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Champ des Roches
Trip No.208 Entry No.2 Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Champ des Roches submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Jul 2005. About 70 big white quartz stones arranged in 5 lines, perhaps 6, which are not quite parallel as they converge towards the east.
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Champ Dolent Menhir
Trip No.208 Entry No.6 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Champ Dolent menhir submitted by rw1 on 2nd Mar 2008. 09/2007
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Dent de Gargantua
Trip No.208 Entry No.1 Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dent de Gargantua submitted by thecaptain on 6th Apr 2008. Le Dent de Gargantua. The view from the roadside. It's in there, honestly !
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Log Text: This 4 or 5 metre tall white quartz menhir is contained within a private orchard near to Chablé in the community of St Suliac, near the Rance estuary south of St Malo. Although it is very close to the road, getting to see it through the hedges which surround it is not easy. Not too long ago, there was an allée couverte nearby which has now been destroyed by the farmer, and also another menhir, Le Gravier de Gargantua.
La Ganterie
Trip No.208 Entry No.4 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
La Ganterie submitted by thecaptain on 9th Apr 2008. Revisiting this in March 2008, it was not so overgrown as it had been in June 2005, but it was still impossible to tell how long the allée couverte was, with the eastern end (right) all covered in very thick brambles and other bushes.
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Log Text: Revisiting this in March 2008, and it was not so overgrown as it had been in June 2005, but it was still impossible to tell how long the allée couverte was, with the eastern end all covered in very thick brambles and other bushes. The more open western end has one or two capstones still sitting on top of their supports, with the two side walls of the allée being about 1.5 metres apart.
La Maison des Feins
Trip No.208 Entry No.5 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
La Maison des Feins submitted by thecaptain on 16th Apr 2008. La Maison des Feins is about 12 metres long, but it is not much more than a metre wide or high. Truly a house for the fairies.
My Dad adds scale to the fairies house, viewed here from the southeastern end.
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Thiemblais menhir
Trip No.208 Entry No.3 Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Thiemblais menhir submitted by neolithique02 on 21st Feb 2014. Le menhir de Saint-Samson sur Rance (Côtes d'Armor) Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D''Armor (22) France
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Log Text: My second visit to this most wonderful menhir, about 1:30pm, late March 2008, in a hazy sun, and some of the carvings on the front face can be seen. An hour or two earlier would have been better, as would a stronger sun. After a while, you "get your eye in" and more and more wonderful carvings come into view. I can see on here (with the eye of the knowing, and the full def picture) the animal (mid left, just above the quartz vein) and a couple of crosses and other bits and pieces.
Having got hold of a new book about the megalithes around Dinan, I can report that a revised picture of the carvings has been published in the last year or so, after various techniques have been used to make the carvings more prominent. These seem to agree more with what I saw several years ago and have been recorded in my photographs. Mind you, it seems that the "animal" on the mid left of the stone may have turned around, and its legs almost doubled in length !!! Now it is perhaps running to the right, rather than grazing to the left....
But to be serious for a while, this really is one of the most magnificent megalithic sites I have visited, and it has the capability of bringing emotions to the surface. Here is plain evidence of the cross symbol being used at important places 2500 years or more BC. And the importance of the animals....
And the shaping of the stone - look how flat the main face is, and how straight the upright edges are, even after about 5000 years of erosion. And this surely couldn't have been a one off ? Surely many more of these wonderful menhirs would have been carved and patterned ? Damn all those girls and floozies who have climbed and slid down the stone in their birth knickers in the hope of getting wed. The front face is almost polished smooth, with the carvings almost rubbed smooth.