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Gaudinais megalithes
Trip No.203 Entry No.15 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Gaudinais megalithes submitted by thecaptain on 18th Nov 2005. Gaudinais megalithes, near to the village of Langon.
Remains of a rectangular tumulus, with embanked stones set around the outside, which reminded me of a small version of King Arthurs Hall.
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Log Text: A signpost to Vestiges Megalithiques de La Gaudinais points down a gravel track to this from the main street on the west side of the village of Langon so I just had to go and have a look. I have no idea what I found or even whether it is the proper megalithic remains but I had a good look around.
What I found was a sort of embanked rectangle of stones in woodland a bit like a small version of King Arthur’s Hall on Bodmin Moor. The dimensions of this rectangle are about 16 metres by 6 metres with the long axis on an alignment of 090°. I later found that this is the remains of a rectangular tumulus, with stones set around the outside, similar to that at Les Demoiselles. There are also the remains of two further tumulus mounds here, but in muxch less well preserved condition.
Gâts-Fleuris Dolmen
Trip No.204 Entry No.295 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41))
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Gâts-Fleuris dolmen submitted by theCaptain on 8th Mar 2012. Apparently, in the 1920s, not only were the dolmens quite complete, but also still largely covered by their tumulus.
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Log Text: Just to the side of Rue des Dolmens, to the north of the village of Huisseau-en-Beauce, can be found the remains of this dolmen or dolmens. Unfortunately it really is no more than a pile of stones at the roadside these days, although with the knowledge of what was once there, it is possible to make out the remains of two capstones still partly resting on their supports.
Apparently, in the 1920s, not only were the dolmens quite complete, but also still largely covered by their tumulus. All of the stones are of a flinty gravelly puddingstone, some of which is crumbling.
Gatcombe Lodge
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2009
Gatcombe Lodge submitted by thecaptain on 24th Mar 2009. Having read several tales of people being stopped and questioned by rapidly arriving police here, I didn’t spend long, and just took a photo from the entry to the estate.
It looks to be the regular shapeless lumpy bumpy mess covered in trees.
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Garn Turne
Date Added: 3rd Nov 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Couldn't find on 5th Oct 2015
Garn Turne submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Garn Turn Burial Chamber SM979272.
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Log Text: Despite there being a few places to park nearby, I could find no way into the relevant field to have a look at this interesting sounding site, which is not clearly marked on the maps.
Garn Fawr (Brecon)
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 20th Aug 2019
Garn Fawr (Brecon) submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Aug 2019. View south with the Pontsticill Reservoirs in the distance
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Log Text: Marked as Cairn and "Pile of Stones" on the various OS maps, this is a stone cairn on a rock outcrop, part of a low craggy outcrop at the southern end of the flat plateau of Gwaun Cerrig Llwydion. The cairn is 3m in diameter and 0.75m high. The area of the rock outcrop is called Garn Fawr but this appears to be a large marker cairn rather than a burial monument.
Garivals Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.141 Date Added: 10th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 24th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Garivals dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 7th Nov 2005. Garivals dolmen, near the village of Assier in Lot is much unloved.
It has not only had a wall built through it, but also a trackway which cuts through, along where this photo is taken from.
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Log Text: To the west of the village of Assier, about 1.5 kilometres along the D.92 road, there is a trackway leaving at an angle to the north, nearby what seems to be a road repair depot. A few hundred metres along this trackway can be found the Dolmen de Garivals, much unloved, fenced in and with a wall built through it. The chamber is about 3 m by 1.5 m, and a single capstone now covers only half of it. Much of its mound remains, and there is a strange sort of triangle stone on top.
Garennes-sur-Eure Menhir
Trip No.202 Entry No.87 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Eure (27))
Visited: Couldn't find on 3rd May 2005
Log Text: Despite a good look around I could find nothing. I drove around many roads looking all over the place but it was a nasty busy road alongside the river at going home time which didn’t help.
Gardoms Edge Stone
Date Added: 30th Aug 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Gardoms Edge Stone submitted by royston7 on 27th Nov 2012. Gardoms edge monolith taken from the east showing the ( not quite ) flat north face. See notes in contribution.
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Garde Epée Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.240 Date Added: 22nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 4th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Garde Epée dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Jul 2007. This is a big dolmen, the chamber of which is about 4 metres in length by 3 metres wide and 2 metres high.
It has a single large backstone, with two side stones on the south side.
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Log Text: This is a big dolmen, the chamber of which is about 4 metres in length by 3 metres wide and 2 metres high. It has a single large backstone, with two side stones on the south side, only one on the north (the other is missing) and one at the eastern end. The capstone is two pieces, the larger western stone having several delightful holes in it and a warning sign saying not to climb onto it or stand underneath, as the stone is cracked and ready to break.
This dolmen is also suffering from graffitti and rubbish, but otherwise well looked after in a little clearing amongst the vines with its own sign. It can be found just to the south of the D.157 road, a couple of kilometres west of Jarnac.
Ganborough
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jan 2007
Ganborough submitted by thecaptain on 4th Jan 2007. This was obviously once a large and substantial longbarrow sited on a hilltop ridge. But these days it is very easily missed as you drive past on the busy A424 which cuts through its southeastern end.
Viewed here looking north.
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Gallardet Dolmen
Trip No.205 Entry No.145 Date Added: 11th Nov 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Gallardet Dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 11th Mar 2009. The wonderful Gallardet dolmen sits on this uncultivated piece of land, seen here in its ridgetop position amongst the vines.
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Log Text: This really was a bugger to find, but when you find it, you wonder why.
Initially I went to where it is marked on the map, there's a big farm there called Ferme-le-dolmen, but no obvious sign to it. Reading my book says that go to the town centre and follow signs from there. I eventually found the town centre but missed any signs, so I had a second go. The roads are tiny, and no way the camper van will get through there, and probably not a car either. Perhaps its a park and walk job, but I could find nowhere to park. Oh well, maybe tomorrow, time is getting on and I don't know where to camp for the night.
The next day, on my third attempt to find it, it took me half an hour to park in the village, then over an hour to find the dolmen, having asked several people. The trick is not to miss the right turn on the road out of the village, and keep going almost to the end of the ridge, above the farm.
The dolmen has been much restored, but it is well worth the effort to get here. It is completely within its mound, and the access corridor, which is 5 metres long and between 1 and 1.5 metres wide, leads to an outside chamber 2.5 metres long and 2.5 metres wide. This leads on to a wonderful oven door stone, which has been put back together from three pieces. The stone is 2 metres high, and has a door 1 metre wide and 1.2 metres in height cut into it.
Beyond this is the main chamber, 6 metres long and up to 4 metres wide, and easily high enough to stand up in. It is constructed with a sort of barrel vaulting, and then capped with large slabs, three of which are in place (of a probable four). There is a lovely shaped backstone. Unfortunately the chamber fills with rainwater and mud. All of the three parts of the passage are dry stone walled, there are no upright slabs except to divide the sections. The entrance passageway opens towards the west, at 232°, with a slight uphill slope.
This is a really lovely dolmen, but thats the entire morning gone. There are gorgeous views northwards over the Hérault valley.
Galitorte Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.167 Date Added: 16th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 26th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Galitorte dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 26th Nov 2005. Perhaps importantly, the chamber opening frames perfectly a significant hill on the horizon.
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Log Text: This one is a nice find in the evening sun towards the end of a long and mostly fruitless day, and is signposted from several places around.
The dolmen stands proud on the eastern end of a long oval mound, its chamber made with two enormous side slabs each 4 metres long by 2 metres high. The capstone sits nicely on top, but is not as long as the chamber below, which faces east with a bearing of 102°. Perhaps more importantly than the bearing is that the opening frames perfectly a significant hill on the horizon.
After taking the picture from within the chamber, I nearly knocked myself out by quickly standing up inside. I can report that the capstone gives a nice ringing clang when hit in this manner, and I had to sit down to recover for several minutes afterwards, before I could walk back to the van !
Galerie des Forges
Trip No.201 Entry No.9 Date Added: 25th Mar 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Couldn't find on 22nd Nov 2004
Log Text: The remains of a third Allée Couverte said to be found to the northeast of Rocheville, in the Bois de la Tombette, at the foot of a hill northeast of a track called La Chasse-aux-Forges, but which are difficult to find.
Well, with my luck at finding these Normandie megaliths, and with a full day planned for hunting down other sites, I drove past the suggested area in the vain hope of seeing a signpost or similar (some chance!) but in the absence of which I spent no more time looking. The Allée Couverte is reported to be 16 metres in length, with an east west aspect, width and height 1 metre, closed at the east, open to the west.
Gaer (Trellech)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 16th Nov 2006
Gaer (Trellech) submitted by thecaptain on 16th Nov 2006. Depending on the scale of map you are using, this hilltop earthworks a mile or so to the south of the ancient village of Trellech is variously described as fort or settlement.
Some of the earthworks can clearly be seen in the low November afternoon sunlight of this picture from the south.
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Gabaudet Dolmen 2
Trip No.203 Entry No.135 Date Added: 10th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Couldn't find on 24th May 2005
Gabaudet dolmen 2 submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Nov 2006. GABAUDET 2 DOLMEN
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Log Text: In the forest 200 metres from the first dolmen can be found the second. A chamber 3 metres in length and 1.5 metres wide is covered by a large slab, now broken into three pieces.
Gabaudet Dolmen 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.134 Date Added: 10th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Couldn't find on 24th May 2005
Gabaudet dolmen 1 submitted by ocdolmen on 26th Nov 2006. GABAUDET 1 DOLMEN
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Log Text: There are supposedly a couple of lovely dolmens here in the woods. I had a good walk and look around, but could find nothing. I really needed to get the 1:25000 map this morning. They should be found about 600 metres to the east of the hamlet, in the forest to the south of the road. For the first dolmen, a 4 metre by 3 metre capstone sits on top of a 3.5 by 2 m chamber, with some remains of a vestibule.
Furzehill Common stone row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 19th May 2010
Furzehill Common stone row submitted by TheCaptain on 19th May 2010. Here I found four little stumps of stone in a row, in a boggy hollow on top of the ridge. They are spaced 2.5, 5, 2.5 metres apart, suggesting a missing stone in between those I could find.
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Furzehill Common Standing Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Sep 2009
Furzehill Common Standing Stone submitted by thecaptain on 14th Sep 2009. The recently broken Furzehill Common standing stone, viewed here looking southwest over the common.
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Furzehill Common cairn
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2010
Furzehill Common cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 16th May 2010. The cairn is in a patch of shortly trimmed grass, and hence easily found. There is a 5 metre diameter raised ring, with a hollow in the centre, which is filled with some large stones, which may or may not be an original feature.
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Furzehill Common Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2010
Furzehill Common Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 14th May 2010. On the western slopes of Furzehill Common, having crossed from Warcombe, I found this tumulus easily, which is fairly large and prominent on the slopes down the side of the ridge.
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