My Monday 10 October 2011 visit notes.
Following a successful visit to the Montchauvin alignements, decided to procede noth and have another look for the Pierre Dialan.
This third visit, and the stones were easy to find, no hunt going on in the woods, and no snow covering everything! Park in the little picnic area at the top of the hill and walk along the track eastwards into the woods and then along the top edge of the quarry right into the woods.
The visit was made easy, as the woodland has been marked out and fenced, presumably for sale or more quarrying, and signs to the Pierre Dialan were nailed to various trees. I guess that in future, this will be a very different place, although it looks like a good area around the stones is being left alone.
The stones now stand on what is a little headland jutting into the nearby quarries, but are well surrounded by trees. The headland has been crossed by a couple of ditches, but as to whether they are ancient, or more modern (wartime?) I do not know.
I was expecting just a large rocky outcrop, but in fact there are many stones here, and it looks like they have been arranged into a sort of rectangular enclosure. The main large stone lies on top of several smaller ones, and it would be possible to get underneath if you really wanted to!
Have to say I couldn't really figure it out at all, could it be the sort of remains of an allée couvert, adapted from the natural? Or is it possible that much of the surrounding rectangle of stones is the remains of perhaps a wartime lookout?
I dont know. But a fine place to visit.
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