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<< Our Photo Pages >> Alignements du Moulin W - Stone Row / Alignment in France in Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 13 April 2011  Page Views: 4082

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Alignements du Moulin W Alternative Name: Alignement de Cojoux (A)
Country: France Département: Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Redon  Nearest Village: Saint-Just
Latitude: 47.764600N  Longitude: 1.9755W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
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3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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TheCaptain visited on 13th May 2005 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 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 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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Alignements du Moulin W
Alignements du Moulin W submitted by greywether : The N/S row. June 1994 (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Alignements du Moulin are three very different alignments of menhirs which make up part of the Saint-Just group of megalithic sites. 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.

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.

All three rows appear to converge on a point to the northwest.


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Alignements du Moulin W
Alignements du Moulin W submitted by TheCaptain : 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. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alignements du Moulin W
Alignements du Moulin W submitted by TheCaptain (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alignements du Moulin W
Alignements du Moulin W submitted by johnstone : Part of the row with two large ones, June 16, 2022 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alignements du Moulin W
Alignements du Moulin W submitted by johnstone : Information panel, June 16, 2022 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alignements du Moulin W
Alignements du Moulin W submitted by johnstone : A view at the row towards the mill, June 25, 2013 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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