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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Géants de KerzerhoCountry: France Département: Bretagne:Morbihan (56) Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Carnac Nearest Village: Erdeven
Latitude: 47.636400N Longitude: 3.1482W
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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markj99 visited on 19th Sep 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Les Géants de Kerzerho are an impressive alignment of massive stones hidden in a grove of trees. They are a mix of massive standing stones, recumbent stones and stone rows. I also found a mysterious round holed stone. Even in Carnac, this site has a unique presence.
Catrinm visited on 13th Sep 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Fabulous and huge whether recumbent or upright!
aolson visited on 18th Jul 2020 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 A seemingly endless row of fittingly named giants leading to the spectacular Kerzerho alighment.
TheCaptain visited on 15th Jun 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Fantastic.
TheCaptain visited on 13th Jun 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 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 which I sat writing this.
Then you see a path going behind this, which opens up through the undergrowth to reveal the whole row of Giants. It would seem that the two massive stones at this northern end of the row are not on the same line. Could they have been from a second row of alignements ? This was another pleasant surprise.
Further along are the real giants. Two standing and two fallen, more than six metres tall I would think. 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. Whatever this all is here, its a wonderful place.
I must have been having too much fun and am being punished. I am feeling the start of gout coming on and I don't have any tablets with me. And when I get back to my bike I find I have a puncture. ARSE. Mend the puncture at the Kerzerho Alignements.
johnstone visited on 6th Jun 2002 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
negus visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 5
ShamrockStone Ogham Jimwithnoname have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.71 Ambience: 4.57 Access: 4.14
Coming along the Chemin des Megalithes from the northeast, 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 stone giant (possibly the Pierre des Sacrifices), 6 metres long and nicely smoothed, upon which I sat writing this.
Then you see a path going behind this, which opens up through the undergrowth to reveal the whole row of Giants. It would seem that the two massive stones at this northern end of the row are not on the same line. Could they have been from a second row of alignements ?
Further along are the real giants. Two standing and two fallen, more than six metres tall. 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.
Whatever this all is here, its a truly wonderful place.
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