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Woodbarrow Stone Setting
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 21st Apr 2008
Woodbarrow Stone Setting submitted by thecaptain on 21st Apr 2008. It is possible that what I found is the remains of two rows, or perhaps even the remains of an Exmoor six-pack, the two rows being about 7 metres apart.
One fallen stone in the foreground, another leaning stone is in the clump of long growth mid picture.
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Los Millares
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Spain (Andalucía)
Visited: Yes on 10th Apr 2008
Los Millares submitted by thecaptain on 10th Apr 2008. Los Millares site is large, spectacular and very well maintained with some reconstructions for instructive purposes
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La Ganterie
Trip No.208 Entry No.4 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
La Ganterie submitted by thecaptain on 9th Apr 2008. Revisiting this in March 2008, it was not so overgrown as it had been in June 2005, but it was still impossible to tell how long the allée couverte was, with the eastern end (right) all covered in very thick brambles and other bushes.
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Log Text: Revisiting this in March 2008, and it was not so overgrown as it had been in June 2005, but it was still impossible to tell how long the allée couverte was, with the eastern end all covered in very thick brambles and other bushes. The more open western end has one or two capstones still sitting on top of their supports, with the two side walls of the allée being about 1.5 metres apart.
La Maison des Feins
Trip No.208 Entry No.5 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
La Maison des Feins submitted by thecaptain on 16th Apr 2008. La Maison des Feins is about 12 metres long, but it is not much more than a metre wide or high. Truly a house for the fairies.
My Dad adds scale to the fairies house, viewed here from the southeastern end.
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Champ Dolent Menhir
Trip No.208 Entry No.6 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Champ Dolent menhir submitted by rw1 on 2nd Mar 2008. 09/2007
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Dent de Gargantua
Trip No.208 Entry No.1 Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dent de Gargantua submitted by thecaptain on 6th Apr 2008. Le Dent de Gargantua. The view from the roadside. It's in there, honestly !
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Log Text: This 4 or 5 metre tall white quartz menhir is contained within a private orchard near to Chablé in the community of St Suliac, near the Rance estuary south of St Malo. Although it is very close to the road, getting to see it through the hedges which surround it is not easy. Not too long ago, there was an allée couverte nearby which has now been destroyed by the farmer, and also another menhir, Le Gravier de Gargantua.
Thiemblais menhir
Trip No.208 Entry No.3 Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Thiemblais menhir submitted by neolithique02 on 21st Feb 2014. Le menhir de Saint-Samson sur Rance (Côtes d'Armor) Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D''Armor (22) France
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Log Text: My second visit to this most wonderful menhir, about 1:30pm, late March 2008, in a hazy sun, and some of the carvings on the front face can be seen. An hour or two earlier would have been better, as would a stronger sun. After a while, you "get your eye in" and more and more wonderful carvings come into view. I can see on here (with the eye of the knowing, and the full def picture) the animal (mid left, just above the quartz vein) and a couple of crosses and other bits and pieces.
Having got hold of a new book about the megalithes around Dinan, I can report that a revised picture of the carvings has been published in the last year or so, after various techniques have been used to make the carvings more prominent. These seem to agree more with what I saw several years ago and have been recorded in my photographs. Mind you, it seems that the "animal" on the mid left of the stone may have turned around, and its legs almost doubled in length !!! Now it is perhaps running to the right, rather than grazing to the left....
But to be serious for a while, this really is one of the most magnificent megalithic sites I have visited, and it has the capability of bringing emotions to the surface. Here is plain evidence of the cross symbol being used at important places 2500 years or more BC. And the importance of the animals....
And the shaping of the stone - look how flat the main face is, and how straight the upright edges are, even after about 5000 years of erosion. And this surely couldn't have been a one off ? Surely many more of these wonderful menhirs would have been carved and patterned ? Damn all those girls and floozies who have climbed and slid down the stone in their birth knickers in the hope of getting wed. The front face is almost polished smooth, with the carvings almost rubbed smooth.
Champ des Roches
Trip No.208 Entry No.2 Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Champ des Roches submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Jul 2005. About 70 big white quartz stones arranged in 5 lines, perhaps 6, which are not quite parallel as they converge towards the east.
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Woodbarrow (Exmoor)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2008
Woodbarrow (Exmoor) submitted by thecaptain on 19th Mar 2008. This is another large round barrow high up on Exmoor which is still in a good condition, although a very well used trackway runs past it just to its eastern side.
As usual it has been dug into from the top, there is a very marsh and boggy remains of a ditch running around the outside.
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Woodbarrow Hangings
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2008
Woodbarrow Hangings submitted by thecaptain on 19th Mar 2008. Somewhere here is a stone setting, which is a rarity that merits a mention on the little local maps which are attached to several of the gates around here.
I had a very good look around but could find nothing at all. Either it is all well hidden under the long reed grass which is growing all around here, or perhaps has all been broken and destroyed like many other Exmoor stone settings.
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Chapman Barrows
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2008
Chapman Barrows submitted by thecaptain on 19th Mar 2008. There are about half a dozen large round barrows in an east to west line running up the western slope and over the top of Chapman Down.
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Longstone Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Mar 2008
Longstone Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 18th Mar 2008. This large round barrow is still in a very fine condition, with the ditch around it almost like a moat and full of water on a damp March day.
Viewed here from the southeast.
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Chapman Down Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Mar 2008
Chapman Down Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 18th Mar 2008. This large round barrow on the southeastern slopes of Chapman Down has a large slice cut through to the middle, rather than the usual hole in the top.
View here to the southeast, with the steep valley down towards Challacombe seen, where the Longstone stands at the top of. It can be seen on a better res version of the picture, about 2/3 from the left below the skyline.
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Longstone Barrow Row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Mar 2008
Longstone Barrow Row submitted by thecaptain on 18th Mar 2008. There should be three stones in a row here.
I spent much time searching around amongst the tall wet grasses and heather, but I couldn’t find a single stone.
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Longstone (Challacombe)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 17th Mar 2008
Longstone (Challacombe) submitted by thecaptain on 17th Mar 2008. The view from the top of Longstone Barrow, showing the situation of the Longstone, which can be seen as a small dark mark just below the skyline about two thirds to the right of the picture, easy to find (as in reality) by following the path from the barrow.
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Chapman Barrows Quincunx
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Mar 2008
Chapman Barrows Quincunx submitted by thecaptain on 16th Mar 2008. Looking up the slope from the bottom stone.
The broken central stone is in a depression beside the marsh grass below my bag - which marks the position of the upper stone.
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Drizzlecombe Cist 6
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Feb 2008
Drizzlecombe Cist 6 submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Feb 2008. Drizzlecombe Cist 6 looking southwest, with the upper end of row1 at the upper left of the picture.
There is a capstone 1.8 m by 1.2 m sitting on top of a broken box, which is now three side set slabs, probably two side slabs and a single end stone.
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Drizzlecombe menhir 3
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 15th Feb 2008
Drizzlecombe menhir 3 submitted by thecaptain on 15th Feb 2008. The northwestern flat face of Drizzlecombe menhir 3.
Several of the stones of row 1 can be seen in the background.
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Drizzlecombe menhir 1
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2008
Drizzlecombe menhir 1 submitted by thecaptain on 1st Feb 2008. Drizzlecombe menhir 1 viewed from the southwest, with the row running away to the left.
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Drizzlecombe cist 21
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jan 2008
Drizzlecombe cist 21 submitted by thecaptain on 20th Jan 2008. Drizzlecombe cist 21 is a splendid box cist, found further up the Drizzlecombe valley from the main sites, on the eastern side of the stream.
The remains of the tin workings in this picture should give some clues for finding it.
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