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Menhir de la Crulière
Trip No.11 Entry No.35 Date Added: 27th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhir de la Crulière submitted by thecaptain on 20th Dec 2005. This menhir, 2.4 metres tall, is in a well fenced field, near to the village of Brem-sur-Mer in Vendée.
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Pierre Levée de Soubise
Trip No.11 Entry No.34 Date Added: 27th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Pierre Levée de Soubise submitted by thecaptain on 25th Oct 2005. Pierre Levée de Soubise, Bretignolles-sur-Mer, Vendée.
This cute little dolmen looked to be in serious danger in June 2005, as it is in the middle of a new housing development.
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Menhir dit la Conche-Verte
Trip No.11 Entry No.33 Date Added: 27th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhir dit la Conche-Verte submitted by thecaptain on 20th Dec 2005. In a little forest clearing amongst the sand dunes to the north of Olonnes-sur-Mer in Vendée, this 2 metre tall granite menhir is easily found.
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Les Pierres Jumelles
Trip No.11 Entry No.32 Date Added: 27th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Les Pierres Jumelles submitted by theCaptain on 24th Jan 2011. The Pierres Jumelles, or twin stones, are both about 4 metres high, but that is where the similarity between them ends.
One of the stones is a rounded block of lovely pink granite, while the other is a tall pointed grey stone.
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Dolmen du Grand-Bouillac
Trip No.11 Entry No.31 Date Added: 27th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dolmen du Grand-Bouillac submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2005. Grand Bouillac dolmen
There are a couple of entrance passage stone pairs, one of these still with its capstone.
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Pierres Folles du Follet
Trip No.11 Entry No.30 Date Added: 27th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Pierres Folles du Follet submitted by thecaptain on 30th Nov 2005. The Pierres Folles de Follet are two large menhirs both about 3.5 metres tall.
They have a nice legend associated with them.
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Dolmen des Games
Trip No.11 Entry No.29 Date Added: 26th Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dolmen des Games submitted by dt44 on 15th Jun 2008. Dolmen des Games near Saint Sornin village in Vendée.
The stone is not very visible behind vegetation.
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Pierre Levée de Chenillée
Trip No.11 Entry No.28 Date Added: 26th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Pierre Levée de Chenillée submitted by thecaptain on 7th Dec 2005. A nicely smoothed and shaped menhir, which must be about 4.5 metres tall, 2.5 metres wide and 1 metre thick.
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Menhir dit le Champ du Rocher
Trip No.11 Entry No.27 Date Added: 26th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Menhir dit le Champ du Rocher submitted by thecaptain on 9th Dec 2005. Champ du Rocher menhir. All I could find where this stone should be was a fallen smoothed stone at the roadside, about 3 metres long by 2 metres wide.
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La Garnerie menhir
Trip No.11 Entry No.26 Date Added: 26th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
La Garnerie menhir submitted by thecaptain on 13th Dec 2005. La Garnerie menhir is a great big menhir in a field of barley, and there was no way I was going to get to it.
I would estimate it to be 4 to 5 metres tall and it is nicely rounded.
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Menhirs du Plessis
Trip No.11 Entry No.25 Date Added: 24th Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhirs du Plessis submitted by thecaptain on 13th Dec 2005. The Menhirs du Plessis were once an equilateral triangle of three large menhirs, each 100 metres apart, but now only two remain after the eastern one was destroyed in 1860.
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Dolmen des Pierres Folles du Plessis
Trip No.11 Entry No.24 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen des Pierres Folles du Plessis submitted by thecaptain on 8th Dec 2005. This possible Angevine dolmen resides in a little wooded picnic area beside the lane to the south of the busy D.949 road to the east of Avrillé.
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Pey de Fontaine
Trip No.11 Entry No.23 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Pey de Fontaine submitted by thecaptain on 15th Dec 2005. Pey de Fontaine, the largest prehistoric monument in the departement of Vendée.
Estimated to be 6000 years old, the cairn is rectangular, about 35 metres by 30 metres and is built with several drystone wall steps.
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Cour du Breuil Dolmen
Trip No.11 Entry No.22 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Cour du Breuil dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 9th Dec 2005. Right by the roadside, this is a pleasant dolmen to find, with the large skeletal remains standing slightly hidden by a surrounding hedge, from where they suddenly jump out at you as you pass along the road.
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Menhir du Bois (Vendée)
Trip No.11 Entry No.21 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir du Bois (Vendée) submitted by ocdolmen on 28th Aug 2009. During the summer 2009. the menhir du Bois near La Frébouchère dolmen.
Nice view isn't it ?
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Frébouchère Dolmen
Trip No.11 Entry No.20 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Frébouchère dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 6th Jul 2005. Frébouchère dolmen is a MASSIVE Angevin type dolmen. It really is enormous, my pictures do not do it justice. The chamber is 6.5 metres by 3.5 metres, and 2 m high, with a single capstone.
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Dolmen de Savatole 3
Trip No.11 Entry No.19 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dolmen de Savatole 3 submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2005. Right beside the little lane to the north of the village of Le Bernard, this dolmen has an oval chamber 3 metres long by 2.5 metres wide, with a single capstone covering it.
There are also other stones which suggest an entrance passageway, and the floor is paved with large slabs.
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Dolmen de Savatole 2
Trip No.11 Entry No.18 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dolmen de Savatole 2 submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2005. Savatole Dolmen 2 is a simple dolmen with a 2.5 by 2.5 metre chamber with a single capstone, these days supported on 3 side stones with remains of a couple more, and a strange carved floorstone.
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Dolmen de Savatole 1
Trip No.11 Entry No.17 Date Added: 22nd Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen de Savatole 1 submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2005. This dolmen is larger, but less complete than it's two neighbours. What would appear to be a 4 metre by 2.5 metre chamber is only covered at the western end by a capstone resting on three support stones.
As at the other dolmens nearby, there is a large smoothed stone slab paving the floor.
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La Sulette Dolmen
Trip No.11 Entry No.16 Date Added: 22nd Feb 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
La Sulette dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 13th Dec 2005. This is a pleasant find, as it has been fully excavated and restored in 1989 to 1991, and is now found completely within its mound, a kilometre or so to the northwest of St Hilaire-la-Foret.
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