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Site Type | Country (A/D) |
County/ Region | Visited? (A/D) |
Date (A/D) |
Cond | Amb | Acc | Comments | Trip Number (A/D) |
Trip Order |
| Grand menhir de Saint-Eden | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Apr 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Splendid fallen menhir, right at the edge of the sea, and bigger than I recall it. Now got some pictures with Dad in it for scale. Dad thought it looked like it had a snake or serpent head | 214 | 1 |
| Guinivrit | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Saw from a distance | 16th Apr 2014 | Seen from over the estuary from the south, tide out and on the sandy beach. | 214 | 2 | |||
| Diévet Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Apr 2014 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Now completely surrounded by cultivated fields, the remains of this allée couvert are easily found to the west of the hamlet of Diévet. What remains are two parallel rows of orthostats (12 in total), between 10 and 11 metres in length by 1.5 metres wide, and with a single large coverstone remainin... Read More |
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| Menoignon menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Apr 2014 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Absolutely splendid menhir which is easily found near to a corner in a little open farmland lane, just behind a little scrubland area. The menhir must be about 8 metres in height, of large girth at the bottom, slowly tapering up to a pointed top. The southeastern face of the menhir has been worked i... Read More |
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| Men-Marz | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Apr 2014 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Had to bring Dad to see this fantastic menhir which is found to the north of Brignogan-Plage village and found by following plentiful signs. Men-Marz is set in a nice little area which has an information centre across the road with lots of informative boards.
At more than 8.5 metres high it is s... Read More |
214 | 5 |
| Croazou chapel | Ancient Cross | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Apr 2014 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Driving away from Men-Marz through the maze like country lanes and after about 10 mins I thought I was completely lost, and then all of a sudden I arrived at the road junction with this little chapel in the middle of it. Aha, fabulous, I hadn't intended coming here as there was no time, but now I'm ... Read More |
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| Croazou chapel stèles | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Apr 2014 | 4 | 3 | 5 | A total of six Iron Age Stèles are to be seen at Croazou Chapel, of which four have been incorporated into its construction, three into the outside walls, and one internally. The largest of these is now the southeast corner of the chapel, and stands 2 m high. Two others are to be seen making part ... Read More |
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| Croazou chapel menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Apr 2014 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Laying outside the back wall of the chapel is a fallen menhir, a couple of metres in length, which has had three medieval crosses mounted onto it, all supposedly in their original position. | 214 | 8 |
| Ile Carn menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Apr 2014 | 1 | 4 | 3 | I read somewhere that a menhir was once reported on this island, but has become missing. So, before we went for a look at the cairn, I had a brief look all over the rest of the island, and just behind one of the ruined concrete look out positions is a large long stone laying flat to the ground and m... Read More |
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| Île Carn cairn | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Apr 2014 | 4 | 5 | 3 | Just offshore from the bay of Porsguen in the community of Ploudalmézou at the northwestern point of Finisterre, Brittany, lies a small island, which can be walked to at low tide from the mainland. A large part of this small island is made up of a massive and remarkable round cairn which contains t... Read More |
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| Pointe de Guilligui allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Saw from a distance | 16th Apr 2014 | Seen high up on its rocky promontary from across the bay on the quay at Portsall. | 214 | 11 | |||
| Barnenez Cairn | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Apr 2014 | 4 | 4 | 4 | After our visit to Ile Carn, we really had to pay a visit to this, to show Dad the sanitised version of one of these big Brittany Cairns, and just how big they can get. Unfortunately, we arrived just after 5:00, and the man would not let us in, saying that yes, it is open till 5:30, but last entranc... Read More |
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| Barnenez cairn #2 | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Apr 2014 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Leaving the car in the main Barnenez car park, we walked the few hundred metres up to the top of the hill and then took the first trackway to the left (west) just before the first house. Between 50 and 100m along here, and a field to the south opens up from which gives views over the main Barnenez c... Read More |
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| Kerprigent Alignement de Menhirs | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Apr 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | After the disappointment of Barnenez being closed we still have quite a drive to the hotel in Ploumenach, so although no time for any out of the way stone visits, but should be able to fit a couple of quick visits in if not too far out of the way. A good look at the maps suggests a couple of places... Read More |
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| Toul an Lann menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 16th Apr 2014 | 4 | 3 | 5 | A nice slender four metre tall menhir in a field just to the north of the busy D.786 just north of Lannion. | 214 | 15 |
| Lann Ar Peulven menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Couldn't find | 16th Apr 2014 | A five metre tall menhir which should be found in the forest to the west of the D.88 to the north of Lannion, however I could not find a way to get to it. | 214 | 16 | |||
| Trémarche menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 16th Apr 2014 | 5 | Passed by in a front garden on the way to Ploumanach | 214 | 17 | ||
| Rochers de Ploumanac'h | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 17th Apr 2014 | 4 | 4 | Morning in Ploumenach with Dad, and take the time to walk all around the pink granite coast. It is superb in the morning sun. The headland north of Ploumanac'h is now a municipal park, and has the most spectacular coastline where the pink granite rocks tumble into the emerald blue sea. This headland... Read More |
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| Oratoire de St Guirec | Ancient Temple | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 17th Apr 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Morning in Ploumenach with Dad, and take the time to walk all around the pink granite coast. It is superb in the morning sun. The Oratoire de St Guirec is situated on the beach named after St Guirec, the Welsh monk who landed here on his voyage from Britain in the 6th century, allegedly arriving in... Read More |
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| Keryvon allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 17th Apr 2014 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Doing a little coastal route after leaving Ploumanach, and the remains of this allée couverte are right beside the D.788 road from Trébeurden to Trégastel, only feet from the cliff edge. | 214 | 20 |
| L'Armor menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 17th Apr 2014 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This menhir is in a private garden which had a huge and thick hedge around it, making the menhir difficult, if not impossible to see. However, since my last visit, the (presumably new) owners of the house have cut the hedge beside the road, and indeed made a gap through which the menhir can now be c... Read More |
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| Saint-Uzec menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 17th Apr 2014 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Thought Dad would like to see this one, so chose this as the only megalithic site to specifically go look at after leaving Ploumenach about midday and driving round the coast road. We get here with nobody else around, the sky is a perfect blue and lots of birds chirrupping away. I think that when I ... Read More |
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| Tossen-Keler Cromlech (1964-2018) | Stone Circle | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 17th Apr 2014 | 3 | 2 | 5 | Following lunch in the old town at Treguier we were then heading north along the river to go and sort out the Roche Jaune menhir quandary, so first did a little detour by dropping down from the old town to the quayside for a quick look at the Tossen Keler cromlech.
Poor thing is looking very unl... Read More |
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| Menhir de Kerriou | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 17th Apr 2014 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Marked on the ign map to the north east of Plouguiel, along the road to La Roche Jaune, is this menhir in the middle of a field, which I wondered whether this was the newly posted onto the portal menhir, despite it not fitting the description. So, after a pleasant lunch at Treguier, it’s time to h... Read More |
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| Menhir de Kerloc'h | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 17th Apr 2014 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Part of the La Roche Jaune menhir mystery solved, and so time to continue along the road towards La Roche Jaune in order to find and fully position the "unknown menhir".
A couple of kilometres further to the northeast, right at the roadside and fitting all descriptions, this menhir is easily fou... Read More |
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