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Platennes Menhirs
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Submitted byAlexHunger
AddedJun 04 2005
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Description Allignment of 3 pretty much intact 3 Meter long fallen menhirs on East of path with remains of one or 2 broken menhirs on West of path. The edges are relatively sharp and the remains could probably be reassembled. Saint-Père-en-Retz

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Dipo
(2008-03-17)
This is the rest of a Dolmen (burial chamber) transformed in a stone career. Stay in place 3 big capstones. Smaller stones (supports) had been moved on the other side of the road and cut up. Cutting marks are visible on many cutstones.

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