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Coffin Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2004
Coffin Stone submitted by thecaptain on 1st Sep 2004. Whatever this site is, or was, it is obviously in a varying state, as there are now more stones here than in the previous pictures on the portal.
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Cohporh Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.341 Date Added: 10th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 3
Cohporh menhir submitted by thecaptain on 11th May 2006. This poor menhir is totally enclosed by massive undergrowth, and just the top of the 3.5 metre tall stone can be seen poking its head out.
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Log Text: This poor menhir is totally enclosed by massive undergrowth, and just the top of the 3.5 metre tall stone can be seen poking its head out. It looks to be a good one in there somewhere.
Coinche polissoir
Trip No.204 Entry No.236 Date Added: 5th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Centre:Loiret (45))
Visited: Yes on 12th Feb 2007. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
Coinche polissoir submitted by thecaptain on 12th Feb 2007. Coinche polissoir stones can be seen here in the ploughed field.
The Coinche menhir stands in the field of sunflowers beyond the polissoir stones, towards the top end of the wood.
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Log Text: About 80 metres from the menhir are several large rocks laying flat in the next field. One of these stones has three lovely polishing grooves in the top at one side, each about 50 cm long, and a big cuvette basin for polishing the flat sides. As for the menhir, these stones are in a cropped field, and not normally possible to find, but I was again taken to them. There were more polishing grooves elsewhere on the rocks, but these have been broken off when the rocks were partly broken several hundred years ago to build houses. Somebody has a house with polishing grooves incorporated in their walls !
It is now all very dry land round here, but in the past this was an area of swamp and marsh, which would have provided the water necessary for the polishing task. The ancient people didn't live here, but had a village a bit further down the valley.
Also found near here in the past was a portable polishing stone, which is now in the safe keeping of a museum somewhere.
These two stones would have been impossible for me to find and see had it not been for the kindness and help of the farmers wife. And although she spoke quick French, I gained a lot of information from her that I would otherwise never have been able to find out. She is obviously very proud to have these stones on her land, and interested in them. Many thanks to her.
Col des Ves
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Rhone:Savoie (73))
Visited: Yes on 10th Feb 2009
Col des Ves submitted by thecaptain on 10th Feb 2009. Is this an ancient menhir which has been re-erected, or a more modern marker stone ? I don't know. I can find nothing out about it. But here it stands, up in the high mountains above Tignes near to the Col des Ves.
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Col du Petit Saint-Bernard Cromlech
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Rhone:Savoie (73))
Visited: Yes on 4th Feb 2007
Col du Petit Saint-Bernard Cromlech submitted by thecaptain on 4th Feb 2007. There is a 75m diameter Cromlech which sits at the top of the Col du Petit Saint-Bernard. This col is historically a very important route through the Alps, nowadays between France and Italy, and across which Hannibal took his elephants with which to raid Rome.
The cromlech obviously cannot be seen in this photograph, but it gives a good overall picture of its position.
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Col-de-la-Bole menhir
Trip No.205 Entry No.118 Date Added: 9th Nov 2020
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 15th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Col-de-la-Bole menhir submitted by thecaptain on 13th Mar 2009. I saw no carvings on the front (now the back in the shadows), although supposedly there are some to be seen.
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Log Text: Driving west along the D.14 road towards Le Salvetat, in a rush to get diesel and washing done, I saw a sign to menhir Col-de-la-Bole, so of course I just had to go and have a look. At the top of a steep track is the broken off top of a statue-menhir, only about 0.75 metres of it, with its back having had a bishops cross carved into it. I saw no carvings on the front, although supposedly there are some, but I was in a bit of a rush.
Colchester Castle Museum
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2008
Valence House submitted by thecaptain on 24th Aug 2008. The Dagenham Idol while on display at Colchester Castle Museum in 2008.
Found in the Thames mud when the Ford factory was built in the 1930's, and dated to 2250BC.
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Cold Aston
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2007
Cold Aston submitted by thecaptain on 7th Jan 2007. Cold Aston longbarrow seen close up at the northwestern end.
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Coldrum
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2004
Coldrum submitted by thecaptain on 3rd Sep 2004. The eastern face of Coldrum long barrow. It is said that it was built on a natural terrace in the chalk landscape, which has now partly worn away due to erosion, so letting the eastern end of the barrow collapse down the slope.
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Colého Menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.31 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Jul 2005
Colého menhir submitted by Ogham on 19th Dec 2011. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
The menhir is well hidden in the woods at GPS location
47 47.943N 002 45.029W it is 6m in height, 1m in width and 0.5m in depth.
The location was obtained by hand held GPS.
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Log Text: Marked on my map as not far from the roadside near to a junction, I thought that this would be an easy menhir to visit. However, the woodland is very thick and filled with bracken, and I could not get to see it.
Collard Tor E
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Collard Tor E submitted by SandyG on 27th Sep 2014. The eastern row without labels. View from north west.
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Collard Tor W
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Collard Tor W submitted by SandyG on 27th Sep 2014. The western row. Natural clitter makes it more difficult to see this row. View from north along the row.
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Colline de Moulin Menhir
Trip No.205 Entry No.194 Date Added: 26th Nov 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Colline de Moulin menhir submitted by regina on 13th Dec 2009. Colline de Moulin menhir in Gard (30) France
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Log Text: From the cemetary to the south of Aubais, walk southwest up the little track to the ancient windmill, and after about 800 metres you arrive at the top of this windy little hill. Here, about 50 metres from the old windmill, has been re-erected the menhir, mended from several parts and mounted on a little plinth. It is only about 1.5 metres high, but has several legends associated with it. There are three circular cupules to be seen in the southern face.
Colombiers-sur-Seulles tumulus
Trip No.202 Entry No.2 Date Added: 25th Mar 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Apr 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Colombiers-sur-Seulles tumulus submitted by TheCaptain on 7th May 2005. Colombiers-sur-Seulles tumulus, Calvados.
The circular burial chamber in the northern side of the mound.
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Log Text: A long barrow which has been excavated and destroyed several times in the past but which has recently been restored to some form of its former glory by local enthusiasts. It is situated about half a kilometre east of the village just beyond the menhir signposted in a little copsed area just south of the road.
The barrow is about 50 metres in length and about 9 metres in width at the narrow west end and 18 metres width at the wide eastern end with an orientation of 280°. It is about 5 metres in height at its maximum and has several drystone walled sections running around it. In the middle of the mound is a little circular burial chamber about 2.5 metres in diameter with its entrance chamber running from the north side at an orientation of 010°. The chamber is made using 6 large upright stones with drystone walling between them but how much is now original is not known. The view along the entrance chamber does not see over the local horizon which is just a hundred metres or so distant. At the smaller western end there is a pair of large upright stones set into the external wall and as far as I can find once formed the entrance to another smaller burial chamber.
This is obviously now a well looked after and cared for monument set within a fenced off area using rustic fencing and also within the area are a mock up of an ancient oven and some hearths. with drystone walling between them but how much is now original is not known.
Colquite Menhir
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 7th Dec 2010
Colquite Menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Dec 2010. The possible Colquite menhir seen within its surroundings.
Just why do the walls avoid it?
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Combes Menhir
Trip No.205 Entry No.166 Date Added: 24th Nov 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Combes menhir submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2009. About a kilometre from the Arques dolmen, and near to the road can be found this superb menhir, which has been re-erected in a concrete base.
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Log Text: About a kilometre further on from the Arques dolmen, and just to the left of the road can be found this superb menhir, which has been re-erected in a concrete base. It stands 3 metres tall, and is made of the most wonderfully weathered piece of limestone, full of holes and divots, with moss and lichens growing everywhere. It is quite a character.
Combettes menhirs 1
Trip No.205 Entry No.239 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Combettes menhirs 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 9th May 2010. One of the Combettes menhirs, this is a 1.3 metre tall menhir.
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Log Text: A 1.3 metre tall menhir.
Combettes menhirs 2
Trip No.205 Entry No.240 Date Added: 6th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Combettes menhirs 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 9th May 2010. One of the Combettes menhirs, this is a 1.5 metre tall menhir.
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Log Text: A 1.5 metre tall menhir.
Combeynart Statue-Menhir
Trip No.205 Entry No.129 Date Added: 10th Nov 2020
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Combeynart statue-menhir submitted by theCaptain on 18th Nov 2010. This is a very tall thin male statue-menhir which stands just over 2 metres tall, but only 40 cm width.
Many of his features are equally scrawny. Legs, belt and "objet" can be made out but the rest is a bit of a jumble.
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Log Text: This is a very tall thin male statue-menhir just at the north of the village of Cantoul. It stands just over 2 metres tall, but only 40 cm width, and certain of his features are equally scrawny. Legs, belt and "objet" can be made out but the rest is a bit of a jumble. The roads round here are very narrow and windy, I am not sure that I'll get the van out! Again, these outdoor statue-menhirs are wearing badly, and even the modern graffitti is wearing off.
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.