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La Haute Gedeliere Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.300 Date Added: 26th Apr 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 3
La Haute Gedeliere Dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 25th May 2011. The poor remains are in a right old state, and seem to be used as a garden dump area, and regular bonfires are had amongst the stones. It was very hard to see what the remains may have looked like over the top of all the undergrowth.
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Log Text: I don’t think they want you to see this dolmen, although it is signposted from the road and again at the site. Firstly, I had to contend with a "Danger, Taureau" (danger, bull) sign, and then after this a couple of barbed wire fences. The dolmen is about half a kilometre across the second field, and in the end of a garden backing onto it, with masses of bushes and brambles guarding it. The poor remains are in a right old state, and seem to be used as a garden dump area, and regular bonfires are had amongst the stones. It was very hard to see what the remains may have looked like over the top of all the undergrowth.
La Pierre Le Matz
Trip No.203 Entry No.293 Date Added: 26th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
La Pierre Le Matz submitted by theCaptain on 24th Jan 2012. This is a nice shaped menhir, about 4 metres tall. It is signposted up the D.5 road north of Chauvé, and in a little fenced off area behind a house.
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Log Text: This is a nice shaped menhir, about 4 metres tall. It is signposted up the D.5 road north of Chauvé, and in a little fenced off area.
La Table Submergée
Trip No.203 Entry No.292 Date Added: 26th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 8th Jun 2005
La Table Submergée submitted by thecaptain on 11th Dec 2005. Out in the sea and mudflats of the Baie de Bourgneuf, a kilometre or two off from the northeastern coast of Ile Noirmoutier, is a dolmen which can be seen at low tide, but which gets covered by the high tide.
I reckon I could see it through my binoculars from the island, there's a very table like rock out there, and nothing else like it to be seen nearby.
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Log Text: Out in the sea and mudflats, a kilometre or two off from the northeastern coast of Ile Noirmoutier, is a dolmen which can be seen at low tide. I reckon I can see it through my binoculars, there's a very table like rock out there, and nothing else to be seen. There is a boat moored nearby, probably fishing.
Pierre Pointue (Paimboeuf)
Trip No.203 Entry No.302 Date Added: 26th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Pierre Pointue (Paimboeuf) submitted by thecaptain on 17th Nov 2009. Pierre Pointue (Paimboeuf) is about 1.6 metres tall, and can be seen over the top of the wall.
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Log Text: In the southeastern area of the town of Paimboeuf, amongst a housing estate, can be found a Rue de la menhir. Following this road from the main road, there is a right angled bend to the right, and a couple more older houses before you get to a building site for new houses. The menhir is somewhere down here, but well enough hidden that I couldnt find it. I asked an old gent who was out in his garden where the menhir was. He was delighted that I was there looking for it, and he showed me to a nearby house with a large wall around the garden, and pointed it out within the garden. He said he had complained to the Mairie several times about the new owner of the house building the wall, and hiding the menhir away from view, saying that as a historic monument it should be readily visible to all. It is about 1.6 metres tall, and can be seen over the top of the wall.
Les Pierres Blanches (Corsept)
Trip No.203 Entry No.298 Date Added: 26th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Les Pierres Blanches (Corsept) submitted by thecaptain on 17th Nov 2009. At first I thought that there were three small menhirs here, in a farmyard with a very active guard dog.
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Log Text: At first I thought that there were three small menhirs here, not much more than a metre in height or fallen, but upon closer inspection (from a distance due to them being in a farmyard with a very active guard dog) it looked more like two menhirs and a pile of stone. There are perhaps others nearby.
Cassis Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.301 Date Added: 26th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Cassis Menhir submitted by thecaptain on 18th Nov 2009. In the middle of a field of Barley, this large menhir is signposted from the village.
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Log Text: In the middle of a field of Barley, this large menhir is signposted from the village.
Keralio Croix Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.307 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Keralio Croix Menhir submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. About 2.5 meter tall stone of chrystaline structure on podium in small park in center of Saint-Lyphard village.
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Log Text: This is a tall thin menhir sculpted into a cross, mounted on a nice flower filled pedestal on the village green at Keralio. The stone is probably about 2.5 metres tall, and obviously well looked after.
La Pierre Blanche (Kerbourg)
Trip No.203 Entry No.309 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 2
La Pierre Blanche (Kerbourg) submitted by dipo on 20th Oct 2009. La Pierre Blanche (Kerbourg)
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Log Text: They really don’t want people looking at their megaliths around here. There are no signs, nowhere to stop, and everything overgrown and behind double barbed wire fences, with hedges and brambles growing in between them. The menhir can be seen from the roadside across the far side of a field, but there seems to be no way to get near it.
Kerbourg Dolmen 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.310 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Kerbourg Dolmen 1 submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. Very pretty 7 Meters long, 3 Meters wide downward slopping Allee Couverte, pointing South East. It has 4 large capstones. The rear appears to have a medium size chamber, while the rest appears to be the passage leading to it. It probably once had a tumulus. Saint-Lyphard.
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Log Text: This is what looks like a little allée-couverte, and is actually signposted and with a little clearing around it for visits. It is to be found just behind the Moulin a Fée, a prototype wind generator built inside an old windmill, and looking just like an old windmill except with a modern whirring sound rather than the old style noises which would be expected.
The chamber is about 6 metres long by 1 metre wide, and faces southeast at 125°. There are 4 capstones in place, sitting on top of many sidestones. Closer inspection shows it to have an oval chamber, 2.5 m by 2.0 m at the end of a curving entrance corridor. Is it a bad restoration job, or is it some intermediate stage between a dolmen a couloir and an allée-couverte ?
I was expecting to find two megalithic burial monuments here, but look as much as i could, I couldn't find another one, which is probably in the undergrowth in or around a wheatfield.
Kerbourg Dolmen 2
Trip No.203 Entry No.311 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Couldn't find on 9th Jun 2005
Kerbourg Dolmen 2 submitted by dipo on 25th Sep 2009. Kerbourg 2 Ruined Dolmen West side
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Log Text: I thought there was another dolmen to be found here and there is. Its just that I thought it was between the first dolmen and the windmill whereas it’s a bit further on down the road I was mixing the two up with their positions on the map. Damnabbit.
La Pierre De Len Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.312 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
La Pierre De Len Menhir submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. About 1.8 Meter tall, 2 Meter wide granite block in Saint-Lyphard marshes.
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Log Text: This was a tricky one to find. Not only is it in the middle of a swamp, but the road leading towards it from St-Lyphard was closed for rebuilding work. However, I persevered, expecting to find a nice big stone. But after quite some walking along farm tracks and aacross boggy marshy swampland, it was in fact quite small. It must have sunk into the swamp, which is what happened to me when I got quite near to it, and ended up with soaking wet smelly feet.
Dolmen Du Riholo
Trip No.203 Entry No.313 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dolmen Du Riholo submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Sep 2004. Dolmen de Riholo. This picture was taken from the East. The white dot is a rain drop on the lens, not fairies or anything...
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Log Text: This is a nice site, up on top of a mound surrounded by forest, although it was difficult to make out what exactly remains here. It seems to be a T shaped arrangement, perhaps an east west oriented chamber with an additional northern part ? I must try to look it up somewhere. Basically, what remains are lots of stones on top of a big mound, with one or two capstones still in place.
Dolmen de la Barbière
Trip No.203 Entry No.318 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen de la Barbière submitted by AlexHunger on 2nd Jun 2005. One large capstone supported by 4 smaller uprights, with other stones nearby, including smaller capstone still half supported by one small upright. Probably allee couverte. Cross made out of piece of megalith next to it. Small path leading up from main road.
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Log Text: This dolmen appears in all the tourist literature, and is signposted for miles around, yet when you get there it is fenced off in private land, although in this case easy enough to access to nearby.
As with a few other dolmens around here, I struggled to identify just what it is the remains of. There are lots of big stones on a little hill top, with one large capstone sitting on three support stones nearest to the road, but there is much more. It is possible that it was once two dolmen chambers with entry corridors. The standing capstone is covering what would have been a 3 metre by 2 metre chamber with an entrance passage to the east, but the rest is too much of a jumble to determine properly.
Revin Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.319 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 9th Jun 2005
Revin dolmen submitted by Dipo on 12th Oct 2008. Revin dolmen
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Log Text: I found nowhere to stop near here on the horribly busy road with everyone rushing home from work in St Nazaire. However, I don’t let it beat me that easily, and eventually found somewhere to stop and wallk back to where the dolmen is marked on the map. Once I got there, I could see no way into the field, but could see lots of stones in a heap on top of a mound.
Kerdanestre Menhir Christianisé
Trip No.203 Entry No.308 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Kerdanestre Menhir Christianisé submitted by thecaptain on 6th Jul 2005. Kerdanestre Christianised Menhir.
recently restored, it really does sparkle and shine in the sun beautifully.
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Log Text: This is a smallish menhir which has been sculpted into a cross and mounted on a pedestal at an ancient road junction. The stone is about 1.5 metres tall above the pedestal, and sparkles beautifully in the sunshine. It looks to have probably been recently restored.
Menhir de Condé
Trip No.203 Entry No.320 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Menhir de Condé submitted by Dipo on 28th Apr 2008. Site in Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique Menhir de Condé
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Log Text: In the midst of an industrial estate, sandwiched between a quarry and France's equivalent of Middlesbrough, with all the chemical works beside the Loire estuary, and not to forget the nearby airport and motorway, this poor stone doesn’t seem to stand a chance. However, here it still is in a hayfield amongst all the noise. The stone is probably three and a bit metres tall, with the top almost certainly broken off.
Soriniere Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.315 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Couldn't find on 9th Jun 2005
Soriniere dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Jun 2011. The dolmen is on the left side of the lane under a thick hedge across a field of barley.
I believe its somewhere under the big tree in this picture.
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Log Text: Not far from Bergnon are two dolmens marked down a little lane. I walked down the lane but couldn’t really find anything, although I was assured by a passing chap on a bike, that it is possible to access both dolmens. But the barriers, crops and hedges here made it all too much effort for probably little gain, so I didn't try too hard. The first dolmen to be accessed is on the left side of the lane under a thick hedge across a field of barley, which I wasn't going to walk through, and there was no way around.
Dolmen de Méarzenne
Trip No.203 Entry No.321 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
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 a way to access the wood within which this dolmen lives, as there are lots of big holiday homes and houses with big fenced gardens surrounding it all.
Roche Aux Loups
Trip No.203 Entry No.314 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Roche Aux Loups submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Jun 2011. It’s a simple dolmen with a capstone which looks to be precariously balanced on just two supports, although a view from further down the lane confirms there to be a third support stone.
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Log Text: This dolmen is signposted from the main road, but when you get there down the farm track, its fenced off in a field with no access signs, but you get a good view across the field. It’s a simple dolmen with a capstone which looks to be precariously balanced on just two supports, although a view from further down the lane confirms there to be a third support stone.
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.