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Kerlescan cromlech
Trip No.203 Entry No.379 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Kerlescan cromlech submitted by LizH on 31st Oct 2007. The eastern stones of the western Kerlescan cromlech. The stones touch each other and face across (N-S) rather than being aligned E-W as the rows are.
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Kerlescan Alignements
Trip No.203 Entry No.380 Date Added: 11th May 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Kerlescan Alignements submitted by thecaptain on 18th Oct 2004. Kerlescan Alignements, northeast of Carnac, Brittany.
This picture was taken looking west in 1987, when wandering amongst the stones was OK. I think many of them have been fenced off to try and combat erosion these days. I must go back sometime.
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Log Text: I am not going to say much about the major Carnac alignements, except to say that they are all absolutely mind blowing. Even though I saw them all those years ago, the first sight of all those stones lined up is incredible, especially in the strong evening sunshine.
I cannot possibly do justice to these stones with my writing or photographs. I will say that the fences surrounding the stones are not obtrusive, unlike the fences at stonehenge, and with the vegetation returning, they all look FAR, FAR better than they did in 1987 with all the soil erosion around them all. I must come back and do the full tour at some time.
Kerjean Menhirs
Trip No.203 Entry No.404 Date Added: 14th May 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2005
Kerjean menhirs submitted by LizH on 2nd Nov 2007. The site which is called 'Kerjean menhirs' and is marked on the local maps. There is a clearing here with some large stones in.
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Log Text: Travelling along the Chemin des Megalithes, to the west of the Mané Braz dolmens, are to be seen several megaliths within the woods. These are the Kerjean menhirs, but I don’t have enough time to explore every single stone around here. This really is a cracking ride along this path. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Kerjagu Menhirs
Trip No.204 Entry No.41 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Kerjagu menhirs submitted by TheCaptain on 6th May 2011. Just to the north of the allée couverte and almost in the garden of a house are a couple of menhirs, one standing about 3 metres tall, the other broken and fallen beside it.
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Log Text: Just to the north of the allée couverte and almost in the garden of a house are a couple of menhirs, one standing about 3 metres tall, the other broken and fallen beside it. This fallen stone would have probably been taller than the one still standing.
Kerjagu allée couverte
Trip No.204 Entry No.40 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Kerjagu allée couverte submitted by TheCaptain on 6th May 2011. A pleasant little allée couverte which can be found round the back of the farm of the same name. Although the eastern end is very damaged, the passageway can be seen to be about 10 metres long.
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Log Text: A pleasant little allée couverte which cn be found round the back of the farm of the same name. Although the eastern end is very damaged, the passageway can be seen to be about 10 metres long. Many of the sidestones lean on each other, and with the lack of capstones I wonder whether it is of the Arc Boutté type.
At the western end there is a fairly large chamber covered by a single capstone, making it look almost like a dolmen a couloir. Behind the closing stone is a little extra chamber, as is often the case.
Kerivoret Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.503 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
Kerivoret menhir submitted by theCaptain on 20th Jun 2014. About 50 metres away from the Kerivoret dolmen is a nice menhir, which looks to have been shaped with a slanted top. It's about 3.5 metres tall.
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Log Text: About 50 metres away from the Kerivoret dolmen is a nice menhir, which looks to have been shaped with a slanted top. It's about 3.5 metres tall.
Kerivoret Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.504 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 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Kerivoret dolmen submitted by theCaptain on 20th Jun 2014. This is a nice looking dolmen sitting in a pleasant field behind the houses. It is signposted from the road, and has a path to it from behind the houses, where there is room to park.
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Log Text: This is a nice looking dolmen sitting in a pleasant field behind the houses. It is signposted from the roan, and has a path to it from behind the houses, where there is room to park. The chamber is about 3 metres long, less than 2 metres wide, and created with a good back stone and two large side slabs each side. There are other stones at the open end, perhaps an entry corridor or a broken front slab. The capstone is a nice piece of granite, and overhangs the sides considerably in places, being about 4 metres across in each direction.
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.
Kerivin Dolmen
Trip No.187 Entry No.92 Date Added: 29th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 1987. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 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: Cycling camping trip round Brittany day 12. Cycle from Huelgoat, across the Monts Arrée in the pouring rain to St Pol de Leon
Kerivin Dolmen
Trip No.216 Entry No.1 Date Added: 29th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2016. 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 many years ago as being a good and interesting place to visit.
Kerivin Dolmen
Trip No.193 Entry No.32 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 1993
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: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 4. Primel, Barnenez, picnic by Morlaix river. Carantec, St Pol de Leon, Roscoff. Overnight ferry back to Plymouth.
Kerider stèle
Trip No.203 Entry No.537 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
Kerider stèle submitted by theCaptain on 22nd Jun 2012. This octagonal section tapered Iron Age stèle can be found near the hamlet of Kerider, a few kilometres to the east of Plouescat.
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Log Text: This is a nice tapered Iron Age stèle which can be found near the hamlet of Kerider, a few kilometres to the east of Plouescat. It is easy to find, just to the north of the D.10 road to St Pol-de-Léon near to the roundabout. It is about 2 metres tall, and nicely octagonal in section.
Kerhuen Dolmens
Trip No.203 Entry No.440 Date Added: 23rd May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Kerhuen Dolmens submitted by ShamrockStone on 25th Mar 2016. The first dolmen of Kerhuen
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Log Text: This is a nice find, pleasantly situated at the top of the hill on the village green, with a view over the Etel estuary and its oysterbeds. It's a dolmen with entry passageway, with an oval chamber about 4 metres by 3 metres. The capstone sits on several of the eight side slabs, but is no longer high enough to stand up in, having slipped down on one side. The remains of the passageway are only about 3 metres long, with one capstone surviving, but the road has cut through any more there may once have been. It faces about 140°. The weather is definitely clearing now.
Just 40 metres further up the village green to the south from the obvious dolmen, and hidden by a large oak tree, are the remains of another chamber. It was probably very similar to the northern one but now has no capstones at all, and the remains today are just an oval of slabs, with a couple of passage stones. Less than a hundred years ago, there were the remains of two more dolmens here, but which are now completely destroyed, their only remains now being slight depressions within the village green.
Kerherne-Bodunan dolmen
Trip No.204 Entry No.37 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Kerherne-Bodunan dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 4th May 2011. This lovely monument is to be found in some lovely oak woodland high on top of a hill overlooking a stream. It is signposted from nearby, but there is nowhere really to park, and it’s a fair walk along a track and then up a woodland footpath. The monument is a strange one, which uses a natural rock outcrop as its base.
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Log Text: This lovely monument is to be found in some lovely oak woodland high on top of a hill overlooking a stream. It is signposted from nearby, but there is nowhere really to park, and it’s a fair walk along a track and then up a woodland footpath.
The monument is a strange one, which uses a natural rock outcrop as its base. The first thing you reach is a massive chamber, 4 mtres long by 2.5 metres wide covered by a single massive slab. It would seem that the chamber has been made by splitting the rock outcrop and pushing some of it outwards, but leaving the top of the stone in place to act as its cover. The cover slab is 5.5 by 3.5 metres in size. To the north of this main chamber has been made a passage, running off for about 10 metres, and again using many natural rocks. A few cover stones are in place still, but most have fallen. Oddly it runs away from the large main chamber and I doubt the two would have originally connected on the inside. Perhaps its either two seperate chambers, or like the passage and antechamber in many other allée couvertes. Lovely, and well worth a visit.
Kerguntuil Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.557 Date Added: 3rd Jun 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Kerguntuil dolmen submitted by greywether on 26th Jun 2005. There are two sites here: a dolmen and a more interesting allee couverte.
Photo shows dolmen with allee couverte in the background. Taken June 1994.
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Log Text: This is a large single chambered dolmen, easily found and signposted, and kept in a little fenced off area in a field. It has at times in the more recent past as both a stable and a house. The chamber is about 5 metres by 2 metres, and a good 2 metres in height, all covered with a single large capstone. Three large side supports remain, but the others have been broken up and made into large block walls around the chamber.
There is evidence of a fireplace with chimney, an oven, a doorway with hinges and windows, all created with the stones. Quite a desireable residence in its time, no doubt, and a pleasant and interesting place to visit nowadays. It is still partially below ground level, and much of its mound remains behind it, at the west side.
Kerguntuil Dolmen
Trip No.193 Entry No.10 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993
Kerguntuil dolmen submitted by greywether on 26th Jun 2005. There are two sites here: a dolmen and a more interesting allee couverte.
Photo shows dolmen with allee couverte in the background. Taken June 1994.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones.
Kerguntuil allée couverte
Trip No.203 Entry No.558 Date Added: 3rd Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Kerguntuil allée couverte submitted by greywether on 26th Jun 2005. Allee couverte from the NE. The entrance is on the right.
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Log Text: Just about 100 metres upslope from the Kergunteuil dolmen can be found its neighbouring allée couverte, also signposted and kept in a little area. This one again has been incorporated into a field wall at some time in the past, which has no doubt ensured its survival.
It is 8 metres in length, oriented at 070° and has 4 capstones covering the 1.5 metre wide, 1 metre high chamber. The entrance is at the northwest end in the side, but I am not sure if this is the original. Inside the chamber are a few stones with engravings on them, one being particularly spectacular in the middle of the northern side. On it is a row of 6 pairs of outstanding spheres, most of which have a U shape carved beneath them, and which are interpreted as pairs of breasts. There is also another pair higher up. Several "palette" shapes are also carved, and several other symbols. The stone adjacent has a sort of crescent on it. A boat perhaps ? This is an excellent place to visit.
Kerguntuil allée couverte
Trip No.193 Entry No.11 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993
Kerguntuil allée couverte submitted by greywether on 26th Jun 2005. Allee couverte from the NE. The entrance is on the right.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones.
Kerguerhan Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.442 Date Added: 23rd May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Kerguerhan Dolmen submitted by ShamrockStone on 25th Mar 2016. Dolmen de Kergueran - Er Roc'h
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Log Text: This is a pleasant little dolmen sitting in a green area on the outskirts of the village of St Cado near Belz. It has a 3m by 2.5m oval chamber with its capstone still in place, and the first couple of rows of its entrance corridor with a capstone on top of them. Access to it would be possible by car, but my camper van wouldnt fit between the houses and round the corner, so it was a 600 metre walk from the village centre for me.
Kergonfalz Tumulus
Trip No.204 Entry No.35 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Kergonfalz tumulus submitted by stollentroll on 14th Dec 2005. Tumulus Kergonfalz
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Log Text: To the west of Bigan, and signposted from there, can be found this dolmen almost completely still within its large mound, just over the road from the easily found allée couverte. The mound must be about 25 metres in diameter, and up to 5 metres high within woodland. The rectangular chamber is about 3 metres by 2 metres, and covered by a single capstone. The entry passageway to the chamber, although now completely fallen and dug into, comes off the chamber and exits to the outside at the east after turning through almost a right angle, a bit like a small version of the Bono tumulus.