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| Site Name (A/D) |
Site Type | Country (A/D) |
County/ Region | Visited? (A/D) |
Date (A/D) |
Cond | Amb | Acc | Comments | Trip Number (A/D) |
Trip Order |
| 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 |
202 | 96 |
| 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 |
202 | 95 |
| 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 |
202 | 94 |
| 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 |
202 | 89 | |||
| 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 |
202 | 82 | |||
| 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 |
202 | 81 | |||
| 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 |
202 | 79 |
| 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 |
202 | 78 | |||
| 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 |
202 | 77 | |||
| 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 |
202 | 76 |
| 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 |
202 | 75 |
| 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 |
202 | 74 | |||
| 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 |
202 | 72 |
| 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 |
202 | 70 |
| 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 |
202 | 69 |
| 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 |
202 | 68 |
| 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 |
202 | 67 |
| 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 |
202 | 66 | |||
| 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 |
202 | 65 |
| 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 |
202 | 64 |
| 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 |
202 | 63 |
| 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 |
202 | 62 |
| 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 |
202 | 61 |
| 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 |
202 | 60 |
| 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 |
202 | 57 |
| 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 |
202 | 54 |
| 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 |
202 | 53 | |||
| 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 |
202 | 52 |
| 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 |
202 | 50 |
| 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 |
202 | 49 |
| 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 |
202 | 47 |
| 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 |
202 | 45 |
| 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 |
202 | 42 | |||
| 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 |
202 | 41 |
| 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 |
202 | 39 |
| 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 |
202 | 37 |
| 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 |
202 | 35 |
| 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 |
202 | 34 |
| 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 |
202 | 33 |
| 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 |
202 | 31 |
| 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 |
202 | 30 |
| 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 |
202 | 29 | |||
| 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 |
202 | 28 |
| 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 |
202 | 27 |
| 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 |
202 | 26 |
| 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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