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Petit-Resto menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.53 Date Added: 11th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Petit-Resto menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Aug 2007. This menhir can be seen at the edge of the road, and has weird weathering, looking like it has got a tide mark on it.
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Log Text: This menhir can be seen at the edge of the road, but it is difficult to stop or turn round here. It is a sort of triangular stone, perhaps 2 metres high, just at the edge of a field. It has weird weathering, and looks like it has got a tide mark on it.
Petit Mont
Trip No.203 Entry No.336 Date Added: 4th May 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 2
Petit Mont submitted by AlexHunger on 20th Dec 2004. Petit Mont in Arzon, dating to about 4600 BCE at the earliest, is one of the most significant Cairns in Britany, but unfortunately one of the most brutaly vandalized. In 1942, German troops built a bunker and Flak emplacement into the South East Corner of the cairn, which compeltely destroyed one of the chambers and caused the collapse of the second one pictured above, which has since been restored. The megalithic entrance is sought to be an addition from Gallo-Roman times. All pictures have be...
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Log Text: This enormous cairn, built between 4600 and 2500 BC is on a headland jutting into the sea to the south of the Arzon peninsular. The whole headland is now owned by the local government, and is undergoing major restoration work. The cairn is now well fenced off, and visits were closed for the day when I arrived, so the best I could do was to look at it from a few places through the fence.
There were two large chambers within it originally, with lots of decorations of various types. The whole cairn was much modified by the Germans in 1943 as a part of the Atlantic wall defenses, and concrete bunkers were built within the cairn. These concrete bunkers are being kept, as a valid part of the cairns history and re use.
Petit Menhir (Changé)
Trip No.204 Entry No.258 Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Petit Menhir (Changé) submitted by thecaptain on 25th Nov 2006. Petit Menhir (Changé)
A large slab of the grey stone stands just outside the remains of the two dolmens.
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Log Text: A large slab of the grey stone stands just outside the remains of the two dolmens. It is about 2 metres tall, but was leaning against a wooden post to hold it upright when I visited, due to the excavations going on here.
Petit Dolmen du Ferrussac
Trip No.205 Entry No.149 Date Added: 11th Nov 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Languedoc:Hérault (34))
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Petit Dolmen du Ferrussac submitted by stewart on 3rd May 2004. A very pretty little dolmen although somewhat overshadowed by its bigger brother just down the road.
The capstone is around 2.5m by 1.9m
The Ferrussac dolmens are on the D130 between La Trivalle and St Maurice de Navacelles.
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Log Text: A kilometre or so to the southeast of La Vacquerie, at a place called Trivalle, take the road east signposted to Dolmen du Ferrussac. After a couple of kilometres, while descending through an oak wood, you will see a little gate on the left, with label Petit Dolmen. There is a place to park, and the dolmen is just 20 metres beyond the gate, at the top of a higher bit of ground.
The chamber is 2m by 1m and still partly within its mound, with an entrance opening to 235°. The capstone sits on top of two sidestones and a backslab, with some degree of restoration involved. A very pleasant little place.
Petit dolmen de Trainel
Trip No.204 Entry No.226 Date Added: 4th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bourgogne:Yonne (89))
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Petit dolmen de Trainel submitted by theCaptain on 4th Aug 2011. Without the signpost right beside it, I very much doubt that I would have found this, although it is right beside the path. There are hundreds of better more dolmenic looking rocks in this forest ! I can't believe I spent the best part of three days and 700 km of driving to get here !
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Log Text: About 15 metres to the north of the Grand Dolmen along the slope of the hill, and perhaps in what was once the same mound can be found the Petit Dolmen. It doesn’t look much more than a medium sized rock sat on the hillside, but closer inspection shows there to be a 1 metre by 0.5 metre slab sided cist underneath the 1.7 m by 1 m capstone.
Without the signpost right beside it, I very much doubt that I would have found this, although it is right beside the path. There are hundreds of better more dolmenic looking rocks in this forest ! I cant believe I spent the best part of three days and 700 km of driving to get here ! Lets hope for better to come, but I wont hold my breath. Dammit, now its raining. Lots of deer about though, and just sitting writing this I can sense them watching me from behind the trees.
Petit Dolmen (Changé)
Trip No.204 Entry No.257 Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Petit Dolmen (Changé) submitted by thecaptain on 25th Nov 2006. Petit Dolmen (Changé).
The excavations seen here showing the entry passageway curving around to the right.
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Log Text: About 5 metres to the north of the Le Berceau dolmen, and also being excavated, are the remains of the Petit dolmen. This one has a chamber about 4 metres by 3 metres, with many side slabs to be seen but no capstone. Before the current excavations, there was probably very little to be seen of this.
Perron Menhir
Trip No.202 Entry No.20 Date Added: 26th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Orne (61))
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Perron menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 7th May 2005. Perron menhir, Passais, Orne.
At least 3 metres high, this menhir is found signposted about 30 metres from the road in a private garden, although access to the stone is allowed up a driveway.
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Log Text: At least 3 metres high this menhir is found signposted about 30 metres from the road in a private garden although access to the stone is allowed up a driveway. There are at least two other large stones laying nearby and I wondered if one of these pieces was broken from the top of the menhir but the owner of the was in the garden and assured me that these had been put there as a garden feature by the previous owner.
Penzance Market Cross
Date Added: 2nd Aug 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Access 4
Penzance Market Cross submitted by Stonefly on 5th Aug 2011. The south-facing side.
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Log Text: I took a walk round some of the splendid Penzance gardens, and had a proper look at the lovely old market cross, nowadays just outside the café.
Penywyrlod
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2004
Penywyrlod submitted by TheCaptain on 12th May 2004. Penywyrlod, Chambered Tomb, Powys, SO151316
What a find this tomb is. Upon approaching the Cairn across the fields, the first thing that is seen is that there is a very big mound here. This is a massive stone built long barrow, over 50 metres long and 25 wide, and still at least 4 metres in height, on a northwest southeast axis. Quite how this can have only been “discovered” in 1972 is beyond me !
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Penwine Cross
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 7th Nov 2012
Penwine Cross submitted by theCaptain on 7th Nov 2012. The front face of tthis re-erected cross head has an equal armed cross engraved onto it.
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Pennance Entrance Grave
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 7th Oct 2008
Pennance Entrance Grave submitted by thecaptain on 7th Oct 2008. Although permission is needed to get to visit the Giant's Craw at close quarters, it can be seen from the B3306 near Zennor.
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Penn Beacon SE
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Penn Beacon SE submitted by SandyG on 6th Oct 2014. The stone row with china clay workings in the background. View from north east.
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Penn Beacon NE
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Peninnis Head Boundary
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jul 2003
Log Text: Sailing trip from Plymouth over to the Scilly Isles. While ashore, have a walk around Peninnis Head.
Peninnis Head
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jul 2003
Peninnis Head submitted by Bladup on 11th Jun 2022. Peninnis Head Outcrop
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Log Text: Sailing trip from Plymouth over to the Scilly Isles. While ashore, have a walk around Peninnis Head.
Penhors stèle
Trip No.203 Entry No.471 Date Added: 25th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Penhors stèle submitted by thecaptain on 21st Dec 2006. This fantastic sculpted and grooved (cannelée) iron age stèle can be seen in the front garden of a home at Penhors, and is a good 4 metres tall.
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Log Text: This is a fantastic grooved and sculpted (cannelée) iron age stèle I saw in a front garden of a home I was passing at Penhors. It is almost perfectly shaped, round with grooves running up the sides, and tapered towards the top, which is a good 4 metres above the ground. This superb stèle was found fallen in a nearby hedge and re-erected in the garden. The granite from which it is made has originally come from at least 5 kilometres away.
Pendreff Alignement
Trip No.203 Entry No.466 Date Added: 25th May 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Pendreff Alignement submitted by thecaptain on 7th Dec 2006. The Kerfland menhirs are three gorgeous tall slender menhirs standing in a row at the edge of a wood south of Plomeur.
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Log Text: The Kerfland menhirs are three gorgeous tall slender menhirs standing in a row at the edge of a wood, easily reached down a little signposted footpath from the roadside a couple of kilometres south of Plomeur. They line up almost due north to south, at an alignment of 005° magnetic (in 2005) and are spaced about 5 metres apart from each other.
To me, these are the supermodels of the menhir world, each being over 5 metres tall yet only 30cm thick, and up to 2 m wide, and are very elegantly shaped into curvy features. The southern one is sort of pointing skywards. Unfortunately the central stone has obviously been broken in the past, but is cemented back together in a very reasonable way. It is just a pity that they are a bit overgrown, making pictures difficult, but not too badly.
Pendeen Fogou
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Would like to visit
Pendeen Fogou submitted by PaulM on 28th Aug 2001. Pendeen Vau Fogou, Manor Farm, Pendeen, West Penwith, Cornwall (SW381356)
An Iron Age fogou situated on a working farm (a great place to stay either in the 17th century converted manor house holiday cottage or the B&B).
This view is the fogou across the farmyard showing the external structure.
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Pen-y-Wyrlod
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2004
Pen-y-Wyrlod submitted by TheCaptain on 16th May 2004. Pen-y-wyrlod, Chambered Tomb, Powys, SO224398
There is one smashing little slab sided chamber about 3 by 1.5 metres, with the stones protruding well up out of the remains of a stone built mound.
This is the view from the east
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Pen-Y-Gaer (Llanrhidian Lower)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2013
Pen-Y-Gaer (Llanrhidian Lower) submitted by theCaptain on 16th Jun 2013. Pen-y-Gaer seen here looking west from Pen-Clawwd.
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