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Museo Arqueológico Nacional
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: Spain (Castilla La Mancha y Madrid)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2007
Museo Arqueológico Nacional submitted by thecaptain on 12th May 2007. The entrance to the splendid Spanish National Archaeology Museum, in Madrid.
Taking pictures inside is not encouraged.
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Menhir dit Pierre Bottin
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 2nd May 2007
Menhir dit Pierre Bottin submitted by thecaptain on 2nd May 2007. I could see the stone from the road nearby, and estimate it to be about 2 metres tall. It has a similar sized stone laying flat nearby.
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Beckham Hill
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2007
Beckham Hill submitted by thecaptain on 30th Apr 2007. Baa Baa Baa, Baa Baa Baa Lambs.
Spring lambs on Exmoor, April 29 2007.
Beckham Hill with its stone setting in the right background of this picture.
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Gouville-sur-Mer Menhir
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2007
Gouville-sur-Mer menhir submitted by thecaptain on 28th Apr 2007. The stone is fallen and in a ditch under a little tree, now seemingly in the middle of the swampy fields
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Droits a l'Homme
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 27th Apr 2007
Droits a l'Homme submitted by thecaptain on 27th Apr 2007. This modern granite stone must be almost 8 metres tall, and has a barbed wire collar around it.
My Dad for scale
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L'Oeuf de Gargantua
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 26th Apr 2007
L'Oeuf de Gargantua submitted by thecaptain on 26th Apr 2007. L'Oeuf de Gargantua is a granite stone which looks like a granite egg.
There are many legends and folk tales associated with it.
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Geffosses Ecole-des-Filles
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2007
Geffosses Ecole-des-Filles submitted by thecaptain on 25th Apr 2007. Built into the bottom corner of the old Girls School in the village of Geffosses, just to the south of the churchyard, can be seen this old menhir.
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Faulkland
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 19th Apr 2007
Faulkland submitted by thecaptain on 19th Apr 2007. King Portal in his Megalithic Throne
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Long Holcombe (S)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2007
Long Holcombe (S) submitted by thecaptain on 13th Apr 2007. When I eventually found the stone, which is almost lost among the long grass, it is only about 18 inches high, and it leans to the south, uphill.
I came to the conclusion that this stone is perhaps the last remaining stone of what was originally a stone setting of some kind, and that there was probably further stones in amongst the moor grass at one time.
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La Longue Pierre (St-Pierre-Eglise)
Trip No.207 Entry No.7 Date Added: 25th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2007. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
La Longue Pierre (St-Pierre-Eglise) submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Sep 2007. One of the "Three Princesses", this menhir stands 4.2 metres high, perhaps the largest menhir remaining standing in La Manche today.
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Log Text: I was able to get right to this lovely stone this time, although in a rush as there was nowhere to park and I left the car blocking the little lane. The stone stands about 4 metres tall in a very swampy field, and I got soaking wet feet while walking up to the stone, but at least it washed clean all the mud from La Pierre Plantée. It now has a little information post at the gateway to the field, and is numbered on a marked walk around the village, so I must go and look for more information at St Pierre l'Eglise.
Huish Champflower Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 4th Apr 2007
Huish Champflower Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 4th Apr 2007. This is a large, but well messed about with barrow surrounded by trees and sheep. There was no obvious way into the field, so I did not go in.
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Hoar Moor (E)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 4th Apr 2007
Hoar Moor (E) submitted by thecaptain on 4th Apr 2007. Hoar Moor standing stone, at Porlock Post, Exmoor.
Seen here looking north east
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Naked Boy stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 2007
Naked Boy stone submitted by thecaptain on 3rd Apr 2007. Naked Boy stone, on top of the Brendon Hills in Somerset, seen here looking south.
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Wiveliscombe Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2007
Wiveliscombe Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Apr 2007. Large, well preserved bowl barrow 21m diameter, 2m high, on top of the Brendon Hills in Somerset.
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Grotte du Pape
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Landes (40))
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2007
Grotte du Pape submitted by thecaptain on 1st Apr 2007. The "Dame de Brassempouy".
A female head carved from ivory, found in the Grotte du Pape near to the village of Brassempouy in 1894.
The figure is only 3.6 cm big, and is thought to be the oldest representation of a human face, dating to almost 30,000 years ago.
The figure normally resides in the St Germain-en-Laye prehistory museum, but is seen here in an exhibition of Women in Art throughout history, which I saw at the Bougon Tumuli in 2005.
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Lanacombe 4
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 29th Mar 2007
Lanacombe 4 submitted by thecaptain on 29th Mar 2007. What did I find here ? Absolutely nothing. Not a Sausage. Diddley Squat.
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Clannon Ball
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2007
Clannon Ball submitted by thecaptain on 24th Mar 2007. The two Clannon Ball pillar like stones, seen here looking uphill, ina northish direction.
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Pig Hill (N)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2007
Pig Hill (N) submitted by thecaptain on 20th Mar 2007. The northern stone of Pig Hill (N) stone setting seen here in its position within the Exmoor landscape looking west.
I believe that the two bits of stone this side of the standing stone have been broken from it, while the slab on the far side was once another stone of this stone setting which has been moved and placed there from its original position elsewhere.
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Pig Hill (S)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Mar 2007
Pig Hill (S) submitted by thecaptain on 18th Mar 2007. Some of the stones at the lower, western, end of the oval.
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West Anstey Long Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Mar 2007
West Anstey Long Stone submitted by thecaptain on 16th Mar 2007. West Anstey Long Stone, looking eastwards along the ridge, although the stone is well below the top to the north.
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