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Sites TheCaptain has logged on trip number: 212 (View all trips) View these posts as a blog
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Sites TheCaptain has logged on trip number: 212 (View all trips) View these posts as a blog
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| Site Name (A/D) |
Site Type | Country (A/D) |
County/ Region | Visited? (A/D) |
Date (A/D) |
Cond | Amb | Acc | Comments | Trip Number (A/D) |
Trip Order |
| Langrais menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Visited | 7th May 2012 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Having had a good look at the IGN 1:25000 map, I saw that there is a trackway running east from the road south of Mont Joly, which runs from the bottom of the hill diagonally up to the approximate position of the stones. Even better, when arriving there for a look, the trackway was open and easily d... Read More |
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| Mont Joly | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Visited | 7th May 2012 | 2 | 4 | 5 | What an intriguing place this is, and deserving of much more thorough exploration. | 212 | 8 |
| Mont St Michel | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 11th Oct 2012 | 5 | 4 | 4 | Getting a late lunch at Plein Fougeres, it is now much too late to go to Fougeres and have a proper look round, so we decide to go to Mont St Michel for a quick look around. Shouldn't be too busy at this time of year. It has all changed since either myself or Dad was last there, and you now have to ... Read More |
212 | 13 |
| Le Wuy Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Seine-Maritime (76) | Visited | 27th Dec 2012 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Described as a menhir, this site is the remains of a burial chamber of some sorts, which has been largely destroyed by agriculture. The remains I found consist of one large standing stone, about 2 m width and just over a metre in height. Its a lovely slab of sarsen like stone, which is all smooth on... Read More |
212 | 17 |
| Pierre Trouée de l'allée couverte d'Aizier | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Visited | 27th Dec 2012 | 4 | 4 | 5 | This wonderful holed stone is today found nicely presented (since 1976) just outside the little church of the village of Aizier, right on the banks of the River Seine not too far upstream from the Tancarville Bridge, a few miles inland from Le Havre.
The stone is the remains of the portholed ent... Read More |
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