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Kerelcun Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.551 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Kerelcun menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Oct 2010. Just off the D.764 road by the hamlet of Kerelcun can be found this nearly 5 metre tall, 3 metre wide menhir, standing in a little green area with a picnic table.
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Log Text: Just off the D.764 road by the hamlet of Kerelcun can be found this nearly 5 metre tall, 3 metre wide menhir, standing in a little green area with a picnic table. It is signposted from the village and easy to find.
Kerampeulven Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.549 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Kerampeulven menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Oct 2010. At some time in the past local quarrymen have engraved little pictures onto it. There is a house and several animals, plus a few other shapes and things. The animals are quite jolly.
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Log Text: Just to the north of the village of Huelgoat, well known for its lake and strange shaped rocks, is this lovely menhir which is signposted from the road to Berrien, and is easy to find. Its about 5 metres tall, and a lovely shape, set in a little grassy area with some nicely shaded picnic tables. At some time in the past local quarrymen have engraved little pictures onto it. There is a house and several animals, plus a few other shapes and things. The animals are quite jolly.
Chapelle de Lannourec stèle
Trip No.203 Entry No.481 Date Added: 26th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Chapelle de Lannourec stèle submitted by theCaptain on 21st Dec 2010. The octagonal shaped Iron Age granite stèle seen here in its setting below the Chapelle de Lannourec.
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Log Text: There is an octagonal shaped Iron Age granite stèle about 2 metres tall which can be found just below the Chapelle de Lannourec, and by the springs. It has a large groove cut down one side.
Just below the Chapelle de Lannourec, are several springs and wells. This is obviously a very old sacred place, with its remaining sprngs, and stèle to be seen, as well as the Chapel.
Couinandré Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.536 Date Added: 29th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Couinandré menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 14th Apr 2011. This is a nicely curved menhir just down a little track and signposted east of Plouescat. Its about 4 metres tall, but in a strange position, not on top of the hill or by the stream.
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Log Text: This is a nicely curved menhir just down a little track and signposted east of Plouescat. Its about 4 metres tall, but in a strange position, not on top of the hill or by the stream. Despite a little area set aside for it to live in, its getting very overgrown.
Menhir d'Irvit
Trip No.203 Entry No.534 Date Added: 29th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir d'Irvit submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Apr 2011. Just below 4 metres tall, this tapered menhir has a sort of hook at the top of it. Perhaps it is intended as a washing line post! It looks to me, by the patterns in the lichen, that it had a sign attached to it for many years.
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Log Text: Just below 4 metres tall, this tapered menhir has a sort of hook at the top of it. Perhaps it is intended as a washing line post! It looks to me, by the patterns in the lichen, that it had a sign attached to it for many years. It can be found down a track into a field just east of the D.330 road south of Poulfoen.
Le Rocher du Diable
Trip No.203 Entry No.543 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Le Rocher du Diable submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Apr 2011. This is a pleasant enough menhir in a field beside the road on the western slopes of the hill upon which the Chapelle St Michel is built. It's approaching three metres in height, nearly as wide at the base, and made of the local quarzite stone, which is pointed at the top.
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Log Text: This is a pleasant enough menhir in a field beside the road on the western slopes of the hill upon which the Chapelle St Michel is built. It's approaching three metres in height, nearly as wide at the base, and made of the local quarzite stone, which is pointed at the top. There is another block of stone beside it which is the top which was broken off after a lightning strike. With a name like this, there should be legends and stories, but I dont know of any.
Bois de la Roche dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.541 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Bois de la Roche dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 19th Apr 2011. I am not quite sure exactly what I found here - the pile of rocks I found looked decidedly natural, yet in a very distinctive pile.
Site in Bretagne: Finistère (29) France
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Log Text: I am not quite sure exactly what I found here - the pile of rocks I found looked decidedly natural, yet in a very distinctive pile with one set on top of three and a large space underneath, and its in exactly the right place compared to the map. I guess its one of those dolmens made using the best locally available materials. In dense woodland, but right at the junction of two country lanes about 3 km north of the village of Commana.
Créac'h Gallic
Trip No.203 Entry No.528 Date Added: 28th May 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Créac'h Gallic submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Apr 2011. Here are the remains of a fairly large megalithic structure, but it looks to be in a bit of a precarious state. Warning signs and a fence warn of climbing on or near to the stones.
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Log Text: Here are the remains of a fairly large dolmen, but it looks to be in a bit of a precarious state. Warning signs and a fence warn of climbing on or near to the stones. The basic chamber is about 4 metres by 2 metres and 2 metres high, with a single capstone resting (just) on three support stones. It looks like a fourth support has recently broken and fallen, and it looks most precarious and that it could fall at any time.
Strangely there are many large slabs around the outside, making a sort of wall, I cannot really make this out at all. Seems it was once a large allée couverte with a peristalith surrounding its mound, some of which still survives. But its a bit difficult to fully make out and understand, and has no doubt been damaged in the past with the construction of the farms and the lanes.
There are many other large stones laying around, I need to try and look this one up. Now I know what it is, it seems obvious what the remains are.
Commana Stèle
Trip No.203 Entry No.540 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Commana Stèle submitted by TheCaptain on 19th Apr 2011. In Commana, on the village green round the back of the church can be found this Iron Age granite stèle.
It is a tapered cylindrical shape just over 2 metres high, and has been christianised by the addition of a cross on the top.
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Log Text: On the village green by the car park round the back of the church can be found this Iron Age granite stèle. It's a tapered cylindrical shape just over 2 metres high. There are no obvious grooves or other shaping to it.
Goarivan Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.523 Date Added: 28th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Goarivan menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Jun 2011. This is a nice 3.6 metre tall menhir in a field just to the north of the hamlet of Goarivan, which can be reached along a farm track round the back of the houses.
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Log Text: This is a nice 4 metre tall menhir in a field just to the north of the hamlet of Goarivan, which can be reached along a farm track round the back of the houses. It's got a very curious thing near the base of its northern side, which looks like a marble in a case. There is a rounded white quartz lump which has been worn away from the grey surrounding granite and smoothed spherical. It looks like it should rattle around in the hole, but unfortunately it doesn't. I have no doubt that there are some stories and legends associated with this, but I do not know of any.
Kerivin Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.538 Date Added: 29th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Kerivin dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Jun 2011. This Tee shaped allee couverte is supposedly a very good example of the type, but in June 2005it had become very overgrown.
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Log Text: Not far off the busy road between Morlaix and Roscoff, this Tee shaped allee couvetre is becoming very overgrown, and its difficult to make anything out at all now. It is also not far from a field corner where people have decided to dumpstuff, so overall its not a winner. I seem to remember this from about 10 years ago as being a good and interesting place to visit.
Mezdoun menhirs
Trip No.203 Entry No.507 Date Added: 27th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
Mezdoun menhirs submitted by theCaptain on 2nd Feb 2012. The eastern of the two looks to have been broken and was possibly once much bigger.
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Log Text: Two menhirs in a field of growing sweetcorn, so getting close enough to get details was not easy. These two menhirs are both between 4 and 5 metres tall, and have been shaped. The further east of the two looks to have been broken and was possibly once much bigger. They are about 60 metres from each other, on an east to west alignment.
Dolmen de Men-Milliget
Trip No.203 Entry No.510 Date Added: 27th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Men-Milliget submitted by theCaptain on 4th Feb 2012. It's chamber is made with a large backstone and two side slabs, with remains of other stones, but it is partially buried in the dunes.
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Log Text: Men Milliget or the St Gonvel dolmen is a pleasant little dolmen living on the landward side of a headland sticking out into the ocean. It's 3 metre by 2 metre chamber is made with a large backstone and two side slabs, with remains of other stones, but it is partially buried in the dunes. The strangely shaped capstone is known as Men Milliget (Roche Maudite, Bad rock).
Grouanec stèle
Trip No.203 Entry No.521 Date Added: 28th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Grouanec stèle submitted by theCaptain on 20th Feb 2012. This is a fantastic iron age stèle by the D.32 roadside just to the east of the village of St Groanec, which has been christainised and turned into a roadside cross.
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Log Text: This is a fantastic iron age stèle by the D.32 roadside just to the east of the village of St Groanec, which has been christainised and turned into a roadside cross. The stèle is about 3.5 metres tall with an extra metre on top for the cross. It is tapered towards the top and carved into an octagonal shape, with each of the faces concave. What a super find.
Saint-Denec Alignement de Menhirs
Trip No.203 Entry No.508 Date Added: 27th May 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Saint-Denec alignement de menhirs submitted by theCaptain on 31st Jan 2012. There is also a rather large menhir like stone laying at the foot of one of the menhirs, and there are other large stones laying in the fields nearby. I wonder if there was once a lot more here in the way of alignements?
On closer inspection of the fallen stone it can be seen that it has carvings on it. Two axes and a couple of the bishops crook shaped symbols (crosses). Not clearly seen in picture.
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Log Text: The two St Dénec menhirs are standing in a field near to the farm of St Dénec. Both are about 3.5 to 4 metres high, but they are not nicely shaped and smoothed like most of the menhirs around here.
There is also a rather large menhir like stone laying at the foot of one of the menhirs, and there are other large stones laying in the fields nearby. I wonder if there was once a lot more here in the way of alignements?
On closer inspection of the fallen stone it can be seen that it has carvings on it. Two axes and a couple of the bishops crook shaped symbols (crosses). I was glad I went back for a second look after missing this first time round.
Chapelle Notre-Dame de Bon Voyage cairns
Trip No.203 Entry No.477 Date Added: 26th May 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Chapelle Notre-Dame de Bon Voyage cairns submitted by theCaptain on 18th Jun 2012. A couple of large cairns can be found, the footpath goes right over the top of one, but nothing else can be seen due to all the gorse and bracken covering everything here.
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Log Text: On the ridge to the southeast of the Chapelle de Notre Dame de Bon Voyage is a large cairn, which I am lead to believe contains remains of a large compartmented burial chamber. A large cairn can be found, a footpath goes right over the top of it, but nothing else can be seen due to all the gorse and bracken covering everything here. It is possible that there are several more cairns to be found around here.
Lescoff Village menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.478 Date Added: 26th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Lescoff Village menhir submitted by theCaptain on 18th Jun 2012. Not far off the main road through the village of Lescoff, just up Impasse du Menhir, can be found this poor menhir which is incorporated into the garden wall of the adjacent house.
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Log Text: Not far off the main road through the village of Lescoff, just up Impasse du Menhir, can be found this poor menhir which is incorporated into the garden wall of the adjacent house. It's nearly 3 metres high and 2 metres wide, but it is seen to be splitting at its base.
Primelin stèle
Trip No.203 Entry No.475 Date Added: 26th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Primelin stèle submitted by theCaptain on 19th Jun 2012. This is a nice 2.5 metre tall granite stèle stood just outside the church at Primelin.
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Log Text: This is a nice 2.5 metre tall granite stèle stood just outside the church at Primélin. It has been broken at some point, and the top has been cemented back on.
Menhir du Guilligui
Trip No.203 Entry No.513 Date Added: 27th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir du Guilligui submitted by theCaptain on 20th Jun 2012. About 60 metres to the east of the Guilliguy headland and dolmen, is a little menhir, about 1.5 metres in height.
The well known burial chamber can be seen on the headland beside the cross.
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Log Text: About 60 metres to the east of the Guilliguy headland and dolmen, is a little menhir, about 1.5 metres in height.
St Grouanec well
Trip No.203 Entry No.522 Date Added: 28th May 2020
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
St Grouanec well submitted by theCaptain on 21st Jun 2012. One of several little well houses at the site of the St Groanec chapel, where there are many wells and springs gushing forth.
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Log Text: At the site of the St Groanec chapel there are many wells and springs gushing forth. The water is just flowing out of the ground here. It is no wonder the ancient chapel was built here.