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Pointe de Guilligui allée couverte
Trip No.203 Entry No.512 Date Added: 27th May 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pointe de Guilligui allée couverte submitted by theCaptain on 21st Apr 2014. Pointe de Guilligui allée couverte seen in its hilltop position from across the bay, on the quay at Portsall.
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Log Text: This is an unusual allée couverte, not quite at the top of the Guilliguy headland, overlooking the ocean where the Amoco Cadiz was wrecked, and the little port of Portsall. This is a place which has been revered over the millennia, and still serves as a place for thought by the big cross, and the views are fantastic.
The allée couverte was built in the neolithic, but much altered during the bronze age. It is now an L shaped tomb, the main part being 6 metres long by 2 metres wide with a couple of capstones still in place. At the eastern end an extra chamber has been built onto the south side, about 4 metres in length and still with one capstone. There is a nicely carved entrance stone between the two. It looks to me like the main chamber has been shortened here when this extra chamber was made, and a couple of stones still survive to the east.
Pointe de Guilligui allée couverte
Trip No.214 Entry No.11 Date Added: 27th May 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 16th Apr 2014
Pointe de Guilligui allée couverte submitted by Martin_L on 27th Jan 2009. Site in Bretagne: Finistère (29): Standing beside the lateral passage. What a great site (May 2001)
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Log Text: Seen high up on its rocky promontary from across the bay on the quay at Portsall.
Pointe de Cofréneau cairn
Trip No.203 Entry No.322 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 9th Jun 2005
Log Text: I had a long walk around the coastal path here, after parking the campervan for the night, but I could not find any sign at all of this. It is probably in a garden or underneath lots of thick gorse and undergrowth.
Point du Jour dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.110 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 22nd May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Point du Jour dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Apr 2011. A single giant capstone 6 metres by 2 metres sits on top of about half a dozen supports in two parallel rows making a sort of alleyway within woodland on a slope which is very steep at the end of the dolmen and indeed has probably been quarried away at some point in the past.
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Log Text: This one is signposted from the D104/D2 between Villereal and Montpazier and has a little picnic area by it. It was pouring with rain when I arrived and it looks for all the world to be in somebody’s private garden. In fact I think it is but they have been good enough to create a little sort of public area near it and a sign as well ! What Good people.
A single giant capstone 6 metres by 2 metres sits on top of about half a dozen supports in two parallel rows making a sort of alleyway within woodland on a slope which is very steep at the end of the dolmen and indeed has probably been quarried away at some point in the past. In the wet it’s a strange reddish orangish stripy sort of rock with lots of moss growing on top of it. From certain angles this one looks like its come straight out of a fairy story.
Plos statue menhir 2
Trip No.205 Entry No.132 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 3 Access 5
Plos statue menhir 2 submitted by thecaptain on 12th May 2009. The menhir is just over 2 metres tall and 1.5 metres wide. It's to be found beside the road, just to the south of the hamlet of Plos.
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Log Text: Probably once a statue-menhir, this is not classed as such as no discernible features can be seen engraved on it. That’s what several thousands of years of weather does for you. The menhir is the right shape, just over 2 metres tall and 1.5 metres wide. Its to be found beside the road, just to the south of the hamlet of Plos.
Plessis Gamat Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.19 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Plessis Gamat Menhir submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Jun 2005. Pretty 2.3 Meters tall trangular thin block with quartz veins which once had cross on top in Saint-Brevin-Les-Pins fields, Chemin Du Plessis.
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Log Text: Signposted locally this is a lovely pointed pale granite stone about 2.8 metres tall. It is found by going down a little track opposite the electric station then right into a field where its found in the bushes on the right.
Platennes Menhirs
Trip No.203 Entry No.294 Date Added: 26th Apr 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Platennes Menhirs submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Jun 2005. Allignment of 3 pretty much intact 3 Meter long fallen menhirs on East of path with remains of one or 2 broken menhirs on West of path. The edges are relatively sharp and the remains could probably be reassembled. Saint-Père-en-Retz
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Log Text: A bit further on past the Pierre Le Matz up the D.5 road north of Chauvé, these menhirs are signposted on the right. It is hard to tell exactly what was once here, but it was probably pretty impressive. The first thing you see is a lot oof broken stones, which was once a menhir which has been toppled and broken into many pieces. Then just the other side of the lane are seen three more menhirs in a row, now all fallen, and facing towards the broken one. All would have been 4 metres high or thereabouts, and it is possible that there was once several more here.
Plateau de Sailles tumulus
Trip No.204 Entry No.188 Date Added: 24th Aug 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: France (Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63))
Visited: Yes on 25th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Plateau de Sailles tumulus submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Feb 2011. High up in the hills to the north of St-Nectaire, beside the D.640 road across the Plateau de Sailles, are a couple of round cairns on a hilltop.
Closer inspection reveals them to be made of stones piled up, with perhaps some large slabs within.
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Log Text: High up in the hills to the north of St-Nectaire, beside the D.640 road across the Plateau de Sailles, are a couple of round cairns on a hilltop. Closer inspection reveals them to be made of stones piled up, with perhaps some large slabs within. Just seeing these here against the skyline makes me wonder just how many more there may be around here, either lost in the woods or ploughed out.
Plateau de Mons
Trip No.205 Entry No.259 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: France (Auvergne:Cantal (15))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 26th Sep 2005
Log Text: On top of the plateau is a large collection of earthen barrows dating to the iron age which can be seen from the track.
Planàs Dolmen
Trip No.205 Entry No.159 Date Added: 15th Nov 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Planàs Dolmen submitted by regina on 11th Dec 2009. Site in Languedoc: Gard (30) France:
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Log Text: Take the road towards Blandas from Montdardier, and after a few kilometres there is a big junction of ways. Right at the junction in a little enclosure to the right of the road can be found this nicely restored dolmen. It is completely within its cairn, and the fence is close, which makes photos difficult. The mound is about 12 metres in diameter and 2 metres high. The chamber in the centre is mostly made of dry stone walls, but with a large slab at the back, and topped by a 3 m by 2.5 m capstone, on top of the same sized chamber. There is an entry passageway about 5 metres long, and half a metre wide, which opens to the southwest at 235°.
Planàs cromlech
Trip No.205 Entry No.161 Date Added: 15th Nov 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 1 Access 5
Planàs cromlech submitted by LaDragonne on 23rd Aug 2018. Cromlech de Planas:Gard (30) France
une des pierres couchée à quelques dizaines de cm de son lieu d'implantation
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Log Text: Destroyed many years ago during construction of the road, just a few stumps and fallen stones of this cromlech remain scattered around near the junction. What was once a fine stone circle is now just a large road junction in the middle of nowhere.
Plainsfield Camp
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 25th May 2018
Plainsfield Camp submitted by TheCaptain on 25th May 2018. Plainsfield Camp. View south along the east bank from the entrance to the southeast corner.
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Pitray Allée couverte
Trip No.203 Entry No.224 Date Added: 21st Apr 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Aquitaine:Gironde (33))
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 1
Pitray Allée couverte submitted by thecaptain on 9th Jan 2006. Pitray Allée couverte.
The remains are 10 metres in length with large side slabs up to 1.7 metres high placed about 1.2 metres apart making a chamber with an orientation of 074° but there are no cover stones.
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Log Text: Well what a find this was. I found Pitray on the village map outside the Mairie and when I got there I found a long driveway up to a chateau with a couple of men working logging in the woodland who told me that they knew of the dolmen and that I should go and ask at the chateau. In the grounds surrounding the chateau a charming lady looking after her baby grandson came to talk to me who spoke good English and told me that she knew of the dolmen well and that she had known of it for many years but hadn’t seen it in a while and that we had best go ask her son in law the master of the chateau if I could go and see it. Another very pleasant man who seemed pleased that somebody was interested in the dolmen in his grounds. I was taken to the remains of the dolmen and on the way it was spoken about that they thought that they should probably clear them up as they are getting very overgrown and crumbling but they were not sure what they are allowed or are supposed to do with them. They are quite difficult to find being as overgrown as they are in some dense woodland and it took a while to find it. I was told that a couple of men from CNES had been round and taken measurements about 20 years ago and had told the owners that there was probably nothing of interest to be found as it would have been fully dug out last century.
The remains are 10 metres in length with large side slabs up to 1.7 metres high placed about 1.2 metres apart making a chamber with an orientation of 074° but there are no cover stones. The back stone is about 2.3 metres in width and the side stones are graded in height with the tallest at the back. There are 3 big and 2 medium sized stones on the northern side and 3 big 3 medium sized stones along the southern side with some smaller stones curving away towards the path into the woods. Some of the stones have strange holes in them which seem to be perhaps more than just weathering. Not far away towards the northeast is a strange arrangement of smaller stones in a double parallel row which align directly to the entrance of the allée couverte.
The owner has no idea what these are or whether they are related or not but interesting nevertheless. These stones are even more overgrown. I was told that the chateau often has Scouts stay within the grounds and that recently a lot of girl scouts had been staying there had found the allée couverte and had rigged up a shower within the chamber complete with makeshift shower curtain! They had not been too impressed when told that they had made their shower within an ancient tomb !
These megalithic remains are on very private land and I was privileged to be allowed into the woods and shown them. A visit should not be attempted without permission.
Piskey’s Hall – The Fairy’s Fogou
Date Added: 1st Aug 2022
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Piskey’s Hall – The Fairy’s Fogou submitted by coin on 3rd Nov 2013. So... Getting to this site is a welcome voyage, arriving at the gate (higher than a normal one) I read a friendly sign- warning me of a bull... So the landowner obviously doesn't want people visiting this site. Climbing over the gate I am affronted with another welcoming feature- electric fence. Slipping under the offending wire, and edging around the field keeping an eye out for the bull of terror, I approach the mound if earth and stones. When I reach it, I am presented with another electric f...
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Log Text: I want to stop for my pasty at the Piskeys Hall fogou, but it takes me several attempts to find it, and only then I have to climb over a gate into a thankfully empty field, but see nothing like any of the pictures I have seen. It must be over by the far edge of the field somewhere, but there's nothing obvious, just a very overgrown clump. Its all very overgrown, and at first I cannot find anything to see, but then I do see a stone lined entrance amongst the gorse and brambles which I am just about able to get to. Yes, I have found the main structure and am able to get down into it. This one seems more like a large entrance grave than the other fogous I have seen, but who am I to argue.
Piquecos tumulus
Trip No.200 Entry No.45 Date Added: 17th Jun 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Midi:Tarn-et-Garonne (82))
Visited: Couldn't find on 28th May 2000
Log Text: Drive north from Toulouse to explore Montauban, Castelsarrasin, Caussade. Had a quick look for these things marked on my map, but found nothing
Piprais menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.15 Date Added: 4th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Piprais menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2007. This 4.5 metre tall menhir can be found in a field just to the northeast of the village of Monterrein.
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Log Text: This 4.5 metre tall menhir can be found in a field of sweetcorn just to the northeast of the village of Monterrain, near to a roadside cross. The menhir, a white quartz looking stone, seems to be splitting into two. Apparently there is another fallen stone nearby, but hidden from view by the maize.
Pipers (nr Merry Maidens)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2004
Pipers (nr Merry Maidens) submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Feb 2004. The Pipers of Boleigh, with both of the massive stones in the same picture.
These two massive stones are said to be the Pipers playing the music to which the Merry Maidens were dancing, before they all got turned to stone.
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Piles Hill W
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2004
Piles Hill W submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jun 2004. Piles Hill Avenue, Dartmoor, Devon SX651611 to SX659611
Rainbow over the western end terminal stone.
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Piles Hill NE
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2004
Piles Hill NE submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jun 2004. Piles Hill Avenue, Dartmoor, Devon SX651611 to SX659611
Looking down the eastern end of the avenue. Corringdon Ball with all its features in the near distance.
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Piles Hill Cairns
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2004
Piles Hill Cairns submitted by thecaptain on 8th Aug 2004. On the top of Piles Hill, to the north of the large summit cairn is a smaller, but more well defined cairn about 15m diameter, which has at some point in time been remodelled into a shelter. It has a reasonably well defined ring of stones around its perimeter.
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