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La Pierre Aubrée
Date Added: 3rd Oct 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Log Text: These coordinates take you to the hamlet La Pierre Aubree. Talking to locals they direct you to the Menhir de Breau as the local menhir. We did search on this side of the river but access is very restricted and the bank is mostly a wall of rock. The Menhir de Breau is only a couple of hundred meters away but you have to drive about 6km to get there on the other side of the river. There is an old water mill on this side but it's now a private house. There is a very steep road down to it so there must be some level ground on this side of the river where there might be a menhir in the grounds of the house.
Dolmen du Marchais
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen du Marchais submitted by oldman on 2nd Oct 2018. I'm 6ft so you can see the scale of this dolmen
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Log Text: The capstone on this dolmen is absolutely vast. It is accessed down a narrow footpath and then has a narrow ring of ground around it so it is difficult to get far enough away to photograph except from the approach path. It towers above you because you have to stand so close to it. There is a plaque saying it was given to the community by the owner in 1953 stuck high up on the capstone. I guess its condition as a 4 but an expert may say its damaged and should be a 3.
Dolmen de la Pierre-qui-Vire
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Dolmen de la Pierre-qui-Vire submitted by johnstone on 13th Feb 2018. In the middle of agriculture, June 9, 2014
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Log Text: Located this year in an attractive field of chicory.
Les Doignons
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Les Doignons submitted by oldman on 1st Oct 2018. Site in Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) France Close up showing the amonite revealed when the top was broken off this stone
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Log Text: Failed to find this dolmen but the point on the road closest to these coordinates where the sat nav told us we had reached our destination was a large stone the top of which had been broken off to reveal an amonite. Could this be a menhir?
Dolmen de la Garenne (La Mothe)
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Dolmen de la Garenne (La Mothe) submitted by thecaptain on 27th Jul 2008. The dolmen is in a clearing in the woods, and still mostly within its mound. I cannot be totally sure what this is the remains of, whether it is one chamber with a long and angled passage, or more likely two chambers with entry passageways.
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Log Text: Eventually found the allee du dolmen but not before we spent ages trying to battle our way through the wood.
Pierre Levée de Bougon
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Log Text: Attempted a visit to this dolmen as the bougon tumuli are so impressive but found nothing.
Musée des Tumulus de Bougon
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Musée des Tumulus de Bougon submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Sep 2010. Outside the museum is a 40 metre long neolithic longhouse and other structures based on nearby archaeological finds.
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Log Text: It is an interesting site. Once you have paid for entrance you have access to the museum and the experimental archaeology and then the site leads on into the Bougon Tumuli which are all fairly close together in one area.
Dolmen des Sept Chemins
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Dolmen des Sept Chemins submitted by TheCaptain on 31st Jul 2013. Sept Chemins dolmen can be found not far from the Bougon necropolis, just to the south of the Sept Chemins crossroads. It has been recently restored, and sits in a little area with parking and notice board.
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Dolmen de la Pierre-Pèze
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Dolmen de la Pierre-Pèze submitted by thecaptain on 1st Dec 2005. La Pierre-Pèze is positioned in a lovely woodland glade and despite the noise of the busy road and the TGV trains rushing (quietly) by, the place is full of birdsong and a nice place to spend some time.
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Log Text: Very impressive site
Dolmen de Beaumont
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Vienne (86))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Dolmen de Beaumont submitted by oldman on 1st Oct 2018. Site in Poitou:Vienne (86) France The dolmen could be hidden in here?
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Log Text: No one in the village had heard of a dolmen nearby and I can only assume that the coordinates aren't correct. Nothing visible nearby. Farmer let us look in his area and beyond his land is a disused railway which is very overgrown so could hide anything.
Menhir de La Grande-Borne
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Menhir de La Grande-Borne submitted by johnstone on 11th Feb 2018. From another side, Sep.5, 2014
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Log Text: Have very similar pictures to those already published
Peyrebrune (Seyssac)
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Peyrebrune (Seyssac) submitted by theCaptain on 17th May 2012. The chamber is made using well positioned stone blocks, with a capstone which only covers the western end.
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Dolmen de Palus
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Dolmen de Palus submitted by theCaptain on 17th Jan 2011. In a field just beside the country lane from Douchapt to Ségonzac, near the hamlet of Margot, can be found the remains of this dolmen.
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Dolmen de la Vaurelie
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Dolmen de la Vaurelie submitted by alchemille on 27th Apr 2012. Site in Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) France
Dolmen de la Vaurelie à Tocane Saint Apre
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Log Text: Drive down the track where the dolmen sign is on the road or it's a long walk
Le Breuil
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018. My rating: Ambience 2 Access 5
Le Breuil submitted by oldman on 1st Oct 2018. Site in Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) France
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Log Text: It is difficult to be sure as the coordinates given here are for a location in a garden in the village of Breuil. The owner of the property knew nothing about a dolmen but other locals seemed to think that there was one down a track a little way from the village. We investigated and found two separate piles of huge stones either both or neither of which I am prepared to believe is a dolmen. I include pictures of both and their coordinates a short distance apart along the same track.
Butte-Ronde
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Log Text: We tried to find this tomb when visiting Jardin-aux-Moines tumulus as it is quite nearby. The coordinates given for this site are in the same wood but in an impenetrable section so we had to give up especially after my wife came face to face with an aspic viper.
Dolmen dit Pierre des Champs-Morgan
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Log Text: We did try to visit this site but it is right in amongst the houses so it may be in a garden behind a wall but was not visible to us.
Peyrefitte
Date Added: 1st Oct 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Aquitaine:Gironde (33))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Peyrefitte submitted by thecaptain on 15th Jan 2006. Large menhir near to the Dordogne river in the commune of St-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens in Gironde.
This is said to be the largest standing stone in southwest France, (but not the tallest) and it is 5.2 metres tall, 3 metres wide and less than a metre thick, with the bottom part of it chipped away to make the distinctive shape.
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Log Text: Day out with my new son in law who also is interested in megaliths
Pierre Plantée (Lisle)
Date Added: 30th Sep 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Pierre Plantée (Lisle) submitted by theCaptain on 17th Jan 2011. As I was driving south along the D78 road coming into Lisle, I saw a sign saying Pierre Plantée and there was a stone about a metre high stood just by the roadside.
I cant be sure whether this is the actual Pierre Plantée referred to or indeed whether it is ancient but it isn’t new !
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Log Text: We have a picture of this stone just like that.
La Monerie menhir
Date Added: 30th Sep 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
La Monerie menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 8th May 2006. La Monerie menhir, Dordogne, France
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