Its a big menhir, I would estimate over 4 metres tall. When you know where it is, it can actually be seen from the road, up on the skyline to the south at the top of the hill. Nice.
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.
Gochang Dolmens
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: South Korea
Visited: Yes on 28th Feb 2014
Gochang Dolmens submitted by theCaptain on 28th Feb 2014. one of the Gochang dolmens in South Korea as featured on a postage stamp cover
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Goërem Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.445 Date Added: 23rd May 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Goërem dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Jun 2011. Its not a very big mound, just a big enough barrow to cover the passage grave, which is about 20 metres by 10 metres, and up to 3 metres in height maximum
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Log Text: I came all the way out to this poor depressed village at the end of a long peninsula and stayed the night on the harbourside in order to visit this, "the finest angled passage grave in existance". Take a good torch it says. So on a nasty dull grey day I walk round the seafront and through the village till I eventually find it. It is right on the western seafront, in amongst the houses, and has a reasonable amount of land reserved around it. It would probably have a spectacular view if there was one to be seen through all the murk.
Its not a very big mound, just a big enough barrow to cover the passage grave, which is about 20 metres by 10 metres, and up to 3 metres in height maximum, perhaps more originally as the modern ground level is probably higher than it was, particularly with the sea wall here. The entrance is on the south side, but it's gated up, with an iron gate concreted in to the ground, so despite having two torches, I cannot enter and put them to use. But I have to say, that it's no doubt for the best, as the place is littered with broken bottles and other rubbish, with graffitti sprayed everywhere, and badly smelling of a toilet block. This poor little town is clearly suffering from a lack of jobs and investment, and seems to have a bit of a problem with bored youth compared to much of the rest of France. Its a great shame, as I was really looking forward to seeing this place properly. I would like to think that the excellent state of the internal structure is still as it was a few years ago, and that the engraved pillars of the passageway are still in good condition.
Goggleby Stone
Date Added: 9th Oct 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Goggleby Stone submitted by blingo on 30th Jan 2003. Goggleby stone near Shap.
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Log Text: i drive through Shap and up the lanes to the northwest, finding somewhere to park, then just a little walk to the Goggleby Stone. Slightly disappointed to find it not so large as I had been thinking, and also very crudely concreted into the ground.
Golden Cap Barrows
Date Added: 16th Oct 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Golden Cap Barrows submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Oct 2020. Remains of 5 barrows can be seen on Golden Cap summit, the highest point on the British south coast.
The inland barrows viewed here looking westwards towards Lyme Regis and Beer Head beyond.
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Log Text: Visit on a walk from Seatown up the coast path up and over the Golden Cap and around Stanton St Gabriel and back. Remains of 5 barrows can be seen on the open hilltop to the west of the highest point of 191m, the highest point on the British south coast. They are in a line along the top, but now very low and worn, clearly showing the Chert and gravelly golden sandstone of which they are constructed.
Golden Grove
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 9th May 2004
Golden Grove submitted by TheCaptain on 9th May 2004. Golden Grove, Standing Stone in Powys, SO239178
This standing stone lives in a little field besides a stream at Llangenny. The stone is about 4 feet high, in a sheltered position just below the steep hillside.
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Goodaver
Date Added: 27th Jun 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Jun 2022
Goodaver submitted by cazzyjane on 6th Dec 2014. Goodaver Stone Circle, Bodmin Moor.
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Log Text: On my way down to Wadebridge today, I didn't have time for the long walk through the forest, but thought I'd try the direct ways from the Bolventor - St Cleer road down the Fowey valley. Both these ways I have seen described. Plan A. up the curvy track at Trezibbet, which is clearly seen from the raad in the valley. I asked somebody tending lambs in the barns at the bottom, and got a friendly but definite no. No way through. Private land. Plan A.2. Up either track from Goodaver, one of which shows to be a path on my OutdoorActive routeplanner. All gates and ways across the river locked. Asked a man tending a tractor. A less friendly, No. Private. So, maybe another time with half a day spare to try the forest way from the north.
Goodaver
Date Added: 27th Jun 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Couldn't find on 9th Jun 2023
Goodaver submitted by cazzyjane on 6th Dec 2014. Goodaver Stone Circle, Bodmin Moor.
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Log Text: Stop at Webbs Down near Bolventor to try to walk to the Goodaver stone circle through the forests from the north. Its very hot, and about halfway there the forest tracks are all shut off, with barbed wire and CCTV. I look at going over the rough ground to the west of the forest, but it wont be easy. I then check my route map, and realise that the 5 km walk is each way, not a full round trip. Decide this is no good, and head back to the car, but I do get to visit the stone row. Time to go to Blisland for an afternoon pint.
Goose Stones
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jan 2007
Goose Stones submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Jan 2007. One of the Goose Stones, to the north of the lane across Chastleton Common near the western end.
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