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Mesa Verde - Mummy Lake
Date Added: 12th Jul 2025
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Mesa Verde - Mummy Lake submitted by jeffrep on 13th Nov 2012. Far View Reservoir (also known as Mummy Lake), one of four reservoirs for domestic water storage at Mesa Verde between 750 and 1180AD.
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Log Text: This site is part of the Far View community of Ancestral Pueblo sites in Mesa Verde National Park. The structure, a large depression with earthen embankments reinforced by stone revetments in some parts, was originally thought to be a manmade water collection and reservoir area, likely built in the Pueblo 2 period. There is a ditch leading out the south side of the structure. It is in fact now called Far View Reservoir, rather than its original name of Mummy Lake.
However, this interpretation has been called into question and the purpose of the structure remains controversial.
It is accessible via a 1/4 to 1/2 mile flat walking trail north about midway down the access road to Far View House. Parking is available on the side of the road or at the dead end near Far View House.
Mesa Verde - Megalithic House
Date Added: 12th Jul 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Mesa Verde - Megalithic House submitted by jeffrep on 10th Nov 2012. Megalithic House in Mesa Verde.
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Log Text: This site is sbout 100-200 meters north of Far View Reservoir via a flat walking trail. It is a partially restored classic unit pueblo, probably occupied by a small family or clan, and consisting of 8 or 9 rooms plus a well-preserved kiva cut into bedrock.
The site is sheltered under a metal roof and includes interpretation.
Mesa Verde - Far View Tower
Date Added: 13th Jul 2025
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mesa Verde - Far View Tower submitted by jeffrep on 10th Nov 2012. Tower and two kivas at Far View Tower in Mesa Verde.
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Log Text: This is likely another small Ancestral Pueblo village site in the Far View Community consisting of multiple room blocks and kivas. After the initial construction and occupation, a tower was later built over one of the original kivas.
Access is via a 100-200 yd flat foot path that heads north from the loop road near Far View House. On-street parking is available on the Far View loop road.
Mesa Verde - Far View House
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Mesa Verde - Far View House submitted by Creative Commons on 6th Jan 2019. Far View House Far View was one of the most densely populated parts of the mesa from A.D. 900 to about A.D. 1300. Nearly 50 villages have been identified within a half square mile area, and were home to hundreds of people. Today, several excavated and stabilized sites are linked by a trail system within a short walking distance. These surface sites include Far View House, Pipe Shrine House, Coyote Village, Far View Reservoir, Megalithic House, and Far View Tower. Image copyright: Anomieus (Rhia...
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Log Text: This is a Chacoan style great house from the Pueblo 2 period (950 -1150 CE). Like most great houses, it served as a community center for ritual and social activities. It also possibly was used as a central storage point for harvested produce.
The people lived in room blocks in small villages dispersed around the great house. There were at least 50 villages in Far View, of which a handful have been excavated and restored and can be visited today.
To visit the Far View great house and village structures, drive approximately 2 miles south of Far View Terrace Cafe on the main park road and turn left onto a side road. Oddly for such a major site it is not well marked. The side road ends in a loop. Parking is limited to wherever you can pull off the road in various pullouts. There's no real parking lot !
The great house is steps away from the dead end loop.
Unfortunately, when I was there, the great house had a number of tarps strewn over parts of it and it looked like they were doing some restoration or maintenance. Most of the inside was roped off and closed to visitation. I don't know if this is always the case. But it was difficult to take any photos other than of the outside walls. A raised observation platform would have been helpful.
Mesa Verde - Coyote Village
Date Added: 24th Jun 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Mesa Verde - Coyote Village submitted by Flickr on 6th Jan 2019. Kiva, Coyote Village, Mesa Verde Image copyright: Suffolk Booklover, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: My favorite of the Far View community sites, as public access is allowed in the interior of the village site, so the kivas and room blocks can be examined at very close range (in contrast to Far View House, at least in May 2025). It's in good to excellent condition and was excavated in the late 1960's - much more recently than many of the structures in Far View.
Access is via an easy 800-1000 ft trail that departs SW from the parking loop rd near Far View House.
Mesa Verde - Cedar Tree Tower
Date Added: 14th Jul 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mesa Verde - Cedar Tree Tower submitted by stonetracker on 14th Jul 2025. Classic Mesa Verdean kiva. There is a small opening in the back wall that leads underground to the tower.
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Log Text: This site is at the end of a paved side road heading east from the main park road. The side road is approximately 5 miles south of the Far View Community site and a 1/2 mile north of the Spruce Tree House overlook and Chapin Mesa Museum.
The side road leads in about 1/2 mile to a dead end loop with on-street parking. The tower and kiva are located right next to the parking loop.
Menhirs le Vieux-Moulin (N)
Date Added: 30th Sep 2024
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Menhirs le Vieux-Moulin (N) submitted by Ogham on 8th Jul 2012. The site is marked as menhirs but they are part of the alignment.
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Log Text: There is a signpost "Vieux Moulin" off the D781 that is easy to miss. A dirt road leads a couple hundred meters past a house to a small hill. Park here. The menhirs are a very short easy walk east or south from there.
Menhirs de Mané er Hroëck
Date Added: 22nd Nov 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhirs de Mané er Hroëck submitted by regina on 17th Nov 2014. Standing menhir
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Log Text: I looked for the two menhirs described in the text and at the location given. Didn't definitively find either of them. However I did find a standing (actually leaning) menhir about 60 mtrs south of the location that didn't really look the same as the original photo (see my photo). The whole site looks quite different now with extensive lawn mowing and clearing of the grounds, so it's still possible that it's the original standing menhir with a lot of the overgrowth removed.
Menhirs de Keriaval
Date Added: 5th Oct 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Menhirs de Keriaval submitted by aolson on 25th Jul 2020. Three of the eight menhirs that are listed for this site, although some of the others may have disappeared.
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Log Text: Located 3 or 4 menhirs of the original 8 in a field about 50 m south of the passage grave along the trail. The area is fenced off and discourages further exploration.
Menhir La Motte de Beurre
Date Added: 19th Nov 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Menhir La Motte de Beurre submitted by regina on 12th Nov 2014. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
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Log Text: Parking is problematic as the menhir is located in a small park squeezed in between two houses in a densely packed residential alley. My solution was to park farther south where the alley widens to a real street near the Chapelle St Michel with on-street spaces. It is not a long walk from there to either Mane Rethuel Dolmen or the menhir.
The menhir is broken with the base still in the ground and the other half recumbent. It was originally 7.4 m in length, including the part below ground level. One face of the base has engravings but they are darkened with age and hard to see.
Menhir du tumulus du Moustoir
Date Added: 13th Dec 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Menhir du tumulus du Moustoir submitted by DrewParsons on 7th Nov 2009. The menhir on the top of the tumulus
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Log Text: There are three menhirs near the Moustoir Tumulus. This one is on top of the tumulus at its eastern end. It requires a very short but steep climb up the tumulus slope to access the top. Parking is the same as for the Moustoir Tumulus; see the visitor's log for that entry.
Note: This was the end of my Sept 2024 tour in the Carnac area. Hope to return to France in fall 2025, to visit sites in Finistere.
Menhir du Moustoir
Date Added: 13th Dec 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhir du Moustoir submitted by thecaptain on 10th Jun 2006. The Moustoir tumulus has a small menhir on the top at the eastern end, and a larger one at the bottom of the western end.
The menhir at the western end is 3.3 metres high, quite thin and a nice pointed triangular shape.
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Log Text: There are three menhirs near the Moustoir Tumulus. This is the western menhir in a small field across the dirt road which separates it from the western edge of the tumulus. See Moustoir Tumulus visitor's log for parking; it's the same for the menhir.
Ménec cromlech
Date Added: 5th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ménec cromlech submitted by AlexHunger on 20th Dec 2004. The Cromlec de Menec marks the westernmost extent of the Carnac Allignments. It basically starts on the road that separates it from the allignments, goes through a private garden, through the end of the village and ends in a creperie.
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Log Text: I parked in the main lot for the Maison Des Megalithes and walked west, taking a right at the roundabout onto a paved lane that leads north to a small village and the creperie. Within 100 m you will see the unmistakeable menhirs of the cromlech on both sides of the lane.
You can get nice glimpses of the cromlech running through private gardens by simply walking down the little village byways to the west. I did not walk on creperie property but spotted a pretty intact section in there from a distance.
Ménec alignements
Date Added: 5th Oct 2024
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ménec alignements submitted by thecaptain on 18th Oct 2004. Ménec alignements, north of Carnac, Brittany, France.
View of the Ménec alignements as they were in summer 1987, when you could walk amongst them before they were fenced off, and with an awful lot of erosion going on around them.
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Log Text: Access to this most famous of the Carnac alignments is so well documented that I won't rehash it here. I found that parking at the Maison des Megalithes lot and walking the fence line from the Menec Cromlech east and then looping back west was the best and easiest way to see it for those who can walk a fair distance. There are many other ways to do it, including organized tours and mini-trains.
Mendota Mental Health Institute Effigy Mounds
Date Added: 27th Aug 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Mendota Mental Health Institute Effigy Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 22nd Aug 2024. At the far western edge of the Central Mound group is an unusual panther effigy on a rise of land with a curved, upturned tail.
Difficult to photograph, but the forelegs and hindlegs are on the left and right respectively. Head and tail out of view.
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Log Text: As far as I know, public access to the Mendota Mental Health Institute grounds is allowed without permission, although it is recommended that one stop by the Administration Bldg to check in.
To access the Central Group of mounds, park in the large lot northeast of the intersection of Main Drive & Cinder Drive. It is 200 yd walk from there to the bird effigy mounds (see map) via a paved walkway. The upper panther mound is set apart from the others on Cinder Drive. However, there is no parking at that site and the Cinder Drive lot was under construction as of 2024. But it is a relatively easy walk to the upper panther mound from Main Drive or from the other effigies in this group.
To access the Western Group, continue on Main Drive heading west and take a left onto Memorial Drive. The large conical mounds are about 1000 ft further next to the road on the left at Farwell's Pt. I could only find on-street parking, but there was little or no traffic in that area.
McLaughlin Mound
Date Added: 21st Feb 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Would like to visit
McLaughlin Mound submitted by stonetracker on 21st Feb 2023. Postcard of the mound, date uncertain. Shows the height of the mound above the facade of the crypt before it was drastically lowered.
Source: 1915 Ohio Archaeological Atlas.
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Mayersville Mounds
Date Added: 4th Mar 2025
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Feb 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2
Mayersville Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 4th Mar 2025. Topo of the mound site. The five remaining mounds are all within the blue rectangle. The highest I believe is Mound A, although I have yet to see a map with mound IDs labeled.
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Log Text: This site, a major Mississippian mound complex, was a disappointment due to access problems. It's all private roads to my knowledge, set well back from the main highway, and a number of the mounds are tree covered and obscured from a distance. The upshot is I didn't have time to knock on doors and get permission so maybe next time?
I did get a poor photo of what I think is the largest Mound A from the cemetery of a nearby church on State Route 1, which I'll post for what it's worth. The location coordinates given in the general description are for the same mound.
Mathew Mound
Date Added: 31st Oct 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Mathew Mound submitted by stonetracker on 23rd Oct 2023. Reasonably (although not 100 %) sure this is the mound, as it conforms to the description and there is no other obvious candidate in the vicinity.
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Log Text: Visited in late Oct 2023. This is very likely the location of the mound, as it matches the description and there are no other obvious candidates in the immediate area.
It is just north of the main administrative building in the Landmark Memorial Gardens, adjacent to a parking lot.
Marsden Mounds
Date Added: 25th Jan 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Marsden Mounds submitted by bat400 on 3rd Sep 2012. Mounds B, C, and D lie along the edge of this wood and the mowed grass plaza. They are quite low (only a few feet high) but still distinct.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2011.
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Log Text: Mounds A-D mostly plowed or eroded down to nothing. I'm told E is still extant in woods but very tough to get to through the overgrowth. I gave up trying :-).
Mane-Rethuel Dolmen
Date Added: 18th Nov 2024
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Mane-Rethuel dolmen submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Sep 2004. Dolmen de Mane-Rithual in central Locmariaquer viewed from North. Entrance is at oposite end.
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Log Text: This site is accessible via a short signposted trail west off of the Ruelle du Bronzo. The bigger challenge is finding a spot to park as the street (more like an alley) is densely residential and narrow with very limited parking. If you proceed farther south on the same road, the street widens with more parking spaces near the Chapelle Saint Michel. I parked here and walked back along the alley to the signposted trail (and later to visit the Motte de Beurre site nearby)
Unfortunately, as others have noted, the passage grave is fenced off for safety reasons and can only be viewed from the outside. It is not clear if or when the interior will be stabilized sufficiently to re-open the site.