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La Maison des Feins
Trip No.203 Entry No.600 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
La Maison des Feins submitted by thecaptain on 15th Apr 2008. La Maison des Feins, Tressé, seen here from the "front" end, as approached through the forest.
So this will be the northern side from the east.
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Log Text: This is a lovely little allée couverte, deep inside a lovely oak forest just to the east of the village of Tressé, and signposted from there. There is a parking area, and a signposted and guided walk footpath from there to find it, along with many other items of interest.
The allée is about 12 metres long, at an orientation of 155°, but it is not much more than a metre wide or high. Truly a house for the fairies. All but the end capstone are still in place, and at the back end there is a nice little additional cell. Within this cell are some exceptional carvings on the southern sidestone, of two pairs of breasts with their collars, on a cartouche giving them a big relief. There are also the remains of two pairs on the chevet stone, but these have been crudely hacked off in the past, leaving just the outlines.
Of course, there are many legends of the fairies who live here in this forest, including the story of a farmer who was given some everlasting bread by the fairies because their cow had become ill, and the farmer had helped them with it. The bread would stay fresh and last forever so long as he never told the story. Of course, one day the farmer did tell the story, and the loaf of bread turned to stone - a stone which can still be seen here today.
Four-És-Feins
Trip No.203 Entry No.599 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Couldn't find on 28th Jun 2005
Four-És-Feins submitted by thecaptain on 20th Jun 2009. I found a place in a woodland to the left of the track, with a mound in it, and what looked to be some lumps sticking up, but it was very overgrown. It has to be here, surely. Closer inspection amongst the ivy and brambles, and there were clearly a few side set slabs sticking up through the ground.
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Log Text: I had a good look around for the remains of this allée couverte, but could find nothing obvious. It's somewhere to the west of the hamlet of Vieux Bourg, beside the north to south expressway.
Outre Tombes
Trip No.209 Entry No.12 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Outre Tombes submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jul 2009. There are several information plaques at the site.
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Log Text: This horseshoe of megalithic stones has alternatively been considered as a megalithic enclosure (cromlech) or perhaps the stones once surrounding a dolmenic burial chamber. Seven stones are shaped in a sort of semi circle, of diameter about 7 metres.
This monument was classified as a historical monument in 1966, but by 1977 had disappeared, being the victim of an expansion of the local quarry at Vaujour. When this was discovered, the police were called in, but it was all thought to be too late. However, in 1989 it was found that most of the stones hadn't simply been destroyed, but had been moved and dumped into a nearby field, although one had gone through the stonecrusher. With the help of a plan and photograph of the site taken in 1962, the local people (with the help of the quarrying company) had the site recreated in 1998, just a few hundred metres from its original position.
There is also a small menhir erected at the site, the origins of which I do not know, but the stone does not look modern. Today, the site sits in a little meadow near to the top of the quarry, and can be found beside the little road which runs along the top of the hills to the northeast of the massive Vaujour quarries. There are several information plaques at the site, telling of its history and with diagrams and pictures.
menhir Garde Guerin
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 25th Oct 2009
menhir Garde Guerin submitted by thecaptain on 25th Oct 2009. Looking inland along the western side of the Pointe de la Garde Guérin, over where the menhir supposedly is.
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dolmen de la Garde Guerin
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 26th Oct 2009
dolmen de la Garde Guerin submitted by thecaptain on 26th Oct 2009. Looking inland along the eastern side of the Pointe de la Garde Guérin.
Th remains of the dolmen are somewhere in here.
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Les Roches-Hues
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 10th Nov 2009
Les Roches-Hues submitted by thecaptain on 10th Nov 2009. When I eventually found my way to this, the top of a large stone could be seen in the distance over some impenetrable overgrowth.
Looking for a way through proved futile.
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Allée Couverte de Roche-Plate
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 29th Nov 2009
allée couverte de Roche-Plate submitted by thecaptain on 29th Nov 2009. Part of the noticeboard at the site.
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Roche-aux-Fées (Essé)
Trip No.204 Entry No.324 Date Added: 16th Sep 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Roche-aux-Fées (Essé) submitted by theCaptain on 10th Jun 2010. Plan of this fantastic monument from the latest tourist leaflet.
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Log Text: Small notes only for this very well known and popular site, which I was originally thinking of saving to be my last megalithic visit of my whole 6 month tour. First thoughts, Aaaaarrrrrgghhhh, it's busy. And you pay to get in. Aaaarrrgghhhhh. Never mind, I have to see it. I decided not to take my book with me and write much, I'll just go and have a look and take some photographs.
OK, it wasn't so bad as I first thought. After I had been here a while, most of the people had gone, and it was in fact free entry, but with a little shop and information shed you have to go through first. In fact, it's not a bad place at all. In actual fact, it's a truly fantastic place. It is really beautiful when not overrun by people.
It is a massive Angevin dolmen, 20 metres long by almost 5 metres wide and 2 metres high. The main chamber is divided into four sections by three internal upright slabs. The entrance porchway is about 3 metres long, and fronted by the most lovely portico, consisting of two uprights and a lintel of carefully worked and positioned stone. It is truly awesome. This is definitely one to visit - but try not to come when everyone else has !
Pierre Blanche (Pocé-les-Bois)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2010
Pierre Blanche (Pocé-les-Bois) submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2010. The Pierre Blanche of Pocé-les-Bois, south of Vitré, is a nice 4 metre tall menhir. It has a nice pointy top, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it has been hit and broken by lightning on occasion.
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Le Cleray
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2010
Le Cleray submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jun 2010. Initially I can’t find it, but I do see several large lumps of stone at the side of the road.
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Bringnerault Alignement
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 17th Jul 2010
Bringnerault alignement submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Jul 2010. Further to the south of stone No.3 is now a pond, on the far side of which is a large stone, 2 metres plus in length.
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Roche Buquet
Date Added: 12th Oct 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2012
Roche Buquet submitted by thereddragon on 9th Oct 2012. Site in Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) France
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Menhir de la Pierre Fichée (La Pinelais)
Date Added: 12th Oct 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Pierre Fichée (La Pinelais) submitted by thereddragon on 9th Oct 2012. Pierre Fichée (La Pinelais)
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Log Text: A bit like busses, this menhir has been ignored by the megalithic portal's stonehunters for many years, and then 2 come along in 2 days!
Alignements du Moulin N
Trip No.203 Entry No.1 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Alignements du Moulin N submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Nov 2005. St Just megalithic wonderworld. The Alignements du Moulin north row, looking east.
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Log Text: There are two long roughly parallel lines running east west with a third less well defined row to the southwest running in a north south direction. The first row reached is the northernmost and consists of at least 14 large white quartz blocks with a few grey stones in it as well with an alignment of 099°. One of the large stones towards the western end has been used at some later stage as a part of a burial chamber with at least two burial cists to be seen adjacent to it.
Just to the south of this row is another row, with an alignment of 111° but this time consisting of taller thinner stones of various types and colours, which get bigger in size towards the middle where the row runs over a cairn and then get smaller again. The stones start off about a metre high but the stones in the middle are up to 5 metres tall. These central stones alternate between white blocks and black blocks of stone with various other colours and shapes being mixed in as well.
I absolutely love this row. It is completely bonkers. So weird. The whole place is odd and not like anything else I have seen. Large white blocks and tall thin black stones. All mixed up and running across this ridge.
The third row I found consists of about 5 white quartz blocks to the west of the ends of the two main rows and running in a north south direction. I am not sure if this is the third row considered to be a part of these same alignments. All three rows appear to converge on a point to the northwest. They have started to clear the gorse away from these stones and I disturbed a large vividly coloured green lizard at one point here.
Pierre Longue de Saint-Jouan
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 17th Oct 2010
Pierre Longue de Saint-Jouan submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Oct 2010. Despite the menhir being so big, it still manages to play a game of hide and seek before finding it along chestnut lined trackways through fields of maize!
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Pierre Longue (Noyal-sous-Bazouges)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 18th Oct 2010
Pierre Longue (Noyal-sous-Bazouges) submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Oct 2010. This is a more than 5 metre tall menhir, which leans slightly towards the south, which stands beside the D796 roadside a kilometre or so to the west of Bazouges-la-Pérouse.
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Mont-Dol
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2010
Mont-Dol submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Oct 2010. Mont Dol is a large granite rock outcrop, dramatically jutting up through the flat coastal marshlands of the Baie de Mont St-Michel to the north of the ancient city of Dol-de-Bretagne, and in some ways is rather like Mont St-Michel itself, although nowadays completely enclosed within farmed lands.
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Alignements du Moulin W
Trip No.203 Entry No.3 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Alignements du Moulin W submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Apr 2011. The third row I found consists of about 5 white quartz blocks to the west of the ends of the two main rows and running in a north south direction.
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Log Text: There are two long roughly parallel lines running east west with a third less well defined row to the southwest running in a north south direction. The first row reached is the northernmost and consists of at least 14 large white quartz blocks with a few grey stones in it as well with an alignment of 099°. One of the large stones towards the western end has been used at some later stage as a part of a burial chamber with at least two burial cists to be seen adjacent to it.
Just to the south of this row is another row, with an alignment of 111° but this time consisting of taller thinner stones of various types and colours, which get bigger in size towards the middle where the row runs over a cairn and then get smaller again. The stones start off about a metre high but the stones in the middle are up to 5 metres tall. These central stones alternate between white blocks and black blocks of stone with various other colours and shapes being mixed in as well. I absolutely love this row. It is completely bonkers. So weird. The whole place is odd and not like anything else I have seen. Large white blocks and tall thin black stones. All mixed up and running across this ridge.
The third row I found consists of about 5 white quartz blocks to the west of the ends of the two main rows and running in a north south direction. I am not sure if this is the third row considered to be a part of these same alignments. All three rows appear to converge on a point to the northwest. They have started to clear the gorse away from these stones and I disturbed a large vividly coloured green lizard at one point here.
Pierre de Richebourg
Trip No.204 Entry No.323 Date Added: 16th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Pierre de Richebourg submitted by TheCaptain on 14th Aug 2013. This menhir is fenced off in the grounds of a big house, beside a pond. It is about 3 metres tall, and looks fairly much just like a big lump of rock.
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Log Text: I could initially find no evidence of this stone, looking for it from the east, and thought that it is probably somewhere in the fenced off woodland grounds of the big house on the top of the hill. Further investigation from the north, the D.41 road to Retiers, and I found a trackway which takes you to right besides it, and it is signposted.
The menhir is behind the fence, beside a pond. The stone is about 3 metres tall by 3 metres wide, and looks fairly much just like a big lump of rock. Very difficult to photograph, with not only the fence in the way, but also the dark from being within the woodland.
Demoiselles Piquées
Trip No.203 Entry No.4 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Demoiselles Piquées submitted by greywether on 27th Jun 2005. Showing all three stones.
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Log Text: Three large white quartz menhirs one now fallen. The stone of the westernmost menhir is a really lovely thing with all sorts of coloured patterns and swirls within it.