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Bwlch Standing Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2004
Bwlch Standing Stone submitted by thecaptain on 6th May 2004. Bwlch Standing Stone in Powys, SO150219
At Bwlch, the A40 makes a large hairpin bend to get up the hillside. In the field which is largely surrounded by this road is this Standing Stone, which is about 2 metres tall.
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C.A.I.R.N.
Trip No.203 Entry No.281 Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
C.A.I.R.N. submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Jul 2005. Ethiopian dolmen reconstruction.
When I visited the wonderful CAIRN Museum, St Hilaire-la-Foret, Vendée, France, there was a fabulous exhibition of megaliths recently discovered in Ethiopia. The similarity between some of the Ethiopian exhibits, and some of those found in France was immediately apparent, which makes you realise how similar people from all over the world are.
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Log Text: What a nice find this is. In an area of numerous menhirs and dolmens is this lovely “living” museum which is easily found and signposted from all around. CAIRN (Centre Archéologique d'Initiation et de Recherche sur le Néolithique) is not only a museum with the usual displays of things and exhibitions but is a research and learning centre which delights in demonstrating ancient ways to people especially children.
When I Visited there was a fabulous temporary exhibition of megaliths in Ethiopia as well as one of the best displays of neolithic life and times in the locality with very interesting models and explanations of the types and developments of dolmens. The similarity between some of the Ethiopian exhibits and the local was immediately apparent which makes you realise how similar people from all over the world are.
But where this museum rates really world class is in its outdoor exhibits and reconstructions. I think the demonstrations are only done on days in July and August or if an occasion has been organised beforehand and I was lucky in that a school party was there for the day. Demonstrations are done showing how life was several millennia ago and there is a reconstruction Neolithic house and there are representative crops grown on site preparing and cooking with the children getting involved with things like grinding corn.
They have a new dolmen and tumulus they are building the erection of menhirs is demonstrated making of a log boat flint knapping stone polishing. It’s all here. They even have a set aside area for excavations to be made which is a sort of large sandpit split into metre squares with certain planted objects for the kids to dig up and discover. I saw one of the demonstration team lighting fire with sticks and hay in two minutes and the look on the children’s faces as he was doing this was just wonderful as if magic were being done.
When I said what I was doing it was suggested that I came back later to talk to the chap doing the demonstrations which I did. He seemed very interested in what I was doing trying to get as many French megalithic sites known and on the internet for all to see and said he thought exactly the same way in that the more these places are known the better protected they will be. He told me of many places in the vicinity which have been destroyed in recent years particularly the 1960’s and 1970’s despite them being scheduled monuments in the greed for farmers to make bigger more open fields. He told me of a story where he knew people who were living where there were two big menhirs within sight of their house and they were woken early one morning by them being dynamited in order to get rid of them.
Cadbury Camp
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 20th Oct 2018
Cadbury Camp submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Oct 2018. Noticeboard at the site
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Cae'r-Eglwys Long Cairn
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: Wales (Mid Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2019
Cae'r-Eglwys Long Cairn submitted by sem on 5th Nov 2012. Looking from Nash Point Promontary Fort, the cairn is directly behind the two walkers - under the gorse.
Nash Point lighthouse is in the background.
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Log Text: Lumpy bumpy ground on a slight slope in the car park at Nash Point, thought to be the remains of a long cairn.
Caerleon Roman Amphitheatre
Date Added: 7th Aug 2025
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Caerleon Roman Amphitheatre submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Aug 2025. From atop the northeastern terracing
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Log Text: Think this is my first time actually in to the amphitheatre for a proper look around having only seen from outside the fencing before. It's magnificent, with big entrances for the participants, small entrances with steps up to the terracing for the audience, and the "royal box" for the important bloke who made life or death decisions.
Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths
Date Added: 7th Aug 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths submitted by TAlanJones on 23rd Feb 2022. Site of the Roman Barracks.
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Log Text: A proper visit to Caerleon with all the things open. Start in the museum, lots of fabulous stuff in here, and doing soldier reinactments outside in roman style gardens. On to the new bath house museum built on the site of the old baths. Very well done with audiovisual interpretations of people swimming and lots of finds etc. Lunch then walk round to the old barracks area. Remains of four big blocks and the external walls with entrance and toilet block. Next to the amphitheatre for a proper look around. It's magnificent, excellent. Continue with a walk around much of the town walls and sculpture park before a half on the quayside.
Caerloggas Down Circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Dec 2012
Caerloggas Down Circle submitted by theCaptain on 3rd Dec 2012. My Dad giving scale to the larger stones
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Caerloggas Down longstone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 9th Dec 2012
Caerloggas Down longstone submitted by theCaptain on 9th Dec 2012. A large standing stone, about 6 feet tall surrounded by 5 other stones on a large bump in the ground, with many other stones placed around it, perhaps making twin concentric circles. I assume its a newly erected stone feature.
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Caillère Dolmen
Trip No.204 Entry No.88 Date Added: 16th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Caillère dolmen submitted by ocdolmen on 20th Sep 2009. Site in Pays de la Loire: Maine-et-Loire 49 France: Mointsabert dolmen in the centre of the village.
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Log Text: Despite not being marked on any of my maps, this dolmen is easy to find, right at the side of the street in the middle of Caillère, near to the manor. It's about 3.5 metres square, with four large sidestones and a single capstone. It shows evidence of having been lived in, with steps down into it, and what looks like a window cut into it, although it may be the original entrance. In this area of many troglodyte habitations, including the manor, it wouldn't be surprising to know that this dolmen was once lived in.
Caillouan Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.579 Date Added: 8th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 26th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Caillouan menhir submitted by theCaptain on 14th Jan 2015. This is a massive 8 metre tall menhir which is positioned very near to a spring. It is rectangular shaped at the bottom, but gets larger as its height increases. The front (southern) face is lovely and flat, looking down the valley.
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Log Text: This is a massive 8 metre tall menhir which is positioned very near to a spring. It is rectangular shaped at the bottom, but gets larger as its height increases. The front (southern) face is lovely and flat, looking down the valley.
It is well signposted, and lives in a little grassy area of woodland, and is apparently well looked after. Just below is another lump of stone which I thought was meant to have been broken from the top in the 1960's, but unless the remainder of the stone has been reshaped and well weathered, I cant see where it was broken from. Perhaps it was once a pair of stones.
Calhau de Teberno Dolmen
Trip No.205 Entry No.57 Date Added: 25th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Pyrénées-Atlantiques 64)
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Calhau de Teberno Dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 8th Feb 2006. This nice dolmen can be found in a little landscaped bit of parkland, sandwiched between the D.920 road and the railway line.
It sits on top of a little hillock, which I wonder whether this is the remains of a large tumulus.
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Log Text: This dolmen can be found in a nice little landscaped bit of parkland, sandwiched between the D.920 road and the railway line at the outskirts of the village of Buzy a couple of kilometres to the north of Arudy. There are many other rocks in the park, which have probably all been placed as features, but perhaps one or two are related to the dolmen.
It sits on top of a little hillock, which I wonder whether these are the remains of a large tumulus ? The chamber is largely below the level of the surrounding ground. The dolmen has a lovely curvy capstone sitting on top of a chamber 4 metres long by 1,5 metres wide, with nicely positioned side slabs each side (3 one side, 4 the other). There is a well fitted backstone, and the chamber opens to the southeast on an alignment of 135°, but perhaps more importantly this is looking directly towards the big gap in the mountains, which is the entry to the Ossau valley.
If it wasn't for the bad weather, and all the trees around, this dolmen would have superb views. I think that I later learn that the dolmen was possibly moved to its current position when the railway was constructed.
Cambous oval tombs
Trip No.205 Entry No.185 Date Added: 25th Nov 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Cambous oval tombs submitted by thecaptain on 19th Sep 2008. Just outside the ancient village of Cambous can be seen the remains of at least one ruined chambered tomb, of the oval type.
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Log Text: Just outside the ancient village can be seen the remains of at least one ruined chambered tomb, which I assume to be of the oval tomb type.
Camp Celtique de Bière
Trip No.202 Entry No.64 Date Added: 29th Mar 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Yes on 2nd May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Camp Celtique de Bière submitted by thecaptain on 11th Oct 2005. Camp Celtique de Bière, near the village of Merri Bière in Orne, Normandie
This is a view of the massive southern wall of the northern enclosure, dividing the encampment.
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Log Text: This is a massive fortified encampment which has been dated back to 4000 BC but with traces of habitation from long before that. The site generally consists of three enclosures on a headland well protected on three sides by steep sided gorges cut by a couple of small streams. The unprotected southern side has three ramparts of various size dates and condition protecting the camp the three ramparts not close together and separating the three enclosures.
It is thought the first encampment was built during the bronze age and was modified at a couple of different times during the Iron Age. The northern rectangular enclosure is the most heavily defended with massive drystone walls thrown up all around particularly at the southern end where the walling is up to 8 metres high. There is the remains of what was once perhaps an entrance through the wall and several of the significant stones used in facing the wall have fossilised trilobites and other marine creatures in them.
It is signposted from nearby and there is a parking area provided a few hundred metres walk to the site. It is now regularly studied and being restored and the enclosed area is now a nature reserve with little signed walks.
Camp de César Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.265 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Camp de César menhir submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jul 2005. The King of the Menhirs, in the public gardens of Avrillé, in Vendée.
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Log Text: This large menhir is the only survivor of what was until the last century three stones here, set in an arrangement like the surviving Alignment de la Pierre. At 8.7 metres tall and nicely shaped and dressed, the stone, known as Le Roi des Menhirs (King of the menhirs) is so big that it was not destroyed, and has now had a municipal park created around it.
It is right outside the back of the local Mairie, and is a nice central feature to the garden. However, even here it has suffered from vandalism, somebody having chalked a massive hopscotch type board onto the flat southeast face of the menhir. There are also a few holes which have been drilled into it.
Camp de la Justice Alignements
Trip No.204 Entry No.216 Date Added: 4th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bourgogne:Saône-et-Loire (71))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 4th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2
Camp de la Justice Alignements submitted by thecaptain on 15th Sep 2006. These alignements are difficult to get to, across a railway and a couple of fields, but they can however be seen from the main road.
There are a couple of large stones and at least three smaller stones in a line along in the hedge.
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Log Text: Just to the north of Autun, near a place called Orme, along the busy N.81 road, can be found the remnants of these alignements. They are difficult to get to, across a railway and a couple of fields, but they can however be seen from the main road. There are a couple of large stones and at least three smaller stonesin a line along in the hedge. Any more than that, I cannot say, as I couldnt get right to them to have a proper look.
Camp du Castel
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 8th Nov 2011
Camp du Castel submitted by theCaptain on 8th Nov 2011. View south from Camp du Castel towards the old coast guard station and the Pierre au Rey
Site in Normandie:Manche (50) France
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Campden Lane gatepost
Date Added: 26th Sep 2021
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Campden Lane gatepost submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 1st Sep 2011. The substantial gatepost on Campden Lane (Ancient Track)
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Log Text: Steam train from Toddington to Winchcombe, then Cotswold Way walk back north to Toddington stopping at Hailes Abbey and Beckbury hillfort. Beside the ancient trackway known as Campden Lane, is a substantial stone gatepost, one of a few in the locality of Beckbury Camp, which makes the mind think of possible previous uses.
Cantrell
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Cantrell submitted by Brian Byng on 7th Feb 2002. Cantrell.
This double stone row @ SX 6570 5717 has a cairn at the upper end
which is on the skyline when viewed from the lower end of the row. The ruined cairn is 8m
diameter & has a single slab at the centre in a hollow. Perhaps the remains of a burial kist. The row is 48m long with an azimuth of 45 degrees.
Strangely this row is aligned diagonally across the slope of the hill. It does not follow the natural contour of the downhill slope. The horizon height of the
cairn from the bot...
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Cap-Del Pouech Dolmen
Trip No.200 Entry No.2 Date Added: 15th Jun 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Ariège (09))
Visited: Yes on 27th Feb 2000. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cap-Del Pouech dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 13th Dec 2003. Cap-Del Pouech dolmen near Mas D'Azil, Ariege, southwest France.
I am not 100% sure whether this is the famed Cap del Pouech dolmen or another. I parked at the Southern entrance to the cave and followed a marked walking trail up and over the hill above the cave, following signs to the dolmen. There were other dolmens signposted in the area.
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Log Text: Lovely walk to the dolmen from Mas D'Azil across the top of the cave. Signs suggest there are more here.
Cap-Del Pouech Dolmen
Trip No.205 Entry No.71 Date Added: 15th Jun 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Ariège (09))
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cap-Del Pouech dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 13th Dec 2003. Cap-Del Pouech dolmen near Mas D'Azil, Ariege, southwest France.
I am not 100% sure whether this is the Cap del Pouech dolmen or another. I parked at the Southern entrance to the cave and followed a marked walking trail up and over the hill above the cave, following signs to the dolmen. There were other dolmens signposted in the area.
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Log Text: Decided its silly to have come to Mas d'Azil and not gone to visit the dolmen, as it is signposted from the village, and you can drive up a narrow windy lane almost right to it, and theres a place to park just a few hundred metres from the dolmen.
It looks to me to have been re-erected at some point in the past, with one of its little supports possibly being concreted in. A large limestone capstone, 3.5 metres by 2.5 metres, sits high on top of 4 support stones, one backstone, one large and two smaller side stones. The chamber is 2.5 by 1.5 metres, and positioned on a little limestone outcrop with possibly some traces of a cairn around it.
Unfortunately, the poor thing has succumbed to the usual problems of graffitti and broken beer bottles. The dolmen de Brillaud is signposted from here, and I am tempted.....