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Demoiselles Piquées
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Demoiselles Piquées submitted by greywether on 27th Jun 2005. Showing all three stones.
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Log Text: A long walk, but all on a nice footpath. It is interesting how often the idea of the punished maidens / knights / etc turns up in regard to standing stones.
Alignement des Petites Roches Piquées
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Alignement des Petites Roches Piquées submitted by aolson on 3rd Aug 2020. Near the middle, looking west.
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Log Text: It was a little hard to tell exactly where this alignment was, because the map on the information board is set 90 degrees off, and has no compass rose. When we did find it, all that can be seen today is the tips of the now mostly buried stones.
Alignements du Moulin W
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Alignements du Moulin W submitted by greywether on 27th Jun 2005. The N/S row. June 1994
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Log Text: None
Alignements du Moulin S
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Alignements du Moulin S submitted by johnstone on 7th Mar 2018. The three remarkable ones in the middle, June 25, 2013
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Log Text: I have seen some spectacular pictures of these alignments, and it was great to see them in person.
Alignements du Moulin N
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Alignements du Moulin N submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Nov 2005. St Just megalithic wonderworld. The Alignements du Moulin north row, looking east.
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Log Text: I was a bit surprised that so many of the features in this relatively remote area were fenced off. It would have been nice to move around a bit more to get some better camera angles.
Roche-aux-Fées (Essé)
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Roche-aux-Fées (Essé) submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Sep 2004. Roches Aux Fees viewed from North West
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Log Text: We started our 5 day trip to Brittany with visit to the world's oldest publicly accessible cave paintings, visited 142 megalithic sites, and ended with the world's largest dolmen structure. What a way to finish!
Gornevez Dolmen
Trip No.18 Date Added: 3rd Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 16th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Gornevez dolmen submitted by regina on 26th Oct 2014. GPS 47.60804 2.74536W [coordinates updated]
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Log Text: Located in a small city park.
Grottes d'Arcy-sur-Cure
Trip No.17 Date Added: 3rd Aug 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Bourgogne:Yonne (89))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Grottes d'Arcy-sur-Cure submitted by Flickr on 3rd May 2016. fe Site in Bourgogne:Yonne (89) France
Ici une photo qui provient du site: voyages.orange.fr/reportages/photos/sites-grottes-et-parc... (Consulté le 10 mars 2013) (c) Grotte d'Arcy-sur-Cure. il s'agit d'une représentation de félin faite au charbon de bois sur les parois de la grotte d'Arcy-sur-Cure. Image copyright: felinschauvet, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: Fascinating to be able to see the oldest accessible cave paintings in Europe. Wonderfully helpful guide who knew our French was not up to snuff, so he would summarize often in English. The series of (inaccessible) caves along the Cure river are also interesting to visit with overviews of the archaeological history of each one and the important discoveries there.
Menhir de Bignon 2
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Menhir de Bignon 2 submitted by regina on 7th Jan 2017. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
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Log Text: There was an old sign nailed to a nearby tree that shows that at one time this area was cleared ant labeled, but today the sign is weathered to bare wood, and the stone is surrounded by brush.
Menhir de Bel Air (Pipriac)
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Menhir de Bel Air (Pipriac) submitted by aolson on 2nd Aug 2020. This menhir was moved from Bel Air near St. Just to be used as a monument to the Resistance. The Cross of Lorraine on top is also a lightning rod.
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Log Text: One last site to finish the day. Bel Air certainly donated quite a few menhirs to the neighboring towns.
Dolmens de Kerhouarin 1+2
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Dolmens de Kerhouarin 1+2 submitted by aolson on 1st Aug 2020. The only visible remains of the dolmens are these two slabs. The larger one has some cup marks.
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Log Text: When we first got out of the car, we ignored the compost pile along the hedge and looked for the stones. Only after a bit of a search did we realize that the pile of dead grass was the object or our quest.
Menhirs de Belle Alouette
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Menhirs de Belle Alouette submitted by aolson on 2nd Aug 2020. A solitary menhir, about one meter tall, standing on the island of the parking lot.
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Log Text: We got to this site, and saw the menhirs and dolmen in the yard, and didn't realize that there were more in the cornfield until looking at the satellite map on the computer later that day.
Pierre Longue (Bain-de-Bretagne)
Date Added: 2nd Aug 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Pierre Longue (Bain-de-Bretagne) submitted by Dipo on 24th Apr 2008. La Pierre Longue is 4.8 m tall
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Menhirs du Sel
Date Added: 2nd Aug 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhirs du Sel submitted by Dipo on 14th Apr 2008. Site in Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35)
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Log Text: I noticed that these rather unassuming menhirs were on a website for Brittany tourism, so we decided to check them out as they were on our route. While they are nice, it is a bit of a mystery why the website would chose this site as one of about. five megalithic sites in all of Brittany to be featured.
La Pierre des Fées
Date Added: 2nd Aug 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 20th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
La Pierre des Fées submitted by Dipo on 24th Mar 2008. Site in Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35)
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Log Text: Surrounded by tall corn this year, the menhir was still visible and imposing from quite a distance.
Sévéroué menhir
Date Added: 2nd Aug 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Sévéroué menhir submitted by johnstone on 10th Mar 2018. The two monoliths at about 30 metres distance, June 26, 2013
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Log Text: Even after losing menhirs to St. Just and Pipriac, this village seems dotted with them. Unfortunately, due to the widening of the D177 we weren't able to get to some we had seen on the satellite pictures.
Sépulture de Bécihan
Date Added: 2nd Aug 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Sépulture de Bécihan submitted by aolson on 2nd Aug 2020. The most likely remains in the area, in the process of further destruction by the trees.
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Log Text: Not much to see - we had to walk back and forth along the road for a while to try to determine which pile of rocks was the most likely to be the remains of a megalithic site. This one is located just inside a pasture.
Pierres Droites (Monteneuf)
Date Added: 2nd Aug 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Pierres Droites (Monteneuf) submitted by TheCaptain on 19th Jun 2007. The true extent of these stones was only discovered in the last 20 years or so after a forest fire, yet this set of aligned menhirs is probably one of the most important in France.
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Log Text: Wonderful site, far better ambience than the Carnac alignments. The interpretive signs and reconstructions based on archaeological findings are very interesting.
Menhir Le Bignon
Date Added: 2nd Aug 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhir Le Bignon submitted by regina on 26th Jun 2016. Menhir Le Bignon
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Log Text: I wonder if the farmer appreciates what he gets to see as he works his field.
Menhir Fourchu
Date Added: 2nd Aug 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Menhir Fourchu submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Sep 2013. This is a nice menhir stood at the side of the road just to the east of Lezonnais. It is about 3.5 metres tall, 1.5 metres wide and only 0.3 metres thick, and has a nicely forked shape at the top, hence its name, and a sort of nose on one side.
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Log Text: Extremely overgrown, with the large stone covered in ivy, and the smaller ones lost in the ferns and brambles. (Not a good place to wear shorts I learned the hard way.)