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La Pierre Folle (Montguyon)
Date Added: 26th Oct 2019
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
La Pierre Folle (Montguyon) submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Feb 2011. This superb monument is signposted to the north of the town of Montguyon, and has its own parking and picnic area. It is a double monument, with an Aquitaine allée-couverte combined with a dolmen.
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Log Text: Magnificent huge monument with impressive stones.
Dolmen dit de la Madeleine
Date Added: 30th Sep 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018. My rating: Access 1
Dolmen dit de la Madeleine submitted by hewpop on 25th Sep 2007. Sainte-Madeleine dolmen aka. Pierre Madeleine.
Actually on the southern-most tip of an island in the river La Vienne, at Saint-Germaine-de-Confolens, not the town of Confolens downstream.
View from the SW.
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Log Text: It would be truer to say we tried to visit this site. We did find someone who knew of its existence but the access is over a private bridge to the island. A boat might be useful. Not possible to get close enough on either side of the river to take a picture.
Dolmen de Confolens
Date Added: 30th Sep 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Dolmen de Confolens submitted by irundarra on 11th May 2011. Site in Confolens
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Log Text: Zero ambiance here but we loved Confolens. Stayed here in both directions!
Menhir Le Repaire
Date Added: 30th Sep 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Menhir Le Repaire submitted by TAUPIN on 4th Aug 2011. Menhir Le Repaire
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Garde Epée Dolmen
Date Added: 26th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Garde Epée dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Jul 2007. Garde Epée dolmen suffers from graffitti and rubbish, but is otherwise well looked after in a little clearing amongst the vines with its own sign.
It can be found just to the south of the D.157 road, a couple of kilometres west of Jarnac.
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Log Text: This is a huge dolmen.
Rocher de la Vache
Date Added: 26th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Rocher de la Vache submitted by Rubis on 28th Mar 2011. Rocher de la Vache
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Log Text: Not as frequented as the nearby dolmen. Not really a path but there is a route through the trees so not difficult to find when you know it is at the top of the hill.
La Motte a Dognon
Date Added: 26th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
La Motte a Dognon submitted by taupin on 7th Jan 2012. La Motte a Dognon
Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France
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Log Text: An interesting tumulus. It is well covered by undergrowth and ivy so it is difficult to see its construction but there are a lot of loose stones around the edges that you can see so it may be that it is stone rather than an earth mound.
Dolmen de Lambertie
Date Added: 26th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen de Lambertie submitted by TAUPIN on 3rd Aug 2011. Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France
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Log Text: The capstone is massive. Most of the tomb is below ground
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.
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.
Pierre Levée de Soullans
Date Added: 25th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pierre Levée de Soullans submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Jun 2011. In a little forest clearing beside the busy D. 69 road to the south of Challons, I found this stone because of the restaurant of the same name.
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Log Text: Don't stop on the D69. The wood is enclosed on the other 3 sides by small roads all of which have signs pointing to the Menhir. It is also a pleasant wood to walk through along the path. Once you get there it certainly is an impressive stone.
La Pierre Folle (Commequiers)
Date Added: 25th Oct 2019
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
La Pierre Folle (Commequiers) submitted by dipo on 15th Dec 2009. 85 COMMEQUIERS
La Pierre Folle
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Les Pierres Jumelles
Date Added: 25th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Les Pierres Jumelles submitted by theCaptain on 24th Jan 2011. The Pierres Jumelles, or twin stones, are both about 4 metres high, but that is where the similarity between them ends.
One of the stones is a rounded block of lovely pink granite, while the other is a tall pointed grey stone.
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Log Text: shame that they are now in the village
La Sulette Dolmen
Date Added: 25th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85))
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
La Sulette dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 13th Dec 2005. This is a pleasant find, as it has been fully excavated and restored in 1989 to 1991, and is now found completely within its mound, a kilometre or so to the northwest of St Hilaire-la-Foret.
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Log Text: Always good to have full access to an ancient site.
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.
Menhir de Breau
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. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Menhir de Breau submitted by oldman on 3rd Oct 2018. Site in Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 France
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Log Text: If you put these coordinates into google maps it looks as if you can drive almost up to the menhir. In fact the last kilometer is a grassy path which descends quickly via a hairpin to run along the river. At the end of the path is a weir and a house on the other side which I believe is the site of an old watermill. The road runs steeply up from the house on the other side of the river so this could be an ancient crossing point. The path opens up into a large meadow enclosed by the bend in the river at this point. The menhir stands in the meadow backed by a rock face which drops into the far side of the river. The 3.5 meter menhir appears pointed on one side and with a wide flat top on the other.
Dolmen du Moulin Moreau
Date Added: 3rd Oct 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Dolmen du Moulin Moreau submitted by oldman on 3rd Oct 2018. Site in Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 France. This may have been part of the dolmen dressed as a garden feature.
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Log Text: Attempted to visit Moulin Moreau and we may have seen some of it dressed up as a garden feature
Dolmen de la Motte
Date Added: 27th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Yes on 13th Oct 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dolmen de la Motte submitted by ocdolmen on 16th Oct 2009. Pierre Couverte dolmen (Moulin Piau) Dolmen de la Motte
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Log Text: I would have rated this higher but the next day we stopped at two of the biggest dolmen I have ever seen so this is just a small cottage compared to the mansions we saw on the following day
Cromlech des Forges
Date Added: 27th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Yes on 14th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cromlech des Forges submitted by ocdolmen on 16th Sep 2009. Les Forges cromlech
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Log Text: The ambiance of this small ancient site does not seem to be spoiled by the fact it is right by the side of the road. There are many stones here as well as the main three manhirs. Not easy for a wheelchair visit other than a drive by.
Menhir de la Cohardais
Date Added: 3rd Oct 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018
Menhir de la Cohardais submitted by dipo on 12th Mar 2010. Menhir de la Cohardais.
44 LUSANGER
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Log Text: So much dumping here now you have to walk round the outside of the wood and climb over a fence at the back to see the menhir.