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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Alignements du Moulin S Alternative Name: Saint-Just, St Just group of megalithic sites, Alignement de Cojoux (B)Country: France Département: Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Redon Nearest Village: Saint-Just
Latitude: 47.764800N Longitude: 1.9739W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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johnstone visited on 16th Jun 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
aolson visited on 19th Jul 2020 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 I have seen some spectacular pictures of these alignments, and it was great to see them in person.
AnjaI visited on 1st Apr 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
43559959 visited on 25th Apr 2014 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
johnstone visited on 25th Jun 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
TheCaptain visited on 13th May 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 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 of 099°. One of the large stones towards the western end has been used at some later stage as a part of a burial chamber with at least two burial cists to be seen adjacent to it.
Just to the south of this row is another row, with an alignment of 111° but this time consisting of taller thinner stones of various types and colours, which get bigger in size towards the middle where the row runs over a cairn and then get smaller again. The stones start off about a metre high but the stones in the middle are up to 5 metres tall. These central stones alternate between white blocks and black blocks of stone with various other colours and shapes being mixed in as well. I absolutely love this row. It is completely bonkers. So weird. The whole place is odd and not like anything else I have seen. Large white blocks and tall thin black stones. All mixed up and running across this ridge.
The third row I found consists of about 5 white quartz blocks to the west of the ends of the two main rows and running in a north south direction. I am not sure if this is the third row considered to be a part of these same alignments. All three rows appear to converge on a point to the northwest. They have started to clear the gorse away from these stones and I disturbed a large vividly coloured green lizard at one point here.
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 3.83 Access: 4.5
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. It is about 120 metres long with an alignment of 100°. One of the large stones towards the western end has been used at some later stage as a part of a burial chamber with at least two burial cists to be seen adjacent to it.
Just to the south of this row is another row, 65 metres long with an alignment of 110° but this time consisting of taller thinner stones of various types and colours, which get bigger in size towards the middle where the row runs over a cairn and then get smaller again. The stones start off about a metre high but the stones in the middle are up to 5 metres tall. These central stones alternate between white blocks and black blocks of stone with various other colours and shapes being mixed in as well.
The third row consists of about 5 white quartz blocks to the west of the ends of the two main rows and running in a north south direction, perpendicular to row 1.
All three rows appear to converge on a point to the northwest.
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