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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 |
| Carnac Plage menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 29th Jun 2016 | 4 | 3 | 5 | In square Leblois in the seaside resort of Carnac plage can be found a dolmen and a menhir. | 216 | 36 |
| Kerivin Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 28th Jun 2016 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Not far off the busy road between Morlaix and Roscoff, this Tee shaped allee couvetre is becoming very overgrown, and its difficult to make anything out at all now. It is also not far from a field corner where people have decided to dumpstuff, so overall its not a winner. I seem to remember this fro... Read More |
216 | 1 |
| 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 |
214 | 25 |
| 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 |
214 | 24 |
| 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 |
214 | 23 |
| 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 |
214 | 22 |
| 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 |
214 | 21 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
214 | 19 |
| 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 |
214 | 18 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |||
| 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 |
| 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 |
214 | 14 |
| 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 |
214 | 13 |
| 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 |
214 | 12 |
| 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 | |||
| 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 |
214 | 10 |
| 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 |
214 | 9 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
214 | 7 |
| 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 |
214 | 6 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
214 | 4 |
| 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 |
214 | 3 |
| 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 | |||
| 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 |
| 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 |
212 | 18 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
212 | 6 |
| La Loge aux Sarrasins | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Visited | 9th Oct 2011 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Having gone to Vire for a Vide Grenier and country show, persuaded Trevor and Sara to visit this stone for another look. Followed the same path as last time, and this time, once at the corner of the garden, the dolmen was clear to be seen in the back garden. At Last!
Its a lovely looking little ... Read More |
211 | 4 |
| St-Benoit polissoir | Polissoir | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 3rd Jun 2010 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Decide to take Dad here to see this special stone, so leave the autoroute at St James, to go have a look – the third time I will have tried to take Dad here, having missed it twice before due to roadworks and a shut bridge, and lateness on the previous occasions. Blimey, there are now big brown si... Read More |
210 | 5 |
| Roche-aux-Fées (Essé) | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 3rd Jun 2010 | 5 | 5 | 5 | June 2010 visit to France to see my sister, and as usual I had my Dad with me. I had decided on a long detour to visit La Roche-aux-Fées, but before we came here, I had told him nothing about it, except to say we were going to visit somewhere special. He is well used to me taking him to old stones ... Read More |
210 | 2 |
| Menhir du Perron (St-Marcan) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 12th Jun 2009 | -1 | A 2 metre tall menhir similar to the Roche Longue of St Marcan, once stood in the fields of Perron, about 800 metres south of La Roche Longue. It somehow disappeared in the 1930's. | 209 | 14 | ||
| La Roche Longue (St-Marcan) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 12th Jun 2009 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This well shaped menhir is just under 3 metres tall in a field to the east of the St Marcan cemetary. As with my previous visit, the field is planted with maize, and is today sodden wet, which prevents me from being abole to walk right up to the stone. However, this time I can walk up the western ed... Read More |
209 | 13 |
| Outre Tombes | Stone Circle | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 12th Jun 2009 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This horseshoe of megalithic stones has alternatively been considered as a megalithic enclosure (cromlech) or perhaps the stones once surrounding a dolmenic burial chamber. Seven stones are shaped in a sort of semi circle, of diameter about 7 metres.
This monument was classified as a historical... Read More |
209 | 12 |
| Beleven allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 12th Jun 2009 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Remains of a fairly disturbed but mostly complete allée couverte can be found in dark woodland to the northwest of the village of Plouer-sur-Rance, to the north of the magnificent ancient city of Dinan. Although the quartz block stones of this 14 metre long allée couverte are fairly well disturbe... Read More |
209 | 11 |
| Four-És-Feins | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 12th Jun 2009 | 2 | 4 | 3 | I went and had another look for this while in the area last weekend, now knowing to look nearby to the Beillac farm. I could see nothing obvious when driving slowly down the lane past the farm, but there was an old couple out tending their wonderful vegetable garden, so I stopped and asked them if t... Read More |
209 | 10 |
| Champ Dolent Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 20th Mar 2008 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 208 | 6 | |
| La Maison des Feins | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 20th Mar 2008 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 208 | 5 | |
| La Ganterie | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 20th Mar 2008 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 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... Read More |
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| Thiemblais menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 20th Mar 2008 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 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... Read More |
208 | 3 |
| Champ des Roches | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 20th Mar 2008 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 208 | 2 | |
| Dent de Gargantua | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 20th Mar 2008 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 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, ther... Read More |
208 | 1 |
| La Longue Pierre (St-Pierre-Eglise) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 5th Apr 2007 | 4 | 3 | 4 | I was able to get right to this lovely stone this time, although in a rush as there was nowhere to park and I left the car blocking the little lane. The stone stands about 4 metres tall in a very swampy field, and I got soaking wet feet while walking up to the stone, but at least it washed clean all... Read More |
207 | 7 |
| Carnac Plage Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 29th Jun 2016 | 4 | 3 | 5 | In square Leblois in the seaside resort of Carnac plage can be found a dolmen and a menhir. | 206 | 35 |
| Menhir dit Pierre Debout (Reviers) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Visited | 28th Sep 2006 | 2 | 3 | 4 | As I am right here and passing by, thought I may as well stop and take a look in the daylight. The crops in the field are growing, or more likely its been left fallow, but the ploughs have been right up to the stone and its fairly difficult to spot, even with this small growth. The poor stone is in ... Read More |
206 | 6 |
| Menhir de la Demoiselle de Bracqueville | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Visited | 28th Sep 2006 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Found this at last, on probably my third attempt. Find your way from Beny-sur-Mer to the south along small tracks to Bracqueville farm. Park near to the farm, and walk about 500 metres along the track which passes in front of the farm till you get to a junction of trackways. Take the grassy track to... Read More |
206 | 5 |
| Pierre Couverte de Bué | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Indre (36) | Visited | 27th Sep 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | A couple of kilometres to the southeast of the village of Bagneux near to the hamlet of Bué, can be found this dolmen in a lovely situation in the forest. The dolmen is well signposted from all around, and from a parking place at Bué it is about 400 metres walk. The large capstone, 6m by 4m sits o... Read More |
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| Pierre Levée de Boisy | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Centre:Indre (36) | Couldn't find | 27th Sep 2005 | The village of Bagneux has a signposted footpath of length 5.5 km which takes in three megalithic sites. One of these sites is this menhir. I didn't have time to do the full walk, and without a detailed map, and no obvious signs to the menhir, I didn't really know where to look. I have since found t... Read More |
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| Tréfoux deux menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Centre:Indre (36) | Visited | 27th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Marked on my ign map to the southeast of Bagneux are menhirs. Driving along the little road that passes them is lots of what looks like natural stone outcropping, and perhaps the remains of a dolmen. However, near to a corner in the road are two standing rocks, which are clearly not naturally like t... Read More |
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| La Pierre Levée (Graçay) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Cher (18) | Saw from a distance | 27th Sep 2005 | Just to the south of the D.68 road between Graçay and Nohant-en-Graçay, near to the hamlet of Les Villaines can be seen the remains of this dolmen, about 100 metres from the road in a field. When I was here, the field had been recently planted, so I did not venture any nearer to the dolmen. It was... Read More |
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| Liniez Tumulus elliptique | Chambered Tomb | France | Centre:Indre (36) | Saw from a distance | 27th Sep 2005 | Just outside the village of Liniez, along the D.926 road towards Vatan, and to the left of the road about a kilometre beyond the dolmen is the remains of a large tumulus. I found it difficult to stop here, and there was lots of fenced off land and woodland, so I didn't get to see this directly. | 205 | 265 | |||
| Pierre Levée (Liniez) | Passage Grave | France | Centre:Indre (36) | Visited | 27th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Just outside the village of Liniez, along the D.926 road towards Vatan, and to the right of the road can be seen the remains of this allée couverte. It was probably an Angevin type allée couverte, but there are no obvious remains of the porchway. The remains of the chamber are 10 metres long by 4 ... Read More |
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| Les Chateliers | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Centre:Indre (36) | Saw from a distance | 27th Sep 2005 | At the village of Moulins-sur-Céphons is a reconstruction of an ancient Gallic village. I did not visit. | 205 | 263 | |||
| La Pierre cromlech | Stone Circle | France | Centre:Indre (36) | Couldn't find | 27th Sep 2005 | While at the La Pierre dolmen, I could find no signs of any cromlech. Perhaps the form of the sideslabs of the dolmen was enough for this to once be thought of as a cromlech ? | 205 | 262 | |||
| La Pierre Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Indre (36) | Visited | 27th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | It was a bit of a struggle to find this, due to several of the roads being closed for some reason. However, take the D.23 road southwest from Moulins-sur-Céphons towards St Martin-de-Lamps. About midway between the two is the hamlet of La Pierre, and there are signs to the dolmen. It is about 800 m... Read More |
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| Pierre du Tombeau | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 26th Sep 2005 | 4 | 2 | 5 | Right in the middle of the village of Davayat, near to the traffic lights, this menhir resides in amongst the houses, and is half hidden in a garden yard. It is 4.8 metres high, leaning nicely, and is one of the biggest menhirs in the Auvergne region.
The menhir is perhaps lucky to survive right... Read More |
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| Plateau de Mons | Barrow Cemetery | France | Auvergne:Cantal (15) | Saw from a distance | 26th Sep 2005 | On top of the plateau is a large collection of earthen barrows dating to the iron age which can be seen from the track. | 205 | 259 | |||
| Dolmen du Chausse | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Auvergne:Cantal (15) | Visited | 26th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Signposted as tumulus from the village of Mons, just to the east of junction 28 of the A.75 Autoroute near to St Flour. The trackway leads you back over the A.75 and then about another 300 metres. It is probably possible to drive to it, but I parked and walked.
The little dolmen is still mostly ... Read More |
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| Bois-Grand Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Auvergne:Cantal (15) | Visited | 26th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Just to the south of the village of Les Ternes, the new D.921 road goes up a fairly steep hill. On the right, halfway up the hill is a little layby and picnic table, with a sign to this dolmen, which can then be found less than 50 metres up the trackway from the layby. It is right beside the road, a... Read More |
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| Bargueyrac Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Auvergne:Cantal (15) | Visited | 26th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | About half a kilometre further west along the D.990 road can be found this little menhir, right beside the road and with a little sign. Its only about 1.3 metres tall basalt, and in the past has obviously had something stuck on top, probably a cross, due to the hole which can be seen drilled into it... Read More |
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| La Table au Loup | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Auvergne:Cantal (15) | Visited | 26th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | West of the village of Sériers, along the new D.990 road towards Pierrefort, about 500 metres from the junction with the D.921 is a sign for the dolmen. It is then about an 800 metre walk along a signposted gravel trackway across marshy land before you reach the dolmen, or as I found, a fenced off ... Read More |
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| Menhir de la Croix-Grosse | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Auvergne:Cantal (15) | Visited | 26th Sep 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | This christianised menhir stands just on the western outskirts of the village of Sériers, and is signposted from there as Menhir Christianisée, and is along the road to Peyrelade (no doubt once home to its own megalith). There is a large basalt carved cross sat on top of a superb column of christa... Read More |
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| Pierre Levée dolmen 2 (Villedieu) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Auvergne:Cantal (15) | Visited | 26th Sep 2005 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Unfortunately, this cannot be reached from its near neighbours, and instead it has to be walked to quite a distance (about 1 km) from a point where you start the walk to the Tombe du Capitaine. It's a pleasant walk along a well signposted track, and then across a hilltop field.
The dolmen is in ... Read More |
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| Pierre Levée dolmen 1 (Villedieu) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Auvergne:Cantal (15) | Visited | 26th Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | The remains of this dolmen can be found just to the east of the D.44 road, about 30 metres from the menhir. There is still quite a respectable mound of small stones, diameter about 12 metres, surrounding the remains of the dolmen, but the megalithic chamber has been largely destroyed, leaving not mu... Read More |
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| Pierre Levée (Villedieu) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Auvergne:Cantal (15) | Visited | 26th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Beside the D.44 road west of St Flour, near to the hamlet of Fraissinet can be found this megalithic collection of a standing stone and two dolmens, within 300 metres of each other. The menhir is about 2 metres tall, and it stands just to the west of the road. It consists of a nice lump of pointy to... Read More |
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| Tombe du Capitaine | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Auvergne:Cantal (15) | Visited | 26th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | In a field to the west of the hamlet of Bouzentes, a few kilometres to the south of St Flour, by the D.116 road to Tanavelle can be found this dolmen. It's about 800 metres walk down a signposted track from the road, just at the western edge of the hamlet, and was in a field of cows (and a bull I be... Read More |
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| Menhir de Colobrières 1 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Saw from a distance | 25th Sep 2005 | The large Colobrières menhir can be seen on the skyline from the road across the top of the Bondons, near Vaissiere. The weather made me not go for the walk to visit it ! | 205 | 249 | |||
| Baraque de l'Air Menhirs | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Saw from a distance | 25th Sep 2005 | 4 | I drove for a look in the rain, I could see another hilltop covered in standing stones, where a possible cromlech has been identified. | 205 | 248 | ||
| Menhirs dit de la Maisonnette 2 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Saw from a distance | 25th Sep 2005 | 4 | As I was driving past in the rain, I could see another hiltop covered in standing stones, where a possible cromlech has been identified here. | 205 | 247 | ||
| Vaissière Menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 4 | The Vaissière menhirs consist of more than forty menhirs, mostly found along the ridge running south from the D.35 road. The tallest of these menhirs is 5 metres in height. Some of these menhirs stand up really proudly against the skyline as you drive along. I would love to walk out among them, but... Read More |
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| Menhir de la Veissière (03) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Walking down the ridge in a small gap in the storms, I found two more menhirs before having to give up and return. The second menhir along the ridgetop track is also about 2 metres tall, and about 150 metres from the road. | 205 | 245 |
| Menhir de la Veissière (02) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Walking down the ridge in a small gap in the storms, I found two more menhirs before having to give up and return. This first menhir along the ridgetop track is about 2 metres tall, and about 100 metres from the road. | 205 | 244 |
| Menhir de la Veissière (01) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Near to the D.35 road in the hamlet of La Vaissière itself is a menhir incorporated into a wall, which has a plaque and an inscription on it, commemorating two young girls who died up here in the winter snows. | 205 | 243 |
| Trois Pierres de Chabusse | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 3 | About a kilometre along the ridgetop path running southwest from the La Fage B menhirs, can be found three menhirs in a row, and there were probably once more here. All of the menhirs are over 2 metres in height, and the spacing is 5 metres and 28 metres between them.
It is time to scuttle off n... Read More |
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| La Fage Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Half a kilometre along the ridgetop path running southwest from the La Fage B menhirs, is a 2 metre by 1 metre wide slab lined chamber within a mound of stones 12 metres in diameter, and now only 1 metre in height. There is no capstone, but it is in a superb position, not far from menhir K | 205 | 241 |
| Combettes menhirs 2 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | A 1.5 metre tall menhir. | 205 | 240 |
| Combettes menhirs 1 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | A 1.3 metre tall menhir. | 205 | 239 |
| La Fage tumulus 1 | Round Barrow(s) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Amongst the La Fage B menhirs, is the remains of a tumulus and dolmen. What there is to see is not much more than a low round mound with a few slabs of stones sticking out of the top. There are probably others in the vicinity. | 205 | 238 |
| Menhir de la Fage B09 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | A 2.0 metre tall menhir, with a pointed top, positioned at the top of the comb. | 205 | 237 |
| Menhir de la Fage B08 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | A 1.7 metre tall menhir, on the high hilltop further to the east than most. | 205 | 236 |
| Menhir de la Fage B07 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A 1.6 metre tall menhir. | 205 | 235 |
| Menhir de la Fage B06 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A 1.4 metre tall menhir. | 205 | 234 |
| Menhir de la Fage B05 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A 1.4 metre tall menhir. | 205 | 233 |
| Menhir de la Fage B04 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A 1.5 metre tall menhir. | 205 | 232 |
| Menhir de la Fage B03 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A 1.5 metre tall menhir. | 205 | 231 |
| Menhir de la Fage B02 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 26th Apr 2010 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A 1.6 metre tall menhir. | 205 | 230 |
| Menhir de la Fage B01 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A 1.3 metre tall menhir, with the top broken off and laying nearby. | 205 | 229 |
| Menhirs de la Fage B | Standing Stones | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 4 | In the area around the Pierre des Trois Communes, can be seen dozens of menhirs, which are collectively known as the La Fage menhirs B, or the Combettes menhirs. It was impossible to visit them all in the short time I was here, so I will add the few that I did go to visit at first hand. | 205 | 228 | ||
| Pierre des Trois Communes | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Take the D.35 road east from the Col de Montmirat for about 4 kilometres, and there is a parking area and signs to menhirs. Walk up the track a few hundred metres and you get to the Pierre des Trois Communes. It stands two and a half metres tall, and has views all around. In the past it has been att... Read More |
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| Menhirs de la Fage A | Standing Stones | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Couldn't find | 25th Sep 2005 | 4 | Take the D.35 road east from the Col de Montmirat for just under 4 kilometres, and there is a signpost to menhirs down a footpath on the right. However, when I visited, this footpath takes you through a field of vicious looking cows, so I did not venture any further. Supposedly there are 15 small me... Read More |
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| Menhir de la Borie 1 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Take the D.35 road east from the Col de Montmirat for about 3 kilometres. There on the left of the road is this small menhir, not much more than a metre in height. | 205 | 225 |
| Menhir de Fraissinel | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Saw from a distance | 25th Sep 2005 | I could find nowhere to park my campervan around here, so ended up turning round and going back, which was easier said than done! However, the menhir standing up on the top of its little hillock can be seen for miles around, and looks to be about 2.5 metres tall. | 205 | 224 | |||
| Fraissinel Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Couldn't find | 25th Sep 2005 | I could find nowhere to park my campervan around here, so ended up turning round and going back, which was easier said than done! However, the menhir standing up on the top of its little hillock can be seen for miles around, and looks to be about 2.5 metres tall. | 205 | 223 | |||
| La Baraque de l'Estrade | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | Further along the D.35 from Montmirat, just before the junction with the D.31, a decent sized tumulus can be seen in the fields on the left, about 80 metres from the road. The mound is oval, about 15m by 12m and up to 2 m high. In the centre of this is a sort of double dolmen, with two joined chambe... Read More |
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| Montmirat menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 25th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | At the top of the Col de Montmirat, on the main road from Florac to Mende, can be found this menhir. It is just beside the road which goes west towards Montmirat hamlet, at an altitude of 1050m. About 2 metres tall, it has an iron cross mounted on top of it, and has also been used as a roadsign in t... Read More |
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| Menhirs du Col des Faïsses | Standing Stones | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Saw from a distance | 24th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | At the north western end of the section of the Corniche-des-Cévennes along the high Causse near Le Hospitalet, can be seen several other similar looking standing stones. | 205 | 220 |
| Menhir du Col de Solperiére | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 24th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | At the north western end of the section of the Corniche-des-Cévennes along the high Causse near Le Hospitalet, where the road from Vebron joins at the Col de Solperière, can be found this menhir in the junction of the roads.
It stands about 2.3 metres high like its neighbour of a few kilometre... Read More |
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| Montjoie de la Can de l'Hospitalet A | Marker Stone | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 24th Sep 2005 | 5 | Seen while driving north along the Corniche-des-Cévennes road passing over the high ground to the north of Le Pompidou. | 205 | 218 | ||
| Montjoie de la Can de l'Hospitalet C | Marker Stone | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 24th Sep 2005 | 5 | Seen while driving north along the Corniche-des-Cévennes road passing over the high ground to the north of Le Pompidou. | 205 | 217 | ||
| Montjoie de la Can de l'Hospitalet D | Marker Stone | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 24th Sep 2005 | 5 | Seen while driving north along the Corniche-des-Cévennes road passing over the high ground to the north of Le Pompidou. | 205 | 216 | ||
| Bout-de-la-Côte Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Lozère (48) | Visited | 24th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | As the Corniche-des-Cévennes passes over the high point to the north of Pompidou, about 1040m high, there is stood to the side of the road this menhir. It stands about 2.3 metres tall and has in its time served as a gatepost, fencepost and snow marker beside the road. But it is still standing proud... Read More |
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| Rougeiresque menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 24th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Travelling along the Corniche-des-Cévennes, stop at the point where the road from Gabriac joins from the north east. Just about opposite to this junction can be found a track up the other side of the road, signposted to the Schistes Cévenolles quarries. Walk up this track for about 500 metres, and... Read More |
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| Saint-Pierre dolmen 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Couldn't find | 24th Sep 2005 | 3 | From the Col de St Pierre, several kilometres to the north of St Jean du Gard along the Corniche des Cevennes, take the PR11 footpath towards the summit of Roc St Pierre, and the orientation table. Along this path should be findable two dolmens. However, I walked all the way up the hill to the viewp... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Saint-Pierre 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Couldn't find | 24th Sep 2005 | 3 | From the Col de St Pierre, several kilometres to the north of St Jean du Gard along the Corniche des Cevennes, take the PR11 footpath towards the summit of Roc St Pierre, and the orientation table. Along this path should be findable two dolmens. However, I walked all the way up the hill to the viewp... Read More |
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| Menhir le Bâton de Samson | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 24th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | From the village of Ambruze, take the D.133 towards St Felix-de-Pailleres. After a kilometre or two up the hill, there is a turning to the left to Le Jouffre and Lotissement de Menhir. A couple of hundred metres down here, taking first the lower, left, road, then to the right, there is a little wood... Read More |
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| La Pierre Bamboche 2 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 24th Sep 2005 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Nearby to the La Pierre Bamboche can be found the remains of another menhir, now fallen and broken. The remains can be found about 30 metres away, in the direction of Sanilhac. | 205 | 210 |
| La Pierre Bamboche 1 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 24th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This stone is easy to find, driving west along the D.112 towards Sanilhac, and after a couple of kilometres there it is, standing right beside the road at a corner. It stands at over 2 metres tall, but has been cemented back together from several pieces, the top having been broken off in the past. | 205 | 209 |
| Dolmen de la Pitchoune | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Provence:Vaucluse (84) | Visited | 23rd Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | A few kilometres to the east of Ménerbes, along the D.103, and to the west of Lacost, the home of the chateau of the Marquis de Sade, can be found this dolmen which has its own signpost. It is right beside the road and below ground level, below an arched bridge type structure of the road.
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| Glanum | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Provence:Bouches-du-Rhône (13) | Visited | 22nd Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 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 ... Read More |
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| Les Baux | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Provence:Bouches-du-Rhône (13) | Visited | 22nd Sep 2005 | Beautiful and intriguing old village clinging onto the sides of a steep and craggy limestone ridge, riddled with caves and quarries, and with a castle on top. | 205 | 206 | |||
| Barbegal Mill and Aquaduct | Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry | France | Provence:Bouches-du-Rhône (13) | Visited | 22nd Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | I found no dolmens, but did find some intriguing Roman remains. A double aquaduct leads south from the hills over the road and fields to another smaller rocky ridge which water channels are cut through to a big drop at the far side. I had no idea what this was until I found out much later that it wa... Read More |
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| Mas Cadenet dolmen | Passage Grave | France | Provence:Bouches-du-Rhône (13) | Couldn't find | 22nd Sep 2005 | I could not find this dolmen or hypogae, there are lots of private property signs all around, although not the big fences this time. | 205 | 204 | |||
| Dolmen de la Mérindole | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Provence:Bouches-du-Rhône (13) | Couldn't find | 22nd Sep 2005 | I could not find this dolmen or hypogae, there are lots of private property signs all around, although not the big fences this time. | 205 | 203 | |||
| Hypogée de Bonnias | Passage Grave | France | Provence:Bouches-du-Rhône (13) | Couldn't find | 22nd Sep 2005 | I could find no way to this hypogae, as everywhere has lots of big high security fences. | 205 | 202 | |||
| La Grotte des Fées de Cordes | Passage Grave | France | Provence:Bouches-du-Rhône (13) | Couldn't find | 22nd Sep 2005 | Also known as Le Palet De Roland, this monument is somewhere up on top of the Montagne des Cordes. The rock cut trench of this hypogae is the largest of the many around here, at 43 metres in length. Unfortunately, while I was looking, the entire hill seems to be very heavily fenced off, double fence... Read More |
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| Hypogee du Castelet | Passage Grave | France | Provence:Bouches-du-Rhône (13) | Visited | 22nd Sep 2005 | 3 | 1 | 5 | Beside the road between Arles and Fontvieille, this hypogae has a little signpost, from where the monument can be found in the bushes and marsh to the side of the road. It's unbearably mosquito infested and I couldn’t get away quick enough.
There is a trench carved into the rock, which is now ... Read More |
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| Le Pont du Gard | Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 21st Sep 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | Rive Gauche or Rive Droite? I went to the first one signed, Rive Droite. Probably better to have gone to the other side as that’s where all the information is. The Rive Droite side all got washed away in a storm on the 9th September 2002, when the river rose over 29 metres. They have pictures. Inc... Read More |
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| Abri de la Salpetriere | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 21st Sep 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Beside the river near to the Pont du Gard is a big cliff shelter, which has a sign on it saying it was used as a dwelling in the age of reindeer. Excavations were going on within, and it was all fenced off. | 205 | 197 |
| Oppidum de Nages | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Saw from a distance | 21st Sep 2005 | On the top of the hill to the north of Nages are the remains of an oppidum. This is a nice looking hill rising steeply from the plains, and with what looks to be a sculpted top. | 205 | 196 | |||
| Pierre Plantée (Congénies) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 21st Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Drive north from Aubais towards Congénies for about 1.5 km, and at the bend in the road there is a stoney track which heads off to the east. Take this track along the ridge for about 400 metres, and at a major junction of tracks, on the left, can be seen this menhir.
The stone is about 2.3 metr... Read More |
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| Colline de Moulin Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 21st Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | From the cemetary to the south of Aubais, walk southwest up the little track to the ancient windmill, and after about 800 metres you arrive at the top of this windy little hill. Here, about 50 metres from the old windmill, has been re-erected the menhir, mended from several parts and mounted on a li... Read More |
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| Mas Neuf menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Couldn't find | 21st Sep 2005 | I had a good look around for this menhir, but couldn't find anything. | 205 | 193 | |||
| Truc de Marti | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Saw from a distance | 20th Sep 2005 | I went to have a look at this hilltop site, but time was getting on, and I could find no quick way up to the top of the hill, which has the remains of a prehistoric village and up to 9 burial chambers on it. I had a look, but could see nothing resembling a path at all, and the place was all very ove... Read More |
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| Viols Musée de Préhistoire | Museum | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Saw from a distance | 20th Sep 2005 | Once a prehistory museum in the little town of Viols-le-Fort, but now closed with the building used for something else. The collection includes the statue menhir found at nearby prehistoric village of Truc de Marti. | 205 | 191 | |||
| Carrières Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 20th Sep 2005 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Just outside the little town of Viols-le-Fort, to the west, take the road south towards the quarry. After 300 m the road either enters the quarry or goes around to the left. Park here. In the woods just to the right, beyond an old disused little quarry can be found the remains of this dolmen, with i... Read More |
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| La Draille Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 20th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Just to the north of the little town of Viols-le-Fort, take the little road towards Cazarils, and park by a little clearing in the wood after about 1.5 km, not quite at the top of the hill. Here there is a footpath into the woods, well marked with blue markers. Follow this zig-zag path for about 300... Read More |
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| Cazarils tombe ovale 2 | Chambered Tomb | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 20th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | About 50 metres further round on the footpath from Cazarils tombe ovale 1, is found this second oval tomb, but it is hiding in the bushes a bit. It is much bigger than the first, but does not have the wonderful carved headstone. The inner chamber is about 4m by 2.5m, and the walls are generally 1m h... Read More |
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| Cazarils tombe ovale 1 | Chambered Tomb | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 20th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Just to the north of the little town of Viols-le-Fort, take the little road towasrds Cazarils, and park by a little clearing in the wood after about 1.5 km, not quite at the top of the hill. Here there is a footpath into the woods, well marked with blue markers. Follow this zig-zag path for about 30... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Cambous | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 20th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Just outside the ancient village take a path eastwards along the edge of the wood from near to the sheep pond for about 200 metres, and you will get to this dolmen. There is a round cairn of stones about 10 metres in diameter, with two concentric circles of dressed stone around it. At the centre is ... Read More |
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| Cambous oval tombs | Chambered Cairn | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 20th Sep 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Just outside the ancient village can be seen the remains of at least one ruined chambered tomb, which I assume to be of the oval tomb type. | 205 | 185 |
| Village Préhistorique de Cambous | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 20th Sep 2005 | 5 | 4 | This is a 5000 year old village with two groups of houses found at Viols Laval, just to the south of St Martin-de-Londres, and is easily found because it is signposted from all around. To get there, park in the village and it is about an 800 metre walk to the site, but unfortunately for me towards t... Read More |
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| Ginestous menhir 7 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 20th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 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. | 205 | 183 |
| Ginestous menhir 5 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 20th Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 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. | 205 | 182 |
| Ginestous Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 20th Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Ginestous dolmen is in a very wrecked state. At first sight it seems to be another menhir, but closer inspection shows it to be the remains of a burial chamber, these days not much more than a depression in a mound of stones. At the eastern end is a large slab (2m by 2m) standing, which is perhaps t... Read More |
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| Ginestous menhir 4 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 20th Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Ginestous menhir 4 is fallen and broken into several pieces. It is only about 8 metres away from menhir 3. | 205 | 180 |
| Ginestous menhir 3 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 20th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 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... Read More |
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| Ginestous menhir 2 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 20th Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Ginestous menhir 2 is about 50 metres further up the hillside from the Almond menhir, which can be found fallen beside a bush. It is fairly small, less than 2 metres in length. | 205 | 178 |
| Ginestous Menhir 1 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 20th Sep 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | The Ginestous complex of 9 menhirs and a burial chamber can be found about 5 kilometres to the east of Ganges, by following the road signposted to Nimes. After the road reaches the top of the hill continue for a further 500 metres, then take the small lane to the north, towards Ginestous chateau. A... Read More |
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| Oppidum de la Blacarède | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Saw from a distance | 19th Sep 2005 | Just to the northeast of the village of Rogues is a large rounded hill with remains of an Oppidum on the top. | 205 | 176 | |||
| Lacam de Rogues 2 | Stone Circle | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 19th Sep 2005 | 2 | 5 | 3 | From the main road passing the village of Rogues, take the dirt track leading northwest from near the electrical transformer, opposite the road to the village. Walk about 600 metres along this track, always keeping to the right when there is a choice. There is then a little cultivated field in the v... Read More |
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| Lacam de Rogues 1 | Stone Circle | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 19th Sep 2005 | 1 | 2 | 4 | From the main road passing the village of Rogues, take the dirt track leading northwest from near the electrical transformer, opposite the road to the village. After 300 metres walking down this track, there is a little mound on the right side, of which the centre has been dug out. To the other side... Read More |
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| Ciste de Lacam | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 19th Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | From the main road passing the village of Rogues, take the dirt track leading northwest from near the electrical transformer, opposite the road to the village. After 300 metres walking down this track, there is a little mound on the right side, of which the centre has been dug out. Inside can be see... Read More |
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| Trivalle menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 19th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Named Trivalle since Roman times, because it is situated at the junction of three ancient trackways, this menhir stands about 1.7 metres tall, just outside the ancient village of Rogues, on the road west towards Blandas, not far from the church. | 205 | 172 |
| Flouirac Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Couldn't find | 19th Sep 2005 | This dolmen is supposedly about 1.5 kilometres to the east of the hamlet of Barral, and just 25 metres to the nmorth of the road. However, it is so well hidden , that even after exensive searching, I could find no traces of it. | 205 | 171 | |||
| Dolmen de Barral | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 19th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | At the eastern edge of the hamlet of Barral, built into a wall to the north of the road, across a field, can be seen this little dolmen. The stones are easily visible from the road, although a visit was not really possible. | 205 | 170 |
| Lacam de la Rigalderie 2 | Stone Circle | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 19th Sep 2005 | 1 | 3 | There is supposedly another stone circle near to the top of the hill, but in a ruinous state. I had a good look around, but with all the bushes and undergrowth growing here near the top of the hill, there was nothing that I could find which could be said to be the remains of a stone circle. | 205 | 169 | |
| Lacam de la Rigalderie | Stone Circle | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 19th Sep 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Just to the south of the D.843 road between Blandas and Rigalderie, slightly to the west of what looks like a little airstrip, the remains of this lovely cromlech can be found on the slopes rising to a little hilltop. Unlike Lacam de Peyrarines, this one has a little parking area and a gated path to... Read More |
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| Avernat menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 19th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This fine chap stands proudly at the junction of the roads D.158 and D.158a from Blandas to Le Landre and Quintanelles, just a couple of hundred metres from its neighbour, the menhir de Combes. It is very similar in both size and shape, 3 metres tall, except this one is not so superbly weathered. I ... Read More |
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| Combes Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 19th Sep 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | About a kilometre further on from the Arques dolmen, and just to the left of the road can be found this superb menhir, which has been re-erected in a concrete base. It stands 3 metres tall, and is made of the most wonderfully weathered piece of limestone, full of holes and divots, with moss and lich... Read More |
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| Arques Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 19th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This dolmen can be found just to the left of the road west from Planas towards Le Quintanel, turning left just before you reach Le Landre and continuing for about a kilometre until you pass the brow of a hill.
The remains of this fairly large dolmen are just off the road, and still mostly within... Read More |
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| Menhir de Landre 2 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Saw from a distance | 19th Sep 2005 | About 100 metres to the south of Landre menhir 1, atop the adjacent hillock can be found this fallen menhir. As for menhir 1, this was too well fenced in, and I didn't get to visit it. | 205 | 164 | |||
| Menhir de Landre 1 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Saw from a distance | 19th Sep 2005 | From the Planas junction, take the small road towards Le Landre. After a couple of kilometres, just after passing over the brow of a hill, and you can see this menhir up on top of its little hillock, about 70 metres to the left of the road. It was all well fenced in when I visited, behind a little c... Read More |
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| Lacam de Peyrarines | Stone Circle | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 19th Sep 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Take the road towards Blandas from Montdardier, and after a few kilometres there is a big junction of ways. About 600 metres down the road towards Blandas from the junction, and in the field to the right can be seen this tremendous cromlech.
This is a proper circle of stones, with 52 standing st... Read More |
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| Planàs cromlech | Stone Circle | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 19th Sep 2005 | 1 | 5 | Destroyed many years ago during construction of the road, just a few stumps and fallen stones of this cromlech remain scattered around near the junction. What was once a fine stone circle is now just a large road junction in the middle of nowhere. | 205 | 161 | |
| Menhir de Planàs | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 19th Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Near the entry to the Planàs Dolmen, and laying on the tumulus, is a lovely fallen menhir, which possibly acted as a marker. Its about 2 metres long and 1 metre wide, and a lovely almond shaped stone. Pity it hasn’t been stood up when the dolmen restoration was done. | 205 | 160 |
| Planàs Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Visited | 19th Sep 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | Take the road towards Blandas from Montdardier, and after a few kilometres there is a big junction of ways. Right at the junction in a little enclosure to the right of the road can be found this nicely restored dolmen. It is completely within its cairn, and the fence is close, which makes photos dif... Read More |
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| Serre de la Gleisa | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Gard (30) | Saw from a distance | 19th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Take the road towards Blandas from Montdardier, and after a few kilometres there is a big junction of ways. On the left, 100 metres or so before the junction, up the hill, can be seen this menhir, perhaps 100 metres from the road and well fenced in, so I couldn't get to it. It looks about 2.5 metres... Read More |
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| Prunarède Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 18th Sep 2005 | 5 | 4 | 3 | I thought that this was going to be an easy find, but not so. Take the road north from Saint-Maurice-Navacelles towards the Cirque de Navacelles. After several kilometres you come to the ruined farmhouse of Prunarède, at a couple of sharp bends in the road. Park here, and walk along the footpath wh... Read More |
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| Menhir du Coulet 1 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 18th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Three hundred metres further down the road from the previous menhirs, and in the land to the north of the road, can be found the Coulet 2 menhir. Nearly 3 metres tall, it is a nice almond shaped stone, which has been mended from two parts cemented back together, and concreted into an upright positio... Read More |
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| Menhir du Coulet 2 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 18th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This menhir is to be found out in the land to the left of the road, at the same place as the Cisternette menhir. It is over 3 metres tall, and looks to have lost its top. Its another nicely shaped slab, flat on one face, curved on the other, and only 40 cm thick. | 205 | 155 |
| Menhir de la Cisternette | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 18th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | About 600 metres further down the road from the Levade menhir, and on the slopes to the right of the road, can be seen this menhir. At nearly 2.5 metres tall, it has been christianised by having a cross cut into its face. It’s a nice thin almond shaped stone, but has been concreted into the ground... Read More |
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| Levade Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 18th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Three kilometres further down the road from the Grand Dolmen du Ferrussac, where it curves around to the right, is this 3 metre tall manhir in the field to the left of the road. It has been re-erected, and is now concreted into the ground. It looks to have been smoothed and shaped, and does not look... Read More |
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| Menhir de Ferrussac 2 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Couldn't find | 18th Sep 2005 | Between 50 and 100 metres to the northeast of the Grand Dolmen du Ferrussac, is a fallen menhir more than 3 metres in length. However, this land is fenced off, and with some pretty mean looking horned cattle in there, so I wasn't going to look too hard. | 205 | 152 | |||
| Menhir de Ferrussac 1 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Couldn't find | 18th Sep 2005 | Between 50 and 100 metres to the northwest of the Grand Dolmen du Ferrussac, is a fallen menhir, 1.7 metres in length. However, this land is fenced off, and with some pretty mean looking horned cattle in there, so I wasn't going to look too hard. | 205 | 151 | |||
| Grand Dolmen du Ferrussac | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 18th Sep 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 300 metres further along the road to the east from the Petit Dolmen, can be found the Grand Dolmen du Ferrussac. Which compared to the others I have seen around here is a bit of a monster. It is right beside the road, again with parking and sign.
On top of a natural mound, and within its tumulus... Read More |
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| Petit Dolmen du Ferrussac | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 18th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | A kilometre or so to the southeast of La Vacquerie, at a place called Trivalle, take the road east signposted to Dolmen du Ferrussac. After a couple of kilometres, while descending through an oak wood, you will see a little gate on the left, with label Petit Dolmen. There is a place to park, and the... Read More |
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| Coste-Caude menhir | Modern Stone Circle etc | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 18th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Just below the top of the hill below Coste-Caude dolmen 1, there is a track to the west, with what looks like, and is marked on the maps as a menhir. It is however a sculpture of a prehistoric man from about the year 1910, and his features can be made out when looking closely. This stone is about 2 ... Read More |
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| Coste-Caude Dolmen 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 18th Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Less than 100 metres away from Coste-Caude dolmen 1, to the southeast, can be found another dolmen. I just walked about a bit, and there it was. It still has a large pile of stones surrounding it, and the chamber has its side stones and backstone, but no capstone. The chamber is 2.5 metres by 1.5 me... Read More |
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| Coste-Caude Dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 18th Sep 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | Leaving St Pierre towards La Vacquerie, take the first left after a kilometre, and then left again with signs towards a council works area. After 1.5 kilometres, the road gets to the top of a hill. Just below the top of the hill, there is a track to the west, with what looks like, and is marked on t... Read More |
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| Gallardet Dolmen | Passage Grave | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 18th Sep 2005 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 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 t... Read More |
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| Bruyère d'Usclas | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 17th Sep 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | This is a lovely dolmen, but was a bit of a bugger to find, despite a large signpost. Taking the road from Lodeve east to Saint-Michel-de-Grandmont, travel 800 metres further than the entrance to the priory. Here there is a junction with two large forest tracks and a parking area, with a large sign ... Read More |
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| Coste-Rouge Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 17th Sep 2005 | 5 | 5 | 2 | Within the grounds of the Saint-Michel-de-Grandmont priory, in the mountains above Lodève in Hérault, this is possibly the most famous dolmen in the world. The dolmen is superbly situated on the edge of the hill, with massive views over the plains to the south.
The chamber is made on all sid... Read More |
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| Les Ecuelles du Diable | Holed Stone | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 17th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 2 | Within the grounds of the St Michel de Grandmont Priory there are many strangely shaped and carved rocks. There are stories of sacrifice, and there being channels cut in the rocks for the blood to run through. Several of the rocks seem to have been cut into what are possibly thrones. A very strange ... Read More |
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| Grandmont Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 17th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 2 | This menhir is about 1.5 metres high, 2 metres width, and standing in an area with many other strangely shaped and carved rocks. | 205 | 140 |
| Dolmen du Belvédère | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Couldn't find | 17th Sep 2005 | St Michel de Grandmont Priory visit. There are no longer any free visits round the grounds, and I can only do the guided tour of the priory and grounds after. They say its something to do with animals in the park, and its quite disappointing. I do the full tour, its a half price day, so its €5 and... Read More |
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| Nages menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Right outside the back of the church in Nages can be found this little menhir, planted in a little flower bed. It is about 1.4 metres tall and 0.6 metres wide, and made out of a nice dark grey, almost black stone. The front face is very smooth, but it is rough on all other sides. | 205 | 138 |
| Carrieres menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | While driving through Carriers towards Nages from the southeast, I saw a little menhir shining in the low sun beside the road near to a cross. Its not much more than a metre tall, and possibly once had markings on it, and is a very pale coloured stone. It is nicely presented in its little garden lik... Read More |
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| Paumérou menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 4 | 2 | 5 | Near to the large industrial buildings, right beside the road from Murat, and a kilometre west of the Pré-de-Roi menhir can be found this nice stone. At just over 2 metres tall, 1 metre wide and 40 cm thick, it almost looks shaped to have a head, or am I now just imagining things after seeing so ma... Read More |
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| Pré-de-Roi Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | The Pré-de-Roi menhir is found right beside the road to the west of Murat, just beyond the road to the village of Candoubre. It is 2.5 metres tall, nearly 2 metres wide, and looks for all the world like it should be carved into a statue menhir. Perhaps it once was, and all the features have been er... Read More |
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| Favarels statue-menhir | Sculptured Stone | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | The real statue menhir has been taken inside the museum at Murat, but a replica has been made and put in the place of the real one outside the information office. Its only about a metre tall, but has all the right features, face with tattous, arms with fingers, legs with toes, belt with buckle and s... Read More |
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| Pailhemalbiau statue menhir | Sculptured Stone | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | Coming from Plos, this fine fellow stands in a little shed protecting him from the worst of the weather, just inside the yard of the first farmhouse on the right. Like the Moulin-de-Louat statue-menhir it's a lovely piece of reddish pink stone, and was only discovered in 1981.
He stands 2 metre... Read More |
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| Plos statue menhir 2 | Sculptured Stone | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Probably once a statue-menhir, this is not classed as such as no discernible features can be seen engraved on it. That’s what several thousands of years of weather does for you. The menhir is the right shape, just over 2 metres tall and 1.5 metres wide. Its to be found beside the road, just to the... Read More |
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| Moulin-de-Louat 2 statue-menhir | Sculptured Stone | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Just nearby, for company, is another nice stone, of about the same size, but a greyish black rock. I am unsure whether this is an ancient menhir or just a modern addition. It's a nice stone though, and probably keeps our man company. | 205 | 131 |
| Moulin-de-Louat 1 statue-menhir | Sculptured Stone | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | This wonderful chap is stood looking out of his garden shed towards the stream, at the entry to the hamlet of Moulin-de-Louat, just over half a kilometre from Moulin-Mage. I gave up trying to get the van along the roads to the hamlet, and walked from Moulin-Mage.
The stone is about 1.5 metres ta... Read More |
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| Combeynart Statue-Menhir | Sculptured Stone | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is a very tall thin male statue-menhir just at the north of the village of Cantoul. It stands just over 2 metres tall, but only 40 cm width, and certain of his features are equally scrawny. Legs, belt and "objet" can be made out but the rest is a bit of a jumble. The roads round here are very n... Read More |
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| Rieuviel statue menhir 2 | Sculptured Stone | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This fine male statue-menhir is to be found through the hamlet of Rieuviel, about 100 metres beyond the last house, and always bearing to the right. He is concreted in to a little plinth, and makes a sort of entrance to the lane with a cross mounted on the other side. Unfortunately, the poor chap is... Read More |
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| Rieuviel statue menhir 1 | Sculptured Stone | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | This beautiful little stone, only 1.2 metres tall, is easily found on a bit of land being used by the road mending gang as a parking place for their machinery when I visited, just at the entry to the hamlet of Rieuviel. Unfortunately, the stone seems in much danger here, with cars and machinery park... Read More |
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| Pech-de-Naudène statue-menhir | Sculptured Stone | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 5 | 3 | 4 | Turn off the D.622 Lacaune to Moulin-Mage road to the left, about a kilometre after the big Peyro-Lebado chap, and proceed to the hamlet of Haute-Vergne. Go through the farmyard to the top, then left and right, and the statue-menhir can be seen in the front garden of one of the houses. At the time o... Read More |
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| Pierre Plantée de Lacaune | Sculptured Stone | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | A couple of kilometres to the east of Lacaune, along the D.622 road to Moulin-Mage, park just over the Col de la Croix-de-Deux-Sous, just after the big warehouse. Its then a short walk to this masculine statue-menhir, the largest in Europe, standing in a nice green field looking out towards the moun... Read More |
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| Trou-de-l'Avent menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Once standing about 4 metres tall near to the Pierre Plantée de Lacaune, this menhir was broken up for use in building a mill and farm. The top 1.5 metres has now been rescued and installed in the Place de Griffoul in Lacaune town centre, just 100 metres behind the tourist office.
What a menhir... Read More |
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| Granisse statue-menhir | Sculptured Stone | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | Found while building a road in 1969, this lovely statue-menhir has been saved and erected outside the tourist office in the town of Lacaune. Unfortunately, it is kept within a north facing glass case, so getting photographs is nigh on impossible in the strong sunlight, with reflections of everything... Read More |
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| Rieu-Montagné museum | Museum | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 5 | This museum is in a glorious little spot in the woods beside the Lac du Lauzas, to the south of Nages. It is linked with a leisure centre with a park and beach, and all sorts of activities to do. As part of the museum, there are several statue menhirs included, some in the grounds outside the buildi... Read More |
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| Griffoulou menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Couldn't find | 16th Sep 2005 | I had a couple of goes to try and find this menhir, which is marked as somewhere near to the car park, in the gardens by the restaurant, but I couldn’t find it either time. | 205 | 121 | |||
| Trédos menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | About 30 metres from the Barraque-des-Fourniols statue-menhir, up the entry path towards the museum, is planted this menhir. Obviously broken in the past, it has been put back together from several pieces with the aid of concrete. It has been quite nicely done. It is about 1.6 metres high. | 205 | 120 |
| Barraque-des-Fourniols statue-menhir | Sculptured Stone | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 16th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This statue-menhir is now to be found at the entrance to the car park at the Rieu-Montagné Musée des Traditions, beside the Lac du Lauzas, near to Nages. It is about 1.4 metres high, and it is well shaped, but any engravings are extremely faint, to the point of being invisible to me. | 205 | 119 |
| Col-de-la-Bole menhir | Sculptured Stone | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 15th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Driving west along the D.14 road towards Le Salvetat, in a rush to get diesel and washing done, I saw a sign to menhir Col-de-la-Bole, so of course I just had to go and have a look. At the top of a steep track is the broken off top of a statue-menhir, only about 0.75 metres of it, with its back havi... Read More |
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| Statue menhir de Cambayssy | Sculptured Stone | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 15th Sep 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | Traveling along the D.14 road west from Fraisse-sur-Agout towards Le Salvetat, take the right turn after a couple of kilometres towards Cambayssy. The menhir is signposted (Le Pioch), and is a kilometre or so up a steep winding lane.
In some woods, this gorgeous statue-menhir can be found beside... Read More |
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| Statue menhir des Fontanelles | Sculptured Stone | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Couldn't find | 15th Sep 2005 | This statue-menhir is supposed to be found in the garden of the mill beside the river in the delightful village of Fraisse-sur-Agout. I take a walk all along the river, and there are two possibilities for the mill, but I could find nothing resembling a statue-menhir. There is a lovely little park by... Read More |
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| Statue menhir de La Pomarède | Sculptured Stone | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 15th Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Right outside the tourist office at Fraisse-sur-Agout, next to a wall behind a big tree display thing, is the top 90 cm of this statue menhir which must have once been 2 metres tall. It is very difficult to make out any markings, with it being in dark shadow and very moss covered. I am starting to t... Read More |
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| Statue menhir de Picarel | Sculptured Stone | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 15th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Going north along the D.169 road from the Col de la Bane to the south of Fraisse-sur-Agout, and at a large corner in the road is a little lane to the west signed to Haut Picarel. About 300 metres down this track, and into a wood, you will find the menhir beside the trackway.
This finely shaped m... Read More |
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| Dolmen des Lacs 3 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 15th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | From the intriguing and lovely little historic village of Minerve, take the D.147 road to the northwest, passing over the bridge and past the big car parks. The dolmens are signposted from here. The road zig-zags up the hillside for a kilometre or two and then levels out a bit. Continue for three or... Read More |
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| Dolmen des Lacs 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 15th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | From the intriguing and lovely little historic village of Minerve, take the D.147 road to the northwest, passing over the bridge and past the big car parks. The dolmens are signposted from here. The road zig-zags up the hillside for a kilometre or two and then levels out a bit. Continue for three or... Read More |
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| Dolmen des Lacs 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 15th Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | From the intriguing and lovely little historic village of Minerve, take the D.147 road to the northwest, passing over the bridge and past the big car parks. The dolmens are signposted from here. The road zig-zags up the hillside for a kilometre or two and then levels out a bit. Continue for three or... Read More |
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| Mousse Dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Couldn't find | 15th Sep 2005 | Taking the track further beyond the Grand dolmen de Lauriol, and after eight or nine hundred metres the first dolmen de Mousse is supposedly to be found, just to the left of the track. However, much of the land round here has been recently fenced off and I could find nothing obvious amongst the pric... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Lauriol 3 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Couldn't find | 15th Sep 2005 | Nearby to the Grand dolmen de Lauriol are supposedly two more, smaller and more degraded dolmens. I had a good look around, but much of the land round here has been recently fenced off and I could find nothing obvious amongst the prickly scrub and undergrowth. | 205 | 109 | |||
| Dolmen de Lauriol 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Couldn't find | 15th Sep 2005 | Nearby to the Grand dolmen de Lauriol are supposedly two more, smaller and more degraded dolmens. I had a good look around, but much of the land round here has been recently fenced off and I could find nothing obvious amongst the prickly scrub and undergrowth. | 205 | 108 | |||
| Dolmen de Lauriol 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Hérault (34) | Visited | 15th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | From Siran, follow the signs to the Curiosité de L'Auriol, which takes you on a windy road north up onto the hills. The Curiosité is a weird bit of road where things seem to roll uphill - a trick of the eye over gravity. From here take the road left for half a kilometre to a big house (being done ... Read More |
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| Morrel das Fadas | Passage Grave | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 15th Sep 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | Visited again to get some pictures in the bright morning sun, although the sun doesn’t make it through the trees. | 205 | 106 |
| Morrel das Fadas replica | Modern Stone Circle etc | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 15th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | A small representation of the dolmen des Fades has been built near the roundabout outside the campsite at Pepieux. Excellent. | 205 | 105 |
| Morrel das Fadas | Passage Grave | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 14th Sep 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | Although within the commune of Pépieux, this tremendous dolmen is actually nearer and easier to find from the village of Siran, from where you take the D.12 road east for a kilometre or so, and the mound is on the right, on top of a large natural pine covered hill amongst the vines. It is all rathe... Read More |
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| Allée Couverte de Saint-Eugène | Passage Grave | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 14th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | I have now twice found this only by luck. This time I took a wrong turning (one road too soon) and ended up on a stone track across private land where I could not turn round to go back out, and then I saw a little sign to dolmen, up the hillside I remember. I managed to park the van in a wider part ... Read More |
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| Menhir dit la Pierre Droite (Villeneuve-Minervois) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Couldn't find | 14th Sep 2005 | I failed to find this stone on the way down the hill. It is supposedly about 1.5 kilometres from the village of Villeneuve-Minervois, at the side of the road. | 205 | 102 | |||
| Tombeau de Roland | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 14th Sep 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Just up the hillside a bit from Dolmen de La Jagartière can be found the Tombeau de Roland. Once thought to be a megalithic tomb, the latest thoughts are that it is nothing more than a place from where a large rock has been quarried. But quite why somebody would come to such a place, far away from ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Jagartière | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 14th Sep 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | From the wine village of Villeneuve-Minervois, follow the little windy road northwards for about 4 kilometres into the hills towards Pujol-du-Bosc. This road up into the mountains is now a properly made up road, rather than the dirt track it was 6 years ago. Eventually you will find a parking area a... Read More |
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| Roque Traoucado | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 14th Sep 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | From the wine village of Villeneuve-Minervois, follow the little windy road northwards for about 4 kilometres into the hills towards Pujol-du-Bosc. This road up into the mountains is now a properly made up road, rather than the dirt track it was 6 years ago. Eventually you will find a parking area a... Read More |
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| Malves Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 14th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This large menhir is to be found a few hundred metres outside the village of Malves-en-Minervois, taking the D.38 road westwards towards Villalier, and just across the river. There is a little parking area, and a signposted walk for about 100 metres to the stone. Just how could I have missed this wh... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Madeleine d’Albesse | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 14th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Walk just more than a kilometer southwest along the track along the top of the ridge from the bends in the D.3 road to the north of Monze. The dolmen can then be found in a bank to the left of the trackway, on top of the ridge.
I couldn’t be sure whether the dolmen was made on a natural ridge,... Read More |
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| Oppidum de Pech de Maho | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Saw from a distance | 14th Sep 2005 | A large hill, but I got distracted while trying to have a proper look, as there was a large accident being cleared up, and I couldn’t turn down the small road to have a close look. | 205 | 96 | |||
| Aqueduc d’Ansignan | Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry | France | Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66 | Visited | 13th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Ancient bridge and aqueduct spanning the river at the village of Ansignan, still used to irrigate crops on the opposite bank. It is built on the basis of a Roman bridge, probably from the 3rd century.
To cross the bridge, with the aqueduct built on top, you walk within an enclosed passage with ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Rouyre | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66 | Visited | 13th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | High up on this mountain ridge between the villages of Fesluns and Ansignan in Pyrénées-Orientales can be found the remains of this cute little dolmen. I followed signs from Ansignan, but walked because I was not going to get the camper van up the steep, tiny, windy little roads, but a small car w... Read More |
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| Dolmen d'A Fourna | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66 | Visited | 13th Sep 2005 | 4 | 5 | 3 | About four hundred metres from the Creu de la Llosa dolmen, following the footpath through the scrub to the southwest (note, go back down the track for about 25 metres from the dolmen to find the path - it is not the "obvious" path leading away from the dolmen), around the southern side of the ridge... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Serrat d'en Jacques | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66 | Visited | 13th Sep 2005 | 4 | 5 | 3 | A couple of hundred metres from the Creu de la Llosa dolmen, following the footpath uphill through the scrub to the east, up towards Serrat d'en Jacques, and you can find another dolmen, similar in size to the Creu de la Llosa dolmen, but this time with an entry passage through its cairn. I do not k... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Creu de Falibe | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66 | Visited | 13th Sep 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | This lovely restored dolmen can be found in the hills to the south of the village of Saint-Michel-de-Llotes. Travelling south, turn left at the village beside the Catalane museum, over the bridge. Follow this road for several kilometres, twisting and turning up into the mountains, to the Col de la C... Read More |
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| Peyro Dreta | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66 | Visited | 12th Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | This fallen and broken menhir, once more than 4 metres tall, has beautiful views over the Fenouillades valley to the north, with Queribus castle and Tautavel clearly visible. The menhir can be found about a kilometres walk down a dirt track amongst the vines, about 0.7 kilometres to the west of the ... Read More |
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| Moli del Vent | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66 | Visited | 12th Sep 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | At the top of the hill to the north west of the village of Bélesta can be found the superb but restored remains of this lovely little dolmen-a-couloir. The little chamber is about 2 metres by 1 metre, and the south side is approached by a corridor 5 metres long from the edge of the cairn, made with... Read More |
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| Bélesta Museum of prehistory | Museum | France | Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66 | Saw from a distance | 12th Sep 2005 | Blimey, the roads round here are twisty and tight. There was no way I was able to park the van anywhere near the village for a look at this. So I had to give up totally on any thoughts of a visit to this supposedly excellent museum. | 205 | 88 | |||
| Puijols tumulus | Artificial Mound | France | Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66 | Saw from a distance | 12th Sep 2005 | Just to the northwest of the village of Tautavel, on the opposite side of the river, is a massive tumulus, which must be about 100 metres in diameter and 20 metres high, complete with terracing and grapes growing on it ! | 205 | 87 | |||
| La Caune de l'Arago | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66 | Saw from a distance | 12th Sep 2005 | In a very pretty part of the world up on a cliff face above the vinyards, this is the cave where Tautavel man was found. Its a kilometer or so south of the town, up on a rugged hill near where the river cuts a gorge through the hills. This is of course all shut off to the public with buildings and s... Read More |
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| Tautavel Musee de Prehistoire | Museum | France | Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66 | Visited | 12th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | I only came here to get a photo, assuming the museum would be closed on a Monday, but it was open, so thought I'd better go in. The museum contains hundreds of thousands of items found at the nearby Caune de l'Arago cave, where the remains of a human skull was found in July 1971, the skull being kno... Read More |
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| Grand Menhir de Counozouls | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 12th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | After a seemingly very long drive south from Quillan, along roads hacked into cliff faces, passing through numerous massive gorges which at times I never thought the campervan would fit through, I arrived at the village of Ste Colombe-sur-Guette. A few more miles south along the road in the valley, ... Read More |
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| Source de Fontestorbes | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 11th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | This is a very interesting place, one of only a few known examples in the world, with its intermittant spring gushing from a cave in a cliff face beside the road, well signposted a kilometre or so to the south of the little Pyrenean town of Belesta. In the dry summer months, due to a complex and not... Read More |
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| Grotte de Niaux | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Saw from a distance | 11th Sep 2005 | 4 | The world famous cave, known for its tremendous paintings of bison and horses, is easily found just up a small valley to the west of Tarascon, and is signposted from all around, you can hardly miss it. The cave is up the hillside from the village of Niaux with its museum, and is situated opposite to... Read More |
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| Grotte de La Vache | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 11th Sep 2005 | 4 | Just opposite to the Grotte de Niaux, on the other side of the valley, is the Grotte de la Vache, with its celebrated Salle de Monique. The cave is open for visits at €8 a time, but because I had spent so long at the nearby Parc Pyrénéen de l'Art Préhistorique, the visits had finished for the d... Read More |
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| Parc Pyrénéen de l'Art Préhistorique | Museum | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 11th Sep 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | This is a wonderful day out, in a beautifully landscaped park in the wonderful Pyrenees. The visit starts in the Grand Atelier, a sort of museum of prehistoric artwhich explains all the whys and wheres of prehistoric art, not only in this region, but all over the world.
There is a special emphas... Read More |
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| Grotte de Lombrives | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Saw from a distance | 11th Sep 2005 | This is said to be the biggest cave in Europe, and has a complex arrangement of 25 different types of visit. Or in my case, none at all ! | 205 | 74 | |||
| Musée de Mas-d'Azil | Museum | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Saw from a distance | 10th Sep 2005 | 5 | In the village of Mas d'Azil is the natural history museum. Its in a nicely kept building just off the main village square, opposite the roofed market place right outside the church. As it was late in the day I didn’t go in. I think that if you do the caves tour, the museum visit is included for f... Read More |
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| Brillaud Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 10th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | At Cap-Del Pouech, I looked carefully at my maps and found that I could drive halfway to this dolmen and hopefully park up by La Page farm, which will save on the walking. From there, it was a 25 minute walk along a well maintained and signed footpath along a lovely ridgetop, but difficult underfoot... Read More |
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| Cap-Del Pouech Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 10th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Decided its silly to have come to Mas d'Azil and not gone to visit the dolmen, as it is signposted from the village, and you can drive up a narrow windy lane almost right to it, and theres a place to park just a few hundred metres from the dolmen.
It looks to me to have been re-erected at some p... Read More |
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| Grotte de Mas D'Azil | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 10th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Parked at the upstream end of the Mas d'Azil cave, and it hits home again just how MASSIVE this cave is. I walk through the cave again, partly to check where the low bits are for the van. I have forgotten that you can see all sorts of bits and pieces of passages inside.
Decided not to bother wit... Read More |
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| L'alignement d'Espiaub | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Midi:Haute-Garonne (31) | Visited | 9th Sep 2005 | 3 | 5 | 3 | I have seen nothing definite about what is to be found up here, but it is possible to imagine/envisage that there are perhaps 4 or 5 lines of stones running across the hillside, with one or more crossing them, but it is very difficult to know exactly what is what. I walked down from the second set o... Read More |
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| Mail de Soupène Cromlechs | Stone Circle | France | Midi:Haute-Garonne (31) | Visited | 9th Sep 2005 | 4 | 5 | 3 | Wow ! A bit further down the hill to the east, on a little upland ridge, is a row of stone circles all interlocking with each other. I counted 14 cairn circles up here, sort of joined together in a line along a little hillock. Fantastic. The largest one is on the top of the hillock, and there a row ... Read More |
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| Sarrat de Cousseillot Cromlechs | Stone Circle | France | Midi:Haute-Garonne (31) | Visited | 9th Sep 2005 | 4 | 5 | 3 | The first cromlechs I arrive at are about 200 metres from the track, and signposted down a little footpath past some sheep pens at 1345 metres altitude. I saw 4 cairn circles up here, plus perhaps one large open circle. At first I thought I had seen a big open circle, but I am not completely sure. I... Read More |
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| Carnac Pyrénéen | Stone Circle | France | Midi:Haute-Garonne (31) | Visited | 9th Sep 2005 | 4 | 5 | 3 | Blimey, its almost sunny. In fact it is sunny at the tops of the mountains. I'd better get a move on. A bakers van comes round the camp site which is a help. Put last nights wet stuff outside to dry off. Leave the campsite by 10:00 and drive to Benque. Unfortunately I cannot park where I want to. Lo... Read More |
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| Armenteule Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Visited | 8th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Deep in the Louron valley, on the western side of the Col de Peyresourde in the high Pyrenees, is the tiny village of Armenteule. In this sleepy little Pyrenean village there is an old church. Inside the churchyard, just beside the back of the church, is a standing stone. Whether the church was buil... Read More |
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| Aneran stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Visited | 8th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Deep into the Louron valley, on the western side of the Col de Peyresourde in the high Pyrenees, is the tiny village of Aneran. In the tiny churchyard beside this small ancient church in this little Pyrenean village are several odds and ends of old stone, some carved into shapes and and with pattern... Read More |
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| Menhir de Bordères-Louron | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Couldn't find | 8th Sep 2005 | I asked at Tourist Office, but they, as usual, knew nothing, and said I must have the wrong village ! | 205 | 62 | |||
| Peyre Hicade de Payolle | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Visited | 8th Sep 2005 | 3 | 5 | 4 | I spent hours looking for this, largely because walking around here in such a beautiful part of the world and the wonderful scenery is such a great pleasure. The stone is somewhere to the south of the Lac de Payolle, and its holiday complex. There is even a 2 hour circular walk signposted and named ... Read More |
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| Menhir de Soulor | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Couldn't find | 7th Sep 2005 | There is a stone at the top of the Col de Soulor, now used as a signpost and footpath marker, but I doubt it is the menhir. Nothing else obvious was seen while I was up here, but the Col was in the clouds and the visibility was severely lacking.
At a later point in time, I found out that apparen... Read More |
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| Lou Couraus Cromlechs | Stone Circle | France | Aquitaine:Pyrénées-Atlantiques 64 | Visited | 7th Sep 2005 | 4 | 5 | 3 | High up above the Ossau valley above the village of Bielle can be found several circles of stones, on a little shelf of land halfway up the mountainside, and in a wonderful viewpoint above the valley. From the village take the road up towards Col de Marie Blanc, and park at the Chapelle de Houndas a... Read More |
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| Turoum-Bouchous Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Pyrénées-Atlantiques 64 | Couldn't find | 7th Sep 2005 | I couldn’t find any evidence on any maps I had, and asked at the tourist information office and national park centre, but nobody knew anything about this dolmen. | 205 | 58 | |||
| Calhau de Teberno Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Pyrénées-Atlantiques 64 | Visited | 6th Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This dolmen can be found in a nice little landscaped bit of parkland, sandwiched between the D.920 road and the railway line at the outskirts of the village of Buzy a couple of kilometres to the north of Arudy. There are many other rocks in the park, which have probably all been placed as features, ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Barzun | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Pyrénées-Atlantiques 64 | Couldn't find | My maps have nothing marked in detail as to the whereabouts of this dolmen, and I could find no details or signs to it in the village. Somehow I didn’t find this dolmen which I learned later is pretty much in the centre of the village in a little square. Doh ! | 205 | 56 | ||||
| Peyrasse menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Couldn't find | 6th Sep 2005 | I had a bit of a look for this, but it is not on the map in detail, and I found nothing obvious in the real world. | 205 | 55 | |||
| Dolmen du Peyre-Dusets | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Visited | 6th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | To the northwest of the village of Poueyferré, take the road up into the hills towards the Dechetterie and park as near as possible to the Chemin Henry IV trackway which runs along the top of the ridge here. Take this ancient trackway northwards, and walk for about a kilometer, where the Peyre-Duse... Read More |
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| Peyre-Crabère | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Visited | 6th Sep 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | Right beside the D.940 road as it enters the northern boundary of the town of Lourdes from Pau direction, can be found this large leaning menhir. It sits right at the corner of a little housing road, Rue Peyre-Crabère, and has a bus shelter and garden hedge for company on its other two sides. The s... Read More |
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| Poueyferré Tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Visited | 6th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | A few kilometres to the northwest of Lourdes, on the eastern side of the D.940 road near to Poueyferré, take the minor road down into the dip to the hamlet of Maillous, where this large tumulus can be found. To get to the tumulus, which can be seen from the road, walk down a little trackway which l... Read More |
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| Pouey-Mayou | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Visited | 6th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | To the southwest of the town of Tarbes, and the village of Osson, take the unmarked road to the south. Partway along this road is a parking area, picnic site and a map of footpath circuits in the area. However, continue further until the road runs out and turns into a dirt track. From here, the Poue... Read More |
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| Fontaine de Trois Seigneurs tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Visited | 6th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | When at the Fontaine de Trois Seigneurs, instead of turning left towards the Pouey-Majou dolmen continue southwest for a few hundred yards along the farmtrack, and there is a large mound at the top of the hill. It can be clearly seen against the skyline while walking towards it from quite some dista... Read More |
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| La Croix-La Botte | Chambered Tomb | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Visited | 5th Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | To the west of the village of La Barthe-sur-Neste, and southeast of Capvern, along the hilltop beside the D.938 road, is a row of tumulus mounds. Most are now obvious only because of the ferns and stuff left growing on them, but the northwestern end tumulus is very well formed, 12 metres in diameter... Read More |
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| Estaque d'Avezac cinq tumuli | Chambered Tomb | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Visited | 5th Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | To the west of the village of La Barthe-sur-Neste, and southeast of Capvern, along the hilltop beside the D.938 road, is a row of tumulus mounds. Most are now obvious only because of the ferns and stuff left growing on them, but the northwestern end tumulus is very well formed, 12 metres in diameter... Read More |
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| Estaque tumulus | Chambered Cairn | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Saw from a distance | 5th Sep 2005 | To the west of the village of La Barthe-sur-Neste, and northeast of the row of tumuli along the ridgetop road, can be found the remains of the Estaque tumulus. This is a very large mound, now contained beyond the confines of a rubbish facility, and not easy to access, although it can just about be s... Read More |
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| Grotte de Gargas | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | Visited | 5th Sep 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | This is the cave which is famous for all the hand prints, but there is in fact much more than these to be seen. The cave is easily found round some windy lanes, being well signposted, and it is open every day, €6 entry per adult to visit, which takes about an hour. The visit is on two levels, whic... Read More |
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| Grotte des Rideaux | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Haute-Garonne (31) | Visited | 5th Sep 2005 | 5 | 3 | In the gorges of the river Save, just below the village of Lespugue, can be found many caves and shelters which have yielded ancient remains of habitation from up to 30,000 years ago. Below the Chateau de Lespugue, but very difficult to get to due to the steep sides of the gorge and all the undergr... Read More |
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| Musée de Lespugue | Museum | France | Midi:Haute-Garonne (31) | Saw from a distance | 5th Sep 2005 | 5 | In the central square of the little village of Lespugue is a museum, which, as many European museums are, is closed on a Monday. This museum has an exhibition of 35,000 years of Lespugue. Outside the museum in a little grassy park is a 10 times lifesize copy of the Venus de Lespugue, a pregnant woma... Read More |
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| Musée de Préhistoire (Aurignac) | Museum | France | Midi:Haute-Garonne (31) | Saw from a distance | 5th Sep 2005 | In the centre of Aurignac village is the prehistory museum, with all sorts of finds and items found in the local caves. It is situated underneath a little village square with parking available. However, when I visited, it was closed, with a notice stating that it had been closed in May 2004 by the M... Read More |
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| Grotte d'Aurignac | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Haute-Garonne (31) | Visited | 5th Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Just to the north of the village of Aurignac can be found this important prehistoric shelter, where in 1852 a man was out hunting rabbit with his dog, and the dog found a bone down a hole. Upon the news of this discovery, the locals started investigating and found remains of 27 skeletons, which were... Read More |
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| Menhir Ste Carissime | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 2nd Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Along the D.1 road between Le Verdier and Cahuzac-sur-Vère, and this menhir can be seen across the far side of the river, which is beyond a ploughed field to the south. At this time in the evening, the menhir was glowing a golden colour in the rays of the setting sun. I struggled across the ploughe... Read More |
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| Saint-Paul Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 2nd Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Up in the hills covered with vineyards for the lovely Gaillac wine, to the northwest of the village of Le Verdier along some tiny lanes, can be found this relatively large dolmen. It is perhaps easier to reach by walking along the GR footpath along which it is signposted from the village, than tryin... Read More |
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| Peyralade Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 2nd Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This dolmen is easily found, as it stands on a traffic island at the junction of the D.5 and D.91 roads a couple of kilometres to the north of the village of Vaour, on the high plateau to the south of the river Aveyron, and is signposted from several kilometres away.
The large but broken 5 metre... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Saillac | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82) | Visited | 2nd Sep 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | This is a bizarrely Christianised dolmen which can be found in the forests to the south of the village of Caylus. From Caylus follow the signs to St-Amans-le-Vieux ancient church, and park in the vicinity of this, from where you take the GR46 Footpath the opposite way from the road towards the south... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Pech (Cazals) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82) | Visited | 2nd Sep 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | Despite not being marked on any ign maps I have seen, this box tomb dolmen is easily found as it is right beside the D.75B between Bourdoncle and Doumerc by the road to Frau. Subject of an excavation in 1989, and reconstruction in 1992, it is now fenced in, presumably for protection, but it looks te... Read More |
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| Tombe du Géant (Septfonds) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82) | Visited | 2nd Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | The Tombe du Géant is a scheduled historic monument, and as such it is marked on the local maps, both 1:25,000 and 1:100,000, near to the farm of Les Tombes to the southeast of Septfonds. It is however not so easy to find in the real world, with the fields and indeed many of the trackways in this a... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Bartalbenque 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82) | Couldn't find | 2nd Sep 2005 | Marked on my map are two dolmens not too far from the road between Dardenne water tower and Bartelbenque. However, this area of land has recently all been divided up and fenced off for what looks like new housing projects. In the scrubland behind the fences it was not possible to see any dolmens. I ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Bartalbenque 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82) | Couldn't find | 2nd Sep 2005 | Marked on my map are two dolmens not too far from the road between Dardenne water tower and Bartelbenque. However, this area of land has recently all been divided up and fenced off for what looks like new housing projects. In the scrubland behind the fences it was not possible to see any dolmens. I ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Caux-Vieilles | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82) | Visited | 2nd Sep 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | A bit to the south of the track running along the southern edge of the airfield, in the scrubland, are several mounds of stones. One of these mounds has a clear dolmen chamber within it, 3 metres in length by 1.5 metres in width. It consists of two side slabs and a backstone between them, but no cap... Read More |
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| Finelle Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82) | Visited | 2nd Sep 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | A bit to the west of the first dolmen, along the track running along the southern edge of the airfield, and you soon come to another dolmen. This one has lost its mound, which has no doubt been used to build the local walls, and it is standing proud at the edge of a flat area used for dumping rubble... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Peyrelevade (Septfonds) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82) | Visited | 2nd Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | To the west of the village of Septfonds, and to the south of the little airfield are several dolmens in the woodlands. There are signposts to "dolmens" and down a little track is a parking place and more signs. Right beside this track is the first dolmen you come to. It is still mostly within its mo... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Cieurac | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Couldn't find | 1st Sep 2005 | Just over the Dordogne river from the town of Souillac should be found this dolmen. There are no signposts to it, and its not on any of my maps, but it is mentioned in a book I have, and is supposedly to be found at a corner of the road in the woods at the top of the hill. However, the woods are ver... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Route Vieille | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Corrèze (19) | Couldn't find | 1st Sep 2005 | There is supposed to be a dolmen here, according to my notes, but there is nothing mentioned on any of my maps or on any of the village noticeboards or tourist publicity. Churches, a Chateau and caves are all mentioned, but no dolmen. Perhaps the dolmen is in a different village called Noailles. | 205 | 28 | |||
| Puy de Pauliac Cromlech | Stone Circle | France | Limousin:Corrèze (19) | Visited | 1st Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | At the top of the lovely Puy de Pauliac hill to the east of the historical village of Aubazines, is an orientation table, and fantastic views stretching for many miles in nearly all directions, with the high point of the Massif Central, the Puy de Sancy to be seen way off in the east. Near to the to... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Rochesseux | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Corrèze (19) | Visited | 1st Sep 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This little dolmen is found in a sort of parkland high up on the slopes of Puy de Pauliac, above the historical village of Aubazines. It is signposted from the road. A triangular 3 metres by 2 metres capstone sits delicately balanced on top of two side support stones and a back stone, with a chamber... Read More |
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| Estivaux Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Corrèze (19) | Visited | 1st Sep 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | To the east of the village of Estivaux, this dolmen can be found in a field near to the sports stadium and a new housing development, just about 50 metres from the road. Its an odd little affair, and almost looks modern. The oval capstone, 3.5 m by 2.5 m sits on top of 4 support stones making a smal... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit La Maison du Loup | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Corrèze (19) | Visited | 1st Sep 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | About a kilometre from the village of Espartignac, this dolmen can be found along a signposted track from the village square near to the Bar Le Dolmen. It is found in thick woodland on the end of a defended headland overlooking the Vézère river, and is at the top of a cliff edge. The dolmen is in ... Read More |
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| Bras Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 31st Aug 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | This beautiful little dolmen is fairly easily found to the south of the village of Saint-Sulpice-les-Feuilles along the D.44 road. Just to the north of where the road crosses the river Benaize is a place to park and a signposted footpath to the west. The footpath is well marked with orange marks, an... Read More |
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| Dolmen de l'Héritière | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Couldn't find | 31st Aug 2005 | To the southwest of Saint-Sulpice-les-Feuilles, between Bouéry and Bras dolmens, in the commune of Arnac-la-Poste, is another dolmen marked on my ign 1:100,000 map, near to the hamlet of L'Ecluse. At the road junction, there was a sign with a dolmen marked on it, with a name something like Le Pau M... Read More |
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| Pierre Levée au Bois Bouéry | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 31st Aug 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | In the forest to the southwest of Saint-Sulpice-les-Feuilles, this dolmen is easily found as it is signposted from the D.2 road, several kilometres to the north. From the road that leads to the dolmen, it is just a hundred metres walk from a parking place, and it resides in a little forest clearing.... Read More |
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| Marchain Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 31st Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 2 | To the west of the village of Lathus-Saint-Rémy, in the fields near to the hamlet of Marchain, can be found this dolmen. It can be seen across the fields by the crossroads to the south of the hamlet, but I could find no obvious way to get to the dolmen, all the fields being fenced off. It looks to ... Read More |
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| Pierre Brune Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Couldn't find | 31st Aug 2005 | A bit further to the south of Pierre-Soupèze along the same little farm road is a farm called Pierre Brune. There are no obvious signs of any dolmen, but there are lumps and bumps in the fields, and piles of stones in the fields. | 205 | 19 | |||
| Dolmen dit Pierre-Soupèze | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 31st Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 2 | To the southeast of Montmorillon, this dolmen is within a ploughed field, which is very well fenced to keep people out. From the edge of the farm lane you can see a few stones under some bushes, with a large capstone at an angle on top of a couple of supports. From certain angles daylight can be see... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Bastière 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 31st Aug 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Marked on my ign 1:100,000 map is a dolmen in the field to the south of the road between Lussac and Montmorillon. I had a good look around, but could find no obvious dolmen to which it referred. However the fields round here have several mounds and piles of stones, which are perhaps the remains of h... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Bastière 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 31st Aug 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Marked on my ign 1:100,000 map is a dolmen in the field to the south of the road between Lussac and Montmorillon. I had a good look around, but could find no obvious dolmen to which it referred. However the fields round here have several mounds and piles of stones, which are perhaps the remains of h... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Loubressac | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 31st Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Beside the river Goberté to the west of Lussac-les-Chateaux, at the hamlet of Loubressac, the little road curves around the remains of this dolmen. It is now sitting right beside the road at the edge of a pond. The capstone, which once would have measured 5 metres by 4 metres, has now broken and co... Read More |
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| Verrières tumulus | Chambered Cairn | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Saw from a distance | 30th Aug 2005 | On the village map, about half a kilometre to the southeast of the dolmen, and to the northeast of the road to Lussac-les-Chateaux. I had a walk towards this after getting the van partly sorted, but couldn’t find anything definite. There was however, a mound in a field which has growth on it, whic... Read More |
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| Verrières Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 30th Aug 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Just outside the village of Verrières, to the south by the road to Lussac-les-Chateaux, are the remains of this dolmen, which can be found round the back of some houses at the top of the valley. Its not much more than a large slab of rock sitting on the ground these days, which is the capstone whic... Read More |
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| Coeur de Birette | Polissoir | France | Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37) | Visited | 30th Aug 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | In the gardens of the Chateau de Grand Pressigny are, amongst many other things, a polissoir stone called (I believe) the Coeur de Birette ???. | 205 | 12 |
| Grand-Pressigny Musée de la Préhistoire | Museum | France | Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37) | Visited | 30th Aug 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Museum of prehistory contained within the remains of the ruined Chateau de Grand Pressigny, this is a wonderful place to visit. In a little village on the edge of a plateau, the castle is on a steep sided headland with a huge ditch cut to protect it from the fourth side. This place has been lived in... Read More |
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| Pierre Chaude | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37) | Visited | 30th Aug 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | About a kilometre to the east of the village of Neuilly, on the road to Paulmy, can be found this nice dolmen, about 50 metres to the south of the road in a hazlenut grove, and signposted.
The dolmen has a large single capstone which is now broken, sat on top of 6 support stones making a rectang... Read More |
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| La Pierre Fondue | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37) | Visited | 30th Aug 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This dolmen can be found about 100 metres up a track behind the hamlet of Bommiers, which is a couple of kilometres to the south of the village of Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine down the N.10. It is about one kilometre to the north of the Pierre Percée. Once you reach the hamlet, it is signposted, and si... Read More |
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| Pierre Percée (Draché) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37) | Visited | 30th Aug 2005 | 5 | 3 | 4 | A few kilometres to the south of the village of Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine along the N.10, and this stone is signposted, less than a kilometre to the west along a minor road. The stone has its own little parking area and explanatory signpost, and is set in a nice open grassy area.
The stone is abo... Read More |
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| Pierre Potelée | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Sarthe (72) | Visited | 29th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This stone is about half a kilometre east of the Mere et Fille stones in the forest and is also signposted. I parked in a parking area near to the signpost and walked for several kilometres before returning to my van having found nothing except for more signposts at the other end of the forest track... Read More |
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| Pierres de Mère et Fille | Standing Stones | France | Pays de la Loire:Sarthe (72) | Visited | 29th Aug 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | The mother and daughter stones can be easily found in the forest to the northeast of La Fleche, and are signposted from nearby. Both are nicely shaped pointed slabs, and they are about 8 metres from each other in an east west direction. The mother stone is more than 4 metres tall, and is the western... Read More |
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| la Pierre Couverte (Parigné) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Sarthe (72) | Visited | 29th Aug 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | This dolmen can be fairly easily found at a junction of tracks in the Bois de Bruon, near to Parigné-le-Pôlin, a few kilometres south of Le Mans, and just off the N23 road. The largish capstone, 4 m by 3.5 m, sits on top of 4 collapsed support stones, with another one nearby. its a pleasant little... Read More |
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| Menhir dit Pierre Saint-Julien | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Sarthe (72) | Visited | 29th Aug 2005 | 5 | 3 | 4 | Pierre Saint Julien is a 3.5 metre tall menhir, stood outside the main entrance to St Julien Cathedral, Le Mans. It is a truly lovely stone, made from a very heavily stratified, and vividly coloured rock. From certain angles, and in the right light, it looks for all the world to be a man dressed in ... Read More |
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| La Pierre au Diable | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Couldn't find | 29th Aug 2005 | I couldn't easily find this one, nor anywhere to park to have a proper look. It is not very near to the road, and so I left. | 205 | 3 | |||
| Menhir de la Croix Carrée (Landigou) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 29th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Looking for a menhir marked on my map, I could find nothing, so asked a lady walking her dog, and she directed me to this roadside cross. It has a historic monument signpost, which states that it is a megalithic monument of unknown origin. About 1.2 metres tall, it is of square section, with large c... Read More |
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| Landigou Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Couldn't find | 29th Aug 2005 | Looking for this menhir marked on my map, I could find nothing | 205 | 1 | |||
| Cordon des Druides | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th Aug 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | This long line of white quartz stones is easy to find in the Fougères Forest, north of the town. It is about 500 metres east of the big parking area at Chennedet crossroads along the D177 road, and has a sign and a few parking places nearby.
The row is about 250 metres long, and the white quart... Read More |
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| Pierre du Trésor | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Deep in the darkest depths of Fougères forest can be found the Pierre du Trésor. Its actually only about a 400 metre signposted walk from the big car park at the Chennedet crossing of the main D177 road north from Fougères, and the traffic on this busy road is only 100 metres away. My gps didnt s... Read More |
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| Pierre Courcoulée (Landean) | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th Aug 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | North of Fougères, in the forest, are several megalithic remains. The Pierre Courcoulée is towards the northwest of the forest and well signposted, it is just 200m from a big forest carpark and has its own circular walk which can be followed.
The dolmen is in a little clearing with signpost, a... Read More |
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| Allée Couverte le Rocher Jacquot | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | The remains of this monument can be found a few kilometres northwest of Fougères, along the D.17 road towards St-Germain-en-Cogles. It is signposted, but not very clearly, and there is a little trackway and fenced off area around it.
At first I thought it was the remains of a dolmen with entry... Read More |
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| La Roche Piquée (Baudouinais) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | A few kilometres to the west of the village of Livré-sur-Changeon, and a few kilometres to the south of the little town of St-Aubin-du-Cormier, near to the hamlet of Baudouinais can be seen this menhir marked on some of my maps as Pierre Piquée. It is signposted, and after a little walk along a fa... Read More |
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| Roche-aux-Fées (Essé) | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th Aug 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Small notes only for this very well known and popular site, which I was originally thinking of saving to be my last megalithic visit of my whole 6 month tour. First thoughts, Aaaaarrrrrgghhhh, it's busy. And you pay to get in. Aaaarrrgghhhhh. Never mind, I have to see it. I decided not to take my bo... Read More |
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| Pierre de Richebourg | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | I could initially find no evidence of this stone, looking for it from the east, and thought that it is probably somewhere in the fenced off woodland grounds of the big house on the top of the hill. Further investigation from the north, the D.41 road to Retiers, and I found a trackway which takes you... Read More |
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| Champ Des Louères Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 13th Aug 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Well signposted from the village of Saint-Aubin-Des-Châteaux, these lead to a parking area beside the sports centre, from where the menhir is a walk of a few hundred metres. It's a very big stone, 3.5 metres tall, 3 metres wide and over a metre thick, and it lives in a field beside the trackway. Th... Read More |
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| Pierre-Fritte (Jumallene) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 13th Aug 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | To the south of the village of Préviere along the D.6 road, and after a couple of kilometres is a signpost to Pierre Fritte. From there it's about 500 metres walk along the farm track, taking the left turn at the crossing of tracks. It's a very nice menhir, 5.2 metres tall and shaped so that it is ... Read More |
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| Pierre a Sacrifice (Putifay) | Polissoir | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 12th Aug 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Near to the dolmen de Putifaie, and right beside the road can be found this stone once thought to be a sacrificial stone. It's now known that the grooves and channels in the stone are the result of it being used to polish axes and other implements. I have to say that I couldn't see anything much in ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Petifaie | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Couldn't find | 12th Aug 2005 | This is on private property in a dense woodland beside the road, and is well fenced off. | 204 | 319 | |||
| Maison des Fées (Miré) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 12th Aug 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Just at the northern edge of the village of Miré, just off the main D.27 roadnorth, and beside a little side road can be found this dolmen. It's a tall dolmen with a single capstone covering a squarish chamber of about 3 metres dimension, and over 2 metres tall. With it being right at the side of t... Read More |
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| Pierre Cesée | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 12th Aug 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Although it looks a bit difficult to get to, this dolmen is actually very easy to visit, either by driving down the little trackway to the parking area right by it (which is signposted from the road), or by walking along the path along the banks of the river Loir. Its about a kilometre to the west o... Read More |
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| Molieres Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 12th Aug 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This little dolmen can be found to the west of the village of Beauvau, which has a little map with the dolmen marked on it. When you find the track to the dolmen (beware, the village detail map is rotated from the full map!) there is a signpost pointing to it. Its then about a 500 metre walk, and at... Read More |
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| Pierre du Coq polissoir | Polissoir | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 12th Aug 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | It's hard to know exactly what to make of this site. Marked on the maps as a menhir, there are actually two stones standing upright, and beside them a large flat slab, with a few other bits and pieces laying around. The larger of the two standing stones is 3 metres tall and slab form, 2 metres wide ... Read More |
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| Pierre du Coq et la Poule | Standing Stones | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 12th Aug 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | It's hard to know exactly what to make of this site. Marked on the maps as a menhir, there are actually two stones standing upright, and beside them a large flat slab, with a few other bits and pieces laying around.
The larger of the two standing stones is 3 metres tall and slab form, 2 metres w... Read More |
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| Baugé Polissoir | Polissoir | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 12th Aug 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Right outside the front of the chateau, in the town square, can be found this nice polissoir stone, which was found in the forests to the east of the town, and is now proudly on display. The stone itself is a 2.5m by 1.5 m lump, and on the top surface are two large grooves, and many flat polishing s... Read More |
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| Pierre Couverte (Pontigné) | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 12th Aug 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | This is a very pleasant find. It's well signposted from the village of Pontigné, a couple of kilometres to the west along the D.171 Rue Des Megalithes, and appears on the village plan with a photograph. This is most unusual in these parts where most are very hard, if not impossible to find. Once at... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Laurière | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Couldn't find | 12th Aug 2005 | Probably what was under that tree and those bushes in the lump in the middle of the field where I was trying to find the menhir. | 204 | 311 | |||
| L'Aurière menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Couldn't find | 12th Aug 2005 | This menhir is by the little picnic area at the place where I was stopped from turning by another car going into there. | 204 | 310 | |||
| Dolmen du Moulin à Vent | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Couldn't find | 12th Aug 2005 | I found the old windmill to the northeast of Broc, but saw no signs of any dolmen. | 204 | 309 | |||
| La Pierre Couverte de la Planche | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 12th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Just to the west of Broc, along the D.138 road towards Chigné, an after about 800 metres this dolmen can be seen in the middle of the field to the north. I went to Broc hoping for a map, but saw nothing, so was lucky to find this. The dolmen is left in a little unploughed area which has recently be... Read More |
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| Amenon Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Sarthe (72) | Visited | 11th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | The Amenon dolmen is fairly easy to find, along the little roadsouth of the river Loir between Vaas and La Chapelle-aux-Choux. Just after the little stream, the dolmen remains can be found up a trackway, and can be seen from the road. There is a little plaque explaining that it is the remains of an ... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit Pierre Couverte de Vaas | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Sarthe (72) | Couldn't find | 11th Aug 2005 | I saw something that stated that this dolmen is supposedly on an island in the middle of the Loir river somewhere. I could find no sign for it, and it wasn't on my map, so didn’t try too hard. But there is marked on my maps a dolmen up in the forested hills to the north of the village, which is a ... Read More |
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| Menhir des Ventes | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Sarthe (72) | Couldn't find | 11th Aug 2005 | 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. | 204 | 305 | |||
| Gobiane Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Sarthe (72) | Visited | 11th Aug 2005 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 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 ... Read More |
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| Pierre Levée (La Grange) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37) | Visited | 11th Aug 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is a large upright slab, 3.5 metres high and 3 metres wide, in a field overlooking a stream. Beside it are a few more large slabs, but they don’t look like they have broken off the top, although it is possible. It's a lovely limestone sort of slab, and looks like holes have been drilled into ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Marcilly | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37) | Visited | 11th Aug 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | This was not an easy dolmen to get to, as my campervan wouldn’t go under a low railway bridge, and hence I had a walk of over a kilometre. It's hard to explain, but once under the railway I just followed the field edges hoping to see something, and there it was, beyond a copse and a pond.
The ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Haute Barde | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37) | Couldn't find | 11th Aug 2005 | This dolmen is either in dense woodland, or else on private property for the large chateau, as I can find no sign of it anywhere. | 204 | 301 | |||
| Pierre du Pont-Champion | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37) | Visited | 11th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This three metre tall menhir lives in a field guarded by cows, just to the south of the busy D.766 road a few kilometres west of the village of Beaumont-la-Ronce. There is a parking area nearby, and its just 100 metres walk along the edge of the field to the menhir. There are several other large lum... Read More |
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| La Grotte aux Fées | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37) | Visited | 11th Aug 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | This fine dolmen can be found just to the north of the village of Mettray. Follow the road beside the sports stadium along the railway line for about a kilometre, and it is in a bunch of trees across a field to the right, down a little track and with a parking area. It's a large monumentwith a main ... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Château de Pierrefitte | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37) | Saw from a distance | 10th Aug 2005 | It's difficult to get to see this dolmen, as it resides in the grounds of a big private chateau, and cannot be visited. However I was just able to catch a glimpse of it from the front gate of the house. It is in the parkland at the east side, with trees around it. It looks a nice tidy dolmen with ca... Read More |
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| Oppidum des Châteliers | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37) | Saw from a distance | 10th Aug 2005 | Long inhabited and fortified hilltop above the river Loire at Amboise. | 204 | 297 | |||
| La Pierre Levée (Chapelle-Vendômoise) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Visited | 9th Aug 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Well, thank goodness I didn't totally give up earlier, and came to find this. What a nice find. This is signposted and in a nicely tended little area just south of the village of Chapelle-Vendômoise, just off the busy D.957 road to the northwest of the town of Blois. The road here is a very busy du... Read More |
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| Gâts-Fleuris Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Visited | 9th Aug 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Just to the side of Rue des Dolmens, to the north of the village of Huisseau-en-Beauce, can be found the remains of this dolmen or dolmens. Unfortunately it really is no more than a pile of stones at the roadside these days, although with the knowledge of what was once there, it is possible to make ... Read More |
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| Hauts-de-Bretagne Polissoir | Polissoir | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Visited | 9th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Just outside the Hauts-de-Bretagne dolmen, at the northwest side, can be found a polissoir stone, with one groove, 5 basins and a flat area for polishing work. These are on a slab about one metre square. I do not know whether this slab was once part of the blown up dolmen or not. | 204 | 294 |
| Hauts-de-Bretagne Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Visited | 9th Aug 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | On a west facing slope in the middle of a field, a kilometre or so to the north of the village of Huisseau-en-Beauce, can be found the remains of this dolmen. It is reached by finding the Rue des Dolmens, and then a difficult kilometre walk along farmtracks, across streams and fields.
It was onc... Read More |
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| La Pierre Sorcière | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Visited | 9th Aug 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | I have seen this referred to as both a dolmen and a polissoir, and can be found by the roadside just outside the village of Villiersfaux, and signposted from the Mairie. It is a big 5 m by 3 m lump of puddingstone, with a few other stones around and about it. It may well be the capstone of a collaps... Read More |
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| Mondétour polissoirs | Polissoir | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Couldn't find | 9th Aug 2005 | This polissoir is signposted up a trackway from the D.917 roadside to the southwest of Vendome. The trouble is, there are no more signs to be found once away from the road, and the track splits into three ways. A railway cuts the straight on, obvious path, and I could find no stone up there. The oth... Read More |
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| Dolmen des Louettes | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Couldn't find | 9th Aug 2005 | Marked on my ign 1:100,000 map, but I could find no sign of this dolmen on the ground. What I did find was lots of fishing places along the banks of the pleasant Loir river near to a lovely old papermill. I asked a few people if they knew of any dolmens around here and none of them had any idea what... Read More |
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| Les Grosses Pierres (Breuil) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Couldn't find | 9th Aug 2005 | I could find no trace of this despite spending a lot of time looking. It should be somewhere beside the river Loir south of Cloyes near to Le Breuil farm, but a longish way from any road. All the land in this region is either flooded for lakes, planted with tall sweetcorn, or private, and I could fi... Read More |
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| Langault Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Visited | 9th Aug 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This is a pleasant little dolmen sat right beside the D.19 road between Cloyes and Morée just after the railway crossing as you travel south, and it has a little parking and picnic area beside it. It’s a pity the road is so busy with big lorries hammering past. The dolmen is made from lumps of pu... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Nivardière 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | In another part of the field near to the Nivardière menhir and dolmen is a large slab of stone left in an unploughed area. Is this the remains of another dolmen ? This village is very rich in megalithic remains, and it would not surprise me if this was. | 204 | 286 |
| Dolmen de la Nivardière 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Just to the northeast of the centre of the village of Tripleville, about 100 metres into the first field out of the village along the D.137 road, can be found the Nivardière dolmen and its associated menhir about 80 metres further on.
The dolmen is very complete for round here, with a 4m by 3m ... Read More |
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| Menhir dit la Drue à Gargantua | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Just to the east of the village of Tripleville, not far from the centre and just to the north of the D.137 road, the four metres tall limestone Nivardière menhir can be found before you reach the quarry. There is another lump of stone at its base, which I think may have broken off the top at some t... Read More |
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| La Mouïse-Martin Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | To the northeast of the village of Tripleville, the Mouïse-Martin dolmen can be found in a field of tall sweetcorn just to the east of the little lane leading up to Mouïse-Martin farm. Its about 80 metres from the road, and the capstone can be seen covered in grass high above the sweetcorn, so it'... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Val d’Avril | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Couldn't find | 8th Aug 2005 | I could see mothing obvious of the Butte de Champart to the south of the village of Tripleville, despite walking all around the area. It is perhaps all in the trees in the back garden of a house, behind the large woodshed. | 204 | 282 | |||
| Dolmen de Prunay | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Near to the road running south from the village of Tripleville towards Prunay can be found this dolmen, about 50 metres from the road across a field. It's not much more than a large stone on a slight raise in the land, but there may be more below. Its about 3m by 3m and rounded in shape, and very th... Read More |
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| Le Palet de Gargantua (Nottonville) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Just to the south of the La Brosse chateau and farm can be found the Palet de Gargantua dolmen, sitting right at the D.357 roadside. It has a lovely capstone sitting at a jaunty angle partly on the ground, and partly on a couple of support stones. It is sort of trapezoidal shaped, about 4m by 4m. I ... Read More |
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| Baignon dolmens (5) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 4 | Baignon 5 is another completely unrecogniseable pile of stones in the field. Mostly lumps of puddingstone, there is one lump of sarsen like slab. These last two dolmens really are in a bad state, and have been ploughed right up to the edges, with the stones just heaped up into as small an area as po... Read More |
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| Baignon dolmens (4) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Baignon 4 really is no more than a small heap of stones in the middle of a field. Actually, there is one stone still standing, but that’s it. Its all a nice puddingstone though, so it does have its good points. | 204 | 278 |
| Baignon dolmens (3) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Baignon 3 initially looks again like a heap of rocks in the middle of a field, and this impression is not helped by there probably being loads of field clearance stones dumped around it. Closer inspection reveals remains of an Angevin dolmen with a rectangular 4m by 3.5m chamber with its entrance po... Read More |
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| Baignon dolmens (2) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Baignon 2 is in the middle of the cropped field, but which had been recently harvested when I visited. Again it is seemingly not much more than a large pile of stones in amongst the nettles and brambles. It probably has a rectangular chamber, 4m by 3m, with a single, now broken, capstone. | 204 | 276 |
| Baignon dolmens (1) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | To the south of the lovely old walled and moated town of Bonneval, along the D.144 road, can be found the dolmens de Baignon. They are easily found in a field beside the river near to Memillon Chateau. There are remains of five dolmens, and I will number them in the order in which I visited them, wh... Read More |
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| Baignon dolmens | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | To the south of the lovely old walled and moated town of Bonneval, along the D.144 road, can be found the dolmens du Baignon. Remains of at least 5 dolmens can be found in a field beside the river near to Memillon Chateau in the commune of St-Maur-sur-le-Loir. I have numbered the 5 dolmens in the o... Read More |
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| Menhir de l'Ormorice | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Whilst looking for the Bonneval dolmen to the left of the road, I saw this menhir the other side of the field on the right. About 800 metres walk from the road, it is easy to see and reach along a farm track. Its about 3.5 metres tall, and up to 2 metres wide at its base.
Near to the busy TGV ex... Read More |
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| Bonneval dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Couldn't find | 8th Aug 2005 | I could find nothing of this, despite having a good look all around. There are likely remains of a round mound in the fields here though. | 204 | 272 | |||
| Polissoir de la Vieuville | Polissoir | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Couldn't find | 8th Aug 2005 | I was told by the lady I met at Pierre de Beaumont that there is another dolmen in Vieuville, but she didn't know how to find it. I had a look around but could find nothing obvious myself. | 204 | 271 | |||
| Pierre de Beaumont | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | At the end of the road southwest from Vieuville at a place names les Maisons, there is a farm track which continues on down to a stream. Here in a field of horses is the Pierre de Beaumont dolmen. I couldn't actually get to it, but got to within 50 metres.
Its a nice looking thing, with its caps... Read More |
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| Hertubise dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Couldn't find | 8th Aug 2005 | On my ign map, there is a dolmen symbol just to the south of the village of Alluyes, but its on the opposite side of the river to where I could drive to. Between the road and the river are houses and gardens, with lots of trees and high hedges, which prevented me from seeing anything of the Hertubis... Read More |
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| Quincampoix Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Saw from a distance | 8th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 2 | To the west of Summeray, a couple of kilometres along the D.28 road you will find Quincampoix farm. Fenced off in a field to the south of the road can be seen the remains of the Quincampoix dolmen, about 80 metres distance. There is no direct access to the stones, and indeed there are notices to kee... Read More |
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| Montemain stone | Polissoir | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Driving through the village of Saumeray, I saw a sign to Polissoir, so stopped for a look. Right in the middle of the village, on a little green square behind the church can be found this combination menhir and polissoir. There is a little board stating that the stone was moved here in 1998 after be... Read More |
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| Puits de Saint-Martin | Polissoir | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This is a very nice polissoir stone found in the fields to the south of the village of Corancez, and it is easy to find because it is signposted. It has a footpath to it across the fields, about 100 metres from the road.
It is a large stone, about 5m by 2m laying flat in the field, with at least... Read More |
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| La Pierre qui Tourne (Morancez) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 8th Aug 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | Not much more than a pile of stones, La Pierre qui Tourne, or Morancez dolmen can be found amongst the houses of Residence du Dolmen, just off the main D.935 road through the village, a bit to the north of the church. I suspect the locals think of it as a bit of a nuisance, getting in the way of the... Read More |
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| Pierre Fritte de Yermenonville | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 7th Aug 2005 | 4 | 3 | In the village of Mevoisins I saw a sign pointing to Dolmen de la Pierre Fitte, so I stopped and went for a look. Little did I realise that I would be walking 2.5 kilometres to it, at 7:00pm in the evening ! And when I finally got there, I couldn't even see the dolmen, as it was undergoing excavatio... Read More |
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| Mevoisins menhir | Modern Stone Circle etc | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 7th Aug 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | This lovely 3 metre tall menhir can be seen from miles around, beside the D.329 road up in the hills between the two villages of Mevoisins and Yermenonville. It’s a gorgeous angular lump of flinty sarsen, but it turns out that it was erected only 5 years ago to mark the turning of the millennium. ... Read More |
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| Menhir dit la Roche | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Couldn't find | 7th Aug 2005 | I had a good look around, but could not find this | 204 | 262 | |||
| Chantecoq dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 7th Aug 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Marked on my ign map near to the village of Ymeray is the Dolmen de Chantecoq. I had a good look around, but could find no obvious signs to a dolmen of any kind, but there was a trackway called "Sentier des Roches" which I found near to the railway bridge, so I went for a walk up there. After severa... Read More |
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| La Mère aux Cailles | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 7th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Marked on my ign map near to the village of Ymeray is the Dolmen de Chantecoq. I had a good look around, but could find no obvious signs to a dolmen of any kind, but there was a trackway called "Sentier des Roches" which I found near to the railway bridge, so I went for a walk up there. After severa... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Grenouille | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 7th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | The remains of the Dolmen de la Grenouille are the most obvious of all the Dolmens de Chagné here beside the river Eure to the north of the village of Chagné, and stand only a few metres from the village sign.
It is a broken dolmen with two side slabs and a leaning capstone that does indeed lo... Read More |
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| Petit Menhir (Changé) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 7th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A large slab of the grey stone stands just outside the remains of the two dolmens. It is about 2 metres tall, but was leaning against a wooden post to hold it upright when I visited, due to the excavations going on here. | 204 | 258 |
| Petit Dolmen (Changé) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 7th Aug 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | About 5 metres to the north of the Le Berceau dolmen, and also being excavated, are the remains of the Petit dolmen. This one has a chamber about 4 metres by 3 metres, with many side slabs to be seen but no capstone. Before the current excavations, there was probably very little to be seen of this. | 204 | 257 |
| Le Berceau | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 7th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | The Dolmens de Chagné were undergoing excavation when I visited, and were fenced off and enclosed, but from what I could see, this includes 3 dolmens and 2 menhirs, which were apparently re-used for burials by the Merovingians from about the year 500BC. The dolmens can be found in a field beside th... Read More |
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| Le But de Gargantua | Standing Stones | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 7th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | In a field to the east of the Dolmens de Chagné can be found the But de Gargantua. This seems to be two menhirs, one a large grey slab about 2.5 metres tall and the other a bit smaller. I wonder if it is the remains of what was once a dolmen. I couldn't get a close look as the stones are in a fiel... Read More |
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| Musée des Sciences Naturelles et de Préhistoire | Museum | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Couldn't find | 7th Aug 2005 | The picture I have seen of the Maison de l'Archaeologie has a dolmen in the front yard, so I go for a look. But it's moved ! I found where the museum was, but its now a private residence. I have no way of knowing where to, so this must go down as the first museum I have failed to find ! Wonder what ... Read More |
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| Grosse Pierre d'Ymorville | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Saw from a distance | 6th Aug 2005 | This stone is about 500 metres from the road, according to the map, but I could see nothing obvious. There are no features around to help find it, in the middle of this massive industrial farming area. Perhaps it is in a field of maize. Perhaps I saw a large stone in a field of stubble. All very fru... Read More |
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| La Pierre Clouée (Andonville) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Loiret (45) | Visited | 6th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | La Pierre Clouée dolmen can be found in a field to the south of the village of Andonville, beside the little road to Annemont. It was a bugger to get to, with shut roads and suchlike. When I got there the field it stands in was being ploughed, so I nearly gave up. However, I asked the farmer and he... Read More |
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| Dolmen des Grès de Linas | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Ile-de-France:Essonne (91) | Couldn't find | 6th Aug 2005 | I spent ages looking for this. I can only assume it is somewhere in the very dense fenced off woodland, in amongst the open fields. I am getting fed up of all this again. | 204 | 250 | |||
| Menhir dit la Pierre aux Prêtres | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Ile-de-France:Seine-et-Marne 77 | Couldn't find | 6th Aug 2005 | I could find nowhere to stop beside a nasty busy road to go and look for this stone. I could see nothing obvious. | 204 | 249 | |||
| Menhir de la Croix Saint Jacques | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Ile-de-France:Seine-et-Marne 77 | Visited | 6th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This menhir can be found in a field just to the side of the D.410 road, about 500 metres to the south of the village of Tousson. It stands about 3.3 metres tall, and is a rectangular section lump of sarsen. I found it difficult to park here. | 204 | 248 |
| Pierre de l'Armoire | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Ile-de-France:Seine-et-Marne 77 | Visited | 6th Aug 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This dolmen can be found a couple of kilometres north of the village of Rumont, along the D.16a road. There is then a signpost to it, and it's about a kilometres walk from the road along a farm track.
The dolmen is within a cropped field, but has a reasonable area left around it, and is in the r... Read More |
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| La Roche au Diable (Paley) | Polissoir | France | Ile-de-France:Seine-et-Marne 77 | Couldn't find | 6th Aug 2005 | Marked near to the menhir is a polissoir stone, in the woods down by the little river. I could find no obvious signpost or footpath towards where it is marked, and having now found out how difficult to find some of these polissoir stones are to find, I didnt spend any time looking. | 204 | 246 | |||
| Polissoirs des Ortures | Polissoir | France | Ile-de-France:Seine-et-Marne 77 | Couldn't find | 6th Aug 2005 | Near the hamlet of Les Ortures, in the Bois Tranzy, there is a little signposted footpath near to the reservoirs. Along this path can be found two rock outcrops, the tops of which have been used for polishing stone tools. One of the two rocks has several grooves in it, while the other has a polishin... Read More |
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| La Pierre Clouée (Nanteau) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Ile-de-France:Seine-et-Marne 77 | Visited | 6th Aug 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This is a 4.5 metre tall menhir which can be found in a field south of the village of Villemarechal. Its near enough a kilometres walk from the roadside, but can easily be seen from there. It has been ploughed very close to, and in fact is suffering from various collisions with agricultural machiner... Read More |
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| Mérinville Polissoir | Polissoir | France | Centre:Loiret (45) | Couldn't find | 6th Aug 2005 | Today I went back for a proper look for the Mérinville Polissoir, which is another stone the farmers wife at Coinche said I should go to see. I walked a lot down the forest track near to where it is marked on my map, but there was no chance of finding it without knowing exactly where to look. There... Read More |
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| Monte à Peine menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Centre:Loiret (45) | Visited | 6th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Take Rue du Menhir east from the village of Pers-en-Gâtinais, and just after the first road junction the road bears round to the right. The menhir is right beside the road, but almost lost in bushes and undergrowth. It's just over 2 metres tall, and is a lump of sarsen type stone. | 204 | 242 |
| Menhir du Bois de Forville | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Centre:Loiret (45) | Couldn't find | 5th Aug 2005 | To the south of Pers-en-Gâtinais there is a menhir and nearby polissoir stone marked on my map, but I could find no obvious sign of this. | 204 | 241 | |||
| Polissoir des Davaux | Polissoir | France | Centre:Loiret (45) | Couldn't find | 5th Aug 2005 | At Pers-en-Gâtinais there is another polissoir stone marked on my map, but I could find no obvious sign of this. Perhaps tomorrow. | 204 | 240 | |||
| Mérinville Polissoir | Polissoir | France | Centre:Loiret (45) | Couldn't find | 5th Aug 2005 | The Mérinville Polissoir is another stone the farmers wife at Coinche said I should go to see. However, I am not exactly sure where to find it, and it is now pouring with rain, so I am not going to go for a long walk now, especially as it is getting late and starting to get dark. There is no sign t... Read More |
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| Menhir dit la Grande Roche | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Centre:Loiret (45) | Visited | 5th Aug 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | To the west of the village of Pers-en-Gâtinais can be found this 2.5 metre tall menhir in a field beside the small road to Mérinville. It is in the middle of a freshly ploughed field, so I didn't go right up to it, but it is only 50 metres from the roadside. | 204 | 238 |
| Pierre de Minuit Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Centre:Loiret (45) | Visited | 18th Feb 2007 | 5 | 4 | 4 | I wouldn't have bothered with this one, but was told I should visit it by the farmers wife at Coinche. And my thanks must again go to her. It is a wonderful stone, the tallest menhir in the Departement of Loiret. It is almost 5 metres tall, up to 2 metres wide and very variable in thickness. The sto... Read More |
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| Coinche polissoir | Polissoir | France | Centre:Loiret (45) | Visited | 12th Feb 2007 | 4 | 3 | 3 | About 80 metres from the menhir are several large rocks laying flat in the next field. One of these stones has three lovely polishing grooves in the top at one side, each about 50 cm long, and a big cuvette basin for polishing the flat sides. As for the menhir, these stones are in a cropped field, a... Read More |
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| Menhir de Coinche | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Centre:Loiret (45) | Visited | 5th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | This menhir is in the middle of a cropped field just behind the farmhouse, down a track and then turn left near the wood. It is not normally possible to get right to it, but I was proudly shown the stone by the wife of the farmer. The field is full of sunflowers this year, and the stone was not visi... Read More |
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| La Pierre Pointue (Montacher) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Visited | 5th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | A few kilometres to the south of the village of Montacher-Villegardin via windy unmarked roads, and about a kilometre walk to the west of the little road which runs south from the village, along farm tracks and you can find this menhir in a field. It is about 2.3 metres tall, and very pointed as its... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Bercenay | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Couldn't find | 5th Aug 2005 | Just off the edge of my map, the Pierre au Laurin, or Pierre Couverte, has no obvious signposts to it, and I could see no obvious signs of any dolmen in the locality, so I didn’t really look.
Which is a shame really, as I see later there are three good dolmens to be found here, much better tha... Read More |
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| Polissoir des Roches | Polissoir | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Couldn't find | 5th Aug 2005 | The Polissoir des Roches, or Courgenay polissoir should be found in the forest to the south of the village of Courgenay, up on the hills. There are no signposts to be seen to it, so I am pretty sure that I will not be able to find it on my own. | 204 | 232 | |||
| Polissoir avec Plage | Polissoir | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Visited | 7th Aug 2011 | 3 | 4 | 3 | A further 40 metres downstream from the second polissoir stone, is found a third. This one is a smaller stone, about 2 metres by 0.5 metres, and a nice smoothed crescent shape, hence the name. As well as the entire polishing "beach", there are at least three bowls for polishing, some of which are qu... Read More |
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| Polissoir avec Cuvette | Polissoir | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Visited | 5th Aug 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | About 50 metres from the Pierre à l'Eau, and thankfully signposted through the tricky forest, can be found a second polissoir stone. This one has a large water filled basin, and as far as I can make out, only two two large flattish basin like polishing areas. I guess this stone was used for the fla... Read More |
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| Pierre à l'Eau | Polissoir | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Visited | 5th Aug 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | This is much more like it, a lovely polissoir stone, with its own source of water in the form of a couple of deep basins which I assume are natural, and it is not far from a little stream. The stone is sort of triangular, about 2 m by 1.5 m, and has five well worn grooves and a couple of flat basins... Read More |
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| Lancy Polissoir | Polissoir | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Visited | 5th Aug 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | About 350 metres to the north of the D.110 road through Lancy Forest can be found this polissoir stone. Park at the Pavillon-de-Lancy picnic site, and the stone can be found down the track along the edge of the forest from there. Luckily it is signposted, as without them I would never have found it.... Read More |
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| Lancy Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Visited | 5th Aug 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Now this is more like it. In the Foret-de-Lancy, a couple of kilometres to the southeast of Saint-Maurice-aux-Riches-Hommes can be found this nice looking little dolmen. It is signposted from the road through the forest about 700 metres south of the parking place at the track to the Traînel dolmens... Read More |
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| Petit dolmen de Trainel | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Visited | 5th Aug 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | About 15 metres to the north of the Grand Dolmen along the slope of the hill, and perhaps in what was once the same mound can be found the Petit Dolmen. It doesn’t look much more than a medium sized rock sat on the hillside, but closer inspection shows there to be a 1 metre by 0.5 metre slab sided... Read More |
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| Grand dolmen de Trainel | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Visited | 5th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | There are two dolmens here in the Traînel forest, signposted a couple of kilometres to the west of Saint-Maurice-aux-Riches-Hommes. Where the road bends, park in the forest car park and walk for a kilometre to the north along the forest track, and the dolmens are signposted from here.
The Grand... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Bourde à la Gousse | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Couldn't find | 4th Aug 2005 | There is a dolmen marked on my ign map near to the village of La Bourde a la Gousse, so I went to have a look. I walked a fair distance down a forest track, but I could find nothing. The forest was either very dense and impenetrable, or fenced off. There was at one point lots of rocks on the forest ... Read More |
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| La Pierre-Aux-Sorcières | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Couldn't find | 4th Aug 2005 | La Pierre-Aux-Sorcières, or La Pierre-Enlevée is to be found in the community of Vaumort. I'd have liked to have found the Witch's stone, but I don’t have a map with it marked on, and there are no signs or notices in the village to help. Shame. | 204 | 223 | |||
| La Borne-Percée | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Visited | 4th Aug 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | In the Houssaye forests, high above the Yonne river southeast of Sens, and near to the village of Les Auberts can be found this menhir at a junction of forest tracks. Its very small, only 1.3 metres tall, but mounted on a plinth and easy to find. Near to the top is a hole which has been cut through ... Read More |
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| Pierre-Fritte (Villeneuve-sur-Yonne) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Couldn't find | 4th Aug 2005 | I could find nowhere to stop and look for this menhir, which is somewhere between the busy N.6 road and the river Yonne. | 204 | 221 | |||
| Grottes d'Arcy-sur-Cure | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Bourgogne:Yonne (89) | Saw from a distance | 4th Aug 2005 | I drove past these caves, without realising what significance they have. If I had realised, I would have visited. | 204 | 220 | |||
| Roche d'Arthur | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bourgogne:Côte-d'Or (21) | Couldn't find | 4th Aug 2005 | The village of Roche-en-Brenil is supposed to have two menhirs, but I could find no sign of either of them. It's a shame that these places do not have village maps with things marked, or any signposts like they do elsewhere. The area is covered with forests, and looks to be lots of natural granite o... Read More |
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| Pierre Pelot | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bourgogne:Côte-d'Or (21) | Couldn't find | 4th Aug 2005 | The village of Roche-en-Brenil is supposed to have two menhirs, but I could find no sign of either of them. It's a shame that these places do not have village maps with things marked, or any signposts like they do elsewhere. The area is covered with forests, and looks to be lots of natural granite o... Read More |
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| Pierre-Pointe | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bourgogne:Côte-d'Or (21) | Visited | 4th Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | This menhir, about 4 metres tall, can be seen around the back of an out of the way farmyard, just to the north of the N.6 road between Aunay and Saulieu. It is not easy to get to, but can be clearly seen from the lane leading to the farm, at a distance of about 50 metres. It is up on top of a hill w... Read More |
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| Camp de la Justice Alignements | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bourgogne:Saône-et-Loire (71) | Saw from a distance | 4th Aug 2005 | 2 | 2 | Just to the north of Autun, near a place called Orme, along the busy N.81 road, can be found the remnants of these alignements. They are difficult to get to, across a railway and a couple of fields, but they can however be seen from the main road. There are a couple of large stones and at least thre... Read More |
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| Tombeaux du Single | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bourgogne:Côte-d'Or (21) | Couldn't find | 3rd Aug 2005 | As with so many of the megalithic sites in the area, I could find nothing to help me find it. Remains of two burial chambers made with large slabs were excavated here in 1867. Many human bones, flint tools and a round holed stone were found. | 204 | 215 | |||
| Croconnet Tumulus | Chambered Cairn | France | Bourgogne:Côte-d'Or (21) | Couldn't find | 3rd Aug 2005 | I had a need to fill up with diesel, and so couldn’t spend long looking for this, having spent about an hour driving round every lane in the area trying to find it. I am wondering if there is a local law around here prohibiting any roadsigns for anything other than wine sellers. The tumulus wasn't... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Pierrefitte (Volnay) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bourgogne:Côte-d'Or (21) | Couldn't find | 3rd Aug 2005 | Dolmen in tumulus to be found in the commune of Volnay. This dolmen was excavated in 1914, yielding several bones. I could find nothing obvious to lead me here. | 204 | 213 | |||
| Dolmen dit la Pierre-Brûlée | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bourgogne:Côte-d'Or (21) | Visited | 3rd Aug 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Just to the south of the D.17 between Meloisey and Pommard, near to the crossroads with the D.23, this dolmen is to be found within a field which when I visited was well fenced off with electric fencing and full of sheep, so I didn’t go in. The remains of a mound can be seen, with a capstone sitti... Read More |
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| La Garenne (La Rochepot) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bourgogne:Côte-d'Or (21) | Couldn't find | 3rd Aug 2005 | Dolmen to be found in the commune of La Rochepot, Côte-d'Or, but I could find nothing on maps to find it | 204 | 211 | |||
| Chateillon | Passage Grave | France | Bourgogne:Côte-d'Or (21) | Couldn't find | 3rd Aug 2005 | Remains of an Allée Couverte and its mound are to be found on a west facing slope near to the village of La Rochepot. I could find nothing obvious on maps to find. | 204 | 210 | |||
| Allée Couverte de la Chaume | Passage Grave | France | Bourgogne:Côte-d'Or (21) | Couldn't find | 3rd Aug 2005 | There are supposedly several dolmens and an allee couverte in the Rochepot community, but not marked on my maps, I doubt I will find any of the others, so soon decided to give up now on looking for more. | 204 | 209 | |||
| La Pierre qui Vire (Rochepot) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bourgogne:Côte-d'Or (21) | Visited | 3rd Aug 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | High up on the ridge to the south of the village of Rochepot, with its fantastic chateau and well known wines, can be found this stone which turns. There's not much left to see, except the big capstone which is sort of triangular shaped, 4 metres by 3 metres. There are traces of a mound, and a chamb... Read More |
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| Mont-de-Sène dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bourgogne:Saône-et-Loire (71) | Couldn't find | 3rd Aug 2005 | Remains of at least three dolmens and their mounds are to be found on the slopes of Mont-de-Sène, high up above the village of Dezize-les-Maranges. | 204 | 207 | |||
| Cul Blanc Dolmens | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bourgogne:Saône-et-Loire (71) | Visited | 3rd May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Cul Blanc 1: Still within most of its tumulus, this dolmen is on the northern slopes of Mont des Troix Croix, high up above the village of Dezize-les-Maranges at a junction of the tracks. The circular mound is about 15 metres in diameter, and the dolmen is in the middle. The chamber is about 2.5 me... Read More |
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| Menhirs d'Epoigny | Standing Stones | France | Bourgogne:Saône-et-Loire (71) | Visited | 3rd Aug 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | Just to the south of the D.978 road, a few kilometres north west of Couches, is a sign to menhirs, which I of course followed. About a kilometre from the main road is a little road junction, and several menhirs can be seen in the fields. It's hard to make out exactly what the menhirs represent, and ... Read More |
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| Pierre Guénachère | Sculptured Stone | France | Bourgogne:Saône-et-Loire (71) | Visited | 3rd Aug 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | This is a large granite blockdeep in the forest near a little stream, about one kilometres walk from the farm of La Madeleine, just to the west of St Emiland. Take the track beside the farm, keeping left, and after some distance it is signposted.
The stone is a granite block, 4m by 3m by 2m high... Read More |
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| Pierre-aux-Fées (St-Micaud) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bourgogne:Saône-et-Loire (71) | Visited | 2nd Aug 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This is a very large menhir right beside the D.28 road in front of a large house in the village of St-Micaud. I would estimate it to be about 7 metres tall, but its not easy to tell as it is in the private garden and surrounded by a hedge. The menhir is of rectangular shape, nd has very uneven surfa... Read More |
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| Menhir d'Uxelles | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bourgogne:Saône-et-Loire (71) | Couldn't find | 2nd Aug 2005 | I see in my notes that there is a menhir to be found in the commune of Uxelles, but there is nothing to be found on any of my maps, and I could find no signposts to it or reference to it on any of the village signs. | 204 | 201 | |||
| Pierre-Levée du champ de la Fa | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bourgogne:Saône-et-Loire (71) | Visited | 2nd Aug 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Near to the medieval village of Brancion, beside the D.14 road, can be found this nice menhir, which has a fine view to the west. It stands about 4 metres tall with a cross on the top in a field close to the turn off to Pierre-Levée farm, on a bad corner. It was raining horribly while I visited. | 204 | 200 |
| La Pierre-des-Fievres | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Auvergne:Haute-Loire (43) | Visited | 28th Jul 2005 | 1 | 4 | The Cathedral of Puy-en-Velay is said to be built on the site of an ancient dolmen, part of which is still in existance as La Pierre des Fievres which is kept and presented near to one of the entrances. It is said that this stone is a part of the coverstone for the dolmen which stood in this sacred ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Auvergne:Haute-Loire (43) | Visited | 28th Jul 2005 | -1 | 5 | 3 | The 11th century Chapel St Michel is built on the ridiculously pointed site of the volcanic Aighuille. But it is built on top of the site of a previous chapel, which was said to have been built on top of a dolmen, or some other megalithic structure. | 204 | 197 |
| L'Usteau du Loup | Passage Grave | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 27th Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | To the south of St-Gervazy, near to the hamlet of Unsac, can be found the remains of this fine dolmen, perhaps the largest in the region, and which is signposted from nearby. On a little granite outcrop, near to the village sports ground, surrounded by high hills, it sits under an oak tree.
The ... Read More |
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| Menhir dit Pierre Fichade | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 27th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | The Pierre Fichade at Champeix is a pleasant menhir, about 4 metres tall and which can be found in a field to the south of the D.28 road between Ludesse and Champeix. It is easily visible from the road, and can be visited via a couple of farm tracks. There are signposts to it along the local footpat... Read More |
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| Temple de Mercure | Ancient Temple | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 26th Jul 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Remains of a Gallo-Roman temple can be seen at the summit of the Puy de Dôme (1465m). | 204 | 194 |
| Menhir de Villars | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Saw from a distance | 26th Jul 2005 | This little menhir, less than 2 metres tall, can be found in the hamlet of Villars, near to the lavoir in the village square. On the top of the menhir is mounted a curious cross with a carving of Christ on it. Again, I missed this only because I did not know of it. There were once three menhirs to b... Read More |
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| Thedes Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Saw from a distance | 26th Jul 2005 | Approximately 2 metre tall menhir with an iron cross mounted on the top of it. It is to be found at the D.5 and D.90 road junction just to the west of the hamlet of Theddes, and is marked as a cross on the ign map. I must have driven right by it, perhaps twice. | 204 | 192 | |||
| Dolmen de Samson | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Couldn't find | 26th Jul 2005 | Marked on the ign maps, this is now thought to be a natural rock formation. It looks to be an hours walk from anywhere to get to it in its hilltop position, so I didn't go. However, excavations have been carried out here, and fragments of neolithic pottery were found. | 204 | 191 | |||
| Cournols allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 25th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | To the south of the village of Cournols, and on a signposted walk from there, can be found the remains of this curious dolmen. Excavated in 1841, various things were found which are now in the Clermont Ferrand museum. Said to be an allée couverte, its not much like any other allée couvertes I have... Read More |
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| Pierre Longue (Fohet) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 25th Jul 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | This is a lovely menhir standing four and three quarter metres tall at the top of the high hills near the village of Fohet. Its obviously been fairly recently re-erected, as one side is all dirt covered from being on the ground, and there is a sign in the village pointing to "menhir couché"! The vi... Read More |
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| Plateau de Sailles tumulus | Barrow Cemetery | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 25th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | High up in the hills to the north of St-Nectaire, beside the D.640 road across the Plateau de Sailles, are a couple of round cairns on a hilltop. Closer inspection reveals them to be made of stones piled up, with perhaps some large slabs within. Just seeing these here against the skyline makes me wo... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Pineyre | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 25th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | High up in the hills to the northwest of St-Nectaire can be found this dolmen, still almost entirely contained within its cairn of stones. The capstone is visible above a chamber, just above the top level of the present day cairn, and is about 4 metres by 3 metres. Apart from one squared corner, and... Read More |
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| Freydefond Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 25th Jul 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 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 ... Read More |
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| Saint Roch Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 25th Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | This menhir can be fairly easily found by following marked footpaths for a mile or so from St-Nectaire to Croix-St-Roche, high up on the hill, beside the track which passes from one valley to the next. It's about 2 metres tall, and made from a hexagonal block of crystalline volcanic basalt, the sort... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Parc (Saint-Nectaire) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 25th Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | This is a pleasant dolmen, sat on a hillside within a sort of sports activity park above the thermal spa and roman baths of St-Nectaire (of cheese fame). It can be found easiest by following the path up the hillside from near to the art-deco Casino, or from other footpaths in the area.
The dolme... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Lac (Le Cheix) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 24th Jul 2005 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Blimey, it was an effort to get here from Mont Dore, along miles and miles of windy narrow roads in the mountains. From the hamlet of Le Cheix on the D.978 road, take the small lane to the south across the river and then winding up into the hills. Despite some trepidation, the camper van got through... Read More |
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| Pierre des Quatre Curés | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 23rd Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This crystalline basalt menhir has served as a boundary stone between four parishes since the middle ages, hence it's name. It's not much more than 2 metres high, and looks like it has been mended from broken at some point, but I cant be sure. I was hoping for a bit more from this. On the map it loo... Read More |
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| Farges Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 23rd Jul 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Take the little country road southwest from Herment, and after a while the dolmen will be signposted. Its in the middle of a field above the hamlet of Farges and easy to see in the field. Unfortunately it’s a complete wreck, having had trees growing in and around it, and probably its share of hits... Read More |
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| Dolmen d'Urbe | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Creuse (23) | Visited | 23rd Jul 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | In stark contrast to many places, the lovely medeival city of Crocq is proud of its dolmen, which I wasn’t going to bother with as it looks difficult to find on the big map. However, its shown on all the town maps, and clearly signposted along Route du Dolmen from the town. And they sell postcards... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Croix Blanche (Felletin) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Creuse (23) | Couldn't find | 23rd Jul 2005 | To the east of Felletin, on the D.10 road to Crocq, is supposedly this dolmen, at the hamlet of Croix Blanche. I looked long and hard but found nothing except for a sign telling me about it, and how it had had a grant from various people for restoration in 1987-89. Apparently its an Angevin dolmen, ... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit Pierre-la-Fade | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Creuse (23) | Visited | 23rd Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | To the west of Aubusson, go through the village of Blessac and take the road west to Sagnas. Continue right through the hamlet until the road runs out at a forest, and becomes a dusty trackwith some marked forest walk footpaths. Within 100 metres, down a little track into the forest, the dolmen can ... Read More |
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| Pierre Bercé (Naillat) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Limousin:Creuse (23) | Visited | 22nd Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Signposted south from Colondannes, it was however only the one signpost and then 5 kilometers of guessing the way ! From the village of Naillat take the road out to the east at the back of the village, turn left at the cemetary, cross over the river and then go to the left. The Pierre Bercé is then... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Pierre Euberte | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Creuse (23) | Saw from a distance | 22nd Jul 2005 | I thought that I perhaps saw this dolmen on its hillside position, but I could find nowhere to park, and saw no obvious way through the houses and fields to get to where I thought it was. | 204 | 176 | |||
| Saint-Hilaire Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Creuse (23) | Couldn't find | 22nd Jul 2005 | I could not find this, despite it being clearly marked on my ign 1:100,000 map. However, it seem to be no longer marked on any new maps, I wonder whether it is a casualty of the N.145 trunk road, or whether it is still to be found somewhere near to the big road junction. | 204 | 175 | |||
| Pierre Folle de Saint-Priest-la-Feuille | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Creuse (23) | Visited | 22nd Jul 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | What a wonderful little dolmen this is, and so well kept and presented too. What a lovely surprise. It's a bit of a struggle to find from the village of Saint-Priest-la-Feuille (which is on one of the routes to Santiago de Compostella), but take the road towards Lizieres and eventually there are lit... Read More |
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| Menhir des Fichades | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 22nd Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | At the hamlet of Grand Bagnols, on the D.7 Road, take the little side lane to the south (best to park and walk). The Menhir des Fichades is signposted and only a couple of hundred metres from the road. It stands in a field beside a wood, just above a little stream, and I suspect it was a natural roc... Read More |
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| Bagnol Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 22nd Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Just beside the D.7 Road to the east of the station at Fromental is found this nice little dolmen, with a parking space and picnic area. The egg shaped capstone covers an oval chamber about 3 metres long and 2 metres wide. The pointed end points to the west, sitting on four slide slabs about 1.8 met... Read More |
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| Menhir du Pic | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Couldn't find | 22nd Jul 2005 | I could not find this. | 204 | 171 | |||
| Rouffignac Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 22nd Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | From the hamlet of Rouffignac, this little dolmen is signposted and easily found, about 400 metres along the track opposite the farm, first to the west, and then south (left) into a little recently cleared area amongst thet trees. The dolmen is a simple thing, with a 2.5 by 2.5 metre capstone sat on... Read More |
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| Pierre a Cupules (Arnac) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 22nd Jul 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | On a green grassy area at the southern edge of the village of Arnac, is found this nice standing stone, standing about 2.5 metres tall. But the noticeable thing about this stone are all the cupules, or cupmarks, engraved into it.
Not immediately obvious in the mid day sunshine, but the first mar... Read More |
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| Ceinturat Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 22nd Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | "Megalithes" are signposted to the south of Montemart, and following these signs takes you first to a parking place from where a 700 metre walk to the Ceinturat Menhir can be taken. I was surprised by how big it is, as it is taller than 5 metres and looks like the top has been broken off. It has a f... Read More |
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| Betoulle dolmen 3 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Saw from a distance | 21st Jul 2005 | Some stone slab remains at the base of a tree in the field the other side of the road. | 204 | 167 | |||
| Betoulle dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 21st Jul 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | I spent quite some time looking for the second dolmen here, in all the hedges and adjacent fields nearby. But never just a few yards across the same field, where a large slab can be found ! Doh ! | 204 | 166 |
| Betoulle dolmen 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 21st Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is another nice dolmen, found just inside a fieldby the roadside a few kilometres south of Berneuil. You can find it by turning left at the crossroads near La Lue dolmen, and travelling a couple of kilometres until just past the big road on the right.
It is a nice tall dolmen with a nice ca... Read More |
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| Borderie Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 21st Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | A couple of kilometres west of Berneuil, along the D.83, turn right at the crossroads besides the La Lue dolmen. After a couple of hundred metres there is a trackway to the right, and signposted "dolmen", and then walk along there for another couple of hundred metres.
This is a very pleasant and... Read More |
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| La Lue Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 21st Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | To the west of Berneuil, travel a couple of kilometres along the D.83 and you come to this dolmen at a bend in the road, just after a crossroads, where it is about 30 metres into the field. It has a 4 m by 2 m chamber facing east, made of two long sidestones and with two smaller stones at the back o... Read More |
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| Pierre-Levée (Chiroux) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 21st Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Atop a little hill overlooking a pond can be found this fine dolmen, 150 metres from the road and signposted with a little parking area. It's chamber is a sort of Vee shape, about 5 metres long and up to 3 metres wide, with its entrance to the east, on a bearing of about 100°. The single large caps... Read More |
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| Dolmen au Grand-Fâ | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Couldn't find | 21st Jul 2005 | I found no sign of any dolmen or other megalithic monument in this village, but there is a place called Pierre Brune on the 1:25000 map to the northwest of the village near the rubbish dump. | 204 | 161 | |||
| Villaigue Dolmen 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 21st Jul 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Well, I just HAD to come here, to the village of St Martin l'Ars, didn't I. All those years ago, when I started researching and cataloging French megalithic sites, I found two dolmens recorded in the community of St Martin l'Ars, possibly via the Merimee online database. Some time later, I had decid... Read More |
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| Villaigue Dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 21st Jul 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Well, I just HAD to come here, to the village of St Martin l'Ars, didn't I. All those years ago, when I started researching and cataloging French megalithic sites, I found two dolmens recorded in the community of St Martin l'Ars, possibly via the Merimee online database. Some time later, I had decid... Read More |
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| Arlait Dolmens | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 21st Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Being more careful this time, and not in so much of a rush, I was able to find this dolmen. Follow the signs to the north of the village of Chateau Larcher for about a kilometre, and just before the road gets to the top of the hill, stop. There is a little dirt track which crosses the road, and if y... Read More |
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| Vaintray menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 21st Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Just to the east of the hamlet of Vaintray, and about 100 metres south down a little cross track from the road to Aslonnes, can be found this little menhir, stood in a little grassy clearing amongst bushes in a region left clear of the fields. It is a small triangular stone, only about 1.3 metres ta... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Laverré | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 21st Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This dolmen is a kilometre or so to the south of the village of Andillé, and can be found in the round wooded area behind the lone house to the northwest of the road. The wooded area is perhaps the remains of a tumulus surrounding the dolmen, which is a nicely made rectangular dolmen. A single caps... Read More |
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| Pouzac Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 21st Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Even having the detailed map, finding this dolmen was not easy. Go south along the track from the east end of the hamlet of Pouzac, then go right at the crossroads of trackways. Go along here for 100 metres and then the dolmen is to be found in the southern side of the southern hedge, and is getting... Read More |
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| Château-Larcher Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Saw from a distance | 20th Jul 2005 | While trying to find a campsite at Chateau Larcher, I saw lots of signposts to Dolmen. I tried to follow them, they pointed out of the town and then I could find no more. So this was another two dolmens not found on this very frustrating day. However, right outside the chateau, there is a big cross ... Read More |
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| Pouzac Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Couldn't find | 20th Jul 2005 | I could find absolutely no sign of this. I should have the few minutes extra in the shop to have a look at or buy the 1:25000 map, rather than think I could go without. | 204 | 153 | |||
| Andillé Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Saw from a distance | 20th Jul 2005 | 4 | About 50 metres to the south of the road (Route de Dolmen), in a field of sweetcorn, I could just see the top of this dolmen. There was no obvious way of getting to it to have a proper look, but it looks to be the remains of a little simple dolmen. | 204 | 152 | ||
| Vaintray menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Couldn't find | 20th Jul 2005 | Lots of new houses have been built in the area around this menhir, and I could find nowhere to get behind them to have a look. It is all very busy, narrow roads around here. | 204 | 151 | |||
| Dolmen de Laverré | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Couldn't find | 20th Jul 2005 | Most of the fields around here have a bunch of bushes in the middle of them. I went over to two, but they both looked just like field clearance piles. There wasn't anywhere to properly park, nor to turn round and go back to where I think the dolmen must be, so I missed this one. I must try harder. | 204 | 150 | |||
| La Pierre-Levée (Poitiers) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 20th Jul 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | Leaving a major shopping complex having been to buy a new camera, I saw a sign to dolmen, so just followed the signs. Past the Gymnasium de dolmen, past a school and along Rue du Dolmen, and there it is. This suburban dolmen is in a little well tended garden park area amongst the houses in southeast... Read More |
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| Roche d'Avon | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Couldn't find | 20th Jul 2005 | In the book I have about Bougon, there is a map showing a dolmen at Roche D'Avon. A drive past the area and there is nothing obvious to see except a major farm of this name. | 204 | 148 | |||
| Pierre Levée de Bougon | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Couldn't find | 20th Jul 2005 | Unless this is another name for the Dolmen des Sept Chemins, I could find nothing for this. | 204 | 147 | |||
| Les Vinettes | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Couldn't find | 20th Jul 2005 | In the book I have about Bougon, there is a map showing a dolmen and tumulus at Les Vinettes. A drive past the area and there is nothing obvious to see. | 204 | 146 | |||
| Les Doignons | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Couldn't find | 20th Jul 2005 | In the book I have about Bougon, there is a map showing a dolmen and tumulus at Les Doignons. A drive past the area and there is nothing obvious to see. | 204 | 145 | |||
| Croissonnière Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 20th Jul 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Up on the hill to the southeast of the village of Nanteuil, right behind a road of new houses (Rue du Dolmen) can be found the remains of this little dolmen, a few hundred metres walk from the road. It is not much of a dolmen now, more just a large capstone about 4.5 m by 3.5 m, and a pile of stones... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Garenne (La Mothe) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 19th Jul 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | The Dolmen de la Garenne at Villedieu-de-Comblé is fairly easily found from the southern end of the village by following Allée du Dolmen up to the top of the hill and then walking along the footpath to the left into the woods. This is in all just a few hundred metres walk.
The dolmen is in a c... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Bourg (Exoudun) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 19th Jul 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | The remains of Exoudun dolmen are to be found less than 100 metres from the village centre and road junction, and it is signposted from there. It is a bit of a wreck, and the 5m by 3m capstone has fallen to the south with the collapse down the hill of the side stone. The back stone is still upright.... Read More |
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| Dolmen des Sept Chemins | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 19th Jul 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | La Pierre Levée, Sept Chemins dolmen can be found not far from the Bougon necropolis, which is just a couple of kilometres away. The dolmen, just to the south of the Sept Chemins crossroads, has been recently restored, and sits in a little area with parking and notice board. The chamber is about 3m... Read More |
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| Bougon Tumulus F | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 19th Jul 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Bougon Tumulus F is a wonderfully reconstructed three stage construction. The earliest part, F1 has a small round dolmen within a cairn made of drystone walling with a corbelled beehive roof. This is said to be the oldest dated man made room in the world. Fantastic. F2 is a long thin construction ad... Read More |
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| Bougon Tumulus E | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 19th Jul 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Bougon Tumulus E is a rectangular shaped tumulus, containing two dolmenic chambers. One of these would have been covered by a large capstone on top of slabs, while the other was almost certainly corbelled. | 204 | 139 |
| Bougon Tumulus D | Cairn | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 19th Jul 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Bougon Tumulus D seems to be more a defining line separating the necropolis into two parts. It is about 70 metres in length, but only 1 or 2 metres in width, and it winds in a serpentlike form between the quarries used to get the stone to build the other tumuli. | 204 | 138 |
| Bougon Tumulus C | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 19th Jul 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Bougon Tumulus C another large round tumulus, with a single small chamber within, about 2 metres by 1 metre. The entrance to this is now open, but the original was sealed. Adjoining on the back of this is another large rectangular tumulus with drystone walling. | 204 | 137 |
| Bougon Tumulus B | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 19th Jul 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Bougon Tumulus B is a long thin tumulus adjoining A, within which there are two dolmenic chambers, and also two funerary pits in the top. A superb reconstruction has been done here. | 204 | 136 |
| Bougon Tumulus A | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 19th Jul 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Bougon Tumulus A is a large round mound with a single dolmenic chamber within it. It's a massive dolmen, with a capstone estimated to weigh 90 tonnes on top of a 5 metre by 5 metre chamber 2.5 metres high. It is incredible. It is a pity the french graffitti disease has got here and people are carvin... Read More |
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| Bougon Tumulus | Barrow Cemetery | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 19th Jul 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | A magnificent site not far from the town of St-Maixent-l'Ecole, and signposted for miles around. It was about €4 to get in (2005), and this includes everything. I spent more than three hours here, and went back the next day for more, as it had shut before I had finished seeing everything I wanted ... Read More |
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| Musée des Tumulus de Bougon | Museum | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 19th Jul 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | I don't really know where to start except to say that it's not far from the town of St-Maixent-l'Ecole, and signposted for miles around. It was about €4 to get in, and this includes everything. I spent more than three hours here, and went back the next day for more, as it had shut before I had fin... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Fontenille | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Couldn't find | 19th Jul 2005 | From the village of Faye-l'Abbesse I tried to find the Fontenille double dolmen, hoping that the village had a map with it marked, but there wasn't. All it has is lots of lorries and a difficult traffic scheme. I found a track to Fontenilles farm, but it was all closed off and gated with no way thro... Read More |
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| Pierre Levée du Grand Gât | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 19th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A couple of kilometres south of the village of Moutiers-Sous-Argenton, on the little lane to nowhere really, and there is a sign to dolmen, 250m. I walked at least a kilometre along the main track without finding it ! The trick is to not stay on the main track, but to keep straight on always, and ye... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit le Gras du Chien | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Just north of the main dolmen are lots more stones, which seem to make one large, and one small chamber adjoining the first cairn. These are probably to the side of what was the entranceway, facing to the east. | 204 | 130 |
| Pierre Levée (St Léger-de-Montbrun) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Just to the north of the road from the town of Thouars to Loudon, a couple of kilometres east of Thouars, can be found this complex of stones. Firstly, there is a simple dolmen, 3 metres by 2 metres, within a restored circular cairn about 10 metres in diameter. The single capstone sits on two side s... Read More |
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| Monpalais Dolmen 6 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | As I was walking back to the campervan, I noticed a tree and some bushes in the middle of the field on the other side of the road. Now, why would they be there ? Yep, it's another dolmen, but not in very good condition. Like the others, it has been tidied up, and now consists of a chamber in a littl... Read More |
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| Monpalais Dolmen 5 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Further west from the first four dolmens, towards the new houses, can be found another little dolmen in the middle of a field, which again has been nicely restored. It is a simple thing with a 2 m by 2 m capstone sitting on top of two side slabs and a back stone. It opens up to the east on about 060... Read More |
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| Monpalais Dolmen 4 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 5 | 3 | 4 | A few hundred metres north of the first dolmens can be easily seen and reached this large dolmen, which from the south looks like it is going to be an Angevin dolmen. However, upon reaching it, it is a V shaped dolmen in an oval mound. Another superb bit of restoration, this large dolmen sits in an ... Read More |
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| Monpalais Dolmen 3 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 5 | 3 | 4 | This is another small simple dolmen, about 150 metres to the west of the large dolmen 4. A 3 m by 2 m capstone sits on what appears to be two side stones and a back stone, with the entrance looking to the north. The stones sit in a little 7 metre diameter mound of stones, and in fact the chamber is ... Read More |
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| Monpalais Dolmen 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Just 50 metres west of Taizé No 1 is this poor little thing. It also looks to have been recently excavated and restored, but there can't have been much to work on. There is a collapsed capstone and two side stones, and also probably the backstone, but it is now all nearly flat to the ground. For wh... Read More |
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| Monpalais Dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 5 | 3 | 4 | This is a beautifully restored dolmen with entry couloir sitting on and in a little stone cairn. The chamber is about 3 metres by 2 metres opening to the east, with a single stone acting to close off half the entry. It has a single capstone covering only the western end. Around it is a double walled... Read More |
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| Monpalais | Barrow Cemetery | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | There are a couple of dolmens marked here on my map, but when I get here there is a sign and a parking area, and before I even get out of the van I can see four dolmens ! In all there are remains of about a dozen dolmens here, many of which have been recently restored. It is a pity about the busy ro... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Champs Lochet | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 2 | 4 | 3 | This dolmen can be found about a kilometre walk along a farm track to the east of the Chantebrault dolmens, and then into a field by a wooded copse. It is fairly ruinous, just a large capstone balanced at a serious angle between the ground and one side support stone. It's about 4 metres square, and ... Read More |
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| La Petite Pierre Levée (Chantebrault) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 1 | 2 | 4 | Just about 80 metres from the first dolmen, in the next field, is a large stone, which look to be the remains of another dolmen. | 204 | 120 |
| La Grande Pierre Levée (Chantebrault) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This dolmen is not far off the side of the road up on a windy ridge a couple of kilometres south of the village of St Laon. I cannot figure out what it is the remains of, it could be an allée couverte with lateral entry, or it could be a double chambered dolmen with the entrance between the two. Wh... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit la Pierre-de-Verre | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | In the back garden of a house to the north west of the St Laon village centre, and not far from a busy road, can be found the remains of this. Whatever this dolmen was, it has been altered about with quite a bit, including fairly recently being dug into on the west side to be made into a goat house.... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Briande 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | A few more hundred metres across another field from the first dolmen, and there are the remains of another fairly large dolmen. This one is clearly of the Angevin type with a 5 m by 3 m main chamber with a single large capstone now fallen into the middle. At the southeast there is the remains of a c... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Briande 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 3 | A couple of hundred metres away from the large tumulus, towards the railway line and across a field can be found a nice dolmen 6 metres long, 2 metres wide and 2 metres high. Three capstones sit on three pairs of side stones, but there is no evidence of any entrance or closing slabs. | 204 | 116 |
| Tumulus de Chassigny | Round Barrow(s) | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This is a blinking great big mound, it must be 50 metres in diameter and 10 metres high. It looks to have been well dug into and messed about with, but there is nothing obvious to see except for the large mound. I wonder what is underneath. | 204 | 115 |
| La Pierre-Levée de Maisonneuve | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Couldn't find | 18th Jul 2005 | This is marked on my ign 1:100,000 map, but down a dead end lane into a forest southeast of Loudun. I had a good look round, but there were no signs or anything, and in the thick bushy forest I didn't really stand a chance. | 204 | 114 | |||
| Le Carroir Bon-Air | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Indre-et-Loire (37) | Visited | 18th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Up in the hills overlooking the Vienne river, in the Chinon wine producing area can be found the remains of this dolmen. It is signposted, just to the north of Ligré and then just about a hundred metres walk along a track from the road.
It is a fairly large dolmen with main chamber 6 m by 3 m, ... Read More |
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| l'Accomodement Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 17th Jul 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Passing again, I tried again to find this menhir. This stone is actually right beside the railway cutting on the eastern side, just to the south of the new ring road, and visible from it. It is on the hilltop, but fallen - perhaps just put there when they were building the railway - who knows ? The ... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Griffier | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 17th Jul 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | This dolmen can be found in a field beside the road running west from the village of Coulon, after about a kilometre. The remains are enclosed in a clump of bushes and a tree, about 20 metres from the road. The capstone has collapsed, leaving what at first look is not much more than a heap of stones... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Fontaine au Son 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 17th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | There are two dolmens here, about 30 metres apart, near to the Fontaines de Son water treatment plant. The western dolmen is slightly bigger, and in a bit better condition. It seems to have a north south oriented chamber, with two capstones surviving, covering the southern part of the 8 metre long c... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Fontaine au Son 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 17th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | There are two dolmens here, about 30 metres apart, near to the Fontaines de Son water treatment plant. The eastern dolmen is now fenced off, partly because of the water works, but probably also because it looks to be in a dangerous state, It is an Angevin dolmen with a 4m by 2.5 m chamber underneath... Read More |
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| Vaon Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 17th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This nice dolmen can be found about a kilometre southeast of the village of Trois-Moutiers, and is easy to find because it is signposted. It is about a 300 metre walk from where you can park near to a barn. It is a fairly complete Angevin dolmen with a 5m by 2.5m main chamber fronted at the east end... Read More |
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| La Pierre Crapaud | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 17th Jul 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | This dolmen can be found a few hundred metres down a track to the south west of the village of Trois-Moutiers, where it resides just inside a field which was full of sunflowers when I visited, which meant that i could not get right to the dolmen. What I could see is a large capstone sat on top of so... Read More |
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| La Roche Vernaise | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Couldn't find | 17th May 2005 | 1 | 2 | 4 | On top of a hillock near a junction of lanes to the west of La Roche Vernaise is a big jumble of large stones. It is hard to know whether this is the actual dolmen, or just a load of field clearance stones, but it was the only likely candidate I found in this area. Perhaps it has all been fairly rec... Read More |
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| Dolmen d'Epennes | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 17th Jul 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Not marked on any of my maps, but I found this mentioned from the same source that I found out the information about the nearby Pierre Folle. It is just to the east of the hamlet of Epennes, south of Bournand, about 300 metres from the road junction and across a field.
It looks to be a fairly st... Read More |
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| La Pierre-Folle allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Couldn't find | 17th Jul 2005 | To the north of Bournand, but in a very vaguely marked place on my map, is marked the Pierre Folle allée couverte. In the village of Bournand, there is a sign pointing to the Pierre Folle, but as is often the case, there are no more signs later, and try as I might, without a detailed map I could no... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Pierrelée | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 16th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Just to the south of Montsoreau, on the hills above the Loire valley can be found this strange dolmen. It was difficult to find and to park nearby, but its close to the Tete Loire cycle route, and signposted about 50 metres into a field under some trees. What's left of this Angevine dolmen is still... Read More |
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| l'Accomodement Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Couldn't find | 16th Jul 2005 | Somewhere between a new major road junction and a railway junction, in farmland. I tried, including driving round many farm tracks, but could find no signs of this at all. | 204 | 102 | |||
| Grande Pierre de la Prée de Thouars | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Couldn't find | 16th Jul 2005 | Supposedly near the river Thouet south of Lenay, and it looked easy to find from the map. I looked, but found nothing, despite walking for what seemed like miles. It must be behind the farm somewhere. | 204 | 101 | |||
| La Pierre de Lenay | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Couldn't find | 16th Jul 2005 | This menhir is supposedly right by the river Thouet at Lenay, and looked as if it would be easy to find. I looked, and looked again, but found nothing. Must be on private land. | 204 | 100 | |||
| Menhir dit de Grésil | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Couldn't find | 16th Jul 2005 | There are three menhirs marked on my 1:100,000 map here in the region of the ring road to the south of the town of Montreuil-Bellay. I struggled to find any of them, so went to the local Super U to check out the 1:25,000 map. Turns out there are 4 menhirs to be found, and three castles, one of which... Read More |
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| Pierre Fiche de Chacé | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 16th Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | This is a nice menhir to find, a few hundred metres walk along a track near to the river Thouet, just to the west of the village of Chacé. The menhir is about 4 metres high, 2 metres wide and with a sloping top, as so many do have. It is signposted from the road, and they go to the effort of cuttin... Read More |
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| La Vacherie Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 16th Jul 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | This is a nice little site, and easy to find to the south of Distré, as it is signposted. The dolmenis in a little woodland clearing in a marshy area, which makes it nice and green and shady on this hot afternoon. The dolmen is what I am now taking to be a standard Angevine dolmen, with a 4m by 3m ... Read More |
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| La Pierre Couverte de Mousseau | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 16th Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | This is a fairly ruined Angevine type dolmen, in a field of sunflowers just to the east of the village of Ulmes, reached by a couple of hundred metres walk in a gap in the crops. The chamber would have been about 4 metres wide by 5 metres long, with an entranceway at the northeast, which is several ... Read More |
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| Dolmens du Bois de la Chenaise | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Couldn't find | 16th Jul 2005 | This is within a fenced off and private area. There was no way I could get to see this one, which is in a wood on top of a hill. | 204 | 95 | |||
| Le Petit Dolmen de Bagneux | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Saw from a distance | 16th Jul 2005 | High up on a cliff edge (because of a quarry) this dolmen can just about be seen through the trees from the roadside next to the cemetary. However, its on private land, and a proper viewing is not possible. It looks like a pretty big dolmen despite its name, and perhaps a more typical Angevine dolme... Read More |
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| Le Grand Dolmen de Bagneux | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 16th Jul 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | This is now round the back and in the garden of a bar, but not in a very nice area of town. When I was here, it was €3 to visit the dolmen and a little visitor centre, but nearly impossible to get decent photos as its to enclosed between all the surrounding roads.
The dolmen itself is massive,... Read More |
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| Pierre Couverte de Corbeau | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 16th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This one is quite easy to find, as it is signposted from the nearby hamlet of Bournée, and there is a little picnic area there, despite nowhere decent to park a camper van. It is on top of a hill, in a nice shady wooded area, surrounded by vines, roses and sunflowers, with Troglodyte villages and d... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Madeleine (Gennes) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 16th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Went back as my photos were out of focus, having forgotten to switch off the macro function yesterday. | 204 | 91 |
| Menhir du Bois Gilbert | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Just outside of Gennes beside the D.751 road is this pointy topped menhir, near to the corner of a field by a cement works. It is about 4 metres tall, and of the local sarsen stone. | 204 | 90 |
| Dolmen de la Motte | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Just to the east of the village of Chemellier, and actually signposted from it, this dolmen is about 800 metres walk from where the road runs out, and just inside the forest. While I was there, there were a couple of deer mooching around nearby, and also a wasps nest inside the dolmen. Beware ! Unti... Read More |
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| Caillère Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Despite not being marked on any of my maps, this dolmen is easy to find, right at the side of the street in the middle of Caillère, near to the manor. It's about 3.5 metres square, with four large sidestones and a single capstone. It shows evidence of having been lived in, with steps down into it, ... Read More |
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| Etiau standing stones | Standing Stones | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 5 | Several standing stones to the north of Etiau Dolmen at the road junction. | 204 | 87 | ||
| Etiau Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | In an area to the west of the hamlet, in an area rich in natural rock outcrops, can be found this strange little dolmen. It would appear that a large capstone has been positioned over a natural chamber, which is about 4 metres by 2 metres, this being a sort of split in the rocks. But there is more t... Read More |
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| Bajouillière Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | Down a long track from near Bourgneuf, when you eventually get there this dolmen has parking and a picnic area. It is also the only one I have seen all day in this area that is signposted. Bizarrely, there is an owl hooting somewhere nearby, although it is 4:00pm on a scorching hot afternoon. This i... Read More |
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| Butte-aux-Houx alignement | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 2 | Try as I might, I couldn't find any of these menhirs shown on the ign 1:25000 map. The map shows 5 menhirs lined up along the ridge, but the forest and undergrowth here is very thick, and there are many private keep out signs. Some of the area they are shown in is being bulldozed and flattened, no d... Read More |
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| Dolmen des Varennes de Cumeray 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | A hundred or so metres southeast of the menhir is this difficult to find dolmen, buried deep in the undergrowth. Although the capstone has completely collapsed and broken into several pieces, its easy to see that there was a rectangular chamber, about 3.5m by 2 metres with an entrance to the east. I... Read More |
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| Pierre-de-Nézan | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | This stone is a longish walk, more than a kilometre, from anywhere, and can be found near to a junction of forest tracks. It is about 3 metres long, with a slanted top, but is leaning so much that I'd say it was fallen ! Thankfully most of the walk is in the shade, it is so hot and humid today, 42°... Read More |
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| Menhir des Varennes de Cumeray | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | This 3.5 metre tall triangular slab of rock is set upright in the forest at the top of the hill above Cumeray. Easily found along a forest track after a few hundred metres walk. Beware the vicious brambles surrounding it - they tore my shirt while trying to get a picture. | 204 | 81 |
| Pierre-qui-Pousse (Le Sale Village) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This six metre tall menhir stands just beside the road between Le Sale Village and Nideville, to the west of Gennes, amongst some modern houses. In fact, it is on the opposite side of the road to where it is marked on my ign 1:25000 map, and looks like it might have been moved here fairly recently. ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Forêt (Gennes) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | About half a kilometre to the northwest of La Pierre Longue, and at a junction of lanes can be found this dolmen, right beside the road. It's a typical Angevin dolmen, with its main chamber being 4 metres by 2.5 metres and rectangular, made with large single slabs along the sides and back. It has tw... Read More |
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| Pierre Longue du Bouchet | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A fine menhir, standing around 3.5 metres tall near the top of a hill amongst the fields and forests. Its a nice triangular shaped slab of the local sarsen like stone. It is fairly easily found with the ign 1:25000 map, a few hundred metres walk along a track from the roadside above Bouchet. | 204 | 78 |
| Dolmen de la Pagerie | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This monster dolmen can be found a few hundred metres up the GR.XX footpath from near the farm of the same name, just to the southwest of Gennes. It is another of the enormous dolmens they have around here, with the main chamber being 10 metres long by 5 metres wide, made using enormous slabs of the... Read More |
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| Avort Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Found about 80 metres to the west of the D.70 road southwest of Gennes, with a trackway leading to it. Its a typical Angevine dolmen with a 4 m by 2.5 m chamber, made using large slabs covered by a single large capstone. The entrance, and its two porch stones, is to the east. It is still substantial... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Madeleine (Gennes) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 15th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | What a monster this is, its bigger than my house ! Easily found just to the south of Gennes, beside the D.69 road to Doué, at the top of the hill. Cannot be missed. It's a fairly simple thing, but the proportions are enormous.
The rectangular chamber is 11 metres long, 4.5 metres wide and 3.5 m... Read More |
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| Beaupréau Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 14th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Thirty metres to the west of the dolmen is a nice pointed menhir, probably about 3 metres high, but in a fenced off field with cows in, so I left it alone. | 204 | 73 |
| Beaupréau Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 14th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | About 600 metres walk round the back of the farm can be found this dolmen and its outlying menhir, which can clearly be seen from the road. The farmer was only too pleased to point it out to me. It's a fairly large Angevine dolmen, with chamber 4 metres by 3 metres, with a single capstone sitting on... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Colleterie | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Couldn't find | 14th Jul 2005 | I had no chance of finding this, although I tried very hard for quite some length of time. The roads around here are all barricaded off so that they can build the new motorway north of Angers. I don't think that the dolmen marked on my map will be in the path of the motorway. I had a long walk round... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Romme | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Couldn't find | 14th Jul 2005 | I saw no evidence of this one, supposedly just to the northeast of the ruined chateau, beside the river Romme. The best option is that it is somewhere down a private and gated trackway. | 204 | 70 | |||
| Dolmen du Champ-du-Ruisseau | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 14th Jul 2005 | 3 | 2 | 3 | On a signposted village walk, just to the east of the village of Villemaison can be found this dolmen. It is a little allée couverte about 6 metres long and still partly within a mound, and has four capstones still covering the passage. There are also some entry blocking slabs.
I was just about... Read More |
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| La Pierre Couvretière (Ancenis) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | The remains of this dolmen can be found by following the road along the north bank of the river Loire to the east of Ancenis chateau for about 800 metres, beyond the little pleasure boat port and into the industrial estate. It is signposted, and there is a little grassy open area between industrial ... Read More |
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| Pierres Meslières Menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Pierres Meslières, menhir 2: This menhir is between 3 and 4 metres tall, with a lot of ivy growing on it, besides the trackway at the bottom of the vineyard to the south of the rock outcrop. It is in need of a haircut. | 204 | 67 |
| Pierres Meslières Menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th Jul 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Pierres Meslières, menhir 1: This is a squat little menhir, half hidden in the hedge and bank between the railway and the vineyard. It is possible that ground level is now much higher here than it was, the railway line being about 10 metres lower. As I write, a TGV whizzes past. The remaining menhi... Read More |
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| Pierre Meslière | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th Jul 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | This was most unexpected, I saw a sign to this from St Géréon, so just followed the signs. There is a large rocky outcrop high above the river Loire, around which evidence of man living here has been found dating back to the paleolithic. From the neolithic period, when the settlement was extended,... Read More |
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| La Pierre Blanche (Oudon) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This is a massive lump of white quartz, more than 4 metres tall and 3 metres wide, in a vineyard up on the hills overlooking the beautiful Loire river, to the north of Oudon. As seems to be the case with this quartz, it keeps lovely and cool on a scorching hot day, and is nice and sparkly. | 204 | 64 |
| La Pierre Percée (La Chapelle-Basse-Mer) | Modern Stone Circle etc | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | I dont know whether there ever was an ancient menhir here, but today there is a modern sculpture of a woman looking out over the Loire, with a hole of course, and its rather nice. | 204 | 63 | |
| L'Armoirie menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 13th Jul 2005 | I could not find the forest track which leads to this menhir, again there are no signposts obvious, and this stone is not even marked on the ign 1:25000 map, so I didn’t spend long looking.
Supposedly it’s a 1.5 metre tall menhir that has been broken, standing to the southwest of the alignem... Read More |
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| Kornevec Alignement | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This alignement can be found just to the south of Loge Charlotte, and is signposted. The alignement is a row of menhirs, now nearly all fallen, which runs for about 300 metres through the forest on a bearing of 065°. The stones are all about 3 metres in length, and are spaced at about 4 metre inter... Read More |
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| Lann-er-Bein allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 13th Jul 2005 | I had a quick look for this, now to be found somewhere in the outskirts and building land of Camors, but could see no signs or obvious place for it to be, so moved on. | 204 | 60 | |||
| Toul Er Rest Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 13th Jul 2005 | I had a quick look for this, now to be found somewhere in the outskirts and building land of Camors, but could see no signs or obvious place for it to be, so moved on. | 204 | 59 | |||
| L'Etoile allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 13th Jul 2005 | After all the time spent looking for the previous stones, I thought that I'd best not go on another long walk through the forest to try and find this one. My notes and books say that it is difficult to find, so I left it alone. | 204 | 58 | |||
| Allée Couverte de Men Braz | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jul 2005 | 1 | 4 | 4 | In the vicinity of the Men-Braz are many other stones, which I am lead to believe are the remains of a much wrecked dolmen. | 204 | 57 |
| Men Braz menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jul 2005 | 3 | 5 | 4 | I wasted best part of an hour for this stone to clear of about 30 to 40 scouts having lunch and playing games here. Eventually they left so I could look at the stone on my own. It is easy to find from the L'Etoiles roundabout, where there is a few parking places. Take the forest track south for a co... Read More |
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| Men-Bihan Allée Couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jul 2005 | 2 | 4 | 3 | About 50 metres from Men-Bihan is a line of 5 flat stones, looking very much like they have been placed there. There might be remnants of stones underneath. The line is about 10 metres long, and is oriented roughly east to west. Is this the remains of an allée couverte, or just natural ? | 204 | 55 |
| Menhir de Men Bihan | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | The "little stone" is well hidden deep in the forest. I found it as much by luck as by good navigation using a detailed map and asking people. There are no signs or anything to help you, and it is 100 metres away from the nearest footpath. The menhir is about 1.8 metres tall, and a nice white granit... Read More |
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| Petit-Resto menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jul 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | This menhir can be seen at the edge of the road, but it is difficult to stop or turn round here. It is a sort of triangular stone, perhaps 2 metres high, just at the edge of a field. It has weird weathering, and looks like it has got a tide mark on it. | 204 | 53 |
| Soldats-de-Saint-Cornély | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jul 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | This site consists of three parallel rows of stones, about 140 in all, running southeast to northwest, spaced at about 40 metres from each other, but what a terrible state these poor soldiers have fallen into. Not only has a road junction been built right into the middle of them, and a forest grown ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Roh Du 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This simple dolmen, still half within its small round mound, can be found a few hundred metres walk into the forest from a signposted parking place nearby. It has been dated to between 2000 and 2400 BC, and has a very simple form, reminiscent to the dolmens to be found further to the south of France... Read More |
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| Kermorvan Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This is the remains of a little dolmen at the roadside to the southwest of Moustoir-Ac. There is a single capstone, approximately round with diameter 2.5 metres, sitting on top of four or five uprights. There are a few more stones around the area. It is possible that this is the end of an allée cou... Read More |
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| Menhir du Mené | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This tall thin menhir is built into a roadside bank, and is more than 4 metres tall from the top of that. If the ground level is at the road level, the menhir would be 7 metres tall. It is difficult to get to see due to all the undergrowth, but when round the back, in amongst the brambles, it looks ... Read More |
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| Cosquéro Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 12th Jul 2005 | The trackway through to this menhir was barricaded off with private signs on it, so I didn’t get to the menhir. It is said to be the largest still standing menhir in Morbihan. | 204 | 48 | |||
| Kermarquer menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | This superb menhir can be found in a little woodland clearing, not far from the roadside to the southwest of Moustoir-Ac. It is signposted, and there is a little parking area.
The menhir, which is slightly leaning, must be getting on for 7 metres tall, and it has been mostly shaped and smoothed,... Read More |
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| Kerara Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is a nice shaped menhir, just under 4 metres tall, standing in a little clearing in an area of many natural granite rocks. It is just beside the road and has a parking place and signpost, from which it is about a 50 metre walk. Its got some lovely shade for this very hot and sunny afternoon. It... Read More |
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| Larcuste cairns 3 | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | To the south of the two restored cairns, it is clear to see that there is a very faint raise in the adjacent field which is the ploughed out remains of a further cairn. In fact there were once two more cairns here. | 204 | 45 |
| Larcuste cairns 2 | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Cairn 2 is a slightly bigger mound, with only a single eastern facing entrance. From this entrance, the passageway continues for about 10 metres into the cairn, and from which 6 chambers open out onto the sides. Each chamber is topped with a capstone, 4 of which remain today. Most of the walling is ... Read More |
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| Larcuste cairns 1 | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Cairn 1, the northern of the two, contains two dolmens with entry passageways, which both open to the east. The chambers are made up of alternating slabs and drystone walling. Only the northern chamber has its capstone in place, along with one of its passageway covers.
If the reconstruction is a... Read More |
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| Larcuste Cairns | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | The remains of these chambered cairns are easily found by following the plentiful roadsigns a couple of kilometres to the south of Colpo. This well known and important site occupies a hilltop position in open countryside, but has a large area set aside around it. What it consists of these days are t... Read More |
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| Kerjagu Menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Just to the north of the allée couverte and almost in the garden of a house are a couple of menhirs, one standing about 3 metres tall, the other broken and fallen beside it. This fallen stone would have probably been taller than the one still standing. | 204 | 41 |
| Kerjagu allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A pleasant little allée couverte which cn be found round the back of the farm of the same name. Although the eastern end is very damaged, the passageway can be seen to be about 10 metres long. Many of the sidestones lean on each other, and with the lack of capstones I wonder whether it is of the Ar... Read More |
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| Kerarmel Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This nice pointed deltoid menhir must be over 5 metres in height, and is easily found just beside the D.778 road south of St Jean-Brévelay by the farm of the same name. It seems a strange position to me, on a hillside. It has a chestnut tree growing beside it, and from many angles it looks like the... Read More |
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| Lann Doaur menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This menhir, more than 4 metres tall (4.5m), is right beside the dirt track between Kertuhet and Kercado. Its almost 3 metres in width, but less than a metre thick | 204 | 38 |
| Kerherne-Bodunan dolmen | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 3 | 5 | 3 | This lovely monument is to be found in some lovely oak woodland high on top of a hill overlooking a stream. It is signposted from nearby, but there is nowhere really to park, and it’s a fair walk along a track and then up a woodland footpath.
The monument is a strange one, which uses a natural... Read More |
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| La Moustoir stèle | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Just round the southwest side of the little chapel at Moustoir can be found this nice granite stele. Its about 2.3 metres tall and nicely shaped, with a flat face facing to the southeast. Onto this face has been carved a cross. | 204 | 36 |
| Kergonfalz Tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | To the west of Bigan, and signposted from there, can be found this dolmen almost completely still within its large mound, just over the road from the easily found allée couverte. The mound must be about 25 metres in diameter, and up to 5 metres high within woodland. The rectangular chamber is about... Read More |
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| Kergonfalz allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Just to the west of Bigan, and signposted from there, can be found the remains of this allée couverte right at a road junction. The allée is 9 metres long and oriented to the south, at a bearing of 185°. At the north end there is a closing slab and a little ante chamber behind that. One stone has... Read More |
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| St Jean-Brévelay stèle | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Right out the back of the church, is the remains of an iron age stele, almost used as a roadsign. | 204 | 33 |
| St Jean-Brévelay menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Right outside the church is a splendid 4 to 5 metre tall menhir. It looks like an original, but I couldn’t find it mentioned in any of my books. | 204 | 32 |
| Colého Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 11th Jul 2005 | Marked on my map as not far from the roadside near to a junction, I thought that this would be an easy menhir to visit. However, the woodland is very thick and filled with bracken, and I could not get to see it. | 204 | 31 | |||
| Dolmen de Men-Gouarec | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Saw from a distance | 11th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | This allée couverte with carved breasts on the back stone is signposted from miles around, and with its own little parking place and signpost. However, when I visited, I was not able to reach it as the farmer has a crop of sweetcorn growing all around it and there was absolutely no way through. thi... Read More |
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| La Quenouille de Gargantua | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 11th Jul 2005 | I could not find this. | 204 | 29 | |||
| Roche de Migourdy | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | This was a nice one to find, and is a few hundred metres walk up a track and then across a field to the south of the village of Kergoff, which itself is a few kilometres south of Plumelic. What you find is a nice 25 metre diameter mound at the top of the hill in a field, covered as usual with trees ... Read More |
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| Babouin et Babouine | Standing Stones | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jul 2005 | 4 | 5 | 3 | Deep in the forest to the east of Trédion can be found these two bizarre menhirs. Babouin, the baboon, is only about 1.4 metres tall, but has been resculpted at some point to have a flat front surface with a rounded shaft below a larger rounded head. On the flat face of this head has been carved a ... Read More |
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| Grande Villeneuve Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This menhir is to be found in a garden in the hamlet of the same name, a kilometre or so to the north of Tredion. The menhir is about 4 metres tall and nicely shaped, although it looks to have lost its top at some point, due to a lightning strike. | 204 | 26 |
| Menhir Fourchu | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This is a nice menhir stood at the side of the road just to the east of Lezonnais. It is about 3.5 metres tall, 1.5 metres wide and only 0.3 metres thick, and has a nicely forked shape at the top, hence its name, and a sort of nose on one side. Around this area are many stones stood up beside the ro... Read More |
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| Grand Breuil Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This menhir is easily found at Grand Breuil, right at the junction of the D.112 and the road for Lezonnais. The stone is about 3 metres tall, and in a little grassy area beside the road junction. It looks to have been nicely shaped, and is cared for to this day. There is a very nice garden on the op... Read More |
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| Pierre Tabulaire de la Bataille | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | This is a massive slab of rock deep in the forest, found by following a trackway which now has a private sign on it, but I went for a look anyhow. I would think it is a natural slab of granite with its dimensions 10 metres by up to 5 metres, but it would appear to have been used as a capstone to a b... Read More |
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| Menhirs de Coëby 1 | Standing Stones | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | At the junction of lanes in the forest, there are a couple of menhirs. Both are about 3 metres high, and they are about 15 metres apart. Not marked on any map I have seen, they are however easy to find. | 204 | 22 |
| Dolmen de Coëby 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 11th Jul 2005 | This is supposedly just beside the road, but the forest was far too thick for me to be able to find it. | 204 | 21 | |||
| Dolmen de Coëby 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | In the thick forest, just beside the D.766 road north of the Grande Loge can be found the remains of this dolmen. It's difficult to tell exactly what it is the remains of, but there are half a dozen large stones still standing. It was possibly a large simple chamber of which the capstones have now f... Read More |
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| La Pierre Branlante (Trédion) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 11th Jul 2005 | The track up to this from the road between Tredion and Ervan was gated and with a keep out sign. I hoped I would be able to perhaps get to this later from the other side in the forest, but there was no such luck. | 204 | 19 | |||
| La Loge au Loup | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jul 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | Easily found a few kilometres south of Trédion just to the west of the D.1 road to Elven, this nice site is signposted and has a parking place from where it’s a couple of hundred metres walk up into the lovely woodland on the ridgetop. I thought it to be a strange monument, which looks in some wa... Read More |
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| Grand Village allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | To the southeast of the village of Caro, and signposted with a little parking area, can be found this allée couverte, a few hundred metres walk from the parking. It is one of the longest allée couvertes around, at about 25 metres, but apart from the two large end stones, not much is left standing ... Read More |
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| Maison Neuve menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | This is a beautiful white quartz menhir standing beside the road to Morhannais to the northeast of Monterrain. It is about 3.5 metres high, and there are several other blocks of quartz beside it, which are either bits which have fallen off it, another broken menhir, or simple field clearance stones.... Read More |
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| Piprais menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jul 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This 4.5 metre tall menhir can be found in a field of sweetcorn just to the northeast of the village of Monterrain, near to a roadside cross. The menhir, a white quartz looking stone, seems to be splitting into two. Apparently there is another fallen stone nearby, but hidden from view by the maize. | 204 | 15 |
| Dolmen de la Maison-Trouvée | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | This is an Angevin type dolmen with a massive rectangular chamber still mostly buried within its tree covered mound. The chamber is about 4.5 metres by 2.5 metres and is topped by a massive 6 metres by 3 metres capstone. As often seems to be the case with the Angevin dolmens I have seen, the side sl... Read More |
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| L'Hotié de Viviane | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 10th Jul 2005 | 3 | 5 | 3 | This can be found about a kilometre walk from the same car park that is used to visit the Tombeau des Géants, but in the other direction. It is signposted. Just below and to the north of a ridge with tremendous views can be found this little grave, about 3 metres long and 1 metre wide, made with 1.... Read More |
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| Tombeau des Géants | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Also known as "Roche a la Vieille", or "Old Hag's Rock", this is a strange little monument high up in the hills by the GR37 footpath, a kilometre or so from a large parking area. What it is now is a 4 metre long, 1 metre wide coffre type grave, made using 4 large stone slabs and many other smaller s... Read More |
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| La Verrie menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jul 2005 | 4 | 2 | 5 | This is a nice stone, fairly easily found near to the farm of La Verrie a kilometre or so to the northeast of Monteneuf. The stone is nearly 5 metres tall and 4.5 metres in width, but is less than 0.5 metre thick. It resembles the comb of a cockerel the way the top edge has become serrated. The ston... Read More |
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| Chomet de Coëtplan | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 10th Jul 2005 | Despite being on the signposts of the megalithic walk, I could not find this 4 metre tall menhir and its fallen companions. The menhir is the only one now standing of a little alignment, the other stones small and fallen, but it is on private property which is probably why I missed it, despite a ver... Read More |
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| Rocher Maheux | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jul 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | What a terrible state the remains of this allée couverte are in. It seems to have been pushed about to the edge of the field, and is now not much more than a row of stones in the edge of a wood. The remains are about a dozen slabs, roughly lined up, but probably only in line with the edge of the fi... Read More |
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| Lande de Rousse | Standing Stones | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 9th Jul 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Beside the track to the Loge Morinais is marked a menhir on the local maps. I had a good look around, and deep into the forest is what looked to me to be a row of fallen menhirs, with one large rock still protruding from the ground. It wouldnt surprise me if there was another row here, like those at... Read More |
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| La Loge Morinais | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 9th Jul 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | This is the remains of an allée couverte made of the local purple schist, and can be found in the forest to the north east of the Monteneuf visitors centre, about a kilometre away along a signposted trail. It is about 13 metres long and has an orientation of due east to west. There is an entrance l... Read More |
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| La Pièce Couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 9th Jul 2005 | This is now not much more than a line of a dozen or so slabs positoned in a line of about 10 metres length, and is probably the remains of an allée couverte. Several of the slabs are marked with cupules and symbols. | 204 | 5 | |||
| La Roche Blanche | Round Cairn | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 9th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | This is a nice shining white quartz block within a sort of circle of local schist stones. It is thought to probably mark the grave of an individual, rather than being a collective grave. It can be found about a kilometres walk from the Monteneuf visitors centre, through the forests along a marked tr... Read More |
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| Les Bordouès | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 9th Jul 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This is the remains of a small allée couverte, 8 metres long and 1.5 metres wide, with only one capstone still in place. There is a small entry porchway, separated from the main chamber by a large slab, at the southeast end. Excavations in 1976 found amongst other things five polished axes. Much of... Read More |
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| Centre Les Landes | Museum | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 9th Jul 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | A visitor centre has been set up amongst the Pierres Droites near to the village of Monténeuf, which has interactive displays which show erection of menhirs, building of neolithic homes, crop growing, archaeological excavations etc etc. Around the centre have been found several hundred megaliths, w... Read More |
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| Pierres Droites (Monteneuf) | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 9th Jul 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | The true extent of these stones was only discovered in the last 20 years or so after a forest fire, yet this set of aligned menhirs is probably one of the most important in France. A visitor centre has been set up with interactive displays which show erection of menhirs, building of neolithic homes,... Read More |
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| St-Benoit polissoir | Polissoir | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 28th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | I was understanding that this polissoir stone was going to be difficult to find, but thought that I'd give it a go. Luckily for me, since the source of my information was written, it's all been tidied up into a nice little area and signposted. It's about 800m from the village of St Bénoit, up the D... Read More |
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| Mont St Michel | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 28th Jun 2005 | 5 | 2 | 4 | Far too hot and busy and crowded. | 203 | 604 |
| La Roche Longue (St-Marcan) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 28th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | A large slab sided menhir, about 3 metres tall with its wide sides oriented east and west, in a field near to the cemetary to the east of the village of St Marcan, on a slope overlooking the marshes of the bay of Mont St Michel. Whilst I couldn’t get right to it, the menhir is easily visible from ... Read More |
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| Champ Dolent Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 28th Jun 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | This is a glorious 9 metre tall shaped and sculpted granite menhir, the stone for which has been brought here from over 4 kilometres away. It stands high on a little hillock overlooking the ancient city of Dol, with the rock which has been inhabited for many thousands of years just beyond that. At i... Read More |
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| Menhir dit la Pierre du Domaine | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 28th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This menhir can be found just to the west of the road around the east of Beaufort lake, a bit to the north of the Abbey. It's in a field of wheat, but can be easily seen. I estimate it to be at least 4 metres tall. | 203 | 601 |
| La Maison des Feins | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 28th Jun 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | This is a lovely little allée couverte, deep inside a lovely oak forest just to the east of the village of Tressé, and signposted from there. There is a parking area, and a signposted and guided walk footpath from there to find it, along with many other items of interest.
The allée is about 1... Read More |
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| Four-És-Feins | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Couldn't find | 28th Jun 2005 | I had a good look around for the remains of this allée couverte, but could find nothing obvious. It's somewhere to the west of the hamlet of Vieux Bourg, beside the north to south expressway. | 203 | 599 | |||
| La Ganterie | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 28th Jun 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Just beside the D.676 Dinan to Dol road, at the top of the hill to the east of the hamlet of La Ganterie where the road is a dual carriageway, there is a place to park. From here the allée couverte is signposted along a trackway into a wood, and just 50m along this well tended path the remains are ... Read More |
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| Thiemblais menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 27th Jun 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | This is a truly wonderful 8 metre long granite menhir, which can be found signposted along a little track just to the east of the village of St Samson.
Although it leans at about 45°, it is beautifully shaped and has multitudes of carvings and engravings all over it. Apparently those on the fla... Read More |
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| Champ des Roches | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 27th Jun 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | Just behind the churchyard to the south of the village of Pléslin and well signposted is this “field of rocks” which is kept in a nice and shady oak garden and included on a couple of signposted local walks. I didn’t know of this place beforehand despite having been near it several times befo... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Ville Goudier | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 27th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Marked as a menhir on the ign maps, this large standing stone can be seen from the D.768 road across a field of wheat, about 100 metres away and underneath a pine tree near to the Trégon water tower. I could initially see no way of getting any nearer, and I estimated it to be about 2 metres high. H... Read More |
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| Ville-Tinguy dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 27th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Despite supposedly having a footpath to it, and being only 80 metres to the east of the D.768 road between Créhen and Trégon, this dolmen proved difficult for me to get right up to, in its field of barley. I have seen it described as an allée couverte, but it looked more like a simple dolmen to m... Read More |
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| La Hautière | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 27th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This is a fairly large allée couverte in a field to the east of the D.768 road between Créhen and Trégon, which had just been cropped for hay when I visited, so it was easy to get to. The main passage is about 14 metres long, oriented to 155°, and has 6 capstones still in place. Many of the side... Read More |
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| Ville Génouhan allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 27th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Just to the south of the busy D.786 road between ND de Guildo and Trégon can be found the remains of this allée couverte. I find it strange that although it is signposted, has got a little parking area, is kept within a little grassed area within a field of maize, and has got several hundred metre... Read More |
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| Doigt de Gargantua (Côtes-D'Armor) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 27th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This 2.5 metre tall, thin menhir stands guard beside the footpath overlooking the splendid Forte de la Latte, at the headland of the same name to the east of Cap Fréhel. On a late June Monday afternoon it was very busy here, and getting a space in the car park was a problem. The bushes surrounding ... Read More |
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| Ville Hamon Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 27th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | This poor thing is a bit of a mess. Difficult to find without a detailed map, but only a few dozen metres from a track, on top of a good sized mound, to the east of the town of Erquy. What remains is basically a large jumble of stones on top of a mound. It was probably a very large dolmen with entry... Read More |
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| Ville Bellanger allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 27th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Just beside the D.52 road, 3 km north of the village, and a km south of La Bouille and all its industrial sites, can be found this allée couverte, either in somebodies garden, or a little public area besides. The remains are a bit of a jumble, but an allée almost 10 metres long aligned at 050° is... Read More |
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| Ville Pichard Cairn | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 27th Jun 2005 | 2 | 5 | 3 | High up on the clifftop near Pléneuf-Val-André overlooking the sea in two directions can be found this very overgrown cairn. Despite getting near after a very long walk round the coastal path, I could not get to the actual cairn through the gorse and brambles. Supposedly the remains of three dolme... Read More |
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| La Roche (Uzel) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 26th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This little menhir is probably about 2.5 metres tall, standing on the slopes above the road and stream, positioned just outside a wood, making it visible from the road. I thought this to be a strange place for a menhir, on a slope this steep. | 203 | 587 |
| Notre Dame-de-Lorette Alignements | Stone Circle | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 26th Jun 2005 | 3 | 5 | 5 | Just outside the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette chapel is what I have seen described in various sources as a cromlech, allée couverte, tumulus or long barrow. From my visit, I have to say it is difficult to say just what this is the remains of. There is a signpost which says that it is the remains of a neol... Read More |
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| Notre-Dame-de-Lorette spring | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 26th Jun 2005 | 4 | 5 | 5 | Just to the west of the little chapel at the top of the hill is a nice little spring with a full blown well house built on top of it. Water gushes up into a crystal clear pool, and there is even a tap with a local authority certificate of cleanliness. There is of course a cross and suchlike also. Th... Read More |
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| Coët Correc allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 26th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | A few kilometres to the east of Liscuis can be found this nice allée couverte. Once off the busy N.?? Road, it is thankfully signposted, as it's a bit of a tortuous journey to get there. From a parking place up a steep lane, it's then several hundred metres of walking, some of which is overgrown, t... Read More |
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| Liscuis 1 allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 26th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | There are three allée couvertes here on the hilltop on the ridge overlooking the river Dourla, and beside the busy GR37 footpath. They are signposted from all around, and are several hundred metres walk uphill and along the ridge from a little car park. They are all suffering badly from neglect and... Read More |
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| Liscuis 2 allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 26th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | There are three allée couvertes here on the hilltop on the ridge overlooking the river Dourla, and beside the busy GR37 footpath. They are signposted from all around, and are several hundred metres walk uphill and along the ridge from a little car park. They are all suffering badly from neglect and... Read More |
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| Liscuis 3 allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 26th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | There are three allée couvertes here on the hilltop on the ridge overlooking the river Dourla, and beside the busy GR37 footpath. They are signposted from all around, and are several hundred metres walk uphill and along the ridge from a little car park. They are all suffering badly from neglect and... Read More |
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| Caillouan Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 26th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | This is a massive 8 metre tall menhir which is positioned very near to a spring. It is rectangular shaped at the bottom, but gets larger as its height increases. The front (southern) face is lovely and flat, looking down the valley.
It is well signposted, and lives in a little grassy area of woo... Read More |
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| Tanouëdou tumulus | Round Barrow(s) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 26th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This is a large bronze age tumulus, diameter 40 metres and height 6 metres, which once contained a tomb made of wood and stone within which were found many bronze weapons, gold studs and jewelry when excavated in 1865. It is signposted and found on top of a hill behind a farm to the south east of Bo... Read More |
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| Île-Coalen allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 25th Jun 2005 | 2 | 4 | 3 | The remains of this monument can be found at low tide on the beach at the southwestern corner of Ile Coalen, which is just offshore from the mainland at the northwest entry to the Trieux river estuary. The island can be reached by walking from the mainland when the tide is out.
It is the remains... Read More |
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| Tour-ar-Varquez | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 25th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Two standing and one fallen stone make up this alignement of stones in a field wall to the northeast of Pleubian. The two standing stones are about 2.5 metres tall, but the fallen one is of indeterminate length and lost in the undergrowth. It is situated about 100 metres across a field beside the ro... Read More |
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| Men-ar-Rompet | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 25th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | The remains of this allée couverte, "the Giants Stones", sit within a field wall (which is no doubt the reason for its survival) just 25 metres from the sea at high tide, near to the entrance of the Tréguier estuary. The chamber is quite short at about 6 metres, probably due to the eastern end bei... Read More |
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| Allée couverte de Mélus | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 25th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Despite looking very difficult to get to on the maps, this allée couverte is actually very easy to find, as a new housing development has been made, with the roads through it signposted to the allée couverte, and then a little trackway made up to it. The monument is now contained within a little w... Read More |
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| Tossen-Keler Cromlech (1964-2018) | Stone Circle | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 25th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | For a reason unknown to me, the 40 metre diameter and 7 metres high Tossen Keler tumulus from Penvénan was excavated and totally removed in about 1960. The horseshoe of stones (cromlech) that surrounded it were moved to a position in a little public garden on the quayside here at the pleasant old p... Read More |
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| Menhir de Kermarker | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Couldn't find | 25th Jun 2005 | This menhir is suposedly right beside the road, but I could not find it. According to the map, it is just into the woodland, which is exceedingly densely covered in ferns, and inaccsessible. | 203 | 572 | |||
| Kerpeulven Menhir (Penvénan) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 25th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | This pleasant menhir is about 4 metres tall, and trapped in a garden about 250 metres north of the church along Rue de Menhir in the village of Penvénan. It is however only a few metres from the road, and easily visible from it. | 203 | 571 |
| Menhir de Kervéniou | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 25th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 2 | This little menhir, which I estimate to be about 2.5 metres tall, can just be seen in a private garden round the back of a house. It is difficult to get to see, if indeed it is what I saw. | 203 | 570 |
| Crec'h Quillé | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This allée couverte to the south of Perros Guirec is situated just to the east of the busy D.788 dual carriageway, and signposted from it, but most people will go whizzing straight past. From the parking area beside the main road, it is just a couple of hundred metres, but is walking access only. I... Read More |
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| Ty-Lia (Ile Renote) | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 2 | This allée couverte is now a bit of a garden feature within the grounds of a large house on the island of Ile Renote, and is not on public property. Made from the lovely pink granite that everything is round here, the remains are about 8 metres in length and have only one capstone still in place, w... Read More |
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| L'Armor menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Couldn't find | 24th Jun 2005 | This menhir is in a private garden with a massive thick hedge surrounding it. I didn't get to see the stone, but it is supposedly about 2 metres in height. | 203 | 567 | |||
| Parc-ar-Peulvennic | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | This menhir can be reached only by getting wet feet at a very high tide, as it is right on the edge of the land in the marsh area near to Ile Grande. The stone is just over 2 metres tall, and has been incorporated into a wall, but it is a splendid stone to go and see. It is now incorporated into a l... Read More |
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| Toenno menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This little menhir now gets a drink most days at high tide, as it is situated in the marshes at the edge of the sea, and a high tide surrounds it. The menhir is less than 2 metres tall, but it is pleasantly shaped. It can be reached easily from a nearby track and carpark. | 203 | 565 |
| Dolmen de Lann Kerellec | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 4 | This dolmen is situated in somebody's garden, but it can be seen through the fence and over the wall from the roadside. It is probably the remains of an allée couverte. | 203 | 564 |
| Trois-Tables-en-Place | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 4 | 5 | 2 | The Trois-Tables-en-Place is a bit of a monster allée couverte, on the little island of Ile-Milliau which is reachable by foot only an hour or so each side of low tide. It is situated on a low flat spot just behind the farm buildings, in pretty much the middle of the island.
It has three capsto... Read More |
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| Saint-Uzec menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Signposted from all around, and with its own parking area, this is a truly massive menhir in all senses. It must be about 6 metres tall or more, and impressively bulky in its other dimensions also. But its crowning glory is the granite cross on top, and also the tremendous carvings on its front (sou... Read More |
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| Menhir a Vertu | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | Oooh errrr, this one's a bit rude ! This is a wonderful little menhir, less than 2 metres tall, but a tremendous phallic shape, which was no doubt recognised by the ancient people. It has been revered so much over time that it is still standing erect, and indeed has had a chapel built with its front... Read More |
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| St Samson Chapel well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Just to the north of the St Samson chapel is a splendid little spring and well house, with clear water bubbling up from within it. | 203 | 560 |
| Trémarche menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Pleasant enough menhir set into a little gravel area at the side of the D.11 road beside the junction at Trémarche a few kilometres to the south of Trégastel. It's about 3 metres high, of rectangular section, and made from a nice pink granite. | 203 | 559 |
| Kerguntuil allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Just about 100 metres upslope from the Kergunteuil dolmen can be found its neighbouring allée couverte, also signposted and kept in a little area. This one again has been incorporated into a field wall at some time in the past, which has no doubt ensured its survival.
It is 8 metres in length, ... Read More |
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| Kerguntuil Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | This is a large single chambered dolmen, easily found and signposted, and kept in a little fenced off area in a field. It has at times in the more recent past as both a stable and a house. The chamber is about 5 metres by 2 metres, and a good 2 metres in height, all covered with a single large capst... Read More |
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| Keryvon allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Right beside the D.788 road from Trébeurden to Trégastel, and only feet from the cliff edge is the remains of this dolmen, but it would not surprise me if it is part of what was once an allée couverte. It has a single capstone on side supports only, but there are at least three of them on the sou... Read More |
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| Prajou-Menhir allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is a terriffic allée couverte approaching 14 metres long and facing towards its indicator menhir at orientation 103°. Seven capstones of varying sizes are still in place, the two westernmost being the covers for a separate end cell of about 2.5 metres length. Within this end cell are many car... Read More |
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| Prajou-Menhir menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 24th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The "indicator menhir" just outside and in front of the allée couverte. It is about 1.7 metres high but nicely weathered. | 203 | 554 |
| Ty-Lia (Île Grande) | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 23rd Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This looks to be a fairly complete standard allée couverte well signposted and in a little grassy area on Ile-Grande, just off the coast near Trebeurden. It is about 9 metres long by 1.5 metres wide, and oriented to 110°. There are two large capstones which cover most of the chamber. Many of the o... Read More |
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| Chapelle-des-Sept-Saints | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 23rd Jun 2005 | I had terrible trouble finding this from the south. The road signs are almost non existent, and very inconsistent, and its all windy lanes and farm tracks. None of the roads, or the names on any of the rare signs seem to agree with the maps. I think the maps are in French, while the signs are in Bre... Read More |
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| Kerelcun Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 23rd Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Just off the D.764 road by the hamlet of Kerelcun can be found this nearly 5 metre tall, 3 metre wide menhir, standing in a little green area with a picnic table. It is signposted from the village and easy to find. | 203 | 551 |
| Menhir de Coat Mocun nord | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Couldn't find | 23rd Jun 2005 | Supposedly 8 metres tall, and re-erected recently when they built the new road, I could not find this. I asked an old gent with a straw hat and waving a stick, who was pushing a wheelbarrow of grass. He took great delight in telling me how I could get to see it, although it was on private land, but ... Read More |
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| Kerampeulven Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 23rd Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Just to the north of the village of Huelgoat, well known for its lake and strange shaped rocks, is this lovely menhir which is signposted from the road to Berrien, and is easy to find. Its about 5 metres tall, and a lovely shape, set in a little grassy area with some nicely shaded picnic tables. At ... Read More |
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| St-Guinec menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 23rd Jun 2005 | 5 | 3 | 4 | Despite being nearly 6 metres tall, this beautiful menhir is becoming obscured from view by a large thick hedge around the garden within which it stands. This is a shame, as it really is a rather nice stone. It can be found just off the Huelgoat to Brennilis road, by the bridge over the busy north /... Read More |
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| Alignement de Leintant | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Couldn't find | 23rd Jun 2005 | Row of fallen menhirs now incorporated into a bank at the edge of a field. I could find no trace of this alignment, supposed to contain one standing and three fallen menhirs, which was said to align on mid-summer sunrise. I found the farm, and went up and down the road several times, with no luck. S... Read More |
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| Leintant menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Couldn't find | 23rd Jun 2005 | Three metre tall menhir, which was probably once part of the nearby alignment. | 203 | 546 | |||
| Ty ar Boudiquet Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 23rd Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | What a lovely monument this is! It's one of my favourites. It is easy to find, just at the northern edge of Brennilis village and clearly signposted, it has a little car park, a picnic area and it lives in a lovely large green and shady area, all very nicely looked after and with birdies tweeting aw... Read More |
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| An-Eured-Ven | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 23rd Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | On the high moorland to the southwest of the St Michel reservoir, in the bowl below the Montagnes d'Arrée to the southeast of Mont St Michel, can be found some rows of white quartz stones, the name of which, An-Eured-Ven, translates to something approximating the wedding stones dance.
I found a... Read More |
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| Le Rocher du Diable | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 23rd Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This is a pleasant enough menhir in a field beside the road on the western slopes of the hill upon which the Chapelle St Michel is built. It's approaching three metres in height, nearly as wide at the base, and made of the local quarzite stone, which is pointed at the top. There is another block of ... Read More |
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| Mougau Bihan | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 23rd Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | This is an absolutely splendid allée couverte, which has been dated to 3000BC, found a couple of kilometres to the south of the village of Commana, and signposted from there. It has a little car park and picnic area, as well as a nice and spacious grassy area around it.
The main chamber is 14 ... Read More |
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| Bois de la Roche dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 23rd Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | I am not quite sure exactly what I found here - the pile of rocks I found looked decidedly natural, yet in a very distinctive pile with one set on top of three and a large space underneath, and its in exactly the right place compared to the map. I guess its one of those dolmens made using the best l... Read More |
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| Commana Stèle | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 23rd Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | On the village green by the car park round the back of the church can be found this Iron Age granite stèle. It's a tapered cylindrical shape just over 2 metres high. There are no obvious grooves or other shaping to it. | 203 | 540 |
| Barnenez Cairn | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 22nd Jun 2005 | 5 | 3 | 4 | This magnificent large cairn, is now signposted from miles around as Le Grand Cairn (de Barnenez). It costs €4.60 to get in, and there is a little visitor centre and shop, with replicas of some of the carved stones on display. Unlike 12 years ago, or whenever, you cannot go into many of the chambe... Read More |
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| Kerivin Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 22nd Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Not far off the busy road between Morlaix and Roscoff, this Tee shaped allee couvetre is becoming very overgrown, and its difficult to make anything out at all now. It is also not far from a field corner where people have decided to dumpstuff, so overall its not a winner. I seem to remember this fro... Read More |
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| Kerider stèle | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 22nd Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This is a nice tapered Iron Age stèle which can be found near the hamlet of Kerider, a few kilometres to the east of Plouescat. It is easy to find, just to the north of the D.10 road to St Pol-de-Léon near to the roundabout. It is about 2 metres tall, and nicely octagonal in section. | 203 | 537 |
| Couinandré Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 22nd Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This is a nicely curved menhir just down a little track and signposted east of Plouescat. Its about 4 metres tall, but in a strange position, not on top of the hill or by the stream. Despite a little area set aside for it to live in, its getting very overgrown. | 203 | 536 |
| Créac’h-ar-Vrenn | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 22nd Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | I am not 100% sure that I found this. What I possibly found is just some natural rocks. I looked all over the place and asked a couple of people, who both pointed me in the other direction away from their house towards the others. Despite signposts to it down the same lane as the menhir, there was n... Read More |
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| Menhir d'Irvit | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 22nd Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Just below 4 metres tall, this tapered menhir has a sort of hook at the top of it. Perhaps it is intended as a washing line post! It looks to me, by the patterns in the lichen, that it had a sign attached to it for many years. It can be found down a track into a field just east of the D.330 road sou... Read More |
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| Menhir de Kergoarat | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 22nd Jun 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | In contrast to its bulbous headed, thirsty neighbour, this fine chap looks to be wearing a pointy hat. He must be a good 7 metres tall and standing perfectly upright on this little headland beyond the beach. As with most of the stones round here, it is a wonderfully weathered rock, and from certain ... Read More |
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| Grand menhir de Saint-Eden | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 22nd Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | This is the menhir that the chap I met last night was telling me about, right at the edge of the Grève (rocky shore), and unfortunately the sea has claimed it. It is now fallen and laying top down into the sea when the tide is in. Perhaps its one of those menhirs that came down to the sea to drink ... Read More |
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| Porz Ar Stréat menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 22nd Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This is a nice menhir in a field not far from the harbour, only a couple of hundred metres from the main village centre. Its over 4 metres high and a sort of square section, but tapered at the top, and it has a nice lean.
I cant get right up to it for details though, and its a pity about all the... Read More |
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| Prat Meur menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 22nd Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This is a pleasant enough menhir, probably 2.8 metres tall and nearly as wide, but less than a metre thick. It is stood in a field beside a trackway at the end of the lane from the port to Prat Meur hamlet. It is nicely weathered at the top.
Somebodies air force is out and about, looks like F.16... Read More |
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| Guinivrit | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 21st Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | This really is a nice place to visit, certainly when its quiet and the sun is out. I had hoped to see it with the tide well in tonight, but one thing and another and its now gone 8:00, and the tide is already gone out for two hours, and the water has gone from around it. However, there is still a lo... Read More |
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| Créac'h Gallic | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 21st Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Here are the remains of a fairly large dolmen, but it looks to be in a bit of a precarious state. Warning signs and a fence warn of climbing on or near to the stones. The basic chamber is about 4 metres by 2 metres and 2 metres high, with a single capstone resting (just) on three support stones. It ... Read More |
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| Men-Marz | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 21st Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | What a wonderful and fantastic menhir this is easily found to the north of Brignogan-Plage village by following plentiful signs. Men-Marz (the Miracle Stone in Breton) or Men-Bras (Grand Stone) is now set in a nice little area a previously close built house having been bought and demolished by the s... Read More |
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| Croazou chapel menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 21st Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This is an odd little place where many thousands of years of ritual and worship can all be seen together. In the middle of a fairly busy road junction is built a little chapel which is said to be the smallest in Finistère. This chapel has been built onto a stèle with it still standing there at one... Read More |
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| Croazou chapel stèles | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 21st Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | This is an odd little place where many thousands of years of ritual and worship can all be seen together. In the middle of a fairly busy road junction is built a little chapel which is said to be the smallest in Finistère.
This chapel has been built onto a stèle with it still standing there at... Read More |
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| Croazou chapel | Ancient Cross | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 21st Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This is an odd little place where many thousands of years of ritual and worship can all be seen together. In the middle of a fairly busy road junction is built a little chapel which is said to be the smallest in Finistère. This chapel has been built onto a stèle with it still standing there at one... Read More |
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| Goarivan Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 21st Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 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... Read More |
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| St Grouanec well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 21st Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | At the site of the St Groanec chapel there are many wells and springs gushing forth. The water is just flowing out of the ground here. It is no wonder the ancient chapel was built here. | 203 | 522 |
| Grouanec stèle | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 21st Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This is a fantastic iron age stèle by the D.32 roadside just to the east of the village of St Groanec, which has been christainised and turned into a roadside cross. The stèle is about 3.5 metres tall with an extra metre on top for the cross. It is tapered towards the top and carved into an octago... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Vourch | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Couldn't find | 21st Jun 2005 | Supposedly the remains of this dolmen can be found near to the coast path just outside the municipal camping. It is said that if you stand with your chin resting on the menhir out on Ile Tariec, then the solstice sunrise used to rise between the legs of this dolmen. It is not marked on any of my map... Read More |
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| Ile Guénioc | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Saw from a distance | 21st Jun 2005 | 5 | 5 | 1 | Just offshore from Presqu'ile Ste-Marguerite near the town of Landéda, and due west of Ile Tariec, can be seen Ile Guénioc (Ile Gaignog). This island, which is difficult to get to, has on it three massive cairns with their multitude of chambers and dolmens within them. In order to get here a boat ... Read More |
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| Île Tariec cairn | Cairn | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 21st Jun 2005 | 2 | 5 | 2 | Just to the north of the menhir on this little island which can be reached at low tide, is the slight mound of a cairn. Its about 15 metres in diameter and 2 metres in height. I could see nothing in the way of structure under all the grass and stuff. | 203 | 518 |
| Île Tariec menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 21st Jun 2005 | 2 | 5 | 2 | Just offshore from Presqu'ile Ste-Marguerite near the town of Landéda are a few small islands which can be reached at low tide, upon which there are stone monuments.
Ile Tariec is one of these, which can only be walked to for a short while each side of low tide, and the island became split into... Read More |
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| Ilot Roc'h-Avel | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 21st Jun 2005 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Just offshore from Presqu'ile Ste-Marguerite near the town of Landéda are a few small islands which can be reached at low tide, upon which there are stone monuments. Ilot Roc'h-Avel is one of these, which can be easily walked to from the beach at Kerennoc when not high tide tide.
Towards the we... Read More |
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| Île Carn cairn | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Saw from a distance | 20th Jun 2005 | 2 | Just offshore is this little island which can be reached a low tide, with a massive cairn containing three dolmenic chambers. There are also some WW2 gun emplacements and lookouts which spoil it a bit. The cairn is massive, and looks like its been quarried into, and from the shore the entry to one o... Read More |
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| Menhir du Guilligui | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 20th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | About 60 metres to the east of the Guilliguy headland and dolmen, is a little menhir, about 1.5 metres in height. | 203 | 513 |
| Pointe de Guilligui allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 20th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is an unusual allée couverte, not quite at the top of the Guilliguy headland, overlooking the ocean where the Amoco Cadiz was wrecked, and the little port of Portsall. This is a place which has been revered over the millennia, and still serves as a place for thought by the big cross, and the v... Read More |
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| Saint-Gonvarc'h menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Saw from a distance | 20th Jun 2005 | 5 | 3 | 2 | The Pierre de St Gonvarc'h, or Mez menhir, can be seen across a couple of fields, and is another of the monster menhirs of this region (Leon). Comparing it to a nearby cow for size, it must be a good 6 metres tall, and has been beautifully shaped. | 203 | 511 |
| Dolmen de Men-Milliget | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 20th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Men Milliget or the St Gonvel dolmen is a pleasant little dolmen living on the landward side of a headland sticking out into the ocean. It's 3 metre by 2 metre chamber is made with a large backstone and two side slabs, with remains of other stones, but it is partially buried in the dunes. The strang... Read More |
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| Menhir de Kerhouézel | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 20th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | The Kerhouézel menhir is another fantastic monster menhir, just inland from Porspoder and signposted. It must be eight metres high and is fantastically smoothed and shaped. I just love these massive stones. I've go to give it a hug ! It is possible that there is a carved symbolon the upper part of ... Read More |
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| Saint-Denec Alignement de Menhirs | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 20th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | The two St Dénec menhirs are standing in a field near to the farm of St Dénec. Both are about 3.5 to 4 metres high, but they are not nicely shaped and smoothed like most of the menhirs around here.
There is also a rather large menhir like stone laying at the foot of one of the menhirs, and the... Read More |
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| Mezdoun menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 20th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 3 | Two menhirs in a field of growing sweetcorn, so getting close enough to get details was not easy. These two menhirs are both between 4 and 5 metres tall, and have been shaped. The further east of the two looks to have been broken and was possibly once much bigger. They are about 60 metres from each ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Poulliot | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 20th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 2 | Pleasant enough little dolmen sitting in a field of crops about 200 metres from the road, but with a signpost. The capstone is sitting on three support stones, but I couldn’t get close enough to note any details. | 203 | 506 |
| Traonigou alignement de menhirs | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 20th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Two fallen and two standing menhirs, which are supposedly aligned on the mid summer sunrise. The two standing menhirs are about 4 and 5 metres tall, the two fallen ones becoming lost in the undergrowth. These stones are signposted, and found just beside the road to the east of the hamlet of Traonigo... Read More |
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| Kerivoret Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 20th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This is a nice looking dolmen sitting in a pleasant field behind the houses. It is signposted from the roan, and has a path to it from behind the houses, where there is room to park. The chamber is about 3 metres long, less than 2 metres wide, and created with a good back stone and two large side sl... Read More |
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| Kerivoret Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 20th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | About 50 metres away from the Kerivoret dolmen is a nice menhir, which looks to have been shaped with a slanted top. It's about 3.5 metres tall. | 203 | 503 |
| Île Melon menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 20th Jun 2005 | 2 | 5 | 2 | This is frustrating. There is only 15 metres of water between me and the island from where I sit, but the tide is coming in and the island is not going to get any nearer. There is a dolmen on top of the island, and there are also at least two menhirs further down to the south of the island, and look... Read More |
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| Île Melon Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Saw from a distance | 20th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 2 | This is frustrating. There is only 15 metres of water between me and the island from where I sit, but the tide is coming in and the island is not going to get any nearer. The dolmen is on top of the island and looks a nice one, its capstone sitting on at least four support stones. There are also at ... Read More |
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| Kergadiou Menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 20th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | The two menhirs of Kergadiou are a fine place to visit, and fairly easily found in a field a couple of kilometres north of the Aber Ildut estuary. From these two giant menhirs, it is possible to see the Kerloas menhir when the modern trees are not in leaf, and the sightline over the Kerloas menhir i... Read More |
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| Kerloas Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 19th Jun 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | What a fantastic stone, and easily found near to the old D.5 road to the east of Plouarzel due to many signposts to it. This is the biggest standing menhir in Europe, if not the world, at nearly 10 metres tall, and has lost the top 2 metres after a lightning strike! It towers above all around, and s... Read More |
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| Lagatjar alignements | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 19th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | The Lagatjar alignements are an intriguing arrangement of stones, mostly consisting of large white quartz blocks on open common land, just to the east of the fishing town of Camaret. There are probably over a hundred stones, mostly aligned into three lines, but there are some outliers as well.
T... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Pointe de Lost Marc'h | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 19th Jun 2005 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Just below the big Lostmarc'h headland with the alignements on top, there is a smaller headland which has been defended from the mainland by the creation of two rows of massive banks and ditches protecting it.
On the headland apart from the inevitable remains of a chapel of some sort, there is a... Read More |
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| Oppidum de la Pointe de Lostmarc'h | Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 19th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Just below the big Lostmarc'h headland with the alignements on top, there is a smaller headland which has been defended from the mainland by the creation of two rows of massive banks and ditches protecting it.
On the headland apart from the inevitable remains of a chapel of some sort, there is a... Read More |
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| Alignement de Lostmarc'h 1 | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 19th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | What I could find of the Lostmarc'h alignements, on top of a headland overlooking the Atlantic Ocean with a fine surf beach below to the south, was a line of eight stones aligned at an angle of 060°/240° running across the headland. None of the stones are much more than a metre in height, and they... Read More |
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| Lostmarc'h menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 19th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Now, this is better, on top of a headland overlooking the Atlantic Ocean with a fine surf beach below to the south. The menhir is about 2.8 metres tall and in a commanding position, although not at the top, and as a result has a much better view. It can be seen from miles around coming from the sout... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Rostudel | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 19th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | This is a nice enough little dolmen, but a right bugger to find and get to, even though it is just 50 metres from the roadside. Firstly there was nowhere to park nearby, and once you have parked and walked back, the path to the dolmen is badly overgrown with the now obligatory ferns, gorse and black... Read More |
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| Alignements de Ty-ar-C'huré | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Couldn't find | 19th Jun 2005 | I went for quite a walk to look for these, but in the end found nothing. They are at the top of a hill in a wood, protected by lots of gorse and bracken overgrown heathland, with no obvious pathway through. | 203 | 492 | |||
| Dolmen de Kerdreux | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 19th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Remains of this little dolmen can be found a couple of hundred metres down the track to the west of the hamlet, and then right along the signed footpath. There are traces of its mound, perhaps with a stone surround. In the centre of the mound is the little dolmen with a broken capstone, but one piec... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Keradiguen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Couldn't find | 19th Jun 2005 | I was unable to find a parking place near to this, and was thus unable to have a proper look. The road is extremely busy - everyone must be heading out to the beaches. Perhaps I'll try again later. | 203 | 490 | |||
| Dolmen de Pen-an-Run | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 19th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This is a little dolmen with a 2.5m by 2.5m capstone sitting on three support slabs, making up part of a hedge. It's about 100 metres from the roadside along a track and signposted. | 203 | 489 |
| Menez Lié Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 18th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | This is a pleasant little dolmen on the south western slopes of Menez Hom. It has a 2.5m by 2m capstone sitting on one large backstone and three smaller side stones. At first view from the road it looks lost in the middle of a field of wheat, but there is a footpath to it around the edge of the fiel... Read More |
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| Tréboul menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 18th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | The two metre tall Tréboul menhir is found in the outskirts of the town of Douarnenez, beside a roundabout near to the old lavoirs. | 203 | 487 |
| Lesconil allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 18th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | Lesconil allée couverte is easy to find near the village of Lesconil, as it is signposted from the main D.7 road, and with its own little parking area. This is one monument round here that they do want you to visit, unlike most which seem sadly neglected. This is an excellent place, and no doubt th... Read More |
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| Kerbalanec Allée Couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 18th Jun 2005 | 5 | 3 | 4 | This allée couverte is easy enough to find to the north of the Kerbalannec farm buildings a couple of hundred metres along a track. The allée couverte makes up part of the field wall, and this has perhaps helped in its preservation.
The chamber is about 12 metres in length, over 2 metres wide ... Read More |
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| Kastell Koz | Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 18th Jun 2005 | 3 | 5 | 4 | This is a superb cliff castle, made on the beautiful headland of the Pointe de Beuzec jutting north into the Baie de Duarnenez. It is defended on its southern side from the mainland with several rows of banks and ditches. The views from here are superb. | 203 | 484 |
| Luguenez menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 18th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | More than three metres in height, this nicely shaped menhir is getting lost in the hedges of the little lane which runs to the coast behind and to the north of the farm. Not far from here are superb views over the Baie de Duarnenez and the wonderful cliffs all around, including the cliff castle of K... Read More |
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| Chapelle de Lannourec stèle | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 18th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | There is an octagonal shaped Iron Age granite stèle about 2 metres tall which can be found just below the Chapelle de Lannourec, and by the springs. It has a large groove cut down one side.
Just below the Chapelle de Lannourec, are several springs and wells. This is obviously a very old sacred ... Read More |
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| Saint-Goulien stèles | Standing Stones | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 18th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | The remains of no less than three granite stèles are to be found lined up in the churchyard at Goulien. One is very small, one about 1.5 metres high and probably once used as a cross base. The third is 2.5 metres tall and has lovely grooves carved into it. | 203 | 480 |
| Baie des Trépassés mégalithe | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Couldn't find | 18th Jun 2005 | There used to be a large menhir here, but no longer. Nor the ancient city of Y, which is now under the sea because the King's daughter sold herself to the devil. This bay is also where the dead set sail from on their final voyage to the Ile de Sein. There are lots of legends and stories surrounding ... Read More |
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| Lescoff Village menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 18th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | Not far off the main road through the village of Lescoff, just up Impasse du Menhir, can be found this poor menhir which is incorporated into the garden wall of the adjacent house. It's nearly 3 metres high and 2 metres wide, but it is seen to be splitting at its base. | 203 | 478 |
| Chapelle Notre-Dame de Bon Voyage cairns | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 18th Jun 2005 | 2 | 4 | 3 | On the ridge to the southeast of the Chapelle de Notre Dame de Bon Voyage is a large cairn, which I am lead to believe contains remains of a large compartmented burial chamber. A large cairn can be found, a footpath goes right over the top of it, but nothing else can be seen due to all the gorse and... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Chapelle Sainte-Théodore | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 18th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Remains of a little Bronze Age dolmen/stone cist (coffre) are found near to the Chapelle St Theodore, at the road junction just to the west. It's only about 1.5 by 1 metre in size, but the stone cover sits on top of a couple of supports, which in turn are on top of a cist type arrangement in a littl... Read More |
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| Primelin stèle | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 18th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This is a nice 2.5 metre tall granite stèle stood just outside the church at Primélin. It has been broken at some point, and the top has been cemented back on. | 203 | 475 |
| Pors Poulhan allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | On a headland overlooking the Baie D'Audierne, this allée couverte is in a tremendous position. The 12 metre long passage is quite large and wide at almost 2 metres in width, and almost as high, and lines up to the east at 100°.
Built before the year 3000BC, it has been used almost continually... Read More |
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| Menhir des Droits de l'Homme | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | This is a large menhir erected here in 1840 to commemorate the shipwreck of the "Droits de l'Homme" in 1797 with the loss of around 600 lives. The stone used was once a real menhir moved to here from elsewhere. It's at the edge of a car park besides this phenomenal beach, with the surf pounding in a... Read More |
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| Corn-ar-Palud | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Beside the little road running along the coast around the almost deserted centre of Audierne Bay, just on the edge of the beach in the dunes, can be found the remains of a cairn with a few large rocks to be seen scattered around in it. Looking closer at some of these larger rocks, there is evidence ... Read More |
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| Penhors stèle | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | This is a fantastic grooved and sculpted (cannelée) iron age stèle I saw in a front garden of a home I was passing at Penhors. It is almost perfectly shaped, round with grooves running up the sides, and tapered towards the top, which is a good 4 metres above the ground. This superb stèle was foun... Read More |
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| Presqu'île de la Torche | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 3 | 5 | 4 | The remains of what would no doubt have once been a magnificent monument, positioned on top of this little, almost an island, headland, sticking dramatically out into the wild Atlantic Ocean, and surrounded by magnificent surf beaches.
The central passage is still 16 metres in length, running up... Read More |
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| Kerugou dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Kerugou dolmen is an interesting one, which can be found just inside a field beside a small road and signposted. It has a large compartmented chamber at the back, western end, with a long central passageway opening up to the east, at orientation 097°. The central passage is about 9 metres long and ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Penquer-Bloas | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Although I have seen this described as an allée couverte, it looks to me to be a simple dolmen still mostly within its mound. It is unsure what this monument was originally. It's in a little woodland area, beside the road by an industrial stoneworking site. It suffers badly from neglect, and has lo... Read More |
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| Allée Couverte de Menez Landu | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | This looks like a straightforward simple dolmen beside the busy D.785, a kilometre or so southwest of Plomeur. It has a single capstone on top of two side stones, and a large backstone, but it is almost lost within the undergrowth. But it looked a bit to me as if it is the possibly the end of an all... Read More |
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| Pendreff Alignement | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | The Kerfland menhirs are three gorgeous tall slender menhirs standing in a row at the edge of a wood, easily reached down a little signposted footpath from the roadside a couple of kilometres south of Plomeur. They line up almost due north to south, at an alignment of 005° magnetic (in 2005) and ar... Read More |
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| Quélarn menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Just to the south of the Quélarn burial cairns is a small menhir, about 2.5 metres tall. It is assumed that the two are related. These have been dated to the middle neolithic. | 203 | 465 |
| Quélarn Dolmens | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | The Quélarn dolmens are fairly easily found as they are signposted a couple of kilometres to the west of Plobannalec, and they have their own little parking space and picnic area. Although mostly destroyed in the middle ages when it was used as a quarry, this massive site has been excavated and res... Read More |
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| Tronval Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | The Tronval dolmen is found just a hundred metres walk from the Quélarn dolmens parking area, on the opposite side of the road. There are the remains of what appears to be another pair of chambers, this time only a few metres apart. The southwestern one is completely collapsed, while the northweste... Read More |
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| Kerfuens Dolmens | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Just a few hundred metres to the west of the sports centre can be found the remains of two more little dolmens sat inside small mounds, which are kept in a little cleared area for all to see.
As for the Kervadol dolmens, they are about ten metres from each other in an east to west sense, but ope... Read More |
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| Kervadol Dolmens | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This is the remains of two little dolmens about 10 metres away from each other, not far from the sports fields. I could not be sure as to whether they were once in different mounds, or if they would have both been in the same one. Both have similar chambers, with a capstone sitting on a couple of si... Read More |
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| Kervignon Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This little dolmen, with a capstone sitting on three side slabs is to be found round the back of the local sports centre. The capstone is nicely rain worn on the top, and sits at a jaunty angle. It perhaps once had an entry corridor as the side stones are smaller at one end, and I believe that this ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Menez-Veil | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 17th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | The Rue Jules Ferry dolmen is a strange one. There's a little capstone sitting at a funnyangle on three support stones, on top of a stone mound, which is sort of walled in and held together by stone slabs around the outside. I can only assume that it's all been very rearranged at some point. It can ... Read More |
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| Ty Corriganet de Coat Menez Guen | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | From the Coat Luzuen allée couverte, continue on about 800 metres further down the road which peters out into a trackway and descends to the bottom of the valley. Turn left at the bottom, cross the stream, go along the wet track and the Coat-Menez-Guen allée couverte is to be found at the end of ... Read More |
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| Allée Couverte de Coat Luzuen | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Coat Luzuen allée couverte is situated in a field just to the west of the little road running north from the hamlet of Luzuen, and although signposted, it is quite difficult to find, with the last signpost being small and almost hidden, overgrown in a hedge opposite to a farm building.
When I v... Read More |
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| Kernédiec allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Kernédiec allée couverte is of the arc boutée type construction, and it is one of only eight of this type known. This is where one row of side stones leans up against the other and there are no capstones, rather than the more normal two rows of uprights and horizontal capstones. The chamber is ab... Read More |
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| Allée Couverte de Kergoustance | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This is a nice allée couverte which can be found in a field just to the right of the D.24 road as you head southwest out of Moelan-sur-Mer just at the limits of the village. The chamber is more than 15 metres in length, and has all seven capstones still in place, although a couple of them are broke... Read More |
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| Menhir de Kerandrège | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This menhir has lost its top, but is still about 3 metres high, 2 metres wide and has been nicely shaped, and is associated with the lovely allée couverte with which it stands just outside the entrance. It can be found in a field to the left of the D116 road to the south of Moelan-sur-Mer on the wa... Read More |
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| Allée Couverte de Kérandrège | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | In a field to the left of the D116 road to the south of Moelan-sur-Mer on the way to Brigneau can be found this lovely allée couverte with an associated menhir just outside its entrance. The menhir is about 3 metres high, 2 metres wide and has been nicely shaped.
The allée couverte is about 9 ... Read More |
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| Mentoul Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This menhir is found in a little grassy area just to the north of the town centre, between the houses. Its about 3 metres high and 2 metres wide. | 203 | 452 |
| Bellevue Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Jun 2005 | 4 | 2 | 5 | Bellevue menhir near to the town of Moëlan-sur-Mer is more than 4 metres tall, right beside the old Roman road to the south of the town centre. I found it difficult to park nearby and get a reasonable picture in between dodging all the traffic on this busy road. | 203 | 451 |
| Menhirs de Hirguer | Standing Stones | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Saw from a distance | 16th Jun 2005 | A few hundred metres to the south of the road to Clohars from Moelan, bit further to the east along the road from the above menhir, can be seen this menhir which must be about 3 metres tall. | 203 | 450 | |||
| Menhir de Mescléo A | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 16th Jun 2005 | 2 | 2 | 5 | This is a 2 metre tall menhir right beside the surprisingly busy road between Moelan and Clohars. There is another stone beside it - perhaps a broken top ? | 203 | 449 |
| Menhir de Courégant | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 16th Jun 2005 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Courégant menhir is 5 metres tall, and can be found just outside the back of a holiday homes complex. There is no obvious path through to it, but some people in one of the chalets let me take a picture from their decking ! Thanks to them ! | 203 | 448 |
| Menhir de Kerroc'h (Ploemeur) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 16th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Kerroc’h menhir is a small menhir, only about 1.7 metres tall, that initially looks impossible to get to through the gorse. However, there is a footpath to it from beside the houses, and it comes complete with a little sign. | 203 | 447 |
| Alignements de Gueldro | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 16th Jun 2005 | I had three attempts at finding the remnants of this once important set of eight parallel rows, but found nothing. The best I found was a bit of uncultivated land, completely covered in gorse and not possible to get to, which was in about the right place, so that was probably it. I found no signs or... Read More |
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| Goërem Dolmen | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 16th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 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 villag... Read More |
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| Menhir du Bourg (Plouhinec) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | While driving from Pluhinec to look for the alignements at Kerzine, I found this 2.5 metre tall menhir, without a name, across a field near to a wood behind some houses. | 203 | 444 |
| Kerlutu Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This is a nice little dolmen sitting in a little mound in some fields just round the back of the houses, and a hundred or so metres walk. It's got a 3m by 2.5m chamber, partially made with slabs, partly with drystone walling. It is fully covered by its capstone, and there is no sign of an entrance c... Read More |
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| Kerguerhan Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This is a pleasant little dolmen sitting in a green area on the outskirts of the village of St Cado near Belz. It has a 3m by 2.5m oval chamber with its capstone still in place, and the first couple of rows of its entrance corridor with a capstone on top of them. Access to it would be possible by c... Read More |
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| Kerhuen Dolmens | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | This is a nice find, pleasantly situated at the top of the hill on the village green, with a view over the Etel estuary and its oysterbeds. It's a dolmen with entry passageway, with an oval chamber about 4 metres by 3 metres. The capstone sits on several of the eight side slabs, but is no longer hig... Read More |
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| Dolmens des Sept Saints | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 4 | This is a site which until a few days before I visited would have been completely overgrown, but thankfully has had all the gorse, blackthorn etc cut back and cleared.
What you get is a round mound, about 20 to 25 metres in diameter, with the very ruinous remains of three chambers with entry cor... Read More |
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| Er Run Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | This is a sad looking little dolmen in a field of sweetcorn, looking fallen and getting overgrown and unloved. It is in a hamlet plagued by mad dogs chasing after me, barking and growling continuously. There is a second dolmen here, even more hidden in the undergrowth. | 203 | 438 |
| Botlann Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | This small dolmen can be found around the back of some new houses at the east of the village of Erdeven, on the road to Ploemel. A 3 metre by 2 metre capstone rests on three supports, with remains of a chamber 2 metres in width. All other remains have gone, but it stands here proudly for the moment,... Read More |
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| Géants de Kerzerho | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Fantastic. | 203 | 436 |
| Kerzerho Alignements | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Such wonderful stones, I just had to stop and wander around them again. | 203 | 435 |
| Sainte-Barbe alignement | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is an interesting and strange place, slightly off the tourist trails to the west of the D.781 Carnac to Erdeven road near to the village of Ste Barbe. It seems to be two long, widely spaced rows of menhirs heading off parallel to each other at 120°, approximately 40 metres apart from each othe... Read More |
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| Vieux-Moulin Alignement | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is a nice little row of 6 menhirs, up to 4 metres in height, standing on the slopes of a field just near to the busy D.781 Carnac to Erdeven road, just to the north of Plouharnel station. These are nicely shaped and positioned stones. | 203 | 433 |
| Rondossec Dolmens | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | This is a remarkably complete monument with three passage dolmens facing eastwards contained within a 20 metre diameter cairn, right near to the centre of the village.
The southernmost chamber is the smallest, a collapsed oval chamber of about 3 m by 2 m with a 5 metre long corridor leading to i... Read More |
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| Porz Guen Dolmens | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 2 | 5 | 4 | Found on the clifftop to the north of the Porz Guen beach on the Cote Sauvage of the Quiberon Peninsula, just a few minutes walk around the spectacular cliff path from various parking places.
These are the remains of two ruined dolmens with entry corridors facing to the south east, probably once... Read More |
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| Quiberon menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 4 | 2 | 5 | A 5 metre tall menhir is to be found positioned in a little town square near to a war memorial in Quiberon town. | 203 | 430 |
| Menhir de Goulvars | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 15th Jun 2005 | 5 | 2 | 4 | This massive menhir is now sadly fenced in behind the SNCF holiday complex near to Pointe du Conguel out at the tip of the Quiberon peninsular. It can be found by taking the road beside the SNCF complex until it reaches the grassland behind them, and then taking the trackway to the left. The menhir ... Read More |
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| Conguel Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | This menhir, about 3 metres tall, has been moved to its current position just outside the SNCF holiday complex from a position nearby when building work was being undertaken. It now serves as a sort of garden feature, and is easily seen from the road. | 203 | 428 |
| Conguel Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Beside the road running along the shore out to the tip of Pointe du Conguel, and incorporated into the pavement just outside the SNCF holiday complex, can be seen the remains of this burial chamber. Possibly, one side of it is natural rock, or perhaps a fallen capstone, but it has a definite backsto... Read More |
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| Pointe de la Guérite allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 3 | 5 | 5 | This little allée couverte sits right on the clifftop, still surprisingly within its little cairn of stones, so what you get to see is its 6 capstones lined up facing away from the sea at 100°. It has been cut through by the road at the east end, so it is possible that it was longer than its curre... Read More |
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| Pointe de la Guérite menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | This is a relatively small menhir right above the cliffs of the magnificent Cote Sauvage, easily found between the clifftop path and the road. | 203 | 425 |
| Manémeur 2 & 3 menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | These are two good sized menhirs just inland from the Cote Sauvage, up a slight rise. The two of them are about 20 metres apart, the bigger one being higher up the slope. It is about 5 metres high, 3 metres wide and tapers upwards. Its smaller companion is about 3 metres high. Both have some lovely ... Read More |
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| Manémeur 1 menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This menhir is right in the central square of the hamlet of Manémeur. It is about 3 metres high, 2 m wide and 0.5 m thick, and has several cupules in its southern face. It is nowadays kept within a little circular flowerbed, unfortunately squeezed between roadsigns and parked cars while I was here,... Read More |
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| Beg-er-Goalennec Menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | The first menhir is a sadly broken menhir right beside a restaurant on the Cote Sauvage roadside. It's 4 metres high with another 2 metres broken from the top laying beside it. It is over 2 metres wide and only 30cm thick. It has a strangely shaped neighbour between it and the sea.
The second me... Read More |
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| Beg-er-Goalennec 1 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is a nice menhir, less than 3 metres tall, standing in heathland just beside the Cote Sauvage road and cliffs. A splendid position. It probably gets covered in sea spray in rough weather from the blow hole nearby. | 203 | 420 |
| Roc'h en Aud Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This is a curious affair, right in amongst the houses. It has a sort of square chamber, 4 m by 4 m with an entrance in the middle of the eastern side. But around the top of the side slabs (three per side) is a sort of circle of capstones, overhanging the chamber. The top of the main chamber is not c... Read More |
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| Kerbourgnec Alignements | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | At low tide, from the beach at Kerbourgnec, can be seen the remains of these alignements. More than a dozen rows of stones can be seen, stretching for about 400 metres into the sea. These stones are associated to a cromlech (of which a few of the stones can be seen) and tumulus. | 203 | 418 |
| St-Pierre-Quiberon Alignement | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Just beyond the cromlech, and towards the town centre and the sea can be found a pleasant little park with the remains of these alignements in it. The notice says that there are 23 stones in 5 parallel rows, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there were many more dotted about in peoples gardens.
T... Read More |
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| Kerbougnec Cromlech | Stone Circle | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | Found in amongst the houses of St-Pierre-Quiberon, this is nowadays a large semi circle of about 40 contiguous stones, average height about 1.8 metres. It is however just a small part of the remains of what was perhaps once an egg shaped enclosure, with a diameters of about 95 by 75 metres.
It i... Read More |
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| Kerroc’h cromlech | Stone Circle | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Oppsite to the dolmen, the gently arced wall around the house (a strange large gatewayed studio) is made up using many large stones. Perhaps there was once some sort of cromlech here, like that at Crucuny, perhaps the wall is made usong large stones from the ruined dolmen. | 203 | 415 |
| Kerroc'h Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | A 4 metre by 3 metre capstone sits one end in the air on two supports, while the other side is on the ground. There is one more bit of large stone here, which may be a support, or may be a broken bit of capstone. It would seem that the rest of the stones from this dolmen have been used to build the ... Read More |
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| Carnac Musée de Préhistoire | Museum | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | There is lots of stuff in here, found at various places in the locality. Some good explanations of the various types of dolmen and tumulus to be found, and some lovely replicas of many of the engraved stones to be found. Seems like I have seen most of these now. | 203 | 413 |
| Fontaine St Michel | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Following the path round the back of the tumulus looking to get a good photograph there was a sign to Fontaine St Michel which I followed. After a few hundred metres there is a nice little well with a little well house and offerings area above a clear pool of water slowly bubbling up from the ground... Read More |
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| Saint-Michel tumulus | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 14th Jun 2005 | 4 | 2 | 4 | Very old and big. Visits inside no longer available like they were in the 1980s. | 203 | 411 |
| Kerluir Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | There's a big mound here on top of a hillock, to the east of the Kerluir menhir, but its all covered with gorse and blackthorn. However, there is a way through, and somewhere in the middle can be found this tiny little dolmen, which consists of a capstone sitting on two sidestones, with a few other ... Read More |
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| Kerluir Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 3 | This is a nicely shaped 4 metre high menhir in the middle of a field about 800 metres to the south of the Kermario alignements, and as such, the poor thing is a bit overshadowed. But I was taken with its leaning and its pointy top, and liked it a lot. To find this go down the track to the south of t... Read More |
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| Kergavat Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | Right beside the busy D.781 road just to the south of Plouharnel, can be found this dolmen. In fact, the road has cut through the entrance corridor. This would have been a fairly big standard dolmen with a 4 metre or 3 metre chamber with a corridor to the south east. The single capstone sits on seve... Read More |
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| Kerzerho Alignements | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | It’s a pity about the busy road running through them, but they are here, looking superb in the sun and you can wander freely amongst them. However, I just want to get back now, having spent almost an hour fixing my bike. There is a Dutch couple here, the man spending ages taking photos with all so... Read More |
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| La Table du Sacrifice | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Pretty much in the middle of the Géants de Kerzerho are two fallen giants, more than six metres long. It looks like one of the flat fallen stones may have been used as a dolmen with a chamber underneath it.
Perhaps they are not fallen giants. Maybe this is the true Pierre des Sacrifices. Maybe i... Read More |
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| Géants de Kerzerho | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Coming along the Chemin des Megalithes from the east, the first thing you see is a large menhir, more than 4 metres tall, at the side of the path, with a couple of smaller stones fallen beside it. Then you notice the fallen giant of the Pierre des Sacrifices, 6 metres long and nicely smoothed, upon ... Read More |
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| Kerjean Menhirs | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | Travelling along the Chemin des Megalithes, to the west of the Mané Braz dolmens, are to be seen several megaliths within the woods. These are the Kerjean menhirs, but I don’t have enough time to explore every single stone around here. This really is a cracking ride along this path. I can't recom... Read More |
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| Mané Braz menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Just the other side of the footpath to the Mané Braz dolmens, down the hill, is a line of large stones still standing, each about a metre high. There are many other stones. I have no idea what this may be. Maybe a wrecked tomb of some kind. | 203 | 403 |
| Mané Braz tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 3 | I am surprised yet again. Up on a hilltop a few hundred metres from the Chemin des Megalithes trackway (use off road bike) is signposted Mané Braz, up a little footpath.
The first thing you see is a lot of stones, which upon inspection are a double transepted passage grave similar to Mané Groh... Read More |
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| La Chaise de César | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | Travelling along the Chemin des Megalithes, I was wondering what would surprise me next, and the first thing I come to along this path has done it already. What on Earth is this ? Loads of big stones in a wood just off the track.
At first it looked like another rectangle, but then I saw more sto... Read More |
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| Coet-ar-Bei | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | Travelling along the Chemin des Megalithes, I was wondering what would surprise me next, and the first thing I come to along this path has done it already. What on Earth is this ? Loads of big stones in a wood just off the track. At first it looked like another rectangle, but then I saw more stones.... Read More |
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| Mané-Groh Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Now this is more like it. Signposted and kept tidy in a pleasant forest glade with a nearby carpark, this tomb is found a few hundred metres to the northeast of Crucuno village. It is a large transepted dolmen with a central entry corridor 7 metres long, and two pairs of side chambers, each being ab... Read More |
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| Crucuno Cromlech | Stone Circle | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | What a lovely and unexpected find this was, not so much the expected semi-circular cromlech, but an almost complete rectangle of large stones. There are 22 remaining stones, on average 2 metres in height, arranged in a rectangle measuring about 33 metres by 25 metres. The long sides are aligned just... Read More |
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| Crucuno Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | Right in the middle of Crucuno hamlet is to be found this tremendous and much visited and photographed dolmen. The rectangular chamber is about 4 metres by 3.5 metres, covered by a single massive capstone which measures over 7 metres in length, perched on top of 9 support stones, with easily enough ... Read More |
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| Tennad-er-Menguen Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Back to the overgrown sites again ! This one is down a lane then across a field before finding it in the undergrowth. Probably once upon a time this was quite a good dolmen with an entry passageway, there is a 3 metre diameter chamber with capstone, and a few stones of the entrance still standing, a... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Cosquer Er Mané | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | A pleasant little dolmen well presented on a sort of village green to the north of the chapel. This is almost certainly the remains of the back end of a passage grave with most of the entry corridor removed, although a few stones and a capstone still remain. The chamber is about 3 metres by 3 metres... Read More |
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| Runesto Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is a pleasant dolmen still mostly within its mound, and in fact it has been cut down into with steps from the eastern side of the massive capstone. The chamber is about 3 metres by 3 metres, and the single capstone is held up on eight remaining side support stones, with plenty of room to stand ... Read More |
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| Mané-Kerioned Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | This monument is in the process of being cleared of undergrowth at the time of my visit, so despite cutting and strimmers working around the place, I will get to see it. Perhaps the authorities are just starting on a major clear up of many of the ancient sites after years of neglect.
Much has be... Read More |
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| Mané Keriaval | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Now this is a nice one, not only for the monument, but it is signposted and not being worn away by masses of visitors. Best of all, it has obviously been cleared within the last day or so of all the undergrowth which was here. About time I found one of these which was treated a bit better, and well ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Nauterio | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This is a pleasant little dolmen, sadly becoming very overgrown, which can be found about 50 metres up the track which leads northwest beyond Nauterio towards Keriaval. It has a 2.5 by 2 metre chamber, with a 6 to 7 metre entrance passageway which has a couple of its capstones still in place.
Th... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Run Mori | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 13th Jun 2005 | I could not find this in dense gorse filled woodland, on a hill somewhere to the east of the lane leading to Nauterio. | 203 | 389 | |||
| Dolmen de Rosnual | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | A couple of kilometres north of Carnac along the D119 road, turn right towards Rosnual. Just beyond the campsite of the same name, go left up a farm track as the lane goes to the right. After about 50 metres, just beyond the first field wall on the left is the dolmen. You wouldn’t know it though, ... Read More |
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| Kercado Tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Fantastic. This is getting a bit eroded away now, and I think it needs some better protection from all the visitors it gets. The monument consists of a 25 metre diameter round cairn, completely enclosing a wonderful dolmen chamber which is about 3 metres by 2.5 metres, and 2.3 metres high, which is ... Read More |
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| Le Quadrilatere | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This is a quadrilateral of stones in the forest to the north of the alignements. It initially looks to me like the outside peristalith from a long gone passage grave, but closer inspection shows it to be more than that.
As I am here, a party of horse riders ride right through, and then a bus tou... Read More |
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| Geant du Manio | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 13th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is a 5 metre high menhir, fairly easily found and obviously very popular because of all the erosion around it. It is only 50 metres from the quadrilateral. It’s a very nice stone in the woodland, but I guess it can become a bit of a nightmare when crowded. | 203 | 385 |
| Cruz Menquen dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | In amongst the homes near to the sports facilities to the north of the town is Carnac's own dolmen. It is a small affair, with a 2.5 m by 2 metre capstone mounted on three support stones. On top of the capstone has been mounted a large, 2.5 metre tall cross. | 203 | 384 |
| Ménec alignements | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | Fantastic in the evening light, and I have them almost all to myself. | 203 | 383 |
| Ménec cromlech | Stone Circle | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Curving around the Creperie at the western end of the Menec alignements, this almost contiguous semicircle of stones really is splendid, and most people who visit the nearby stones do not know that it is there, or think that it’s a wall. All sorts of other bits of the cromlech can be found in betw... Read More |
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| Kerlescan nord allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The remains of this monument can be found at the eastern end of the Kerlescan alignements, around the back to the north, and in a wood. It is about 60 metres long by 8 metres wide tumulus, completely surrounded by a stone peristalith. Inside this mound is a 16 metre long lateral entrance allee couve... Read More |
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| Kerlescan Alignements | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | I am not going to say much about the major Carnac alignements, except to say that they are all absolutely mind blowing. Even though I saw them all those years ago, the first sight of all those stones lined up is incredible, especially in the strong evening sunshine.
I cannot possibly do justice ... Read More |
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| Kerlescan cromlech | Stone Circle | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 203 | 379 | |
| Kermario Alignements | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | I am not going to say much about the major Carnac alignements, except to say that they are all absolutely mind blowing. Even though I saw them all those years ago, the first sight of all those stones lined up is incredible, especially in the strong evening sunshine.
I cannot possibly do justice ... Read More |
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| Kermario Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 203 | 377 | |
| Menhir du Moustoir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Just beside the western end of the massive Moustoir tumulus is a nice menhir, 3.3 metres high, quite thin and a nice pointed triangular shape. | 203 | 376 |
| Moustoir tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | This massive great mound, 90 metres in length, 40 metres wide and 8 metres high, can be found just to the south of the hamlet of Moustoir, a few kilometres to the north of Carnac. The mound is aligned roughly Northeast to Southwest, and has a small menhir on the top at the eastern end, and a larger ... Read More |
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| Mané-Brizil Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Saw from a distance | 12th Jun 2005 | This dolmen is now within private property, but a few stones of what is possibly the dolmen with couloir can be seen inside the entrance of a large chateau like place, up the driveway entrance. | 203 | 374 | |||
| Crucuny Cromlech | Stone Circle | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | To the south of the hamlet of Crucuny, and marked on my map as a menhir, this ancient cromlech is now incorporated into a semicircular wall. There are several big stones to be seen, with smaller ones in between them, which in places are almost contiguous. | 203 | 373 |
| Menhir de Crucuny 1 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 12th Jun 2005 | On top of the tumulus, to the north of the hamlet, is a menhir, 2.8 metres tall, with axes carved on it. But it is all very overgrown and covered in gorse, and I could not get to see anything at close quarters. | 203 | 372 | |||
| Crucuny tumulus | Long Barrow | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | There is a large mound, 50 metres long and 13 metres high, to be seen just to the north of the hamlet, but all very overgrown and covered in gorse. On top of the tumulus is a menhir, 2.8 metres tall, with axes carved on it. | 203 | 371 |
| Dolmen de La Madeleine (Carnac) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Blimey, this dolmen is not hidden in dense woodland ! It is to be found in an open field at the top of a little raise, but the field was closed off with an electric fence, so I didn’t go in to see the dolmen at close quarters. | 203 | 370 |
| Le Petit Ménec | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | This is a nice place to explore on a hot afternoon, a nice walk in a cool woodland filled with stones. There are hundreds of them to be seen, lined up through the woods, mostly less than a metre tall but some reach up to about 2 metres. There are round ones, pointy ones, square ones, thick ones, thi... Read More |
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| Kermarquer Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This one is much easier to find than its neighbour, but still involves 100 metres of fighting a way through gorse and bramble filled woodland. The monument is a strange one, with two chambers off of a single entry corridor. The main chamber, a rectangular 2.5 metres by 2.5 metres has no capstone, an... Read More |
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| Mané Bras | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | According to a signpost at the roadside, it is only a 500 metre walk along a bridlepath to this monument. However, in practice it involved crossing a swamp, negotiating woodland full of brambles and nettles, then crossing an open tract of heather, and last but by no means least, somehow getting thro... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Mane Rohr | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 12th Jun 2005 | Despite being clearly marked on the map, besides the sports ground and with a footpath to it, I could find no way through the houses to the hilltop position in the real world. | 203 | 366 | |||
| Mané Roullarde | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | The remains of this monument are to be found on a hilltop site overlooking the yachting and seaside town of La Trinité-sur-Mer, now surrounded by expensive looking flats. There is an 18 metre long Allée Couverte known as Er-Groh, with only 4 capstones remaining in place, which faces southeast at 1... Read More |
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| Kervehennec Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | To the north of the D781 road, in a little area behind Kervanhennic farm can be seen the remains of this fairly wrecked dolmen on top of a little granite hillock. There is not much more than a single 3 m by 2 metres capstone and a few support stones to be seen. It looks to have had a wall built into... Read More |
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| Men-Milene | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 12th Jun 2005 | To the southwest of the Chat Noir roundabout is the hamlet of Kerangoff, where there can be found a dolmen and a menhir. The menhir proved impossible for me to find, hidden somewhere in the forest behind the houses amongst the ferns and gorse, despite a longish walk around all the area. | 203 | 363 | |||
| Kermané Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | To the southwest of the Chat Noir roundabout is the hamlet of Kerangoff, where there can be found a dolmen and a menhir. The dolmen is easy to find, right beside the track amongst the houses, but is very overgrown. It has a large 4 metre by 3 metre chamber with the capstone supported on 8 sidestones... Read More |
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| Kerran Dolmens | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | From the busy Chat Noir roundabout to the south of Crac'h, take a small lane to the southeast, a few hundred metres along which you find a little clearing to the right of the lane within which this tomb resides. I was not quite sure what to make of it, there are two obvious chambers, both still with... Read More |
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| Kercadoret Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 12th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This nice little dolmen stands proud at the edge of its field, well hidden behind a big hedge beside the D718 road a few kilometres to the north of Locmariaquer. Look carefully, and there is a pathway through the hedge and wooded area. The dolmen is about 2.5 by 2 metres, and the single capstone sit... Read More |
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| Kervéresse Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Saw from a distance | 12th Jun 2005 | I couldn’t be sure that I found this dolmen, what I did see was a bit of a mound covered in thick undergrowth in a private garden beside the D718 road to the north of Locmariaquer. | 203 | 359 | |||
| Pointe Er Hourél Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 2 | 5 | 3 | This dolmen is in just about the best position of any I have been to, out near the end of Er Hourel point in a little pinewood. Access is either by a fair walk from the nearest car park for Plage St Pierre, or the way I did it was by an excellent off road bike route from Locmariaquer, which took me ... Read More |
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| Kerlud Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This is a simple chambered dolmen which has been incorporated into the end of a wall behind a farm in the hamlet of Kerlud. The single large capstone sits on top of several support stones around a 3.5 by 2.5 metre chamber, with dry stone walling filling the gaps between the slabs. The entrance is to... Read More |
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| Pierres Plates (Locmariaquer) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | This famous angled passage grave with its many sculpted stones is right at the end of the Locmariaquer peninsular overlooking the sea, and still mostly within a small covering mound. The chamber turns about 45 degrees to the left after about 6 metres, with a side chamber bisecting the angle. From th... Read More |
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| Kerpenhir Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | About 3.5 metres tall, this menhir can be seen in the far hedge of a field, overlooking the entrance to the gulf of Morbihan, with all its boats racing in and out. What a superb position this would be if the hedge were not there ! The modern, sculpted menhir at Bilgroix stands right opposite on the ... Read More |
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| Mané-er-Hroëck tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Blimey, whatever next ? This is a large mound of stones, just to the south of the village of Locmariaquer. A path leads up between the houses to the top of the tumulus, of which the shape and size are indeterminate due to the houses all around it. Once on top of the tumulus, a set of relatively mode... Read More |
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| Mane-Rethuel Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | I thought I had seen some pretty impressive megalithic constructions before, but the Locmariaquer ones are making me think again. This is a massively long passage grave, built in at least two different ages. The first stage is a 3 metre by 2 metre oval chamber at the end of a 10 metre passage openin... Read More |
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| Mane Lud Dolmen | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is just a few hundred metres away from the famed sites at the Grande Menhir Brise, but it is not visited by many people, yet I think it is a better site than the Table des Marchands.
Still within its large long cairn of stones, it doesn’t look much from the outside, just a large broken c... Read More |
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| La Table des Marchands | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 5 | 3 | 3 | Much has been written about this place by others already, and I wont spend valuable daylight by sitting and writing anymore for myself, except to say that it is all very different to what it was in 1987, and that the current thinking is that the Grand Menhir was once just one of 19 stood up in a ro... Read More |
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| Grand Menhir Brisé | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Much has been written about this place by others already, and I wont spend valuable daylight by sitting and writing anymore for myself, except to say that it is all very different to what it was in 1987, and that the current thinking is that the Grand Menhir was once just one of 19 stodd up in a ro... Read More |
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| Er-Grah tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Much has been written about this place by others already, and I wont spend valuable daylight by sitting and writing anymore for myself, except to say that it is all very different to what it was in 1987, and that the current thinking is that the Grand Menhir was once just one of 19 stood up in a ro... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Kerourang 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 11th Jun 2005 | To the west of Crac'h, down beside the Riviere de Crac'h can be found the remains of another monument which is another important angled passage graves, rather like Luffang, but still with some of its capstones. Besides this are the remains of several other monuments. | 203 | 348 | |||
| Dolmen de Kerourang 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 2 | 2 | 3 | I couldn’t find this dolmen marked on my map on my way to Luffang, but stopped for another look on the way back, after another look at the map. It was very difficult to find, but it is still there to be seen, well hidden under very thick undergrowth. What I eventually found was, near to the trackw... Read More |
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| Luffang Allée Couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Easily found in woodland near Luffang, just to the west of Crac'h, this is the remains of a long allée-couverte type structure, but with no coverstones remaining. The allée is not straight, but turns to the left about 45° after 6 metres of the entrance, before another 14 metres of stonelined pass... Read More |
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| Tombelles de Kernourz | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The tombettes vary in size from about 10 metres in diameter downwards, and most are nowadays fairly flat. Most consist of the outline of some sort of burial chamber, with a surrounding circle of stones. Various chamber types are to be seen, from simple rectangles to full length stone lined passages. | 203 | 345 |
| Tumulus du Rocher | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | Signposted, and with a parking area, this is a great find. There is a little walk along a wooded headland above the Bono river, and not knowing what to expect here, I was more than pleasantly surprised. It is signposted "Tumulus et Tombettes", and as well as a big tumulus, there are the remains of h... Read More |
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| Kervengu Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Saw from a distance | 11th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | This is a nice looking dolmen in the middle of a field of sweetcorn, with no obvious access to it. From a distance, it looks like a single large capstone on top of three supports, but this is probably wrong. There is a tree growing beside it. | 203 | 343 | |
| Allée Couverte dite de Coguer Neguinan | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | In an area on top of a hill overlooking a stream is the hamlet of Le Palastre, with its dolmen. I found quite a few stones here, but was not sure what the official dolmen is ! There is lots of big stones around, none of which looked too convincingly like a dolmen as opposed to natural. The best fit ... Read More |
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| Cohporh Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 11th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 3 | This poor menhir is totally enclosed by massive undergrowth, and just the top of the 3.5 metre tall stone can be seen poking its head out. It looks to be a good one in there somewhere. | 203 | 341 |
| Allée couverte du Net dit Clos-et-Bé | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Just 40 metres from the nearby menhir can be seen a long mound, but which is completely overgrown in the middle of its field, which was empty at the time of my visit. Closer inspection reveals there to be many stones in the mound, and at least two capstones still in position on top of what is a 21 m... Read More |
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| Menhir de Clos-et-Bé 1 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This menhir which is about 3 metres tall, and just 40 metres from its neighbouring dolmen, is getting swamped by undergrowth in the middle of a field, which was empty at the time of my visit. It has got some lovely lichens growing all over the the sparkly granite. | 203 | 339 |
| Saline est menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 2 | 2 | 5 | This is a little menhir, probably broken, and not much more than a metre in height, just inside somebodies front garden, but easily visible from the road. | 203 | 338 |
| Pointe de Men Maria dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | This poor little dolmen is walled in within a carpark, which I suppose at least protects it a bit. It is superbly situated on a little headland which seperates the Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys harbour from the beach - a very desireable place apart from the car park.
The dolmen is a simple dolmen with a... Read More |
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| Petit Mont | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 2 | This enormous cairn, built between 4600 and 2500 BC is on a headland jutting into the sea to the south of the Arzon peninsular. The whole headland is now owned by the local government, and is undergoing major restoration work. The cairn is now well fenced off, and visits were closed for the day when... Read More |
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| Bilgroix Point Menhir | Modern Stone Circle etc | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | Right on the tip of the northern headland at the eastern entrance to the Golfe de Morbiihan, is a nice little parkland area. Within this is a nice modern menhir which has been carved into Mama Mari, the lady of the sea. It is most convincing, and it is nice to sit here watching all the boats nipping... Read More |
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| Bilgroix allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | This is an unusual monument, right near to the end of the northern headland at the entrance to the Golfe de Morbihan, said to date from around 2700BC and unique in western France. It is an allée-couverte with a passage about 10 metres long, but other than a large slab at the back (western) end, it ... Read More |
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| Île Longue tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Saw from a distance | 10th Jun 2005 | I took a walk out to the Pointe de Penbert, from where the entrance to the Golfe de Morbihan can clearly be seen, and all the many islands within the gulf. It is a smashing day with a good breeze, and lots and lots of sailing boats are out having fun. There's a cracking tacking duel going on between... Read More |
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| Gavrinis Cairn | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Saw from a distance | 10th Jun 2005 | I took a walk out to the Pointe de Penbert, from where the entrance to the Golfe de Morbihan can clearly be seen, and all the many islands within the gulf. It is a smashing day with a good breeze, and lots and lots of sailing boats are out having fun. There's a cracking tacking duel going on between... Read More |
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| Er Lannic | Stone Circle | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Saw from a distance | 10th Jun 2005 | I took a walk out to the Pointe de Penbert, from where the entrance to the Golfe de Morbihan can clearly be seen, and all the many islands within the gulf. It is a smashing day with a good breeze, and lots and lots of sailing boats are out having fun. There's a cracking tacking duel going on between... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Grah-Niol | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This initially looks to be an allée-couverte type monument, but which has been dated to about 5000BC, so is much older than a standard allée-couverte. It is still largely within its mound, but was restored in 1936 with the help of lots of concrete.
It is about 11 metres long, and has a stele p... Read More |
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| Tumiac tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | As driving towards this from the east, it suddenly appears from behind something, before you arrive at the parking area and information sign beside the road. Whoooa, it’s a biggun ! It is said in legend that it is the place from where Caesar watched a great naval battle out to sea to the south of ... Read More |
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| Kermaillard Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | This 5.2 metre tall menhir, which was re-erected in 1988, stands in a pleasant little grassy area with an information sign. The stone is flat on one side, rounded on the other, and has been shaped to a point at the top. There are carvings on the stone, many small cupules, and near the base of the fl... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit Lannek-er-Men | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | This is a little dolmen sat on a green area outside a very pretty house. It has a little oval chamber, 3 metres by 2 metres, with an entrance to the east where there was perhaps once an entrance passageway. The two capstones sit on several side slabs, and the floor is paved with large stones also, b... Read More |
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| Dolmens des Grays | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 2 | 5 | 4 | Walking to the west along the coast path from the big carpark near the beach at Penlann headland, and you get to the remains of this large cairn after about 500 metres. It is difficult to make anything out nowadays, other than there are lots of large rocks on the remains of a large mound, overlookin... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Crapaud | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 2 | 5 | 4 | Perched on its clifftop, overlooking the sea and a nice sandy beach, from certain angles this does indeed look like a toad poking its head up. Much of the original tomb is no longer with us due to erosion of the cliffs, and what remains is a capstone perched on top of a few small uprights. The capst... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Pointe du Scal | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | This site, nearby the Pierre Blanche, is now marked by the ign as a seperate burial chamber besides the Pierre Blanche menhir.
Trehiguier menhir, La Pierre Blanche, is a large white quartz block found down Allée de Megalithe, and at the left just before the end of the road at a boatyard, or fis... Read More |
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| La Pierre Blanche (Trehiguier) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 10th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Trehiguier menhir, or Pierre Blanche, is a large white quartz block found down Allée de Megalithe, and at the left just before the end of the road at a boatyard, or fish factory. It is about 2.5 metres high, and 1.5 metres square at the base.
About 10 metres away is a large grey slab with some ... Read More |
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| Pointe de Cofréneau cairn | Cairn | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 9th Jun 2005 | I had a long walk around the coastal path here, after parking the campervan for the night, but I could not find any sign at all of this. It is probably in a garden or underneath lots of thick gorse and undergrowth. | 203 | 322 | |||
| Dolmen de Méarzenne | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Couldn't find | 9th Jun 2005 | I had a long walk around the coastal path here, after parking the campervan for the night, but I could not find a way to access the wood within which this dolmen lives, as there are lots of big holiday homes and houses with big fenced gardens surrounding it all. | 203 | 321 | |||
| Menhir de Condé | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 9th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 4 | In the midst of an industrial estate, sandwiched between a quarry and France's equivalent of Middlesbrough, with all the chemical works beside the Loire estuary, and not to forget the nearby airport and motorway, this poor stone doesn’t seem to stand a chance. However, here it still is in a hayfie... Read More |
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| Revin Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Saw from a distance | 9th Jun 2005 | I found nowhere to stop near here on the horribly busy road with everyone rushing home from work in St Nazaire. However, I don’t let it beat me that easily, and eventually found somewhere to stop and wallk back to where the dolmen is marked on the map. Once I got there, I could see no way into the... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Barbière | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 9th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This dolmen appears in all the tourist literature, and is signposted for miles around, yet when you get there it is fenced off in private land, although in this case easy enough to access to nearby.
As with a few other dolmens around here, I struggled to identify just what it is the remains of. ... Read More |
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| Le Fuseau de la Madeleine | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 9th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This is another one that, despite being signposted from the main road, and from several miles away, is inside a double fenced and ditched field, with no obvious access. It is a nice stone this, and must be about 5 metres high, with a possibly shaped outline, pointed at the top, and is covered in nic... Read More |
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| Karlane Dolmen | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Saw from a distance | 9th Jun 2005 | Not far from Bergnon are two dolmens marked down a little lane. I walked down the lane but couldn’t really find anything, although I was assured by a passing chap on a bike, that it is possible to access both dolmens. But the barriers, crops and hedges here made it all too much effort for probably... Read More |
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| Soriniere Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Couldn't find | 9th Jun 2005 | Not far from Bergnon are two dolmens marked down a little lane. I walked down the lane but couldn’t really find anything, although I was assured by a passing chap on a bike, that it is possible to access both dolmens. But the barriers, crops and hedges here made it all too much effort for probably... Read More |
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| Roche Aux Loups | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 9th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | This dolmen is signposted from the main road, but when you get there down the farm track, its fenced off in a field with no access signs, but you get a good view across the field. It’s a simple dolmen with a capstone which looks to be precariously balanced on just two supports, although a view fro... Read More |
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| Dolmen Du Riholo | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 9th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | This is a nice site, up on top of a mound surrounded by forest, although it was difficult to make out what exactly remains here. It seems to be a T shaped arrangement, perhaps an east west oriented chamber with an additional northern part ? I must try to look it up somewhere. Basically, what remains... Read More |
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| La Pierre De Len Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 9th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 2 | This was a tricky one to find. Not only is it in the middle of a swamp, but the road leading towards it from St-Lyphard was closed for rebuilding work. However, I persevered, expecting to find a nice big stone. But after quite some walking along farm tracks and aacross boggy marshy swampland, it was... Read More |
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| Kerbourg Dolmen 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Couldn't find | 9th Jun 2005 | I thought there was another dolmen to be found here and there is. Its just that I thought it was between the first dolmen and the windmill whereas it’s a bit further on down the road I was mixing the two up with their positions on the map. Damnabbit. | 203 | 311 | |||
| Kerbourg Dolmen 1 | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 9th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This is what looks like a little allée-couverte, and is actually signposted and with a little clearing around it for visits. It is to be found just behind the Moulin a Fée, a prototype wind generator built inside an old windmill, and looking just like an old windmill except with a modern whirring ... Read More |
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| La Pierre Blanche (Kerbourg) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 9th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 2 | They really don’t want people looking at their megaliths around here. There are no signs, nowhere to stop, and everything overgrown and behind double barbed wire fences, with hedges and brambles growing in between them. The menhir can be seen from the roadside across the far side of a field, but t... Read More |
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| Kerdanestre Menhir Christianisé | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 9th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This is a smallish menhir which has been sculpted into a cross and mounted on a pedestal at an ancient road junction. The stone is about 1.5 metres tall above the pedestal, and sparkles beautifully in the sunshine. It looks to have probably been recently restored. | 203 | 308 |
| Keralio Croix Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 9th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | This is a tall thin menhir sculpted into a cross, mounted on a nice flower filled pedestal on the village green at Keralio. The stone is probably about 2.5 metres tall, and obviously well looked after. | 203 | 307 |
| Rocher Du Rohain | Rock Outcrop | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 8th Jun 2005 | 1 | 4 | 3 | I spent ages trying to find this, and in the end found what was a natural granite outcrop on a little mound, up a trackway round the back of some houses. It looked to me like a couple of stones have been moved and sculpted, and may be the remains of some form of burial monument. However, I later fou... Read More |
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| Croix de Sandun Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 8th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Despite asking, this dolmen was a difficult one to find. I parked and walked up Rue de la Butte expecting to find it there, but all I found was a natural rock outcrop with a cross on top However, the dolmen remains are about 50 metres to the north of this hillock, well hidden in the undergrowth.
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| La Grée Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Couldn't find | 8th Jun 2005 | At the village of Avrillac, near St-André-des-Eaux, is marked a dolmen and menhir on my maps. I parked my van and had a good look all around, including a 3 kilometre walk around various lanes, but I saw nothing, and there was nobody to ask. Whatever megalithic remains there might be here are either... Read More |
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| Menhir de Couëtcas | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Couldn't find | 8th Jun 2005 | At the village of Avrillac, near St-André-des-Eaux, is marked a dolmen and menhir on my maps. I parked my van and had a good look all around, including a 3 kilometre walk around various lanes, but I saw nothing, and there was nobody to ask. Whatever megalithic remains there might be here are either... Read More |
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| Pierre Pointue (Paimboeuf) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 8th Jun 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | In the southeastern area of the town of Paimboeuf, amongst a housing estate, can be found a Rue de la menhir. Following this road from the main road, there is a right angled bend to the right, and a couple more older houses before you get to a building site for new houses. The menhir is somewhere do... Read More |
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| Cassis Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 8th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | In the middle of a field of Barley, this large menhir is signposted from the village. | 203 | 301 |
| La Haute Gedeliere Dolmen | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 8th Jun 2005 | 2 | 2 | 3 | I don’t think they want you to see this dolmen, although it is signposted from the road and again at the site. Firstly, I had to contend with a "Danger, Taureau" (danger, bull) sign, and then after this a couple of barbed wire fences. The dolmen is about half a kilometre across the second field, a... Read More |
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| Menhir dit la Pierre Bonde | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Couldn't find | 8th Jun 2005 | I found a signpost pointing down a track to this menhir, but could only park the campervan by blocking the lane. Following the track, it divided into three, and there was no indication which way to go to the menhir. I had a quick look along two of the possible directions, but I found no stone before... Read More |
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| Les Pierres Blanches (Corsept) | Standing Stones | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 8th Jun 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | At first I thought that there were three small menhirs here, not much more than a metre in height or fallen, but upon closer inspection (from a distance due to them being in a farmyard with a very active guard dog) it looked more like two menhirs and a pile of stone. There are perhaps others nearby.... Read More |
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| Megerie Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 8th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | This is a nearly 3 metres tall menhir, signposted down a little track at the hamlet of La Mégerie, in a field full of cows. It makes a strange hollow sound when I tapped it, perhaps its cracking apart, or perhaps its magic ! | 203 | 297 |
| Le Riverais 1 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 8th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Just beside the road in the hamlet of Riverais, to the west of St-Père-en-Retz, can be found this menhir beside a farmyard entrance. Its about 2.5 metres tall, but looks like the top has been broken off. | 203 | 296 |
| Chevanou Menhir | Standing Stones | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 8th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Still further north up the D.5 road from Chauvé, is he Chevanou menhir, right by the roadside. This one is quite famous for its bottle shape, but this is only apparent in one view, from edge on. The stone is over 4 metres high and 3 metres wide, and from this view it is more sharks fin shaped than ... Read More |
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| Platennes Menhirs | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 8th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | A bit further on past the Pierre Le Matz up the D.5 road north of Chauvé, these menhirs are signposted on the right. It is hard to tell exactly what was once here, but it was probably pretty impressive. The first thing you see is a lot oof broken stones, which was once a menhir which has been toppl... Read More |
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| La Pierre Le Matz | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 8th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This is a nice shaped menhir, about 4 metres tall. It is signposted up the D.5 road north of Chauvé, and in a little fenced off area. | 203 | 293 |
| La Table Submergée | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Saw from a distance | 8th Jun 2005 | Out in the sea and mudflats, a kilometre or two off from the northeastern coast of Ile Noirmoutier, is a dolmen which can be seen at low tide. I reckon I can see it through my binoculars, there's a very table like rock out there, and nothing else to be seen. There is a boat moored nearby, probably f... Read More |
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| La Pointe de l'Herbaudière dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Couldn't find | 7th Jun 2005 | I camped for the night at the large campsite which now occupies most of the northern point of the Ile Noirmoutiers, but could find no signs of any dolmen. The chap running the campsite said he had no knowledge of any dolmen there. There are however, lots of concrete bunkers, blockhouses and gun empl... Read More |
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| Pierre Levée de Soullans | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 7th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | In a little forest clearing beside the busy D. 69 road to the south of Challons, I found this stone because of the restaurante of the same name. It is a big stone, 4 metres high, more than 3 metres wide and 1 metre thick. It suffers badly from vandalism and graffitti, including lots of hippy crap in... Read More |
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| La Palissonnière | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 7th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | In a field of barley, just to the south of the D.82 road to the northwest of Commequiers village, can be found this menhir. However, as is often the case, there is a way through to it by following through some tracks made by the tractor wheels. It is about 2.5 metres high, 2 metres wide and has one ... Read More |
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| La Pierre Folle (Commequiers) | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 7th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Once a very nice example of an Angevin type dolmen, this has now mostly collapsed. Only three support stones are left standing, with a part of the capstone on top of them. The chamber would have been rectangular, 5 metres by 3 metres, and over 2 metres in height. The entrance is as usual to the east... Read More |
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| Pierre Levée de Soubise | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 7th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 4 | I cant see much of a future for this poor little dolmen, which is currently pleasantly situated on a little mound on some sandy heathland. Marker tape and trenches are set out around it, with diggers and other heavy plant, and I would think that before too long this whole area will be a building sit... Read More |
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| La Meinge du Diable | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Couldn't find | 7th Jun 2005 | I found a signpost to this one, but despite walking along every track and footpath in the vicinity, I found no semblance of any menhir. I wish that when there are signposts from the road, they are followed up later. I must have walked many miles in the baking hot sun here. At least it should be doin... Read More |
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| Menhir de la Crulière | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 7th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Signposted from the road, 0.5 kilometres walk, and having a little white signpost at the field entrance, I somehow walked right past, and took ages before I turned round and came back. How on earth did I miss it ? I probably wasted almost an hour here ! The menhir, 2.4 metres tall, and a triangular ... Read More |
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| Menhir dit la Conche-Verte | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 7th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | In a little forest clearing amongst the sand dunes to the north of Olonnes-sur-Mer, this 2 metre tall granite menhir is easily found due to the signposted footpaths. It leans slightly and has a pointed top. I suspect that there are others around here buried under the sand dunes. | 203 | 284 |
| Les Pierres Jumelles | Standing Stones | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 6th Jun 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | The Pierres Jumelles, or twin stones, are set into a little area beside the old road (which has now been bypassed twice) opposite to the aptly named Chateau Pierre Levée. The two stones are both about 4 metres high, but that is where the similarity between them ends.
One of the stones is a roun... Read More |
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| Puy Durand menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Couldn't find | 6th Jun 2005 | They sell postcards of this menhir, and it looks massive. I found Puy Durand, and had a good look all around, but could not find any signs of the menhir. There are lots of private and fenced off areas here, so the menhir is probably inside one of these. | 203 | 282 | |||
| C.A.I.R.N. | Museum | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 6th Jun 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | What a nice find this is. In an area of numerous menhirs and dolmens is this lovely “living” museum which is easily found and signposted from all around. CAIRN (Centre Archéologique d'Initiation et de Recherche sur le Néolithique) is not only a museum with the usual displays of things and exhi... Read More |
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| Fontaine Saint Gré menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 6th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | In the hedge beside the little lane which leads to the Fontaine Ste Gré, just beside the entrance to the field within which the spring is, can be found this menhir. It is about 2.5 metres tall, but very well hidden and overgrown within the hedge.
The other menhir is somewhere in a hedge beside ... Read More |
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| Fontaine Saint Gré tumulus | Chambered Cairn | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 6th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | Not far from the Fontaine Ste Gré spring is the remains of a large long mound. At the eastern end of this mound is a large granite slab, which is the remains of a burial chamber. | 203 | 278 | |
| Fontaine Saint Gré | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 6th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | This is an ancient spring and little pond in amongst some large granite blocks. The spring water seeps into the little pond from out of a fissure in one of the granite slabs at the side, from quite well above the water line.
There are two menhirs, a tumulus and ruined dolmen within a hundred met... Read More |
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| La Garnerie menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Saw from a distance | 6th Jun 2005 | 4 | 2 | This is a great big menhir in a field of barley, and there was no way I was going to get to it. I would estimate it to be 4 to 5 metres tall and it is nicely rounded. My gps position is to the field gate from where it can be seen. | 203 | 276 | |
| Alignement dit de La Petite Pierre | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 6th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Just outside the grounds of the chateau, along the little lane which runs to the south west from Avrillé, can be found this nice setting of three stones at the roadside in a little grassy clearing. Two 2.5 metre tall stones are positioned either side of a 5.5 metre high monster. All have been shape... Read More |
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| Menhirs du Bois du Fourgon | Standing Stones | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Couldn't find | 6th Jun 2005 | There are several sets of alignements to be found in the grounds of the Chateau, of which you have to pay for entry to be able to get in and see them. I didn’t have tome to do a tour of the Chateau, so was not able to visit these stones, of which at least three rows exist. | 203 | 274 | |||
| La Sulette Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 6th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | This is a pleasant find, as it has been fully excavated and restored in 1989 to 1991, and is now found completely within its mound. It is a small Angevin dolmen, with a 2 metre by 2 metre chamber made using 4 side stones with drystone walling between them. It has a single capstone, and again, it has... Read More |
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| Créchaudes Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 6th Jun 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Unless I somehow missed this dolmen, it is a wreck, not much more than several stones in a field. Alternatively, it may still be in its mound, of which there is an overgrown example at the side of the field. | 203 | 272 |
| Menhirs du Plessis | Standing Stones | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 6th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | At this site, there was once an equilateral triangle of three large menhirs, each 100 metres apart, but now only two remain after the eastern one was destroyed in 1860. They are easily found and well signposted in the locality.
The northern stone is a lovely dressed menhir 7.5 metres tall. It fe... Read More |
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| Pey de Fontaine | Chambered Cairn | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 6th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | The largest prehistoric monument in the departement of Vendée, this is a large stone cairn which contains two dolmens with entry passageways. Estimated to be 6000 years old, the cairn is rectangular, about 35 metres by 30 metres and is built with several drystone wall steps. The two chambers each h... Read More |
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| Pierre qui Vire (Russelet) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 6th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | The Pierre qui Vire is a nice lichen covered stone, about 4 metres tall, 3 metres wide, and made from Gris rock - the only large menhir in this region which is, all others being made from granite.
The Pierre qui Vire, or the turning stone, is said to turn around each night, either at midnight, o... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Grand-Bouillac | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 6th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This is a mid sized dolmen with entrance passageway. The main chamber is about 3 metres square with its single capstone slightly fallen. As with many of the dolmens around here, it has a smoothed limestone slab as a floor. There are a couple of entrance passage stone pairs, one of these still with i... Read More |
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| Camp de César Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 5 | 4 | 5 | This large menhir is the only survivor of what was until the last century three stones here, set in an arrangement like the surviving Alignment de la Pierre. At 8.7 metres tall and nicely shaped and dressed, the stone, known as Le Roi des Menhirs (King of the menhirs) is so big that it was not destr... Read More |
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| Menhir de la Boilière | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This 4 metre tall menhir fell in 1964, but has been re-erected only with the help of two cranes in the 1980s after they had failed to put it back up manually. It is a nicely shaped stone, and has at its foot another stone, which has several cupules and other markings cut into it. It is well signpost... Read More |
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| Frébouchère Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Easily found and signposted to the north of the village of Le Bernard, this wonderful dolmen has a little parking and picnic area. Ooooh, it’s a whopper, and absolutely fantastic !
It is a large Angevin dolmen with a main chamber 6.5 metres long by 3.5 metres wide, covered by a single massive... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Savatole 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | The remains of this dolmen are in the middle of a field of barley, and are not easy to get to, but following some tractor wheel marks it was possible for me to get to it without doing any damage to the crop (and I was not the first).
This dolmen is larger, but less complete than the first two do... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Savatole 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Like dolmen number 3, this dolmen was excavated in 1906 and has been restored. It is a simple dolmen with a 2.5 by 2.5 metre chamber with a single capstone, these days supported on 3 side stones with remains of a couple more.
Strange thing here is the carved floorstone, which has been cut down t... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Savatole 3 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | I was not expecting to find these, as I had no previous information about them, and they are not marked on my map. However they are signposted just to the north of the village of Le Bernard, where there is an Ecole des Dolmens! Excellent.
Right beside the little lane to the north of the village, ... Read More |
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| Cour du Breuil Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Right by the roadside, this is a pleasant dolmen to find, with the large skeletal remains standing slightly hidden by a surrounding hedge, from where they suddenly jump out at you as you pass.
The main chamber would have been about 4 metres by 2 metres, but the single remaining capstone covers o... Read More |
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| Dolmen des Pierres Folles du Plessis | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This possible Angevine dolmen resides in a little wooded picnic area beside the lane to the south of the busy D.949 road to the east of Avrillé. The chamber would have been 5 metres long by 2 metres wide, but the eastern end has collapsed and broken badly, so its difficult to tell. The remains of a... Read More |
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| Menhir dit le Champ du Rocher | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | All I could find where this stone should be was a fallen smoothed stone at the roadside, but I could find nowhere to safely stop and have a good look around. It's about 3 metres long by 2 metres wide. | 203 | 256 |
| Petites Jaunières | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 2 | Inside a field just to the west of the D.85 road south of Le Givre, but very difficult to get at or take a picture of because of the ditch, fence and hedge surrounding its field ! I estimate it to be about 3 metres tall, and sort of pointed. | 203 | 255 |
| Pierre Levée de Chenillée | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This is a nicely smoothed and shaped menhir, which must be about 4.5 metres tall, 2.5 metres wide and 1 metre thick. It is just off a farm track beside the road, and is signposted. | 203 | 254 |
| Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (La Jarne) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | This is a nice little dolmen sitting at the edge of the playing fields just outside the back of the church in the village of La Jarne. I am not sure exactly how original this dolmen is, as it looks like it might be a relatively modern reconstruction, and is stood in a gravel area with tell tale plas... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit la Pierre Fouquerée | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | This dolmen is not so easy to find as its neighbour, La Pierre Levée, but is in the middle of a field of maize to the west of the farm of Bois des Mottes near the village of Ardillières. The 3 metre by 2 metre limestone capstone sits at an angle on top of one full support stone, and several other ... Read More |
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| La Pierre Levée (Ardillières) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This is a nice pleasant simple little dolmen, just into a field of wheat about 30 metres from a farm track to the south of the village of Ardillières. The capstone sits proudly atop its three upright supports, making a chamber about 2 metres long by 1.5 metres wide and almost 2 metres high. It sits... Read More |
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| Pierres Closes de Charas 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 2 | 4 | 3 | About three or four hundred metres away from the first Pierres Close, in the middle of a field planted with sweetcorn on a bearing of 295°, can be seen a second large stone. After walking most of the way round the field, I could gain access from the far side. It is another large rock with an oval c... Read More |
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| Pierres Closes de Charas 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Visited | 5th Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Its an odd one this, an oval shaped chamber about 1.7 metres long, 1 metre wide and 0.7 metres high has been carved out of a big block of rock. On top of this is a limestone capstone full of holes and cavities filled with lichens and wild flowers.
It can be found just to the northwest of the his... Read More |
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| La Pierre Levée (Oleron) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Couldn't find | 4th Jun 2005 | I looked all around the Pierre Levée farm, but could see nothing obvious, so I asked. I was told that there was once a dolmen here, but that it had been destroyed, and nothing remains of it today. | 203 | 248 | |||
| Dolmen d'Ors dit la Piare | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Visited | 4th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Remains of a once fairly large burial mound with several chambers contained within it, now fairly well destroyed, on the southern tip of the Ile d’Oleron, within the community of Le Château-d'Oléron. The remains of this dolmen are easily found, but not signposted, right beside the seawall in a ... Read More |
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| Soubise Dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Couldn't find | 4th Jun 2005 | These two dolmens are within the confines of an airfield, which has a big military base on the northern side of the runway, and a little flying club at the south. I could not get to very near to where the dolmens are marked on my map, so didn’t try very hard to get close enough for a photo. | 203 | 246 | |||
| Buffletizion Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Couldn't find | 4th Jun 2005 | I found Buffetision just to the southeast of trizay, but there were no signs of any dolmen. Perhaps it is in the grounds of the chateau. | 203 | 245 | |||
| Dolmen de la Pierre Levée (La Vallée) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Visited | 4th Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | This is a bit more like it. Signposted to the north of the village of La Vallée, behind the churchyard along Rue du Dolmen, this dolmen is lovingly looked after in a nicely tended little area of grass on its mound amongst some trees.
It seems to be the remains of a large double chambered tomb, ... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Bois de la Grosse Pierre (Sainte-Radegonde) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Couldn't find | 4th Jun 2005 | I had a good look around for this one, down into the woods from at least two tracks, and got told some directions on how to find it, but it is well hidden in thick woodland somewhere, and I thought there are better things to do with my time than wander round in the forest for hours on end. | 203 | 243 | |||
| La Pierre Levée (Sablonceaux) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Visited | 4th Jun 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Signposted from the D.XXX road to Sablonceaux, this dolmen is about a kilometre walk along a track through the forest, but there are no more signs and it’s a guess as to which way to go at several junctions. I kept to the biggest track at each option, and eventually there it was to the right of th... Read More |
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| Sechebec Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 4th Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | This dolmen comes with its own block of flats, "Residence du Dolmen", which is currently for sale, in the western outskirts of Cognac, not too far from the big sports centre.
The 4.5 by 2.5 metre chamber is covered by a single large capstone, held up on 8 external support stones and with another... Read More |
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| Garde Epée Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 4th Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 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 ... Read More |
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| La Motte a Poljeau | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Saw from a distance | 3rd Jun 2005 | To the north of the Couvoisier town of Jarnac, near the village of Métairies is marked a tumulus. I thought I'd found a massive tumulus in about the right place in amongst some trees, but a closer inspection didn’t show there to be an obvious tumulus there. It was getting late, so i didnt look to... Read More |
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| Courades Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 3rd Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Probably once very similar to the St Fort dolmen, but this one has collapsed, probably fairly recently, and the capstone is now in several fragments on the ground. The chamber was once 5 metres by 2.5 metres, with a big closing stone to the west, and the entrance to the east. It seems to have carved... Read More |
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| Saint Fort Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 3rd Jun 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Signposted from the town of St Fort-sur-le-Ne, it is found about 1 kilometre to the east on top of a small hill amongst the Cognac vines. It is a real monster, looking like the skeletal remains of a dinosaur robot or something.
The chamber is 5 metres in length, by 2.5 metres wide, and the singl... Read More |
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| La Pierre a Cerclet | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Visited | 3rd Jun 2005 | 1 | 2 | 5 | This dolmen is a complete wreck, and can be found beside the D.134 road south of Charnac. It has had a little area of field left unplanted around it, but there's not much to see. There is just what seems to be a broken capstone and a few other bits and pieces laying about. I have since found out tha... Read More |
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| Pierre Folle (Négrignac) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Couldn't find | 3rd Jun 2005 | This I couldn’t find, and I could find no mention of it in the village. It is somewhere to the southeast of the village. | 203 | 235 | |||
| La Pierre Folle (Montguyon) | Passage Grave | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Visited | 3rd Jun 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | This superb monument is signposted to the north of the town of Montguyon, and has its own parking and picnic area. It is a double monument, with an Aquitaine allée-couverte combined with a dolmen.
The allée-couverte part is massive, with a double chamber internally measuring 8 metres long, 1.5... Read More |
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| Peyrefitte | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 3rd Jun 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | Signposted from all around, and with a little parking area, this huge and nicely shaped menhir stands in a little field amongst the vines. This is the largest standing stone in southwest France, and it is 5.2 metres tall, 3 metres wide and less than a metre thick, with the bottom part of it chipped ... Read More |
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| La Palanque de Peyre | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Couldn't find | 3rd Jun 2005 | I had a look all around the region here, but with nothing marked on any of my maps, and nothing signed from the village, I gave up, as after all the time I had spent looking for Bignon I had to move on. | 203 | 232 | |||
| Dolmens de Bignon | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Saw from a distance | 3rd Jun 2005 | I knew things were going too well this morning. I found Frontenac, and from there I eventually found Bignon, but after much searching and some very difficult to understand directions from an old lady living near the farm (they are very big, and only 800 metres away) I could find no signs of the thre... Read More |
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| Roquefort Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Saw from a distance | 3rd Jun 2005 | Not far from the Chateau, on a wooded promontary in the river, are the remains of a bronze / iron age promontary fort and settlement. | 203 | 230 | |||
| Roquefort Allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 3rd Jun 2005 | 3 | 4 | 1 | This is a fantastic find, in the grounds of Roquefort Chateau, which is a very private area. I asked at the village about the allée-couverte, and got directed to the Chateau, which is still a very busy wine producer, so I went and asked there. I got taken by the owner to see the monument, and he al... Read More |
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| Pierre du Maine du Prieuré | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 3rd Jun 2005 | 2 | 2 | 5 | This is a big menhir stood at the edge of the roadside, at least 3.5 metres tall, and the top has been broken off. Not very well looked after, it is surrounded by junk, although by the marks on it, it looks to have been fairly recently re-erected. | 203 | 228 |
| Sabatey Dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 3rd Jun 2005 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Not the easiest dolmens to find, but they are signposted from the village of Bellefond to some degree, although a fair bit of guesswork is needed at certain junctions. Just to the left of Sabatey Farm, a gate opens into a field, from where you walk across to the woods, where the two dolmens can be s... Read More |
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| Sabatey Dolmen 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 3rd Jun 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Not the easiest dolmens to find, but they are signposted from the village of Bellefond to some degree, although a fair bit of guesswork is needed at certain junctions. Just to the left of Sabatey Farm, a gate opens into a field, from where you walk across to the woods, where the two dolmens can be s... Read More |
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| Curton Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 2nd Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | As I was driving towards Bellefond I saw a sign to Dolmen de Curton so I had to follow it but it’s a pity the large signs do not follow the one at the road junction up. There are one or two very small signs after this which I at first missed and these lead into a vineyard before they give up total... Read More |
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| Pitray Allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 2nd Jun 2005 | 3 | 3 | 1 | Well what a find this was. I found Pitray on the village map outside the Mairie and when I got there I found a long driveway up to a chateau with a couple of men working logging in the woodland who told me that they knew of the dolmen and that I should go and ask at the chateau. In the grounds surro... Read More |
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| Menhir de Clotte | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Couldn't find | 2nd Jun 2005 | I found both a Chateau de Clotte and a Moulin de Clotte but not the menhir. | 203 | 223 | |||
| Dolmen de Puy Landry | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 2nd Jun 2005 | 2 | 4 | 3 | The old chap at Chateau Pierre Levée knew of this dolmen's existence but the chap at Puy Landry winery didn’t but he pointed me in the direction of a menhir on the top of Puy Landry hill about a kilometre to the north but ce n’est pas grand.. I initially thought it was too far to go walking to ... Read More |
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| Pierre Levée (Salles-de-Castillon) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 2nd Jun 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | This one comes with its own wine! While driving from Peyre Lebade towards Clotte I saw this stone standing at the entrance to a farmhouse wine producer and noticed that the farm was called Chateau de la Pierre Levée.
I stopped to have a better look and a man on his tractor in the vineyard came ... Read More |
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| Peyre Lebade | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 2nd Jun 2005 | 2 | 2 | 5 | While looking at the village map by the Mairie to see if it marked any of the supposedly local ancient stones I noted an area called Peyre Lebade so of course I went to have a look. In the corner of the road junction here to the west of the village centre can be seen a small standing stone fenced in... Read More |
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| Grotte de Bara-Bahau | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 2nd Jun 2005 | 4 | This cave (cave of the bears) was only discovered in 1951 features many engravings dated to 14000 years ago and also many bear claw marks. Up the hillside and well signposted from Le Bugue it was closed for lunch when I visited. | 203 | 219 | ||
| Grotte de la Mouthe | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Saw from a distance | 2nd Jun 2005 | Now closed to the public this cave was discovered in 1895 and was pivotal in the argument for the decorations being of ancient origin. Apparently there are artworks from many different periods of the prehistoric past in here from the Gravettian through Mousterian to the Magdelenian. This cave is up ... Read More |
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| Roc de Cazelle | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 2nd Jun 2005 | 4 | This place has been inhabited since 40000 years ago right up until the 1960’s when the last farmer and his wife moved on. It is an overhanging cliff with several levels of caves and shelters and these days is a little visitor park showing life in the troglodytic fashion since prehistoric times wit... Read More |
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| Grotte de Bernifal | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 2nd Jun 2005 | 4 | This was closed to visitors when I arrived but nevertheless it was a nice walk through splendid woodland with a little stream running nearby up to the entrance. The cave was discovered in 1905 and contains engravings of humans as well as the more usual animals. | 203 | 216 | ||
| Giverzac Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 16th Jan 2012 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 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 ... Read More |
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| Fontaine des Chartreux | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 1st Jun 2005 | 4 | Cross the wonderful Pont Valentré from the old town of Cahors, contained within its loop of the Lot river, and walk south along the riverside for a few hundred metres, and you will find this huge spring in the cliffside, with the crystal clear water surging out. Two thousand years ago, the Fontai... Read More |
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| Peyre Levade (La Borie Rouge) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 17th Jan 2012 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Remains of a small dolmen in a garden just to the north of Lalbenque. It is not well cared for and has had a large hedge planted between it and the roadside to presumably stop people like me having a look. In fact it looks as if one of the side slabs has recently been split. | 203 | 213 |
| Dolmen dit la Pierre Levée (Pélissie) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 31st May 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Just to the south of the crossroads at Pélissie on the D6 road 50 metres up a little track and into a small woodland area can be found the remains of this dolmen. The 4.5 by 2.5 metre capstone sits on not much of the crumbling side slabs but is nicely covered in moss. | 203 | 212 |
| Dolmen de Cuzoul 2 (Lalbenque) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Couldn't find | 31st May 2005 | Near to the Balach farm a couple of kilometres south of Lalbenque along the D6 I could find no easy way through to this dolmen with the fields being electrically fenced to keep a herd of bullocks in and a barley crop growing in another field so I gave up after a reasonable try. | 203 | 211 | |||
| Dolmen de Cuzoul 1 (Lalbenque) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Couldn't find | 31st May 2005 | Near to the Balach farm a couple of kilometres south of Lalbenque along the D6 I could find no easy way through to this dolmen with the fields being electrically fenced to keep a herd of bullocks in and a barley crop growing in another field so I gave up after a reasonable try. | 203 | 210 | |||
| Mas de Labat 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 31st May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | This is an odd dolmen incorporated into a wall. The small entrance below the capstone opens up into a typical 3m by 15 m chamber. The capstone itself is piled high with stone. Its not an easy dolmen to find with lots of windy lanes to negotiate before getting anywhere near the place and after that i... Read More |
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| Mas de Labat 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 31st May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Once the lane through Mas de Labat has been found this one is fairly easy to find as it is given away by the mound at the top of the hill amongst some scrubland in a field. Having said that it seems to be becoming very overgrown and indeed is not much more than a mound at the top of a hill now. At t... Read More |
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| Agranel Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Couldn't find | 31st May 2005 | This dolmen marked on the ign 1:25000 map is at the top of a hill in a well fenced off area of scrubland with no obvious parking place so I didn’t bother too hard to try and find it. | 203 | 207 | |||
| Peyre Gagès Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 31st May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This dolmen can be seen just about 20 metres to the east of the D143 road a few kilometres to the north of Limogne. It stands in a field with traces of its mound still around it and can clearly be seen from the road. The field had a herd of cows in it at the time of my visit and was well fenced so I... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Pech Grillé | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 31st May 2005 | 2 | 2 | 5 | The remains of this dolmen can be found just beside the D143 road to the north of Limogne but is a bit of a wreck. The capstone has split in two along the length of the chamber with the two pieces falling one to each side of the two side slabs. As a result it now looks something like 4 parallel slab... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Pech Linar | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Couldn't find | 31st May 2005 | This dolmen marked on the ign 1:25000 map is a longish walk up to the top of a steep hill in a densely wooded area so on this very hot afternoon with lots of other possibilities to visit I didn’t bother to try and find it.
Driving from here down the little road to the Lot valley, a large Eagle... Read More |
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| Aubiac Dolmen 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 31st May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Unmarked on any of my maps, but just at the junction of the D.19 and the little road which runs north towards Les Cabranes, can be seen a mound. Closer inspection shows it to have the remains of a reasonable dolmen chamber within it, 3.5 metres long, 1.2 metres wide and with a capstone covering only... Read More |
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| Aubiac Dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 31st May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Just beside the little road which runs off the D.19 to the north of St-Jean-de-Laur towards Les Cabranes, can be seen the remains of this dolmen. Three metres long, by 1.8 metres wide and 2 metres tall, the chamber has only one side slab, but is kept together with a drystone wall on the northern sid... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Quatre Routes | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 31st May 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Just to the west of the D.19 road to the north of St-Jean-de-Laur, this initially looks to be a small dolmen, but upon closer inspection is probably just half of the remains of one. It is well fenced off, and proper acces to investigate it fully cannot be obtained. | 203 | 201 |
| Marsigalliet Dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 31st May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This dolmen is found a couple of kilometres to the northwest of Laramière, along the GR.36 footpath, but which for this stretch is a driveable track. It is then a hundred or so metres walk into the forest, but signposted.
This is another much larger than average dolmen for round here, still mos... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Peyco Levado | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 31st May 2005 | 5 | 3 | 4 | Just to the south of the D.55 road between Beauregard and Laramière, and signposted, this dolmen is sat in a little clearing beside a trackway. Much larger than the average round here, this dolmen has a 6 metre by 4 metre capstone sitting on top of a 5 metre long chamber facing east at 100°. The d... Read More |
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| Dolmen des Sanguinades | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 31st May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Just off of the GR.36 footpath a couple of kilometres to the southeast of Varaire, in a field full of orchids can be found this little broken dolmen, which has the remains of its capstone fallen off the front of its side slabs. | 203 | 198 |
| Dolmen du Mas de Coti | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 31st May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Sat in a field just beside the D.65 road to the northeast of the village of Varaire near to the Calvarie can be found the remains of this dolmen. It is 4 metres in length, by 1.5 metres wide and 1.5 metres high, with the long capstone broken into two pieces, facing eastwards at 074°. It has in the ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Ferrières-Haut | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 31st May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This is a very high dolmen which can be found a hundred or so metres south of the GR.65 footpath besides the farm of the same name. Unfortunately one of the side slabs has been broken by a tree growing through it, and it has been dry stone walled at the back end at some time in the past to act as a ... Read More |
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| Joncas Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 31st May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | A kilometre walk west of the village of Limogne-en-Quercy along the GR.65 long distance footpath and signposted, you come to this dolmen. Still sitting largely in its mound, the chamber is 3.5 metres long by 1.5 metres wide, facing to the east at 108°. The capstone is unfortunately broken, and only... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Pech-Lapeyre | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 30th May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 3 | Signposted as dolmens from the centre of the village of Limogne-en-Quercy, this dolmen is more than a kilometres walk along a trackway. The dolmen is still partly within its mound, and is notable for the thickness of its capstone, which is a rectangular 3 m by 2 m in size, but is a metre thick. The ... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit de Pajot | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 30th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This dolmen can be easily found in a field beside the D24 road south of the village of Limogne-en-Quercy. Of typical size for round here, the chamber is 3.5 metres in length, and 1.5 metres wide, and is covered by a capstone which is larger in all dimensions. The northeast side has collapsed slightl... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Maire-Gaillard | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 30th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Driving along a little lane to the north of Bois-del-Rey dolmens, I saw a little sign to dolmen, and so just had to follow it. A few hundred metres down a track into the forest from the small lane (with difficult parking) can be found the remains of this little dolmen, not much more than 2 metres lo... Read More |
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| Cloup de Layrou | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 30th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Just 50 metres further away from the Cloup de Layrou dolmen, is found a depression in the ground with a couple of cave like shelters. It has a signpost and was no doubt used by ancient man. | 203 | 191 |
| Dolmen du Devès des Gleyettes 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 30th May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | A few more hundred metres round the signposted footpath is this dolmen with no name sign. Still in much of its long mound, the capstone is broken into three pieces, and partly fallen. The chamber is 3.5 metres long by 1.5 metres wide, and faces southeast at 125°. | 203 | 190 |
| Dolmen du Bois Galtier | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 30th May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | A hundred or so metres further along the signposted walk from the Bois-del-Rey dolmen can be found the Dolmen de Bois-de-Galtier. This nice dolmen is still sitting within the remains of its mound, and has a 2.5 metre diameter round drystone walled chamber at its west end rather than the usual closin... Read More |
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| Bassin de Bois-del-Rey | Rock Art | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 30th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Just a few dozen metres from the Bois-del-Rey dolmen, and thought to be connected in some way to it, can be found a 40 cm diameter 10 cm deep circular basin cut into a slab of rock, for unknown purpose. | 203 | 188 |
| Dolmen du Bois del Rey | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 30th May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is quite a nice dolmen but starting to deteriorate badly, supposedly mostly over the last 100 years. The 4 metre long by 3 metre wide capstone has now broken into two bits, still sitting on its two crumbling 4 metre long side supports. It has a nice backstone and remains of a front entry stone,... Read More |
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| Musee Rouergue | Museum | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 30th May 2005 | 5 | In the village of Salles-la-Source can be found this museum of Rouergue life. Amongst much old farming machinery and suchlike the museum has a prehistoric collection. | 203 | 186 | ||
| Dolmen de Seveyrac (Salles-la-Source) 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 30th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Walking westwards along the ridge from Pérignagols dolmen, there are several other mounds which are passed, one of which can be seen to have a couple of large stones on the surface at the eastern end of a long oval shaped mound. Fantastic views, made all the more impressive by the approach of a mas... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Perignagols | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 30th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This is a nice dolmen with a lovely shaped and pitted egg shaped capstone, about 4 metres by 4 metres sitting on the top of two three to four metre long side slabs. The chamber is a healthy 4 metres by 2 metres internal dimensions.
The dolmen is signposted up a track to the top of a little hill ... Read More |
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| Musée Fenaille | Museum | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 29th May 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | This magnificent museum is found in the old city of Rodez, inside a beautiful old building which is as much part of the museum as all the collections of items within it. The museum is perhaps best known for its superb collection of statue menhirs, extremely well presented on the top floor, but there... Read More |
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| La Baraque Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 28th May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is a nice little dolmen still well contained within its mound which can be found about 150 metres down the footpath to the north of the road to Baraque Farm / Gite about 150 metres before you reach it. The chamber is only about 2 metres in length, 1 metre wide and 1 metre high, much smaller th... Read More |
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| Roquefort menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Couldn't find | 28th May 2005 | Menhir near to the famous cheese village of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, Aveyron. If you have time between cheese tasting and touring the various caves, there is a little walk signposted from the village which takes you down to the river and a menhir. The scenery here is really spectacular. | 203 | 181 | |||
| Tiergues Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 28th May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Near to the village of Tiergues, in Aveyron, this is a lovely dolmen, as used in postcards and much Aveyron tourist publicity. It is not far from the D.250 road and signposted from the main D.992 road nearby.
The dolmen is 4 metres long, and 2 metres in both height and width, it has two good lon... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Combets 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 27th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Too windy to write anything as I visited this one, it was blowing my book and everything away, so only small notes !. There is not much left of this dolmen, just a single large sideslab and one end stone. There is no sign of any capstone remaining, and its mound has been well eaten into with ploughi... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Combets 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 27th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | In a field just to the southwest of St Michel-de-Larzac can be found this dolmen with a chamber 4 metres long by 1.8 metres wide. There is not much sign of a mound, but the chamber floor is below ground level of the field surrounding it. It is still enclosed on all four sides, and faces towards east... Read More |
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| Azinières Dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 27th May 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | This little 3 m by 2 m dolmen sits right beside the busy D.911 road a few kilometres to the north of Millau, continuously passed by masses of heavy lorries which I guess do not like to pay the toll charges for the new motorway. There was once another one here, destroyed when the road was made bigger... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Tâcherie | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Couldn't find | 27th May 2005 | Not much time to spend looking for this before I have to meet Ellie in Millau, so only a quick look to see if its obvious. No way, its well hidden a couple of hundred metres into an oak forest, so so I leave this one for Another to find. | 203 | 176 | |||
| Pèira Levada (La Glène) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 27th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | High up on the windswept, sunbaked plateau, not far from the D.911 road north of Millau, this is one heck of a big dolmen which has sadly collapsed on one side. The views to the southeast over the river Tarn are astonishing, with the new motorway snaking its way down the distant hillside adding some... Read More |
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| Sermels menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 27th May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | I was not expecting this one as I drove past on the way west along the D.2 road. It is a lovely menhir, 3 metres tall, on the edge of a valley. There are some interesting holes in it. | 203 | 174 |
| Dolmen de Souque | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Couldn't find | 27th May 2005 | The book says its 1.3 km down the little track towards Randels, and then somewhere on the left, hidden by undergrowth. I went for a look, but there was nowhere to park a campervan, and I could see nothing obvious, so gave up after a couple of drivebys. | 203 | 173 | |||
| Dolmen de Bel-Air 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Couldn't find | 27th May 2005 | No obvious signs of this one, but it is supposed to be a bit of a wreck with no capstone, under some trees the far side of a little ravine. I gave up fairly easily. | 203 | 172 | |||
| Dolmen de Bel-Air 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 27th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | This dolmen is in the middle of a field of barley, so I didn’t get right to it. It looks a bit of a mess, and not much more than an overgrown bump in a field. | 203 | 171 |
| Puech de las Fadès | Hillfort | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Saw from a distance | 26th May 2005 | A significant hill of the region, which at the top has some significant cliff faces, making it an obvious place for a defended settlement in ancient times. Puech de las Fadès means Hill of the Fairies in the local Occitain language, and many stories and legends abound about the fairies who live on ... Read More |
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| Buzareingues dolmen 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 26th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | This dolmen is a wreck, just really the broken remains of a capstone, although the remains of one of the side slabs can be made out. As with its much better condition neighbour, it aligns towards the east, facing directly to a significant hill, the Puech de las Fadès, with a cliff face and what loo... Read More |
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| Buzareingues Dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 26th May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This is a lovely little dolmen sitting on top of a nice little mound, which is still a couple of metres high, but which is not much larger than the by now standard chamber 4 metres long, 1.8 metres wide, facing 104°. It aligns directly to a significant hill, the Puech de las Fadès, which has a sig... Read More |
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| Galitorte Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 26th May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 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 cap... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Surguières 3 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Couldn't find | 26th May 2005 | Still further across the fields to the northeast of Surguières 1 and 2 dolmens, should be found the remains of Surguières 3 & 4. I had a good look around, and found a little shepherds hut, but could not find the dolmens. | 203 | 166 | |||
| Dolmen de Surguières 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 26th May 2005 | 2 | 4 | 3 | The wrecked remains of Surguières 2. At some point in the past, this has been turned into a little house, or a shepherds hut. It is in a lovely spot, with tremendous views over the valley to the south. | 203 | 165 |
| Dolmen de Surguières 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 26th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Just to the south of the road which leads east to the hamlet of Surguières, about 800 metres west of the village, this dolmen can be seen by its mound. The capstone has slipped off to the side, and it is all a bit of a jumble, although the large side slabs are easily recogniseable. | 203 | 164 |
| Dolmen de Surguières 4 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Couldn't find | 26th May 2005 | Just east of the village of Surguières there is a track to the south, signposted to dolmens. At the first junction, there is a dolmen sign in both directions, to the right is supposed to lead to the Surguières 4 dolmen. I looked for this first, and again later, but could not find anything. I did h... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Saplous 4 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 26th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | This one is a fair old hike from the village of Surguières, where there is a track to the south, signposted to dolmens. At the first junction, the track to the left takes you on a long walk past the dolmens de Cans, and going further, and then to the right across a couple of fields (signposted) you... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Saplous 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 26th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | A bit further along the track from Cans 2 is the remains of Cans 1 dolmen. It is a bit of a wreck, hidden under a tree and some scrub just beside the trackway, with just some stone visible amongst the brambles. | 203 | 161 |
| Dolmen de Saplous 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 26th May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 3 | Just east of the village of Surguières there is a track to the south, signposted to dolmens. At the first junction, there is a dolmen sign in both directions, to the left takes you on a long walk to the dolmens de Cans. After a kilometre or so, you reach the dolmen de Cans 2, in a field to the righ... Read More |
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| Borie de Colombier 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Couldn't find | 26th May 2005 | Marked on the ign 1:100000 map with a pink square and right beside a good road with brand new roadsigns pointing to dolmens, I thought I couldn’t miss these dolmens. Again i walked for miles in all directions, but could I find anything ? Nothing. I am starting to get fed up with this. So I drove a... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Saint-Antonin | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Couldn't find | 26th May 2005 | Marked on the ign 1:100000 map with a pink square and right beside a good road with brand new roadsigns pointing to dolmens, I thought I couldn’t miss these dolmens. Again i walked for miles in all directions, but could I find anything ? Nothing. I am starting to get fed up with this. | 203 | 158 | |||
| Dolmen de Peyrelebade 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Couldn't find | 26th May 2005 | Above Salles-la-Source, to the northeast, are roadsigns to the supposedly nicely restored Peyrelebade dolmens. I parked the van and walked miles in the scorching heat along the track north towards Cadeyrac, but could not find the remains of the two dolmens. There are lots of possibilities for where ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Peyrelebade 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Couldn't find | 26th May 2005 | Above Salles-la-Source, to the northeast, are roadsigns to the supposedly nicely restored Peyrelebade dolmens. I parked the van and walked miles in the scorching heat along the track north towards Cadeyrac, but could not find the remains of the two dolmens. There are lots of possibilities for where ... Read More |
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| Tumulus de Montaubert | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 26th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Above Salles-la-Source, to the northeast, are roadsigns to the supposedly nicely restored Peyrelevade dolmens, which I did not find. All I could find for sure while walking north in the scorching heat along the track towards Cadeyrac, was a small mound in a field to the west of the track, quite near... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Jasse Rouge | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 26th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Amongst the undergrowth are several mounds of stones here, one of which has the remains of a chamber visible in one of its sides. The mound has been much messed about by farming, and field clearance, and it is difficult to tell what is original. The remains of the chamber are open, and not at all ca... Read More |
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| Genévrier Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Aveyron (12) | Visited | 26th May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Up on the causse above Salles-la-Sources are supposed to be 66 dolmens. There is supposed to be a dolmen trail with map and information available. But I found no such thing. I couldn’t even buy a 1:25000 map of the area (which is notably right on the corner of four. But there is a lovely cascade d... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Pech Laglayre 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 25th May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | After passing various other inconclusive mounds I came across the third proper dolmen I found up here near to some woods and in the nice cool shade at the junction of a couple of track. This is what I call a proper dolmen with most of its mound disappeared for use in the nearby wall no doubt and so ... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Pech Laglayre 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 25th May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | High up on top of this dry and barren hill is another mound on top of which can be seen a capstone when approaching. The remains of a central chamber 3m by 1.5 m are clear with its capstone on top. What is slightly less clear is what looked to me like a second chamber in line with the central one to... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Pech Laglayre 0 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 25th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Dolmens (plural) are marked on my ign map (and on the Michelin too) to the southwest of Gréalou near to the GR65 footpath so I went for a walk to have a look. The first I came to was nothing much more than a stone mound with a wall going over the top. But there was a collapsed chamber in the middle... Read More |
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| Grotte de Pech-Merle | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 25th May 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Superb. Not only for the prehistoric stuff, but also for the cave and its stalactites as well. There is some fantastic cave decoration in here, including pearls and a superb "spinninng top", and also some wonderful discs. Amazing.
The prehistoric stuff dates from all ages, 25,000 BC to 10,000 BC... Read More |
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| Dolmen d'Aubin | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Couldn't find | 25th May 2005 | Marked on the ign map with a pink square and right beside a good road I thought I’d take a look. Could I find anything ? Could I flip. No way. No signs at all. Nothing. Not a sausage. | 203 | 148 | |||
| Mas de Greil Oppidum | Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Saw from a distance | 25th May 2005 | High on cliffs overlooking the Célé river this hill surrounded on 3 sides by high cliffs has been inhabited and used as a hilltop refuge since 5000BC. It doesn’t need much defending but there are 5 metre deep ditches across the neck of land attaching it to the high Causse. | 203 | 147 | |||
| Custalou Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 24th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | This is a nice looking dolmen in a field beside a farm near the village of Grèzes, although there was no obvious way in to the field to the dolmen itself. It looks quite large compared to most dolmens in this area, the capstone is unfortunately broken into three pieces, held up on two large side sl... Read More |
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| Cloup des Périès | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 24th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | A little dolmen found down a track a kilometre or so to the south of the village of Grèzes in Lot. The dolmen has a single capstone sat on two side slabs, and is 3 metres long by 1.5 metres wide. It faces east, at 095°. | 203 | 145 |
| Mons Dolmen 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Couldn't find | 24th May 2005 | Supposedly another 500 metres along the path across the fields beside the railway can be found this nice little dolmen with a 3.5 by 1.5 metre chamber, within a round mound. But time was getting on, and there was no obvious way to get much further along into the fields without climbing fences and wa... Read More |
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| Mons dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 24th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | In the Champ de Belair, to the northwest of the village of Assier, on the opposite (northwestern) side of the railway to the previous dolmens, are supposedly 4 dolmens, 2 tumulus and a menhir to be seen. But they don’t get any easier to find. Follow the trackway along the northern side of the rail... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Bois des Boeufs | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 24th May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Blimey, how difficult can it be to find these places ? This dolmen is in the book, is on the 1:100000 map, with a name, and I have the detailed map also. Its to be found 200 metres from Garivals dolmen on a bearing of 025°, but can you walk in that direction ? No. I eventually found it after some l... Read More |
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| Garivals Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 24th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 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 bui... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Puech Roussel | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Couldn't find | 24th May 2005 | On my ign 1:25000 map, theres a dolmen marked right beside the road here, but could I find it ? I spent ages looking, but no, I did not find it. Studying the map closely after this, I don’t see how I could possibly have missed this, everything else matches exactly, even the swallow hole. | 203 | 140 | |||
| Belinac Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 24th May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Three and a half metres tall, but only about 30 cm thick, this menhir can be found signposted to the southeast from the village of Livernon. It leans at a slight angle and has some strange markings on it. There are several horizontal lines, and many weird circular shapes. Signposted just off the lar... Read More |
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| Livernon quarry | Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 24th May 2005 | 4 | Between the car parking area and the Pierre Martine is an outcropping of limestone pavement. This has in the past been used to extract slabs, which have been removed and used for building dolmens. | 203 | 138 | ||
| Rougié Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 24th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Just a hundred metres or two behind the Pierre Martine, beyond the fence and up the slope into the adjacent field, can be found this dolmen sitting in a field full of thistles, surrounded by brambles and scrub. Despite the many people who visit the Pierre Martine, hardly anybody knows of the existen... Read More |
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| La Pierre Martine | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 24th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Well, I had to come here, didn’t I. It is signposted from the main road, and places all around, to the northwest of the village of Livernon. It has its own little parking area, and the dolmen is found about 200 metres walk away across the fields and an intriguing limestone pavement.
This is th... Read More |
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| Gabaudet Dolmen 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Couldn't find | 24th May 2005 | 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. | 203 | 135 | |||
| Gabaudet Dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Couldn't find | 24th May 2005 | 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 do... Read More |
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| Bouyé Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 24th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | To the southeast of Gramat, a few hundred metres along the GR.6 south from the hamlet of Bouyé can be seen the remains of this double dolmen and its little mound. Its just to the side of the track, opposite a home with a swimming pool being installed. I could not get into the field for a close look... Read More |
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| Champ des Courses Tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 24th May 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | To the west of the town of Gramat, along the D.15 road just before the hippodrome can be found this enormous tumulus. It’s a big one, perhaps 50 metres in diameter, and 12 metres high, and is in a swampy area beside a fishing lake, which is surprising for round here as most of the area is so dry. ... Read More |
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| Grotte des Merveilles | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Saw from a distance | 23rd May 2005 | 5 | Saw the entrance to this at least the ticket office and shop. Does it have enough signs pointing to it ? | 203 | 130 | ||
| Fieux Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Couldn't find | 23rd May 2005 | This should have been a banker before moving on late in the afternoon it supposedly being just a hundred metres from the road at a very recognisable corner. I found the corner and parked and went for a look. I searched and searched but the area has become overgrown with scrub thorny bushes brambles ... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Champ de Monsieur | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 23rd May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Try as I might, from the place that looks to be the nearest approach to this dolmen by road, I could not get a way through into the right bit of woodland to visit this double dolmen. There is much dense woodland here, and many big new fences. They obviously dont want people (or sheep and deer) getti... Read More |
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| Dolmen des Calcas | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 23rd May 2005 | 2 | 4 | 3 | After what had started out a good day was turning to failure I needed to find this one. Just beside a track at the edge of a field it’s a basic rectangular chamber about 2.5 by 1.5 metres with no capstone.
While sitting writing my notes there was all sorts of jangling noises going on which tur... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit des Pendus 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Couldn't find | 23rd May 2005 | After lots of trying from two separate start points I still could not find this one. Too many walls fences and thick hedges in the way and too much scrub to see through to see exactly where it is. The French Air Force is playing around above and having fun though. | 203 | 126 | |||
| Dolmen dit des Pendus 3 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Couldn't find | 23rd May 2005 | After lots of trying from two separate start points I still could not find this one. Too many walls fences and thick hedges in the way and too much scrub to see through to see exactly where it is. The French Air Force is playing around above and having fun though. | 203 | 126 | |||
| Gouffre de Padirac | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 23rd May 2005 | 5 | Blimey it’s a big hole. Gaping Ghyll eat your heart out. I think this is the biggest natural hole in Europe. Its massive. No wonder the people were scared of it as being the way to hell until only last century. | 203 | 125 | ||
| Dolmen d'Escurettes | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 23rd May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | I couldn’t find this dolmen originally, and wondered whether it had been destroyed, as the fields here have recently been substantially re-arranged. I wondered whether I had found the sad remains in one of the hedges, and was about to give up, before I looked through a gap in the hedge. On the oth... Read More |
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| Gisement de Fieux | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 23rd May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 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 mam... Read More |
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| Dolmen des Barrières 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 23rd May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | This nice freestanding dolmen is to be found in a little tended garden like area near to the Barrières farm. There are no signs of a mound around it, no doubt all the stone having been used in construction of the farm and its walls. It was probably once similar to the nearby Pierre Levée, but is n... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit la Pierre Levée (Lecusses) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 23rd May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Another beauty, this time almost completely still within its mound, which is about 25 metres in diameter and a couple of metres high. The single chamber is about 3 m by 1.5 metres, and covered by what must have been a shaped capstone, about 4 by 2.5 metres and very rectangular. This one is a bit of ... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Pech Cayrou | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 23rd May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | This one's a bit of a walk up a track and then into a field, but well worth the small effort. Its almost totally enclosed within its mound, with just the large 4 by 3 metres capstone showing above the ground, except to one side where the chamber has been dug into. Most of the chamber is obscured by ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Ressegayre | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 23rd May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | A slightly bigger than average dolmen for round here, and still mostly within its mound, this one can be found in a bit of scrubland just off the road between Miers and Floirac, although it took a fair bit of looking.
The capstone is about 3.5 by 3 metres, and is sitting only on some fairly basi... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Candare 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Couldn't find | 23rd May 2005 | A few hundred metres further up the track beyond Candare 1 dolmen can be found the remains of this dolmen within its mound. It has no capstone. | 203 | 117 | |||
| Dolmen de Candare 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 23rd May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Tiny little dolmen sitting on the remains of its mound, under a bush just to the south of the road between Miers and Floirac. It has a rectangular chamber, less than 2 by 1 metre in size, with the entrance facing 060°. Not far from this dolmen is a peculiar, almost spherical black stone which looks... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit Peyrebru (Miers) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 23rd May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | This one's a little beauty, about 50 metres up a track from the road between Miers and Floirac. Still sitting on top of its mound, 18 metres in diameter, it has a 2.5 by 1.5 metres chamber with a single slanted capstone. The chamber opens eastwards on an alignment of 118°. | 203 | 115 |
| Le chaos de Roquebert | Rock Outcrop | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 22nd May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Not quite sure what to make of these. There are three massive stones (probably up to 7 metres high) within about 20 metres of each other looking for all the world like they have been stood upright surrounded by lots and lots of other stones. There is a signpost saying something about the prehistoric... Read More |
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| La Bertrandoune Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 22nd May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Further still round the “Circuit des Dolmens” after driving for miles along the rough stone mountain tracks and bashing my way through the undergrowth after several signposted things to see including several of the little huts they have round here and I come to this dolmen. By now I have realise... Read More |
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| Les Trois Pierres (Les Junies) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Lot (46) | Visited | 22nd May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | What the hell am I doing here in the campervan ? It’s a road on my map and it starts off as a road with a “circuit des dolmens” sign so of course I followed it. It was very steep to start and lots of hairpin bends so was using first and secod gear only. It has to get better I thought. It level... Read More |
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| Maison du Loup dolmen 1 | Passage Grave | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Couldn't find | 22nd May 2005 | The book I have says this one is 100 metres from the D.2 road near Marsalès at a place called Borie-Neuve so I thought this one was findable and worth a go. I found Borie-Neuve easily enough but no obvious dolmen. So I looked round all the lanes and tracks in the vicinity but still found nothing. T... Read More |
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| Point du Jour dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 22nd May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This one is signposted from the D104/D2 between Villereal and Montpazier and has a little picnic area by it. It was pouring with rain when I arrived and it looks for all the world to be in somebody’s private garden. In fact I think it is but they have been good enough to create a little sort of pu... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit la Peyrelevade (Beaumont) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 22nd May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | What a palaver it was finding this one despite being on my map and signposted from the road. The trouble is that’s where the signposts stop and its more than a kilometre walk to the thing. There is no way I would have found this had I not spoken to a chap at the farm out doing jobs in his shed who... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Baneuil | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Couldn't find | 22nd May 2005 | The book says this one is close to the Mairie and I found that OK but no signs of a dolmen nearby. I spend a fairly long time walking round all the lanes and ask a couple of locals but they know nothing. I also checked in the nearby wood nothing was obvious. These Perigord wild goose chases are piss... Read More |
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| Dolmen le Roc del Ser (Faux) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Couldn't find | 21st May 2005 | Supposedly very close to the D.19 is this 5 metre long stone the remains of a dolmen capstone but I couldn’t find it. Have to say that by now I wasn’t looking hard. It said that if you recite an Avé Maria to it the stone will turn nine times.
I really must try and find this one tomorrow. It... Read More |
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| Le Bourdil Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Couldn't find | 21st May 2005 | Supposedly close to the D.19 but I couldn’t find it. Have to say that by now I wasn’t looking hard. Maybe tomorrow. | 203 | 106 | |||
| Menhir dit le Caillou (Boisse) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Couldn't find | 21st May 2005 | Could I find this ? Nope. | 203 | 105 | |||
| Dolmen de Pedorat | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Couldn't find | 21st May 2005 | Could I find this ? Nope. | 203 | 104 | |||
| Le Breil Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Couldn't find | 21st May 2005 | Could I find this ? Nope. | 203 | 103 | |||
| Dolmen de Pincanelle | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Couldn't find | 21st May 2005 | I spent ages walking around many small lanes near the hamlet of Pincanelle looking for this 5 metre long dolmen capstone and asked an old lady in her garden but got nowhere. The lady apparently has no interest in such things and didn’t want to help although she was very interested in what I was do... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Case du Loup | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Couldn't find | 21st May 2005 | This dolmen is supposedly 2.5 metres high and three metres long. But beware it houses a giant and monstrous wolf with eyes burning with fire. I spent hours in the hamlet of Larocale looking for this and asked many people who didn’t know until I fond a man out strimmering in the garden who did at l... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Peyre Nègre | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 21st May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 500 metres to the west of the Le Blanc allée couverte in a field just beside the road to Naussannes this dolmen has become covered in brambles and bushes. It is still 2 metres high the large capstone resting on at least three big support stones of which at least one has collapsed.
This one is ... Read More |
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| Allée couverte de Blanc | Passage Grave | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 21st May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | At last I have found one which is signposted and looked after. It’s a couple of kilometres south of Beaumont on the D.676 towards Villereal and is in a little signposted area with parking and lots and lots of orchids around everywhere. Its said to be one of the best preserved megalithic remains in... Read More |
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| Cayra Levada | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 21st May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Just beside a little road northwest of Belvès but fenced in a garden and becoming overgrown this 1.5 metre high dolmen had several polished axes found within it. There’s a raised capstone on a couple of supports but its difficult to make out much more.
While sitting making notes here I got ov... Read More |
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| Bonarme polissoirs | Polissoir | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 21st May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Further into the forest from the Bonarme dolmen are two polissoir stones dated to about 3000 BC which can also be found by following the marked and signposted forest walk for a kilometre or so. It’s a nice little spot on a hillside with an ancient spring below and some hut circles above. While I w... Read More |
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| Bonarme Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 21st May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This was a pleasant find northwest of Belvès where there is a nicely arranged forest park area with a waymarked and signposted walk. The dolmen is still partially buried in its tumulus with remains of a stone circle or perhaps two still surviving around its outside. The capstone is about 3 m by 2.5... Read More |
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| Cayre Levat | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Couldn't find | 21st May 2005 | I drove round all the lanes I could find north of St Amande looking for something here but other than signs pointing to the farm of the same name I couldn’t find that farm. None of them seem to have names. I saw a poste van and was tempted to stop it and ask the postman. I was not helped by long w... Read More |
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| Langlade Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Couldn't find | 21st May 2005 | I spent hours looking for this after it looked easy on the 1:25000 map in the supermarket. To start with I was looking on the wrong ridge for a different stone called Cayrelevada. After asking some people logging in a forest they pointed me in the right direction which was several kilometres away ! ... Read More |
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| Pierre du Diable (Vitrac) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 20th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | What I found here was a tiny little dolmen right beside the road which is being incorporated into a garden wall a few kilometres south of Sarlat-le-Caneda on top of a hill towards Vitrac. The capstone is not 2 metres by 2 metres and sits on a couple of stones both less than a foot in size. Its proba... Read More |
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| Peyrebrune megalith | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Couldn't find | 20th May 2005 | Near the hamlet of Rozas to the east of Saint-Orse is the farm called Peyre Brune where there are some megalithic remains. I understand it is a large menhir but with stories surrounding it that it is a meteorite which has crashed to earth. On the tiny roads in this area I could find nowhere to park ... Read More |
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| Puy de Bon Temps Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 20th May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | This dolmen can be found about a kilometre walk up a forest track from the D68 between Ajat and Cubjac just north of where it passes under the new motorway and opposite a quarry entrance. It is just about signposted from the road but they are very easy to miss and when the track gets to the top of t... Read More |
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| Grotte de Lascaux 2 | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 20th May 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | It’s obviously not the same as seeing the real thing but this copy of the two main chambers of Lascaux cave (which contains 90% of all the paintings) is pretty impressive. OK so it’s a concrete corridor built on the site of an old quarry a couple of hundred metres down hill from the real Lascaux... Read More |
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| Grotte de Lascaux | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 20th May 2005 | This world famous cave has not been opened for visitors since about 1962 after the paintings had started to seriously deteriorate. It was found in September 1940 by two boys out walking their dog which fell down a hole underneath the roots of a freshly uprooted tree. It is now fenced off and not eve... Read More |
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| Le Rigourdou | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Saw from a distance | 20th May 2005 | Within this cliff shelter just a bit up the hillside from Lascaux found in March 1954 had the discovery made on 22 September 1957 of a complete Neanderthal skeleton in it. Not only this but also several burials of at least 5 bears were found suggesting some strange bear cult or activity. These days ... Read More |
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| Source de la Madeleine | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 20th May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | On a cliff face on the west side of the river Vézère near the village of Tursac is the Troglodytic village which has been inhabited since 50000 years ago and gave its name to an epoch the Madeleinian which was about 12000 years ago. What you mostly see now for your visit money is medieval with sev... Read More |
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| Village de la Madeleine | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 20th May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | On a cliff face on the west side of the river Vézère near the village of Tursac is the Troglodytic village which has been inhabited since 50000 years ago and gave its name to an epoch the Madeleinian which was about 12000 years ago.
What you mostly see now for your visit money is medieval with... Read More |
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| Abri de la Madeleine | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 20th May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 2 | You don’t actually really get to see the Abri de la Madeleine where all the prehistoric finds were made which gave their name to an epoch including the carved bison and the first harpoons. I guess to see this best you would need to canoe down the river but you can see the overhang and bits of it f... Read More |
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| Abri de Lartet | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 19th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | This cliff shelter was discovered by Lartet in 1863 and is classed as a National Historic Monument. Its just a few metres up the valley side from its more famous neighbour Abri du Poisson. | 203 | 84 |
| Abri du Poisson | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 19th May 2005 | 3 | 4 | Located in an open garden type area where there is a gap in the cliff face at the bottom of the Gorge D’Enfer on the south west side of the road out of Les Eyzies towards Périgueux about 1 kilometre after the bridge over the river and before Laugerie Basse. These days the abri is walled up and lo... Read More |
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| Abri de Cro-Magnon | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 19th May 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Up a little track to the side of the Cro-Magnon hotel along the road to the railway station can be found this sad little UNESCO World Heritage site where the Cro-Magnon man was discovered in 1868 by Francois Berthoumeyron as they were clearing the way for the road to the railway station.
Despite... Read More |
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| Pierre des Justices | Polissoir | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Couldn't find | 19th May 2005 | Just off the main road from Perigueux to Les-Eyzies at the junction of the D32 west to Mauzens-et-Miremont is a little picnic and parking area. If you then follow this road west under the splendid railway viaduct after a few hundred metres pass the lavoir then take the little lane up to the left. So... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Faille | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 19th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | An out of the way dolmen a kilometre or so to the west of the village of Rouffignac along the D6 then just south along a lane by the rubbish dump. It’s on a slope in a fenced off field not far from the lane and can be seen from there. There is a brown capstone sitting on a few support stones becom... Read More |
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| Grotte de Rouffignac | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 19th May 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | This is a strange cave its all very bare and rectangular and seems more like a stone mine than a natural cave although it is completely natural and of which there are 10 kilometres of passage. The guided visit takes place in little electric trains which take you a kilometre underground. There are no... Read More |
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| Musée National de Préhistoire | Museum | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 19th May 2005 | 5 | 4 | Recently completely rebuilt this is one of the must sees of the area. There are loads and loads of tools and lots of videos of people making and using them. On the second floor there are some nice finds and again more tools. I thought that there were too many tools on display and not enough other th... Read More |
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| Abri de Laugerie-Haute | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Saw from a distance | 18th May 2005 | 4 | Just to the northwest of Les Eyzies on the west bank of the river Vézère is found the ancient cliff settlement of Laugerie Haute. This was one of the biggest rock shelters anywhere and was inhabited since 50000 years ago. But much of the cliff roof fell down about 10000 years ago and wrecked the p... Read More |
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| Abri de Ruth | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Saw from a distance | 18th May 2005 | 4 | Just to the south of the village of Le Moustoir on the west bank of the Vézère is found this collection of caves and a museum of artefacts. .Supposedly a very important place from where the stratigraphy of the various eras was determined. But getting on in the evening very tired after a long hilly... Read More |
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| Abri du Moustier | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Saw from a distance | 18th May 2005 | 4 | In the cliff face right opposite the main square in the delightful village of Le Moustoir on the west bank of the Vézère is found this World Heritage Site. Things found here gave its name to an entire epoch the Mousterien. But late on in the day on a long bike ride and wanting to get back (and kn... Read More |
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| La Roque-Saint-Christophe | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 18th May 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | In the gigantic cliff face on the opposite side of the river Vézère to the delightful village of Le Moustoir is found this World Heritage Site. It's an entire troglodytic city which was inhabited continuously from 50000 years ago until a few centuries ago. It's massive. Even knowing it is five lev... Read More |
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| Abri du Cap-Blanc | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 18th May 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | In this now walled up cliff shelter, there is a massive frieze of sculpted animals. It was discovered in about 1909, and still bears the scars of the picks used in the excavations, and some of the animals were destroyed. There are horses, bison and the main event, a 2 metre long horse and bison comb... Read More |
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| Grotte des Combarelles 1 | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 18th May 2005 | 5 | 5 | 3 | Its good being here in mid May while its not very busy as I can get to visit places like this. Visits are strictly limited to a couple of groups of up to six people at a time per day and often have to be booked several weeks in advance. But I enquired in the morning and got to be on the afternoon t... Read More |
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| Font-de-Gaume | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 18th May 2005 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Walk quickly the 2km from Les Eyzies to the entrance building for the cave, and am just in time to be a part of the 10:00 trip. Hooray. It is fantastic.
The colours don't seem so vivid as I recall, (probably from seeing pictures), but I am actually in the cave with these paintings, and could alm... Read More |
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| Gisement du Pataud | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Saw from a distance | 17th May 2005 | 4 | 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. | 203 | 68 | ||
| Grotte de Grand Roc | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Saw from a distance | 17th May 2005 | 4 | Don’t know whether theres any prehistoric stuff in here but its supposed to have lots of natural wonders. In the same cliff face as Laugerie Basse. | 203 | 67 | ||
| Abri de Laugerie-Basse | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 17th May 2005 | 4 | Just to the northwest of Les Eyzies on the west bank of the river Vézère is found the ancient cliff settlement of Laugerie Basse. Gisements and shelters in the cliff face which have been inhabited since Cro Magnon man right up to this day. | 203 | 66 | ||
| Pierre de Nautours | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 17th May 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | I wasn’t expecting this. I was just getting caught up in rush hour traffic on the outskirts of Périgueux when I saw this large brownish black megalith standing beside a busy roundabout. There was a bus stop conveniently right by it at which I was able to stop and have a decent look although I did... Read More |
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| Peyrebrune (Seyssac) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 17th May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 3 | A kilometre or so down a rough track called Chasse de Pierre Brune from the D109 near Segonzac can be found the remains of this rectangular chambered dolmen. The chamber has dimensions of about 3 m by 2 m and made with well positioned stone blocks. There is a capstone which only covers the western e... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Palus | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 17th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | In a field of Barley just beside the country lane from Douchapt to Ségonzac near the hamlet of Margot can be found the remains of this dolmen. Its not much more than a collection of four large brownish black rocks which I would guess are a capstone and three fallen supports. There’s still enough ... Read More |
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| Pierre Plantée (Lisle) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 17th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | As I was driving south along the D78 road coming into Lisle I saw a sign saying Pierre Plantée and there was a stone about a metre high stood just by the roadside. I cant be sure whether this is the actual Pierre Plantée referred to or indeed whether it is ancient but it isn’t new ! | 203 | 62 |
| Beauroulet Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 17th May 2005 | 2 | 2 | 5 | A 4 metres by 2.5 metre capstone of strange dark reddish brown/black rock sits slightly off the ground on top of some fallen grey limestone support stones. Its in a field just opposite a factory near a roadside restaurant at a junction with the busy D939 Brantôme to Périgueux road. Despite being i... Read More |
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| Peyre Levade (Condat) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Couldn't find | 17th May 2005 | A couple of kilometres east of Brantôme is marked a dolmen on my ign map but despite trying hard to find it I saw no signs of anything and there was nowhere at all to park on very small country lanes to get out and have a proper look. | 203 | 60 | |||
| La Pierre Levée (Brantôme) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 17th May 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | This dolmen stands on a sort of village green thing just on the eastern outskirts of the delightful old town of Brantôme about 50 metres north of the D78 road. A single large capstone about 4 metres by 2 metres sits on 3 (or is it 4) support stones with the help of some modern building work about 2... Read More |
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| Peyre d'Ermale | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 17th May 2005 | 4 | 3 | Marked on my ign map as a menhir but signposted along a track from the road as Dolmen I parked and walked to see what I could find.
What I eventually found after about a kilometre walk was a strange lump of natural rock which has been shaped has a squarish cut out in one side and a round basin t... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Peyrelevade (Paussac) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 17th May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | This is a nice little dolmen in a pleasant open bit of land with lots of orchids butterflies and lizards at the time of my visit on a sunny May morning. Its just off the D93 between St Vivien and Paussac 50 metres down a little track which is signposted from the road.
The dolmen consists of a st... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Boucharderie | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 16th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | This was a bit of a bugger to find what with road building schemes and diversions taking me miles away and then very narrow lanes with tight corners and no passing places through Cognac vineyard country. There was nothing obvious so I parked and asked people at the farm who gladly pointed me to some... Read More |
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| Le Gros Dognon tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 16th May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | After the day I’d so far had finding these tremendous tumuli and dolmens where none are signposted I thought I’d go back to the big looking one as Tusson for a better look after all it has lots of signposts and looked fairly big so who knows what I might find. Although easy to find parking was a... Read More |
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| Ligné tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 16th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Yet another great big round tumulus within a wooded area in the middle of a field. The mound is approximately round about 30 metres in diameter and 5 metres high inside the middle of which is a dug out chamber which is all falling in and not in a very good state. There is an obvious entrance passage... Read More |
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| La Grande Motte | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Saw from a distance | 16th May 2005 | On the hill high above Fontenille can be seen another tree covered mound. This one was really tempting to go and walk to but it was a long way from anywhere I could drive to so I managed to keep away. Pity I didn’t get a good photograph as from certain angles its most impressive looking. | 203 | 52 | |||
| Dolmen dit la Motte-de-la-Garde | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 16th May 2005 | 4 | 5 | 3 | A bit further south along the trackway is a suspicious looking bit of woodland at the top of a hillock so I went to have a look. On venturing inside there is a socking great big stone mound perhaps 6 metres high and about 50 metres by 30 metres in dimensions. Walking further into the wood there are ... Read More |
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| Maison de la Vieille Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 16th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Further on along the track and to the south of where it crosses a perpendicular trackway can be seen a little wooded area inside a cultivated field. This is just where I had seen the dolmen symbol on the 1:25000 ign map I had earlier looked at in the shop so I went for a look. Having crossed the fie... Read More |
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| La Grosse Pérotte | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 16th May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | There are several dolmens marked along a ridgetop to the west of the village of Fontenille, so I went for a look. The whole area abounds with tumulus and mounds perched on the hilltops. The map may have only 4 or 5 marked, but there are many more here. As I was parking to go walking along the ridget... Read More |
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| La Petite Pérotte | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 16th May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | There are several dolmens marked along a ridgetop to the west of the village of Fontenille, so I went for a look. The whole area abounds with tumulus and mounds perched on the hilltops. The map may have only 4 or 5 marked, but there are many more here. As I was parking to go walking along the ridget... Read More |
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| Tumulus de Chateaurenaud | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Saw from a distance | 16th May 2005 | Another big obvious wood covered tumulus up on the hills above the village. But to get to this one would have meant quite a long walk from anywhere I could have parked and there was no obvious way to it so I did not bother as there are many others to explore locally. | 203 | 46 | |||
| Folatière Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 16th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Much wrecked remains of a dolmen, near to the hamlet of Bel Air, a couple of kilometres to the northeast of the village of Luxé in Charente. At first I assumed the dolmen would be part of the tumulus and so was disappointed that I could not get to see it. However later in the day having seen a det... Read More |
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| Folatière tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Saw from a distance | 16th May 2005 | This tumulus is obvious it can be seen from miles around up on top of a hill all covered in woodland.I parked and walked up “Rue de Tumulus” but could find no way of closer inspection as its all fenced off private land. The tumulus is really massive though and dwarfs the nearby farmhouse. Shame ... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit la Pierre du Sacrifice (Boixe) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 16th May 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | The remains of this monument can be found about 100 metres walk into the Forêt-de-Boixe from the parking place near the Tumulus de la Boixe, and signposted. These days it is basically just a capstone of a destroyed tumulus, once similar to Boixe, and is about 4 metres in length, 2 metres wide and a... Read More |
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| Tumulus de la Boixe B | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 16th May 2005 | 5 | 5 | 5 | This wonderful tumulus can be found signposted just to the west of the D.116 as it runs through the Forêt-de-Boixe. Said to be one of about 15 such tombs here in the 19th century, but now mostly destroyed.
It’s a lovely tomb, which has been restored, with a chamber still contained fully withi... Read More |
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| La Justice tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Saw from a distance | 15th May 2005 | There are four tumulus here to the east of the village of Tusson which lie in a line along the top of a ridge. One of the central pair is enormous and deserves further exploration. The Pierre Blanche and Magnez dolmens are on the same line to the north. | 203 | 41 | |||
| Vieux Breuil tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Saw from a distance | 5th Dec 2005 | There are four tumulus here to the east of the village of Tusson which lie in a line along the top of a ridge. One of the central pair is enormous and deserves further exploration. The Pierre Blanche and Magnez dolmens are on the same line to the north. | 203 | 39 | |||
| Tusson tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Saw from a distance | 15th May 2005 | There are four tumulus here to the east of the village of Tusson which lie in a line along the top of a ridge. One of the central pair is enormous and deserves further exploration. The Pierre Blanche and Magnez dolmens are on the same line to the north. | 203 | 38 | |||
| Dolmen de La Pierre Blanche à Bessé 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 15th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | A couple of kilometres southwest of the village of Charmé along the D736 the dolmen is signposted along a trackway from the road. Its about half a mile walk to a little wood and the dolmen is within the field of crops adjacent. A large oval shaped capstone almost 2 metres thick sits on several smal... Read More |
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| Magnez Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 15th May 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Walk up a little track behind the farmhouse to the south of the road as it passes through the hamlet of Magnez (Magné) for a couple of hundred metres and you will see a large stone to the right of the trackway. This is the capstone to the dolmen which is full of holes with plants and flowers growin... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Pierre-Pèze | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 15th May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | After a long wet day of driving and getting frustrated by a lack of nice things to see and getting lost in a couple of big towns (Niort Fontenay) I needed this. On the D948 road just to the west of the railway station to the east of Limilonges (where there is lots of space to park) is a large sign t... Read More |
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| Celles-sur-Belle menhirs | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 15th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | After a fairly long struggle to find these which are marked on my ign map I eventually found a sign pointing through the woods to menhirs 180 metres but not very close to the position on the map. The best I found was two big lumps of rock on a hillside which looked very much like they may be natural... Read More |
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| La Frise Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Couldn't find | 15th May 2005 | I could see no signs of this in the flat farmland, nor any signs or other indications | 203 | 33 | |||
| Pierres Folles du Follet | Standing Stones | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 15th May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | The Pierres Folle de Follet are two large menhirs both about 3.5 metres tall positioned one each side of a little lane like giant gateposts at the hamlet of the same name just to the south of the D19 a couple of kilometres south of the village of Rosnay.
There is a legend associated with them, w... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit La Salle des Fées | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 15th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This was not at all like I was expecting to find so either the picture I had previously seen of this is of the wrong place or else this dolmen has had a nasty accident which has increased the remains !
I have to say it looks like a jumble of large rock slabs around a few trees in the middle of a... Read More |
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| Prédaire Dolmen | Chambered Cairn | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th May 2005 | 2 | 5 | 4 | This much ruined transepted burial mound sits on a clifftop overlooking the sea to the south of the seaside harbour town of Pornic. I had chosen to spend the night at the campsite la Boutinardière and went for an evening stroll for 20 minutes or so northwest along the Sentier des Douarniers coastal... Read More |
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| Joselière Dolmen | Chambered Cairn | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th May 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | As soon as I got here this nice quiet place was flooded with people either returning from the beach or a walk along the clifftop. It is superbly positioned in a field about 50 metres from the sea but it’s a shame about the wartime gun emplacement here also. This transepted burial mound has been re... Read More |
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| Trois Squelettes | Chambered Cairn | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | Nearby to the east of the tumulus des Mousseaux are the remains of two more burial mounds of which remains can be seen in various gardens in the vicinity. The large tumulus du Moulin du Motte is these days hardly visible behind a large garden wall and some new holiday homes but a bit further to the ... Read More |
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| Moulin du Motte | Chambered Cairn | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | Nearby to the east of the tumulus des Mousseaux are the remains of two more burial mounds of which remains can be seen in various gardens in the vicinity. The large tumulus du Moulin du Motte is these days hardly visible behind a large garden wall and some new holiday homes but a bit further to the ... Read More |
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| Tumulus Des Mousseaux | Chambered Cairn | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th May 2005 | 5 | 3 | 5 | This monument is signposted from all sorts of places and easy to find if approaching from the north but probably not so if coming from the south as the fortified harbour and seaside town of Pornic is a maze of small streets and indeed barred to a campervan. The tumulus is enclosed by houses and reac... Read More |
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| Menhir du Boivre | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Couldn't find | 14th May 2005 | This menhir is supposed to be 3.8 metes tall and nicely shaped but I could not find it. I took both the high road (a gravel track ) and the low road through the farmyard of the same name looking but I didn’t even catch a glimpse of it. | 203 | 25 | |||
| Menhir dit la Pierre Attelée | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | A more than 3 metre tall menhir in a clearing in the forest of Attelée amongst the sand dunes to the south of this pleasant seaside town. It was a nice cool lump of granite to find on this warm afternoon. | 203 | 24 |
| Pierre de Couche | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th May 2005 | 3 | 2 | 4 | In a little enclosure on the opposite side of the busy dual carriageway road from the campsite this stone is just over 2 metres tall in pale granite. It’s a nicely shaped stone but far too enclosed within the houses and noisy. | 203 | 23 |
| Les Pierres Couchées | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th May 2005 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Now incorporated into a campsite of the same name I was expecting to find a fallen menhir. I was told the stone was round the back of the office building but I could not find it initially. Upon my return to the parking area later I found what looked to be some ancient stones right behind my camperva... Read More |
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| Rossignols Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | In amongst the houses in this little seaside town this dolmen has its own plot of land with a picnic area and is signposted from various places in the vicinity. It has obviously been covered over by sand dunes as it is all in a hollow in the ground surrounded by trees. There is a massive capstone 4 ... Read More |
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| Moulin Chevalier Dolmen | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | I am not quite sure what to make of this. It is either a fairly undisturbed dolmen still well contained within its mound or else it is a bit of a wreck ! The mound is about 8 metres by 4 metres and is found down a little track left at the edge of a field but there are no signposts. There is possibly... Read More |
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| Plessis Gamat Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Signposted locally this is a lovely pointed pale granite stone about 2.8 metres tall. It is found by going down a little track opposite the electric station then right into a field where its found in the bushes on the right. | 203 | 19 |
| La Pierre de Gargantua (St Brevin) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th May 2005 | 2 | 2 | 3 | I spent nearly an hour looking for this and eventually found it after asking a local. It is in a swamp just beside a large road junction and can be found by taking a dead end track then across some open land before dropping down into the wetlands in the corner of the road interchange.
Having fou... Read More |
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| Sainte Marguerite Au Pé Dolmen | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | While at Dissignac there was a map showing a cycle ride which passed a cromlech a couple of kilometres to the south along Route du Cromlech so I went to have a look. Its easily found just north of the road junction and in a little piece of land between houses with its own signpost outside. It’s a ... Read More |
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| Dissignac Tumulus | Chambered Cairn | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 14th May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Signposted from miles around and it has its own little parking area picnic site bus stop and kiosk but when I arrived here (on a Saturday morning in mid May) it was all shut and fenced off and it looked pretty permanent. It’s a restored tumulus with two large passage graves inside with the chamber... Read More |
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| Gaudinais megalithes | Long Barrow | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A signpost to Vestiges Megalithiques de La Gaudinais points down a gravel track to this from the main street on the west side of the village of Langon so I just had to go and have a look. I have no idea what I found or even whether it is the proper megalithic remains but I had a good look around.
... Read More |
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| Demoiselles de Langon | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Found near to the stadium in the village of Langon and signposted from the main street These alignements consist of between 30 and 40 white quartz stone blocks in a field. Though I have read somewhere about them being arranged in two rows this most definitely isn’t the case. I have also read about... Read More |
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| Grotte-aux-Fées (Tréal) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | A fine lateral entry allée couverte at the top of a hill just to the northwest of the Saint Just megaliths and signposted from there. The main chamber is about 13 metres long 1.2 m wide and oriented 102°. The entrance is on the south side with a couple of laterally set portal stones near the east... Read More |
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| Alignement dit le Rocher | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Saw from a distance | 13th May 2005 | To the east of Saint Just village I spent no time looking for this menhir as it was by now pouring with rain, although I thought I saw something near a farmhouse as I drove past. | 203 | 12 | |||
| Croix Madame | Barrow Cemetery | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | At the western end of the village to the east of the Alignements du Moulin are the remains of some some bronze age burial chambers. At least four mounds are known, some of which have the remains of stone chambers within.
I did not find them initially and didn’t spend a lot of time looking for ... Read More |
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| Le Four Sarrazin | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A little ruined allée couverte in a mound at the western end of the Saint Just megalithic wonderland almost overlooking the gorge down to the river. The chamber is aligned roughly east west on 109° with the entrance being near the east end on the southern side. There are three remaining fallen cap... Read More |
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| Le Tribunal | Stone Circle | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | What is now an arc of 9 large white stones is the remains of what was once a 15 stone semicircle facing towards a single large white stone (the Judge) about 50 metres to the east. This is said to be an astronomical alignment of some kind. One of the stones at the southern end of the Tribunal is the ... Read More |
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| Dolmen Ouest de la Croix de Saint-Pierre | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Another fenced off but recently restored mound with a round cairn enclosing a chamber which opens to the east. | 203 | 8 |
| Croix St Pierre tertre | Long Barrow | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Another long mound this time in an east west alignment with a sort of rectangular arrangement of stones sticking up from within it rather like the peristalith stones from an allée couverte. There is a single larger block of stone near the western end. | 203 | 7 |
| Croix St Pierre east | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A large long mound with two large dolmenic chambers within it opening to the side and also a smaller one near one end. This has been excavated and restored in 1990/91 and was dated to 3500 to 4000 BC. As with all of these chambers it is fenced off to keep the masses out. | 203 | 6 |
| Château Bû | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This is now fenced off to prevent the massive erosion which was happening but clearly visible although becoming a little overgrown. Just what the heck is it ? A chambered tumulus with entrance to the east but with a stone circle on the top and also 3 or more large white menhirs. Most strange. Like n... Read More |
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| Demoiselles Piquées | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Three large white quartz menhirs one now fallen. The stone of the westernmost menhir is a really lovely thing with all sorts of coloured patterns and swirls within it. | 203 | 4 |
| Alignements du Moulin W | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | There are two long roughly parallel lines running east west with a third less well defined row to the southwest running in a north south direction. The first row reached is the northernmost and consists of at least 14 large white quartz blocks with a few grey stones in it as well with an alignment o... Read More |
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| Alignements du Moulin S | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | There are two long roughly parallel lines running east west with a third less well defined row to the southwest running in a north south direction. The first row reached is the northernmost and consists of at least 14 large white quartz blocks with a few grey stones in it as well with an alignment o... Read More |
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| Alignements du Moulin N | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 13th May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | There are two long roughly parallel lines running east west with a third less well defined row to the southwest running in a north south direction. The first row reached is the northernmost and consists of at least 14 large white quartz blocks with a few grey stones in it as well with an alignment o... Read More |
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| Pierre Tournante (Bosgouet) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Couldn't find | 4th May 2005 | Marked on my ign map as a megalithic monument. When I got there I found that the track through the forest to get to it had been gated off with lots of barbed wire and keep out notices everywhere so I didn’t get to investigate. | 202 | 97 | |||
| Allée Couverte de Mauny | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Seine-Maritime (76) | Visited | 4th May 2005 | 2 | 2 | 3 | A much ruined allée couverte which can be found in woodland beside the D265 road as it climbs the hill from the riverbank below and to the east of Mauny. Almost lost in the woods and currently being used as a junk store it almost looks like its been bulldozed. There is however a very nice half port... Read More |
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| Vielle Cote Dolmen | Passage Grave | France | Ile-de-France:Val-d'Oise (95) | Visited | 4th May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | A much ruined trench grave about 10 metres long and 2 metres wide with an orientation of 292° looking down the hill can be found dug into the hillside in a field of crops along a lane at the top of a ridge about 400 metres south from the little lane which climbs eastwards from the village. Although... Read More |
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| Allée Couverte de Dampsmesnil | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Visited | 4th May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 3 | It’s easy enough to find the pathway that leads into the woods to this its signed allée couverte from several places from several miles around. However the tiny roads with cropped fields make it almost impossible to park anywhere (certainly a camper van) so it was a long walk. From the lane where... Read More |
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| Menhir dit Gravier de Gargantua (Chateau-Neuf) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Visited | 4th May 2005 | A big (3.5 metre tall 2.5 m wide 0.5 m thick) flinty chalky lump stood right beside the roadside in a little fenced enclosure. It was moved here when the road was widened and a metre or so was broken off the top while doing so. | 202 | 93 | |||
| St-Etienne-du-Vouvray burial chamber | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Visited | 4th May 2005 | -1 | There are no remains of this gallery grave as it is destroyed and underneath the railway line. It was once a fine trench grave like Dampsnesnil and had many finds. | 202 | 92 | ||
| Saint-Etienne-du-Vauvray Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Visited | 4th May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | About a 3.5 metre tall menhir found right beside the roadside between St Etienne and Louviers. Once the road is found the menhir is easy ! The menhir has been moved from its original position which was where the railway now is on the other side of the road. | 202 | 91 |
| Allée Couverte de Pinterville | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Couldn't find | 4th May 2005 | Despite driving around this village and its environs thoroughly and looking at the village map and having the ign 1:25000 map I could find no signs of this. | 202 | 90 | |||
| Menhir dit le Caillou de Gargantua | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Couldn't find | 3rd May 2005 | I spent ages driving round all the roads of this hilltop village high above the river Eure (mostly because I could never find anywhere to turn a campervan) but could find no evidence of this menhir. The double village has no signs or anything to signify the presence of a menhir but hey are obviousl... Read More |
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| Pierre Frite de Breuilpont | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Couldn't find | 3rd May 2005 | As for the other menhirs in this river valley I could find no evidence of this menhir. The roads are terribly kept and there are almost no places to turn a campervan so I travelled over much more roads than I would have otherwise done. | 202 | 88 | |||
| Garennes-sur-Eure Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Couldn't find | 3rd May 2005 | 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. | 202 | 87 | |||
| Dolmen dit Gravier de Gargantua 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Couldn't find | 3rd May 2005 | Despite a good look around I could find no evidence of either of these. Why oh why do these villages in Normandy not look after and promote these sites ? Not even a map of the area in the village which makes these sites in Eure even more difficult to find than those in the rest of Normandy. | 202 | 86 | |||
| Dolmen dit Gravier de Gargantua 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Couldn't find | 3rd May 2005 | Despite a good look around I could find no evidence of either of these. Why oh why do these villages in Normandy not look after and promote these sites ? Not even a map of the area in the village which makes these sites in Eure even more difficult to find than those in the rest of Normandy. | 202 | 85 | |||
| Fort Harrouard | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Saw from a distance | 3rd May 2005 | This ancient defended settlement is positioned on a steep hillside high above the river Eure near the village of Marcilly-sur-Eure. | 202 | 84 | |||
| Dolmen de la Ferme Brûlée | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28) | Visited | 3rd May 2005 | Down by the banks of the river Eure are marked on my map a dolmen and polissoir. I couldn’t park close so parked and walked back from some distance away during which time I got soaked by a torrential downpour. I eventually found a house called Le Dolmen but with lots of keep out signs and security... Read More |
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| Alignement des Bruyères | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Couldn't find | 3rd May 2005 | I carelessly missed this alignment of three menhirs by not looking carefully at all the information I had with me. I looked in the village for details but there were none I could find. It is supposedly in a field down near the hamlet of Les Bruyeres. So much for my thinking that some unknown being w... Read More |
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| Dolmen de l'Hôtel-Dieu | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Saw from a distance | 3rd May 2005 | Seen a couple of hundred metres away in the middle of a field just to the northeast of the crossroads at La Trigalle It looks fairly similar to the nearby Pierre Courcoulée. | 202 | 80 | |||
| La Pierre Courcoulée (Ventes) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Visited | 3rd May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | This dolmen consists of a giant flinty puddingstone capstone sitting on 4 support stones with a couple more fallen inside. The capstone is about 4 metres by 2.5 metres and well over a metre thick.
It is marked on my ign map but there are no signposts at all on the face of the world. Park where t... Read More |
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| Menhir dit la Pierre de Gargantua (Neaufles) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Saw from a distance | 3rd May 2005 | Seen at a distance of about 200 metres across fields from the little bridge across the Risle river. There wasn’t really anywhere to park and there looked no way to get to the menhir so I contented myself with a long distance shot. It must be nearly 4 metres tall in a large flat pasture beside the ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Forge | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Visited | 3rd May 2005 | Having failed to find this after several attempts yesterday, the next day I checked out the position of this dolmen on the ign 1:25000 map in the supermarket and it looked simple to find so thought I’d have another go. Its north of the town on the little road that runs on the west side of the Risl... Read More |
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| La Grosse Pierre (Verneusses) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Eure (27) | Visited | 2nd May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | A nice simple dolmen right beside the lane just to the east of the hamlet of Verneusses. The large capstone is 4 m by 3.5 m on top of 6 upright support stones. The capstone and one of the upright stones are made from a strange stony conglomerate which has lots of flints in it on one side only. Appa... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Pierre Couplée | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 2nd May 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | The remains of this dolmen are now within a ploughed field just to the northwest of the village of Ferté Frêsnel on the road to Bocquencé. There is a small signpost to the dolmen but as seems almost always in these parts there is nowhere at all to park.
The dolmen is now very badly looked aft... Read More |
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| Menhir de Boulay-Filleul | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Saw from a distance | 2nd May 2005 | A menhir in woodland visible just to the west side of the road to L’Aigle a couple of kilometres south of the village. As is becoming typical of round here there is nowhere at all to park on a very busy road. Those damned Normadie ditches alongside all the roads. Couldn’t stop to take a picture ... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Jarrier | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 2nd May 2005 | 3 | 2 | 3 | A mile or so south of the village centre across both the river and railway on the road to Anglure. The dolmen can be found just before (north of) a crossroads at the top of the hill about 40 metres to the west of the road in a well protected field right under a hedge. It consists of a large capstone... Read More |
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| Menhir dit de la Chevrolière | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 2nd May 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | On the outskirts of the town of L’Aigle can be found this 2.8 metre tall menhir just to the right of the road to Saint Sulpice-sur-Risle village before reaching the new ring road. | 202 | 71 |
| Les Gastines | Standing Stones | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Saw from a distance | 2nd May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | At the hamlet of La Métairie, a couple of kilometres south of Saint Hilaire-sur-Risle, in Orne, used to be a field with several stones in it including 4 menhirs one of which was more than 4 metres high and had been split by a tree which had grown in a crack in the stone.
Recent fate seems not t... Read More |
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| La Pierre Levée (Echauffour) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Saw from a distance | 2nd May 2005 | 3 | 2 | 3 | About half a kilometre south of the village of Echauffour can be seen in a field to the east of the road the remains of a dolmen of which a large capstone can be seen resting on some uprights.
I could find nowhere to stop nearby so I parked some distance away and walked to try and get a closer l... Read More |
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| Menhirs dits Les Croûtes | Standing Stones | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 2nd May 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A couple of kilometres south of the village of Echauffour can be found a signpost pointing to menhirs along a small track to the east of the road. There is a place to park on this track near the main road and after a couple of hundred metres walk down this track the two menhirs can be seen standing ... Read More |
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| La Pierre Levée (Silly) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 2nd May 2005 | 3 | 2 | 4 | To the southeast of the village of Silly-en-Gouffern and just inside the Forêt-de-Petite-Gouffern can be found this enormous menhir about 40 metres from the roadside. It is more than 6 metres tall and several metres wide with its thickness less than a metre. And the top two metres have been broken ... Read More |
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| Trun menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Couldn't find | 2nd May 2005 | There is a menhir somehow incorporated into a southern corner of the church tower of this village where I stopped right by it to buy food and look at the village maps. How stupid I was to miss this one forgetting its existence only while I was there. Its why I went there ! Guess the lateness of gett... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit Pierre-Levée (Fontaine) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 2nd May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Right beside the road to the west of the village of Fontaine-les-Bassets on the way to Ommoy are the remains of this dolmen. It is hard to make out what exactly the remains consist of. There is one large capstone about 3.5 m by 3 m and about 0.7 m thick leaning up against a solitary remaining suppor... Read More |
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| Camp Celtique de Bière | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 2nd May 2005 | 4 | 5 | 4 | This is a massive fortified encampment which has been dated back to 4000 BC but with traces of habitation from long before that. The site generally consists of three enclosures on a headland well protected on three sides by steep sided gorges cut by a couple of small streams. The unprotected souther... Read More |
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| Tumulus des Hogues | Round Barrow(s) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 2nd May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | There are the remains of two burial mounds here the second one being about 50 metres to the southeast of the Dolmen des Bignes. The mound is much less disturbed than its neighbour but it has been dug into from its western side although there are no signs of any stones forming a chamber. Perhaps its ... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit Pierre-aux-Bignes | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 2nd May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | North of the village of Habloville and signposted from the road its about a 200 metre walk along a track to get to the monument where there are two burial mounds.
The northwestern of the two round mounds is about 15 metres in diameter and about 2 metres high at the edges. Within the mound which ... Read More |
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| La Pierre Tournoire, La Courbe | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 1st May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Marked on one of my maps as a menhir and another as a dolmen I have no reason to believe there are not the remains of both somewhere in the vicinity as well as an Iron Age encampment. What I found was a single stone standing on the ridge of a promontory overlooking the river Orne.
It's about 1.5... Read More |
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| Menhir de la Courbe | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 1st May 2005 | 3 | 4 | 5 | To the east of Menil-Jean where the lane crosses the river Orne there is a picnic site beside the river on the northeast side. The menhir is just a few metres from here right beside the river and leaning substantially. The stone is only about 2.5 metres high for its 3.5 metres length and about 2 met... Read More |
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| L'Affiloire de Gargantua | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 1st May 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | A four metre high shaped menhir in a field to the north of the little lane running west from Chêneduit to Craménil. It is across a field near a marshy area and perhaps with a spring close by. Many other stones lay around in the area. | 202 | 59 |
| Menhir dit la Droite Pierre (Chênedouit) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Couldn't find | 1st May 2005 | Stupidly I forgot to look for this 2.3 metre high menhir to the west of the village in my rush to get to the Pierre de Gargantua. | 202 | 58 | |||
| La Table des Fées, Chêneduit | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 1st May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Although marked on my ign map there are no signs to this in an area of small fields and many rocky outcrops. I asked a lady in a house with a small imitation dolmen in the garden and she seemed pleased that somebody was looking for it. I was informed that it was called the Table-des-Fées and she po... Read More |
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| Menhir d'Outres | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Couldn't find | 1st May 2005 | Marked on my map pretty much near the centre of the village of Joué-de-Bois but I failed to find this menhir. | 202 | 55 | |||
| Dolmen dit de la Grandière | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 1st May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Not easy to find in an area of small fields and lots of natural rocky outcrops and field clearance cairns just to the northwest of the village. However there was a local man in his garden who I asked and he willingly lead me to it over a couple of fields to the south of the farmhouse. It looked a bi... Read More |
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| La Bertinière | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Saw from a distance | 1st May 2005 | Despite being a monument of national historic importance and signposted as such half a kilometre walk from the main road I assume a new farmer has taken up residence and all the fields are now well fenced off with barbed and electric wire and countless signs so I wasn’t able to pay a proper visit.... Read More |
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| Dolmen dit le Lit de la Gione | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 1st May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | This much wrecked dolmen is found a mile or so walk westwards (signposted) along the GR22 from La Croix Gautier. It seems to be the remains of a large single dolmen but now just 3 large slabs remain so it is difficult to tell. One stone is upright on its edge with a dislodged capstone and another sl... Read More |
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| Bignon Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Couldn't find | 1st May 2005 | To the southwest of the dolmen is supposedly a menhir and it is marked both on my ign map and on the local maps and footpath signposts. However it is probably to be found in very thick woodland and try as hard as I did I found no sight of it. | 202 | 51 | |||
| Bignon Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 1st May 2005 | 2 | 3 | 4 | A little Mayenne allée couverte still largely within its mound but its all falling down and a bit of a wreck. However it is now living in a little fenced off area and is signposted from the hamlet and included on a couple of mapped and signposted walks from the village.
Only one capstone 2.5 m ... Read More |
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| La Hamelinière | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 1st May 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | On the eastern outskirts of the village of Chantrigné this fine allée couverte can be seen looking to all the world like its in somebody’s private back garden. However the man in the house came out and showed me a way round the back (down the side lane then along a footpath between hedges) which... Read More |
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| La Table des Diables | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 30th Apr 2005 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Also known as La Pierre au Diable this site is an 800 metre signposted uphill walk southwards from a parking place near to la Vallette. As with many of these monuments this is at the top of a ridge within an enchanting forest full of birdsong and wildflowers – a cuckoo being particularly prominent... Read More |
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| Dolmen des Iles | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 30th Apr 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | A wrecked dolmen situated atop a small hillock in a field just east of the dolmen des Erves. I didn’t enter the field to get a close look. | 202 | 46 |
| Dolmen des Erves | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 30th Apr 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This is an easily found dolmen a couple of kilometres north of the fortified village of Saint-Suzanne which is quite well known for being the base of Hubert de Beaumont who took up refuge there after 1066 and made raids against the Normans before being put under siege by William in 1083. It is signp... Read More |
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| Pierre Aigue, Richebourg | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 30th Apr 2005 | Allée couverte down near a stream seen across a large field near Richebourg farmhouse. There were no signs and I couldn’t see how to get to it. The remains of what I saw looked quite long and made from large rounded brown stones. | 202 | 43 | |||
| La Chaise du Diable | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 30th Apr 2005 | 2 kilometres east of the village of Sainte Gemmes- le-Robert are marked two dolmens or megalithic monuments on my ign map one north and the other south of a little crossroads. The southern one I could not determine fully as I could not gain full access to any of the possible sites. It could be some ... Read More |
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| Pierres dit Palais du Diable | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 30th Apr 2005 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 kilometres east of the village of Sainte Gemmes- le-Robert are marked two dolmens or megalithic monuments on my ign map one north and the other south of a little crossroads. The northern one consists of a large mound with many large stones scattered about. It looks at first like it may be the top ... Read More |
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| Bas Villette Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Couldn't find | 30th Apr 2005 | I could find nothing here despite it being marked on my ign map. It is perhaps in private woodland. | 202 | 40 | |||
| Dolmen de la Crête | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 30th Apr 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | To find this allée couverte do not attempt to get to it from the east side through the forest (which looks to be easy on my map but most certainly is not) but proceed towards it from the village of Vautorte a couple of kilometres to the west. Signposted from the village (badly) when you get to near... Read More |
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| Menhir du Faix du Diable | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 30th Apr 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | A massive menhir right beside the road and standing in the ditch. It must be well over 4 metres tall 3 metres wide and over a metre thick and it looks to have been smoothed. | 202 | 38 |
| Clivay Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 30th Apr 2005 | 3 | 4 | 4 | A 2.5 to 3 metre tall menhir in a splendid position near the l’Ernée river below a lovely castle/chateau on top of a bluebell filled wooded hillock. It looks as if the top may have been broken off. There are several other large blocks of stone around I wonder if this was once a large boulder that... Read More |
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| Broussardière Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 29th Apr 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This menhir is about 2.5 to 3 metres in height and about 1.5 metres in width. It is found just a few yards away from the side of the road from Larchamp to Montflaux near a little pond beside a stream and is easy to see despite the very frisky bullocks in the adjacent field trying to get at me! | 202 | 36 |
| La Tardivière | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 29th Apr 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Another little Mayenne allée couverte about 6 or 7 metres in length facing uphill and eastwards. It is in fairly ruinous condition with only one capstone remaining at the top end of about 8 pairs of upright stones. There is a large end stone at the lower western end.
It is found in open rolling... Read More |
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| La Contrie du Rocher | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 29th Apr 2005 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Another little Mayenne Allée Couverte a couple of kilometres north of Ernée which is signposted from there. It is found in the bottom of a little valley by a bend in a stream in a little woodland a few hundred metres walk along a little track from a farm.
The main chamber consists of 3 very la... Read More |
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| La Berthellière | Polissoir | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 29th Apr 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | A lovely polissoir stone found a couple of kilometres southeast of the village of Montenay near to the town of Ernée in Mayenne. The stone is signposted and found in a little wooded area about 50 metres down a lane from the farm of the same name.
The stone is flat on the ground about 2 metres i... Read More |
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| Menhir de la Chablère | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 29th Apr 2005 | Either I missed this menhir marked on my ign map or else there is a ruinous allée couverte here or perhaps the menhir is broken and had a field clearance cairn made around it. | 202 | 32 | |||
| Petit-Vieux-Sou | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 29th Apr 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | A little Mayenne Allée Couverte 2.5 km southeast of Brecé village which was has been restored. It is found in a little wooded area a few hundred metres south of the country lane by the farm of the same name and is sort of built into the side of a little hillock just above a little stream.
The ... Read More |
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| Pierres Pouquelées | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 26th Apr 2005 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Much ruined allée couverte on top of the hilly downs to the northwest of the village of Vauville. I measured the remains out to about 12 metres in length but I have seen in a guidebook that the remains are said to be 17 metres long. Perhaps there are more stones under the undergrowth than I saw in ... Read More |
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| Menhir de la Bergerie des Etennevaux | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Saw from a distance | 26th Apr 2005 | Menhir about 2 metres tall northwest of the village of St Germain-des-Vaux on Cap de la Hague right at the northwestern tip of the Cherbourg peninsular. I couldn’t get right up to this menhir and could only see it from two fields distance and judged the height from the size of the cows in the fiel... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Jogard | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 26th Apr 2005 | 1 | 2 | 3 | A much ruined dolmen just northwest of the village of St Germain-des-Vaux on Cap de la Hague right at the northwestern tip of the Cherbourg peninsular.
I am not 100 percent sure that what I saw and photographed in a downpour was the remains of this dolmen or not but it was in the right sort of p... Read More |
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| Hague-Dick | Misc. Earthwork | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 26th Apr 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | Cap de la Hague several square miles at the northwestern tip of the Cherbourg peninsula was once defended from the rest of the world by a 2 mile long ditch and bank which connected between two deep valleys to defend the whole area.
Much of this dyke has now been destroyed but a good section rema... Read More |
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| La Hutte-aux-Gabelous | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 24th Apr 2005 | 4 | 5 | 5 | What a fantastic find this little Allée Couvert is a couple of kilometres to the east of the village of St Mars beside the D534 near the crossing with the D118 and is to be found in a nice little wooded area with its own little car park and picnic site.
The monument is the remains of a little A... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Pierre (Hercé) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 24th Apr 2005 | 3 | 3 | 3 | This small dolmen can be found a few hundred metres to the south of the D33 road turning first left travelling westwards from Hercé. It is a simple dolmen with a large capstone supported by several small uprights in a field just in front of a farmhouse. Access to the dolmen was not available at the... Read More |
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| Menhir de la Roche (Gorron) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Couldn't find | 24th Apr 2005 | Unlike all the rest of the menhirs in this area I could find no signpost to this one despite it being clearly marked on the ign map and there being a large warehouse called Menhir Meubles or similar in the vicinity. After a while looking around I gave up not finding this one. | 202 | 24 | |||
| Menhir dit la Pierre Saint-Siviard | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 24th Apr 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Near L’Ervault on the D33 road from Ambrieres to Gorron this menhir can be found a few hundred metres north of the road up the trackway from the roadside cross. It is a smoothed menhir 2.5 to 3 metres tall in a little open area between fields used for storage of wood and other farm items. | 202 | 23 |
| Menhir de Moncorbeau | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53) | Visited | 24th Apr 2005 | 3 | 3 | 4 | This menhir is found in a field just to the north of the village on the road to Vaucé beside a little stream and is probably more than 2 metres tall. There are a few other pieces of stone nearby which may have been broken from the menhir. | 202 | 22 |
| Chataigneraie Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 24th Apr 2005 | 4 | 3 | 4 | This menhir is about 3 metres tall and can be found a couple of miles south of the village of Saint-Siméon from where it is signposted though its not on my ign map. It is a lovely smoothed menhir standing at the edge of a little copse across a field from the small lane. | 202 | 21 |
| Perron Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 24th Apr 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | At least 3 metres high this menhir is found signposted about 30 metres from the road in a private garden although access to the stone is allowed up a driveway. There are at least two other large stones laying nearby and I wondered if one of these pieces was broken from the top of the menhir but the ... Read More |
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| La Table aux Diables (Passais) | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 24th Apr 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Blimey what a pleasure to find this monument signposted from the Mantilly to Passais road as well as marked on the ign map. Heading south along the small road just west of Passais and turn right just before a little fishing lake is reached. A few hundred yards up a small track and the monument is fo... Read More |
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| Les Cartesières | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Couldn't find | 24th Apr 2005 | This T shaped gallery grave is the only one of this kind surviving in Normandy and is to be found in a zoo park near to the village. However on the day of my visit this park was well and truly shut and looked like it hadn’t been open in many years and was becoming very decrepit. No chance of getti... Read More |
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| La Loge aux Sarrasins | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Couldn't find | 17th Apr 2005 | Despite an accurate description of how to find this dolmen I could find nothing that looked like the picture from 1980. I did however find some large stones in about the right place a large single stone standing in the middle of the field and a couple of smaller ones with a small stone on top and a ... Read More |
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| Menhir dit Pierre de la Hoberie | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Couldn't find | 23rd Apr 2005 | This 3.1 metre tall menhir is said to be in the field downhill from the Ferme de Hoberie southwest of the village of Ussy. I could find nowhere to park and see no way through the farm without going through fields of cows so didn’t bother as I was in a rush to get back. | 202 | 15 | |||
| Bons Tassilly polissoirs | Polissoir | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Visited | 23rd Apr 2005 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Two polissoirs can be found beside the river which forms the gorge surrounding the Mont Joly promontory site. Follow signs to the Brèche de Diable park the car and then walk along the footpath which follows the river up this splendid rocky gorge. After several hundred metres the path diverges from ... Read More |
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| Mont Joly | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Visited | 23rd Apr 2005 | 2 | 4 | 5 | This is a promontory site surrounded on three sides by the steep gorge of the river Laizon and the eastern end has been defended by ramparts little of which can now be seen between the church and water tower. The site has been inhabited and defended since Paleolithic times and artefacts have been fo... Read More |
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| Langrais menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Saw from a distance | 23rd Apr 2005 | Two large menhirs in a field to the east of the village near Mont Joly but which are 500 metres from the road across a field surrounded by barbed wire and with very clear keep out signs. One of the two menhirs stands 3.6 metres high while the other is fallen.
In the region around here are many o... Read More |
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| La Pierre Cornue | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Visited | 23rd Apr 2005 | 4 | 3 | 5 | A very large menhir in disturbed ground which looks to be an old stone quarry just behind the Mairie which is just to the west of the main street a few hundred metres south of the church. The menhir is made of a strange sort of stony conglomerate and is a strange shape and contains many holes. It i... Read More |
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| La Butte du Hu | Chambered Cairn | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Saw from a distance | 23rd Apr 2005 | North of the village of Ernes several hundred metres up a farm track from the hamlet of Vey d’Ifs on the top of the ridge this large chambered tumulus can be seen just within a field growing crops so I did not enter. | 202 | 10 | |||
| Bretteville-le-Rabet | Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Visited | 23rd Apr 2005 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Not marked on any map I was told of this place by a man who collects flint artefacts I met at Cairon so I went for a quick look. Nothing much to see but the fields here were freshly ploughed and within 5 minutes of looking along the edges of the fields by the roadside I had found 4 worked flint arte... Read More |
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| Pierre Tourneresse (Gouvix) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Couldn't find | 23rd Apr 2005 | Not marked on my ign map and finding no map within the village I gave up without really trying to find the supposed menhir near here. I believe it is in the grounds of the local chateau and wasn’t going to spend a lot of time being unable to find it. | 202 | 8 | |||
| La Hoguette | Chambered Tomb | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Visited | 23rd Apr 2005 | 1 | 1 | 5 | Despite all records stating that this large round tumulus with 8 passage graves is no longer there the remains are quite easy to find within the village. It remains today as a green grassy area within a housing estate surrounded by roads called something like Rue la Tumulus and Rue La Hoguette. Ther... Read More |
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| La Hogue | Chambered Tomb | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Saw from a distance | 23rd Apr 2005 | Despite being signed from the main road and having a Bar le Tumulus nearby the excavated remains of this large round barrow with 12 internal burial chambers is fenced off within a field of rapeseed. What was once a guardian with a key to the site in the nearby house was today a lady who told me that... Read More |
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| Pierre Tourneresse, Cairon | Chambered Tomb | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Visited | 23rd Apr 2005 | 4 | 4 | 4 | I wasn’t expecting to find much here if anything at all as all the information I had of this site was a menhir symbol on my ign map. But as I was passing I decided to have a look anyway and luckily stopped to look at my map right by a little road at the east of the southern end of the village with... Read More |
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| Menhir de la Demoiselle de Bracqueville | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Couldn't find | 23rd Apr 2005 | Despite being marked on the ign map and having a description of how to find this 1.4 metre tall stone I could find no reasonable place to park down the farm track to Bracqueville before a 500 metre walk so didn’t bother. I could see no sign of the stone from anywhere in the vicinity. | 202 | 4 | |||
| Menhir dit Pierre Debout (Reviers) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Couldn't find | 29th Dec 2005 | Despite being marked on the ign map and having a good look all around I could find no sign of any menhir here. Perhaps it is fallen and somewhere within a field of oilseed Rape.
Later note. Having seen the 1:25000 ign map of the area the menhir is marked fairly close to the corner of the road an... Read More |
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| Colombiers-sur-Seulles tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Visited | 23rd Apr 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 | A long barrow which has been excavated and destroyed several times in the past but which has recently been restored to some form of its former glory by local enthusiasts. It is situated about half a kilometre east of the village just beyond the menhir signposted in a little copsed area just south o... Read More |
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| Menhir des Demoiselles (Colombiers-sur-Seulles) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Visited | 23rd Apr 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Just over 2 metres in height this menhir is set in its own little grassy area beside the road junction just uphill to the east of the village. It is a square pillar with several holes and indentations and has been broken in the past at both top and bottom (probably during the war) and is now remount... Read More |
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| Allée Couverte d'Haye d'Ectot | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Couldn't find | 22nd Nov 2004 | To the south of Moitiers d'Allonne is the community of La Haye D’Ectot, which supposedly has its own Allée Couverte, which is often confused with the above. Not marked on any maps I have, I called in at the village admin centre, at this time of day now closed. Outside this was the community map a... Read More |
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| Autel des Druides des Moitiers d'Allonne | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 22nd Nov 2004 | 3 | 3 | 4 | To the east of Moitiers d'Allonne, just a few miles northeast of Barneville-Carteret, can be found “Autel des Druides des Moitiers d'Allonne”, also known as the Allée Couverte de Grand Breuil. Situated near the top of a hill along a small road north of the D.902, this monument can be found sign... Read More |
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| Pierre au Rey | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 22nd Nov 2004 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Perched high on the cliff top near Cap de Flamanville can be found this strange antiquity, situated in the small garden behind a café, right on the cliff edge. Easily found to the west of Flamanville, just follow signs to “Semaphore” and where the road runs out there is a car park and picnic si... Read More |
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| Pierres Tournantes (Néretz) | Standing Stones | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Couldn't find | 22nd Nov 2004 | Marked on the IGN Top 25 map as being beside a lane in a wooded area near to the Château de Néretz just to the west of the village of Teutheville-Hague, are these two menhirs, said to be 3 metres in height. However, the lane shown on the map turned out to be a gated private driveway, and so I spen... Read More |
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| Fort Joret allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 22nd Nov 2004 | 2 | 3 | 4 | In a field overlooking the sea, with splendid views over the rocky beach, can be found the remains of this very ruinous Allée Couverte. It is about 500 metres along the coast path to the southwest of Fort Joret, in the Commune de Fermanville, just a few miles east of Cherbourg.
Estimated to hav... Read More |
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| Pierre Plantée (Cosqueville) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 22nd Nov 2004 | 3 | 3 | 4 | In a field to the south of the road running east out of Cosqueville can be seen this large menhir, 3 metres in height. It is possible to park nearby, and I walked round the edge of a field to get a nearer view of the stone which is in the middle of a field beside a quarry. It is a nicely shaped ston... Read More |
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| La Haute Pierre (St-Pierre-Eglise) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 22nd Nov 2004 | 3 | 3 | 3 | In a field to the northeast of St-Pierre-Eglise can be seen this large menhir, almost 3 metres in height. It is probably possible to get to fairly nearby, but it would have meant walking through an absolute stinking swamp caused by cattle at the field gateway. So I satisfied myself with a long dista... Read More |
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| La Longue Pierre (St-Pierre-Eglise) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 22nd Nov 2004 | 4 | 3 | 4 | In a field beside a small lane to the north of St-Pierre-Eglise can be found this large menhir. It is signposted from the larger road running north towards Cosqueville, but I found nowhere to park up the small lane, so had to return to the larger road to park and then walk the few hundred metres bac... Read More |
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| Maupertus menhir | Modern Stone Circle etc | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 22nd Nov 2004 | 5 | On the main street through Maupertus-sur-Mer, just to the north of Cherbourg Airport is a large granite stone being used as a gatepost. The stone looks very weathered, and the edges are curved and worn, not straight or with any quarrying marks. It is also twice as high as it would need to be for the... Read More |
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| Grande et Petite Pierre | Standing Stones | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 22nd Nov 2004 | 4 | 3 | 5 | In a grassy area on high ground at the northwest end of Cherbourg Maupertus airport can be found these two lovely and massive menhirs made of a sort of puddingstone slab. Originally these large menhirs were related to a large burial tumulus, but during the second world war this tumulus and the stone... Read More |
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| Bretteville Allée Couverte | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 22nd Nov 2004 | 4 | 3 | 5 | To the southeast of Bretteville, just a few miles east of Cherbourg, can be found the Allée Couverte de Bretteville, also known as “La Sepulture a Entrée Laterale de Bretteville-en-Saire”. It is clearly signposted from the D.901 road, and has its own little field and car park.
About 16 met... Read More |
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| Galerie des Forges | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Couldn't find | 22nd Nov 2004 | 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 da... Read More |
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| Allée Couverte de Câtillon | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Couldn't find | 22nd Nov 2004 | The remains of a second Allée Couverte is said to exist to the southeast of Rocheville, a few hundred yards from the Allée Couverte de la Petite Roche, just outside the Bois de la Grosse Roche, near the hamlet of Catillon.
It is said to be 17metres in length, southwest to northeast aspect, wit... Read More |
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| Petite Roche allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 22nd Nov 2004 | 3 | 4 | 5 | In the woods around the village of Rocheville can be found the remains of three Allées Couverte, only one of which is marked on the IGN maps, which is known as the Allée Couverte de la Petite Roche. To the southeast of Rocheville is a wooded area known as Bois de la Grosse Roche, and in the southw... Read More |
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| Pierrelaye menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Couldn't find | 21st Nov 2004 | On a wet Sunday afternoon, following the disappointment of not getting to see the Pierre Dialan dolmen, my family encouraged me to go and find the nearby Menhir de Pierrelaye, which is marked on the IGN maps to the north of the village of Villers-Bocage.
My first attempt to get to see this 3 met... Read More |
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| Pierre Dialan | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Calvados (14) | Visited | 21st Nov 2004 | To the south of the village of Jurques the D.577 road curves its way up and over a forested ridge. At the top of this hill to the east of the road is a small picnic site and a signpost to La Pierre Dialan dolmen, highlighted as a tourist place on the IGN maps. Walk about 500 metres along the track t... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Bois de la Plesse | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 19th Nov 2004 | On the slopes of Mont Castré to the southwest of the village of Lithaire can be found a little leisure park surrounding a quarry with lake. From the car park, cross the lake and climb the steep path to the top of the quarry before following the path around the top to the right through the woods. T... Read More |
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| Allée couverte du Bois de la Plesse (Sud) | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 19th Nov 2004 | 3 | 3 | 4 | On the slopes of Mont Castré to the southwest of the village of Lithaire can be found a little leisure park surrounding a quarry with lake. From the car park, cross the lake and climb the steep path to the top of the quarry before following the path around the top to the right through the woods. Af... Read More |
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| Allée couverte du Bois de la Plesse (Nord) | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 19th Nov 2004 | 2 | 3 | 4 | On the slopes of Mont Castré to the southwest of the village of Lithaire can be found a little leisure park surrounding a quarry with lake. From the car park, cross the lake and climb the steep path to the top of the quarry before following the path around the top to the right through the woods. Af... Read More |
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| Tumulus de Vierville | Chambered Tomb | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 19th Nov 2004 | 1 | Try as I might, early in the morning on the way to my sisters from the ferry, by driving up and down every lane and farm track around the village, I couldn’t find any sign of this, despite it being highlighted as a tourist place on the IGN maps. I asked a chap passing on his way to work on a bike ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de Saint-Contignarde | Passage Grave | France | Provence:Bouches-du-Rhône (13) | Couldn't find | 22nd Sep 2005 | I could find no way to this hypogae, as everywhere has lots of big high security fences. | 200 | 201 | |||
| Dolmen du Plo de Laganthe | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 24th Sep 2000 | 5 | Roadside dolmen visited on a drive SE from Toulouse to explore Les Montagnes Noire. Revel, Saissac, Mas Cabardès, Chateaux de Lastours, Gorges de la Clamoux, Dolmens, Mazamet, Toulouse. | 200 | 85 | ||
| L'Eléphant | Rock Outcrop | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 24th Sep 2000 | 4 | 3 | Celebrated rock formation thought to represent an elephant, in the Sidobre region to the east of Castres. | 200 | 84 | |
| Le Billard | Rock Outcrop | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 24th Sep 2000 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Celebrated rock formation thought to represent a billiard ball on the extremely flat billiard table, in the Sidobre region to the east of Castres. | 200 | 83 |
| Les Trois Fromages | Rock Outcrop | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 24th Sep 2000 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Celebrated rock formation thought to represent a pile of three cheeses, in the Sidobre region to the east of Castres. There are many sticks and stones thrown onto the top of the rocks, but I cannot at present remember the folklore behind it. | 200 | 82 |
| Roc de l'Oie | Rock Outcrop | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 24th Sep 2000 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Celebrated rock shaped like a goose, in the Sidobre region to the east of Castres. | 200 | 81 |
| Peyro Clabado | Rock Outcrop | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 24th Sep 2000 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Extremely large (780 tonnes) and celebrated balanced rock, in an area abounding with many odd rock shapes to the east of Castres. Some of these have been revered since history began. | 200 | 80 |
| Dolmen de Tella | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | Spain | Aragón | Visited | 8th Sep 2000 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Ten days touring and exploring in the Pyrenees. Drive from St-Lary-Soulan through the Tunnel de Bielsa into Spain. Bielsa, Tella, Ainsa, then long way to Torla-Ordesa. this is a magnificently situated dolmen, high up on the mountainside below the village of Tella in the Spanish Pyrenees. A few mil... Read More |
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| Bruniquel Cave | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82) | Saw from a distance | 27th Aug 2000 | Drive north from Toulouse to explore Bruniquel, Penne, Gorges d’Aveyron, Caussade | 200 | 70 | |||
| Dolmen de la Jagartière | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 13th Aug 2000 | 4 | Drive SE from Toulouse to explore Les Montagnes Noire. Revel, Saissac, Mas Cabardès, Chateaux de Lastours, Gorges de la Clamoux, Dolmens, Pic de Nore, Mazamet, Toulouse. These dolmens were up a steep hillside road from Villeneuve Minervois with a tremendous view | 200 | 65 | ||
| Tombeau de Roland | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 13th Aug 2000 | 4 | Drive SE from Toulouse to explore Les Montagnes Noire. Revel, Saissac, Mas Cabardès, Chateaux de Lastours, Gorges de la Clamoux, Dolmens, Pic de Nore, Mazamet, Toulouse. These dolmens were up a steep hillside road from Villeneuve Minervois | 200 | 64 | ||
| Roque Traoucado | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 13th Aug 2000 | 4 | Drive SE from Toulouse to explore Les Montagnes Noire. Revel, Saissac, Mas Cabardès, Chateaux de Lastours, Gorges de la Clamoux, Dolmens, Pic de Nore, Mazamet, Toulouse. These dolmens were up a steep hillside road from Villeneuve Minervois | 200 | 63 | ||
| Allée Couverte de Saint-Eugène | Passage Grave | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 13th Aug 2000 | 4 | Day out from Toulouse to explore Minerve ancient village, Rock tunnels, Morrel das Fadas, St Eugene. it was getting late and the roads and map didnt seem to match. I just followed signs to something like fairy hill, and on top of a hill was this amazing site, with a circular walled structure with va... Read More |
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| Morrel das Fadas | Passage Grave | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 13th Aug 2000 | 4 | 5 | 4 | Day out from Toulouse to explore Minerve ancient village, Rock tunnels, Morrel das Fadas, St Eugene. On a little hill covered in pines to the south of the D52 road to the northeast of Carcassonne is found the remains of this teriffic allée couverte, the hill of the fairies, said to be the largest i... Read More |
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| Tourenne Gallo-Roman Villa | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Midi:Haute-Garonne (31) | Visited | 22nd Jul 2000 | 5 | Drive west from Toulouse to explore Gascony. Montmaurin, Mielan, Mirande, Condom, St Puy, Fleurance, Mauvezin, Cologne. Fields of sunflowers, beautiful. Stopped by this Roman villa, but it was going to take too long for a proper visit, so satisfied myself with a look over the hedge from the car par... Read More |
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| Grottes et abris préhistoriques de la vallée de la Save | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Haute-Garonne (31) | Visited | 22nd Jul 2000 | 4 | 5 | Drive west from Toulouse to explore Gascony. Montmaurin, Mielan, Mirande, Condom, St Puy, Fleurance, Mauvezin, Cologne. Fields of sunflowers, beautiful. An intriguing little road through a gorge with lots of cliff shelters and cave which contained ancient remains. | 200 | 55 | |
| Dolmen dit Collets de Collioure | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66 | Visited | 26th Jun 2000 | 3 | Weekend to explore Collioure area. Drive coast road Port Vendres, Banyuls-sur-Mer, Cerbere, into Spain, Portbou, Platja de Garbet to Figueras. Beautiful but slow. Signs to dolmens. Dali Museum brilliant. Back to Collioure through mountains, Argeles-sur-Mer. Look for the dolmens near Collioure, Fairl... Read More |
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| Dolmen Da Cova de l'Alarb | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66 | Visited | 26th Jun 2000 | 3 | Weekend to explore Collioure area. Drive coast road Port Vendres, Banyuls-sur-Mer, Cerbere, into Spain, Portbou, Platja de Garbet to Figueras. Beautiful but slow. Signs to dolmens. Dali Museum brilliant. Back to Collioure through mountains, Argeles-sur-Mer. Look for the dolmens near Collioure, Fairl... Read More |
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| Autel Druidique de Saint-Jean | Holed Stone | France | Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82) | Couldn't find | 28th May 2000 | Drive north from Toulouse to explore Montauban, Castelsarrasin, Caussade. Had a quick look for these things marked on my map, but found nothing | 200 | 46 | |||
| Piquecos tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82) | Couldn't find | 28th May 2000 | Drive north from Toulouse to explore Montauban, Castelsarrasin, Caussade. Had a quick look for these things marked on my map, but found nothing | 200 | 45 | |||
| Le Cercle de Rennes-les-Bains | Stone Circle | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Couldn't find | 21st May 2000 | 3 | Visit Rennes-le-Chateau with some of the Americans. Walk into the hills to look for stone circle, but find nothing obvious. | 200 | 41 | ||
| Montségur | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 14th May 2000 | Dad over to Toulouse for a long weekend. Explore Mirepoix. Montsegur, Couiza, Rennes-le-Chateau, very strange place. Gorges St George upper Aude valley, Col de Pailleres (2001m). Ax-les-Thermes, Tarascon, Foix, and back to Toulouse. | 200 | 36 | |||
| Carcassonne - La Cité | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 13th May 2000 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Dad over to Toulouse for a long weekend. Drive to Carcassonne via Naurouze and the Canal du Midi. Visit La Cité, Castle, Ramparts, Cathedral. Move on to Mirepoix for the night. | 200 | 35 |
| Palet de Sanson | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 1st May 2000 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Drive south from Toulouse with the intention of climbing the Pic des Trois Seigneurs, have to stop, too much snow at 2055m. Superb up here. Back via Aulus, Arse, Seix. Strange language spoken out here. On the way down, stop to look at the Dolmen de Sem, also know as Palet de Sanson. A remarkably sit... Read More |
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| Grotte de Mas D'Azil | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 24th Apr 2005 | 5 | A lovely sunny day to explore the Ariege mountains. Puivert castle. Fontestorbes. Montsegur Castle. Pass de ? closed. Plain de ? Ax-les-Thermes, Col de Portel, scary roads. The usual drive through of Mas D’Azil on the way home to impress visitors. Get back to Toulouse late. | 200 | 25 | ||
| Montségur museum | Museum | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 24th Mar 2000 | 4 | Small museum with lots of items in the village of Montségur below the sacred hill known as Le Pog. | 200 | 24 | ||
| Montségur | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 24th Apr 2000 | 3 | 5 | 3 | A lovely sunny day to explore. Puivert castle. Fontestorbes. Montsegur Castle. Pass de ? closed. Plain de ? Ax-les-Thermes, Col de Portel, scary roads. Mas D’Azil. Toulouse late.
Ancient defended settlement on top of the sacred hill known as The Pog at Montségur in Ariège. Although the m... Read More |
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| Source de Fontestorbes | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 24th Apr 2000 | 5 | Lovely sunny day exploring in the Ariege hills. Puivert castle. Fontestorbes intermittent spring fascinating. Montsegur Castle. Pass de ? closed. Plain de ? Ax-les-Thermes, Col de Portel, scary roads. Mas D’Azil. Toulouse late. | 200 | 22 | ||
| La Pierre Droite (Peyrolles) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Couldn't find | 23rd Apr 2000 | A rainy day exploring in the mountains south of Carcassonne. Drive S to Couiza, Arques, Peyrepertuse, Quéribus. Gorges de Galamus, more castles and driving, to Quillan. Hoped to see this stone from the roadside, but didn't | 200 | 21 | |||
| Carcassonne - La Cité | Ancient Village or Settlement | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Visited | 22nd Apr 2000 | 5 | 5 | 5 | Drive from Toulouse to Carcassonne the slow way via Bram. Visit La Cité. | 200 | 20 |
| Grotte de Niaux | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 16th Apr 2000 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Full guided visit Grotte de Niaux with Sean. Fabulous. So glad I booked this up last week. | 200 | 15 |
| Grotte de Lombrives | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Saw from a distance | 2nd Apr 2000 | Drive S through Pyrénées mountains to Andorra. Lots of snow at top of pass. Look at Ax-les-Thermes, Niaux and other caves on way back, checking out the possibilities of a proper visit. | 200 | 13 | |||
| Grotte de Bédeilhac | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Saw from a distance | 2nd Apr 2000 | Drive S through Pyrénées mountains to Andorra. Lots of snow at top of pass. Look at Ax-les-Thermes, Niaux and other caves on way back. A cave of which the entrance is so big, aeroplanes were to have been built within it during the war, and taken off from within. | 200 | 12 | |||
| Grotte de la Petite Caougno | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 2nd Apr 2000 | 4 | 5 | Drive S through Pyrénées mountains to Andorra. Lots of snow at top of pass. Look at Ax-les-Thermes, Niaux and other caves on way back, investigating the possibility of a full visit to Niaux.
This is a small cave shelter beside the little road up to the modern Niaux entrance, in which ancient r... Read More |
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| Grotte de Niaux | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 2nd Apr 2000 | 4 | Grotte de Niaux near Tarascon in Ariège. Check out the world famous Niaux caves for a possible visit soon. The main entrance to the fabulous Niaux cave used for visitors is now further up the hillside than it once was. In ancient times, there would have been several lower, smaller entrances. | 200 | 10 | ||
| Pierre levée de Picarel | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Languedoc:Aude (11) | Saw from a distance | 26th Mar 2000 | Seen from the road during a drive SE from Toulouse to explore Les Montagnes Noire. Revel, Saissac, Mas Cabardès, Chateaux de Lastours, Gorges de la Clamoux, Dolmens, Mazamet, Toulouse. | 200 | 5 | |||
| Saint-Paul Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Couldn't find | 19th Mar 2000 | Drive NE from Toulouse to visit Cordes-sur-Ciel and explore the area. On the way back visit Vaour, and also a quick look for this dolmen marked on the map before a stop at Castelnau-de-Montmiral. I saw nothing obvious from the car, | 200 | 4 | |||
| Peyralade Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Tarn (81) | Visited | 19th Mar 2000 | 4 | 3 | 5 | A day driving NE from Toulouse. L’Isle-sur-Tarn, Gaillac, Cordes-sur-Ciel, Vaour, 2 Dolmens, Castelnau-de-Montmiral. The Dolmen de Peyralade, is near to the village of Vaur, Tarn Southwest France. This dolmen is on the top of the plateau which the Aveyron river cuts through in a splendid gorge. | 200 | 3 |
| Cap-Del Pouech Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 27th Feb 2000 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Lovely walk to the dolmen from Mas D'Azil across the top of the cave. Signs suggest there are more here. | 200 | 2 |
| Grotte de Mas D'Azil | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Midi:Ariège (09) | Visited | 27th Feb 2000 | 5 | Drive south into the lower mountains from Toulouse. Visit St Sulpice, Mas D’Azil, many mountain roads, Foix, Pont du Diable. | 200 | 1 | ||
| Tossen-Keler Cromlech (1964-2018) | Stone Circle | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 25th Jun 1995 | 5 | Cross Channel sailing trip from Plymouth, after a 19 hour crossing in rough conditions we berthed in Treguier for some well deserved rest and relaxation. The remains of this cromlech have been positioned on the quayside. | 195 | 41 | ||
| Kerivin Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 1st Jun 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 4. Primel, Barnenez, picnic by Morlaix river. Carantec, St Pol de Leon, Roscoff. Overnight ferry back to Plymouth. | 193 | 32 | |||
| Barnenez Cairn | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 1st Jun 1993 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 4. Primel, Barnenez, picnic by Morlaix river. Carantec, St Pol de Leon, Roscoff. Overnight ferry back to Plymouth. | 193 | 31 |
| Pointe De Primel Dolmen | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Couldn't find | 31st May 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 3. Breton Corniche, Treburden, Lannion, Corniche Armorique to Primel Tregastel. Wonderful camp-site right on the Pointe de Primel, so I went to look for this dolmen marked on the map, but I couldn't find it under the undergrowth. After a beer and shower, w... Read More |
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| Pointe de Primel menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 31st May 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 3. Breton Corniche, Treburden, Lannion, Corniche Armorique to Primel Tregastel. Wonderful camp-site right on the Pointe de Primel, so I went to look for this menhir marked on the map. I don't remember finding it, so perhaps it was still fallen back then, o... Read More |
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| Fontaine St Jean-du-Doigt | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 1st Sep 1992 | 5 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 3. Breton Corniche, Treburden, Lannion, Corniche Armorique to Primel Tregastel.
Ellie of course wanted to see St John the Baptist's finger, but I think the church was closed and we couldn't see it. Wonderful camp-site right on the Pointe de Primel, and... Read More |
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| Bez An Inkinerez | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Couldn't find | 31st May 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 3. Breton Corniche, Treburden, Lannion, Corniche Armorique to Primel Tregastel. Had a quick look for this but to no avail. | 193 | 22 | |||
| Toul an Lann menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Saw from a distance | 31st May 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 3. Breton Corniche, Treburden, Lannion, Corniche Armorique to Primel Tregastel. Ace dinner at Diben. | 193 | 21 | |||
| Trémarche menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 30th May 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones. All getting tired now, but it should be mostly downhill back to the campsite. | 193 | 19 | |||
| Menhir a Vertu | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 30th May 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Ooo Errr missus. This one goes well after the St Uzec roughly hewn instruments of passion. | 193 | 18 | |||
| St Samson Chapel well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 30th May 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones. | 193 | 17 | |||
| Saint-Uzec menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 30th May 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Take lunch at the St Uzec menhir, where we have a lot of fun discussing the way it has been christianised with its roughly hewn instruments of passion, and some offerings left beside. | 193 | 16 | |||
| Ty-Lia (Île Grande) | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 30th May 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones. | 193 | 15 | |||
| Prajou-Menhir allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 30th May 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones. | 193 | 14 | |||
| Prajou-Menhir menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 30th May 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones. | 193 | 13 | |||
| Keryvon allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 30th May 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones. | 193 | 12 | |||
| Kerguntuil allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 30th May 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones. | 193 | 11 | |||
| Kerguntuil Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 30th May 1993 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones. | 193 | 10 | |||
| Le Roi Gradlon | Rock Outcrop | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 30th May 1993 | 5 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones. A large granite outcrop which resembles a crowned kings head protruding up through the earth towers above the beach of la grêve blanche. | 193 | 9 | ||
| La Tête de Mort | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 30th May 1993 | 4 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones. At the northern end of Coz Pors beach is a large granite outcrop which viewed from some angles resembles a giant skull, known as La Tête de Mort. | 193 | 8 | ||
| Oratoire de St Guirec | Ancient Temple | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 29th May 1993 | 4 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 1. Cycle Roscoff, Morlaix, Lannion, Ploumanac'h. Too far. 52 miles. Funny Rocks. Camp and head to Ploumanach for a big seafood dinner.
The Oratoire de St Guirec is situated on the beach named after St Guirec, the Welsh monk who landed here on his voya... Read More |
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| Rochers de Ploumanac'h | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 29th May 1993 | 4 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 1. Cycle Roscoff, Morlaix, Lannion, Ploumanac'h. Too far. 52 miles. Funny Rocks. Camp and head to Ploumanach for a big seafood dinner. The headland north of Ploumanac'h is now a municipal park, and has the most spectacular coastline where the pink granite... Read More |
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| Toul an Lann menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 29th May 1993 | 5 | Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 1. Cycle Roscoff, Morlaix, Lannion, Ploumanac'h. Too far. 52 miles. Funny Rocks. Big seafood dinner. | 193 | 1 | ||
| Kerivin Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 11th Sep 1987 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Cycling camping trip round Brittany day 12. Cycle from Huelgoat, across the Monts Arrée in the pouring rain to St Pol de Leon | 187 | 92 |
| Kerampeulven Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 10th Sep 1987 | 5 | Cycling camping trip round Brittany 1987 day 11. Day at Huelgoat, cycle to Carhaix to get bike fixed in afternoon. Many strange shaped rocks, and a large menhir with modern ish carvings | 187 | 87 | ||
| St-Guinec menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 9th Sep 1987 | 5 | 5 | Cycling camping trip round Brittany 1987 day 10. Cycle from Telgruc up over the moors to Huelgoat. | 187 | 82 | |
| Ty ar Boudiquet Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 9th Sep 1987 | 5 | 5 | Cycling camping trip round Brittany 1987 day 10. Cycle from Telgruc up over the moors to Huelgoat. | 187 | 81 | |
| Lagatjar alignements | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 8th Sep 1987 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Cycling camping trip round Brittany day 9. Cycle from Telgruc all around Crozon peninsula. | 187 | 71 |
| Saint-Michel tumulus | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 3rd Sep 1987 | 4 | 5 | 5 | Cycling camping trip round Brittany. Day 4. Get to visit inside the huge Tumulus St Michel, and see the ancient burial sections within it. | 187 | 36 |