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Le But de Gargantua
Trip No.204 Entry No.255 Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Le But de Gargantua submitted by thecaptain on 25th Nov 2006. The giants goal seen in amongst its friendly horses keeping the pitch trimmed.
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Log Text: In a field to the east of the Dolmens de Chagné can be found the But de Gargantua. This seems to be two menhirs, one a large grey slab about 2.5 metres tall and the other a bit smaller. I wonder if it is the remains of what was once a dolmen. I couldn't get a close look as the stones are in a field of horses, but they are easily visible from the roadside.
Le Berceau
Trip No.204 Entry No.256 Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Le Berceau submitted by thecaptain on 25th Nov 2006. Le Berceau dolmen seen during excavations.
Unfortunately I could not get to see inside the dolmen for its fabulous carvings.
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Log Text: The Dolmens de Chagné were undergoing excavation when I visited, and were fenced off and enclosed, but from what I could see, this includes 3 dolmens and 2 menhirs, which were apparently re-used for burials by the Merovingians from about the year 500BC. The dolmens can be found in a field beside the river Eure to the north of the village of Chagné. Le Berceau dolmen is not the portholed dolmen I thought it may have been, but the reason that I knew of it is for the carvings upon its stones.
This is a large dolmen undergoing excavations, and well worth a look. The chamber is about 5m by 4m, with a single large, but broken capstone. It was difficult to make any details out with it being fenced off.
Dolmen de la Grenouille
Trip No.204 Entry No.259 Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dolmen de la Grenouille submitted by thecaptain on 28th Nov 2006. The remains of the Dolmen de la Grenouille are the most obvious of all the Dolmens de Changé here beside the river Eure to the north of the village of Changé.
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Log Text: The remains of the Dolmen de la Grenouille are the most obvious of all the Dolmens de Chagné here beside the river Eure to the north of the village of Chagné, and stand only a few metres from the village sign.
It is a broken dolmen with two side slabs and a leaning capstone that does indeed look like a frog sticking its head out of water. The chamber is 3 metres in width, but hard to tell how long it would have been, although the capstone is about 6 metres in length. The opening was probably to the southeast, where the capstone sits on the ground.
La Mère aux Cailles
Trip No.204 Entry No.260 Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
La Mère aux Cailles submitted by thecaptain on 10th Feb 2007. La Mère aux Cailles.
Up a trackway called "Sentier des Roches", in a private orchard, is what I assume is a menhir, at least there is a 2.5 metre tall slab of rock standing upright.
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Log Text: Marked on my ign map near to the village of Ymeray is the Dolmen de Chantecoq. I had a good look around, but could find no obvious signs to a dolmen of any kind, but there was a trackway called "Sentier des Roches" which I found near to the railway bridge, so I went for a walk up there. After several hundred metres was a little area being turned into a little public parkland, with picnic tables etc. Here there is a big natural outcropping of rocks, which may have been used for dolmen making. There is lots of it, and it makes very good slabs, and in many ways reminds me of the rock outcrops / quarries at Tinkinswood. A bit further up the track, in a private orchard, is what I assume is a menhir, at least there is a 2.5 metre tall slab of rock standing upright. But without any more information, it was difficult to know exactly what there is here.
Chantecoq dolmen
Trip No.204 Entry No.261 Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Chantecoq dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 10th Feb 2007. Here there is a big natural outcropping of rocks, which may have been used for dolmen making.
There is lots of it, and it makes very good slabs, and in many ways reminds me of the rock outcrops / quarries at Tinkinswood.
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Log Text: Marked on my ign map near to the village of Ymeray is the Dolmen de Chantecoq. I had a good look around, but could find no obvious signs to a dolmen of any kind, but there was a trackway called "Sentier des Roches" which I found near to the railway bridge, so I went for a walk up there. After several hundred metres was a little area being turned into a little public parkland, with picnic tables etc. Here there is a big natural outcropping of rocks, which may have been used for dolmen making. There is lots of it, and it makes very good slabs, and in many ways reminds me of the rock outcrops / quarries at Tinkinswood. It looks like there are soon to be some interpretive signs put here, but without any more information, it was difficult to know exactly what there is here.
Within the soon to be grassy area is a slab of rock, half on the ground, half on another stone, which may be the remains of a dolmen. At the top of this stone are four grooves and a little basin, where it has been used as a polishing stone.
Baignon dolmens (1)
Trip No.204 Entry No.275 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Baignon dolmens (1) submitted by theCaptain on 12th Mar 2012. Baignon 1 is all a bit overgrown, in some wasteland at the corner of the field by a little fishing lake.
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Log Text: To the south of the lovely old walled and moated town of Bonneval, along the D.144 road, can be found the dolmens de Baignon. They are easily found in a field beside the river near to Memillon Chateau. There are remains of five dolmens, and I will number them in the order in which I visited them, which was roughly in an east to west direction.
Baignon 1 is all a bit overgrown, in some wasteland at the corner of the field by a little fishing lake. There is a capstone sitting on top of two side supports, about 2 metres apart, with some other large stones, one of which I assume to be another part of the broken capstone.
This could do with a tidy up, and would then be a nice feature beside the lake.
Baignon dolmens (2)
Trip No.204 Entry No.276 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Baignon dolmens (2) submitted by theCaptain on 13th Mar 2012. Baignon 2 is in the middle of the cropped field, but which had been recently harvested when I visited in 2005. It is seemingly not much more than a large pile of stones in amongst the nettles and brambles.
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Log Text: Baignon 2 is in the middle of the cropped field, but which had been recently harvested when I visited. Again it is seemingly not much more than a large pile of stones in amongst the nettles and brambles. It probably has a rectangular chamber, 4m by 3m, with a single, now broken, capstone.
Baignon dolmens (5)
Trip No.204 Entry No.279 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005. My rating: Access 4
Baignon dolmens (5) submitted by theCaptain on 13th Mar 2012. Baignon 5 is a largely unrecogniseable pile of stones in the field.
These last two dolmens really are in a bad state, and have been ploughed right up to the edges, with the stones just heaped up into as small an area as possible.
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Log Text: Baignon 5 is another completely unrecogniseable pile of stones in the field. Mostly lumps of puddingstone, there is one lump of sarsen like slab. These last two dolmens really are in a bad state, and have been ploughed right up to the edges, with the stones just heaped up into as small an area as possible.
Baignon dolmens (4)
Trip No.204 Entry No.278 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Baignon dolmens (4) submitted by theCaptain on 14th Mar 2012. Baignon 4 really is no more than a small heap of stones in the middle of a field. Actually, there is one stone still standing, but that’s it. Its all a nice puddingstone though, so it does have its good points.
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Log Text: Baignon 4 really is no more than a small heap of stones in the middle of a field. Actually, there is one stone still standing, but that’s it. Its all a nice puddingstone though, so it does have its good points.
Baignon dolmens (3)
Trip No.204 Entry No.277 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Baignon dolmens (3) submitted by theCaptain on 14th Mar 2012. Baignon 3 reveals remains of an Angevin dolmen with a rectangular chamber with its entrance porchway at the southeast.
Many side stones and the broken capstone still remain in place, although the back end has collapsed.
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Log Text: Baignon 3 initially looks again like a heap of rocks in the middle of a field, and this impression is not helped by there probably being loads of field clearance stones dumped around it. Closer inspection reveals remains of an Angevin dolmen with a rectangular 4m by 3.5m chamber with its entrance porchway at the southeast. Many side stones and the broken capstone still remain in place, although the back end has collapsed.
Pierre de Beaumont
Trip No.204 Entry No.270 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Pierre de Beaumont submitted by theCaptain on 15th Mar 2012. At the end of the road southwest from Vieuville at a place named les Maisons, there is a farm track which continues on down to a stream. Here in a field of horses is the Pierre de Beaumont dolmen.
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Log Text: At the end of the road southwest from Vieuville at a place names les Maisons, there is a farm track which continues on down to a stream. Here in a field of horses is the Pierre de Beaumont dolmen. I couldn't actually get to it, but got to within 50 metres.
Its a nice looking thing, with its capstone still in place on top of several support stones, and I would estimate it to be about 4 metres square.
I met a lady here out walking her dog who told me that until recently you could walk right to the dolmen. Now it has been fenced off, and it is a great shame, and shouldn't be allowed.
Menhir de l'Ormorice
Trip No.204 Entry No.273 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de l'Ormorice submitted by theCaptain on 16th Mar 2012. About 800 metres walk from the road, it is easy to see and reach this 3.5 metres tall along a farm track.
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Log Text: Whilst looking for the Bonneval dolmen to the left of the road, I saw this menhir the other side of the field on the right. About 800 metres walk from the road, it is easy to see and reach along a farm track. Its about 3.5 metres tall, and up to 2 metres wide at its base.
Near to the busy TGV express rail line, there's a 10, 12, 20 or 24 coach TGV train whizzing past about one every 2 minutes. This is how railways should be.
Le Palet de Gargantua (Nottonville)
Trip No.204 Entry No.280 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Le Palet de Gargantua (Nottonville) submitted by theCaptain on 22nd Mar 2012. Just to the south of the La Brosse chateau and farm can be found the Palet de Gargantua dolmen, sitting right at the D.357 roadside.
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Log Text: Just to the south of the La Brosse chateau and farm can be found the Palet de Gargantua dolmen, sitting right at the D.357 roadside. It has a lovely capstone sitting at a jaunty angle partly on the ground, and partly on a couple of support stones. It is sort of trapezoidal shaped, about 4m by 4m. I found it difficult to make out any semblance of structure underneath, as most of the support stones have all collapsed.
La Pierre qui Tourne (Morancez)
Trip No.204 Entry No.265 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
La Pierre qui Tourne (Morancez) submitted by theCaptain on 29th Mar 2012. La Pierre qui Tourne, or Morancez dolmen, can be found amongst the houses of Residence du Dolmen, just off the main D.935 road through the village.
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Log Text: Not much more than a pile of stones, La Pierre qui Tourne, or Morancez dolmen can be found amongst the houses of Residence du Dolmen, just off the main D.935 road through the village, a bit to the north of the church. I suspect the locals think of it as a bit of a nuisance, getting in the way of the road and car parking.
It was obviously once very large, the capstone remains here on the ground at 7 metres long by 4 metres wide, with a few other bits of stone standing nearby.
While I was here, there were several young children playing on it, who were very inquisitive as to what I was doing there, and why I couldn't speak properly !
Montemain stone
Trip No.204 Entry No.267 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Montemain stone submitted by theCaptain on 2nd Apr 2012. On the top can be seen two grooves and three large flattish polishing areas, while further down there are another two basin type areas.
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Log Text: Driving through the village of Saumeray, I saw a sign to Polissoir, so stopped for a look. Right in the middle of the village, on a little green square behind the church can be found this combination menhir and polissoir. There is a little board stating that the stone was moved here in 1998 after being found in a "ballastiere" (gravel pit) at nearby Montemain.
It is thought that the stone was once a menhir which had fallen and was used after that as a polishing stone. The stone itself is a big block of yellowish coloured rock mixed with puddingstone, and is about 4 metres long, 1.5 metres wide and high. On the top of it can be seen two grooves and three large flattish polishing areas, while further down there are another two basin type areas. This was a nice find which I was not expecting.
Quincampoix Dolmen
Trip No.204 Entry No.268 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 8th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Quincampoix Dolmen submitted by theCaptain on 3rd Apr 2012. Fenced off in a field to the south of the road can be seen the remains of the Quincampoix dolmen, about 80 metres distance.
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Log Text: To the west of Summeray, a couple of kilometres along the D.28 road you will find Quincampoix farm. Fenced off in a field to the south of the road can be seen the remains of the Quincampoix dolmen, about 80 metres distance. There is no direct access to the stones, and indeed there are notices to keep people out. There are quite a few stones here amongst the horses, of what was obviously quite a substantial dolmen in the past.
Puits de Saint-Martin
Trip No.204 Entry No.266 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Puits de Saint-Martin submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Aug 2013. This is a very nice polissoir stone found in the fields to the south of the village of Corancez, with several polishing stations, and a large bowl in the middle for a good water supply.
At the northwest end there are six grooves and at least a dozen flatter cuvettes.
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Log Text: This is a very nice polissoir stone found in the fields to the south of the village of Corancez, and it is easy to find because it is signposted. It has a footpath to it across the fields, about 100 metres from the road.
It is a large stone, about 5m by 2m laying flat in the field, with at least four polishing stations, and a large bowl in the middle for a good water supply. At the southeast end of the stone there are eight deep grooves and at least six flatter basins. At the northwest end there are six grooves and at least a dozen flatter cuvettes. In the middle of the north side are another nine flattish grooves. There are many more polishing marks evident around the rest of the stone, and this was obviously a major workplace once long ago.
Grosse Pierre d'Ymorville
Trip No.204 Entry No.253 Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 6th Aug 2005
Log Text: This stone is about 500 metres from the road, according to the map, but I could see nothing obvious. There are no features around to help find it, in the middle of this massive industrial farming area. Perhaps it is in a field of maize. Perhaps I saw a large stone in a field of stubble. All very frustrating. Onwards towards Chartres.
Musée des Sciences Naturelles et de Préhistoire
Trip No.204 Entry No.254 Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Couldn't find on 7th Aug 2005
Log Text: The picture I have seen of the Maison de l'Archaeologie has a dolmen in the front yard, so I go for a look. But it's moved ! I found where the museum was, but its now a private residence. I have no way of knowing where to, so this must go down as the first museum I have failed to find ! Wonder what happened to the dolmen in the yard outside the museum when it moved.
Menhir dit la Roche
Trip No.204 Entry No.262 Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Couldn't find on 7th Aug 2005
Menhir dit la Roche à la Pie submitted by peulven on 24th Oct 2024. On top of La Butte St Michel (321 m), NO Merléac and road D53
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Log Text: I had a good look around, but could not find this