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Peyre Levade (Condat)
Trip No.203 Entry No.60 Date Added: 5th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 17th May 2005
Peyre Levade (Condat) submitted by alchemille on 3rd Aug 2013. Dolmen Peyre levade de Fouret, Condat sur Trincou, Dordogne.
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Log Text: A couple of kilometres east of Brantôme is marked a dolmen on my ign map but despite trying hard to find it I saw no signs of anything and there was nowhere at all to park on very small country lanes to get out and have a proper look.
Pierre des Justices
Trip No.203 Entry No.81 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 19th May 2005
Log Text: Just off the main road from Perigueux to Les-Eyzies at the junction of the D32 west to Mauzens-et-Miremont is a little picnic and parking area. If you then follow this road west under the splendid railway viaduct after a few hundred metres pass the lavoir then take the little lane up to the left. Somewhere several hundred metres up the steep slope into these woods can be found the Pierre des Justices polissoir stone.
I was told by locals that unless you know exactly where to look then you will not find it. I had a quick look round and decided that there are better things to do than conduct a full search of a large steep overgrown wood.
Peyrebrune megalith
Trip No.203 Entry No.92 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 20th May 2005
Peyrebrune megalith submitted by LaDragonne on 2nd Mar 2024. La Peyre Brune à côté de gravats, sur un site dominant le paysage, Sainte-Orse, Site in Aquitaine: Dordogne (24) France
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Log Text: Near the hamlet of Rozas to the east of Saint-Orse is the farm called Peyre Brune where there are some megalithic remains. I understand it is a large menhir but with stories surrounding it that it is a meteorite which has crashed to earth. On the tiny roads in this area I could find nowhere to park or indeed turn round so gave up perhaps a bit too easily.
Langlade Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.94 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Langlade dolmen submitted by regina on 21st Jun 2013. Site in Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) France
The dolmen is about 100 m. from the hamlet Langlade under chestnut trees.
coordinate N44.74965 E1.05031(GPS)
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Log Text: I spent hours looking for this after it looked easy on the 1:25000 map in the supermarket. To start with I was looking on the wrong ridge for a different stone called Cayrelevada. After asking some people logging in a forest they pointed me in the right direction which was several kilometres away ! The book says it’s a beau dolmen beside the road in a garden in the hamlet of Langlade. Try as I might I couldn’t find this. I even looked in the woods around here. I really do need the 1:25000 maps to hunt these things down but at €10 a time for such small areas that’s just not on.
Cayre Levat
Trip No.203 Entry No.95 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Cayre Levat submitted by LaDragonne on 7th May 2023. Deux des dalles de grès de Cayre Levat, Carves ; Site in Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) France
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Log Text: I drove round all the lanes I could find north of St Amande looking for something here but other than signs pointing to the farm of the same name I couldn’t find that farm. None of them seem to have names. I saw a poste van and was tempted to stop it and ask the postman. I was not helped by long winding lanes with nowhere to turn and various road works.
Dolmen de Pincanelle
Trip No.203 Entry No.102 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Dolmen de Pincanelle submitted by LaDragonne on 16th Aug 2017. Dolmen rather hidden in a hedge in the middle of a field. Photo showing its capstone.
Commune de Ste Sabine
dolmen complètement caché dans une haie au milieu d'un champ. Photo de sa table.
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Log Text: I spent ages walking around many small lanes near the hamlet of Pincanelle looking for this 5 metre long dolmen capstone and asked an old lady in her garden but got nowhere. The lady apparently has no interest in such things and didn’t want to help although she was very interested in what I was doing !
Dolmen de Case du Loup
Trip No.203 Entry No.101 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Dolmen de Case du Loup submitted by LaDragonne on 16th Aug 2017. Huge capstone in balance. An orthostate has been removed.
Énorme table en équilibre. Un orthostate enlevé.
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Log Text: This dolmen is supposedly 2.5 metres high and three metres long. But beware it houses a giant and monstrous wolf with eyes burning with fire. I spent hours in the hamlet of Larocale looking for this and asked many people who didn’t know until I fond a man out strimmering in the garden who did at least know of its existence. It turned out he was a Professor of Prehistory but of older stuff than megaliths. He told me where to find the dolmen “turn right then right again and up a footpath into the wood on the left about a kilometre. Its small and difficult to find” but he knew of none of the others in the area.
Too right it was difficile a trouver. The wood was being cleared and logged by a man with a tractor splitting logs who I asked but he knew nothing. I had a look round but could find nothing. Just where is that monstrous Loup when you nee him ? On my way back to the Campingcar a couple of the people who I had asked enquired if I had found it. No such luck. One lady then told me about the dolmen at Nojals. At least they know of that one round these parts.
Le Breil Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.103 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Le Breil Dolmen submitted by paulcall on 30th Aug 2007. A view of the dolmen from the south-west
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Log Text: Could I find this ? Nope.
Dolmen de Pedorat
Trip No.203 Entry No.104 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Dolmen de Pedorat submitted by LaDragonne on 7th May 2023. Une des énormes dalles poussées dans le bois à Pedorat, Boisse ; Site in Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) France
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Log Text: Could I find this ? Nope.
Menhir dit le Caillou (Boisse)
Trip No.203 Entry No.105 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Menhir dit le Caillou (Boisse) submitted by LaDragonne on 16th Aug 2017. Site in Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) France
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Log Text: Could I find this ? Nope.
Dolmen le Roc del Ser (Faux)
Trip No.203 Entry No.107 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 21st May 2005
Dolmen le Roc del Ser (Faux) submitted by LaDragonne on 16th Aug 2017. The huge slabs are at ground level.
Les énormes dalles sont au ras du sol
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Log Text: Supposedly very close to the D.19 is this 5 metre long stone the remains of a dolmen capstone but I couldn’t find it. Have to say that by now I wasn’t looking hard. It said that if you recite an Avé Maria to it the stone will turn nine times.
I really must try and find this one tomorrow. Its been one of those afternoons where I couldn’t find anything and became frustrated. Then it started to rain and then thunderstorms and I find I am driving around fairly aimlessly so decide to stop and find a camp site for the night which as seems to be the case at times like this isn’t easy. I find several closed ones until I find an open one back at Beaumont again but it only accepts tents.
Its got a tiny car park and someone has parked awkwardly behind me and I have to reverse out from a tight spot uphill between the cars. This I do successfully but believing I was out crunch and I have hit the gatepost on the other side and have buggered the new plastic trim at the back corner. It seems to be the only damage. Poor van.
I eventually find a campsite at Couze but with nobody around so I just take a place and plug in for the night. At least the showers work. Wonder who won the F.A. Cup this afternoon ?
Dolmen de Baneuil
Trip No.203 Entry No.108 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 22nd May 2005
Dolmen de Baneuil submitted by LaDragonne on 18th Jul 2022. Dalles de couverture du dolmen de Baneuil.
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Log Text: The book says this one is close to the Mairie and I found that OK but no signs of a dolmen nearby. I spend a fairly long time walking round all the lanes and ask a couple of locals but they know nothing. I also checked in the nearby wood nothing was obvious. These Perigord wild goose chases are pissing me off. Decide its time to leave here and stick to those on the maps.
Maison du Loup dolmen 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.111 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 22nd May 2005
Maison du Loup dolmen 1 submitted by ocdolmen on 7th May 2006. Maison du Loup dolmen (also called Monpazier dolmen), Dordogne, France.
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Log Text: The book I have says this one is 100 metres from the D.2 road near Marsalès at a place called Borie-Neuve so I thought this one was findable and worth a go. I found Borie-Neuve easily enough but no obvious dolmen. So I looked round all the lanes and tracks in the vicinity but still found nothing. There was nobody here to ask so I had a look in the forest here but its all thick undergrowth and there's no way of finding anything without knowing where to look. Why oh why don’t they all have signposts or at least footpaths to them ?
Abri de Cro-Magnon
Date Added: 21st Oct 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 17th Sep 1978
Abri de Cro-Magnon submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Sep 2006. Abri de Cro-Magnon UNESCO World Heritage site.
It's nothing much to see, just a little rock shelter in the cliff face shaded by a couple of large chestnut trees, with a little walled and fenced area around it.
It is sadly hidden round the back of the hotel and almost forgotten.
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Log Text: Hitch Hiking Trip round France in the summer of 1978. Camped for a couple of days at Les Eyzies to visit and wonder at the ancient sites here.
Musée National de Préhistoire
Date Added: 21st Oct 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 1978
Musée National de Préhistoire submitted by dodomad on 5th Jul 2015. Exhibition: Signs of wealth. Inequalities in the Neolithic, running from 27th June 2015 to 15th November 2015
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Log Text: Hitch Hiking Trip round France in the summer of 1978. Camped for a couple of days at Les Eyzies to visit and wonder at the ancient sites here.
Font-de-Gaume
Date Added: 21st Oct 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 1978
Font-de-Gaume submitted by ocdolmen on 26th May 2006. Site in Aquitaine: Dordogne (24)
Entrance of Font de Gaume cave, Dordogne, France.
The entrance is on the right on the photo (the cave on the left is a dead end and presents no drawing)
Inside the cave, a great number of buffalos and horses drawings and some engraved drawings.
Magdalenian period (about 20.000 BCE)
One of the rare prehistoric cave with drawings still open to public.
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Log Text: Hitch Hiking Trip round France in the summer of 1978. Camped for a couple of days at Les Eyzies to visit and wonder at the ancient sites here.
La Roque-Saint-Christophe
Date Added: 21st Oct 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 1978
La Roque-Saint-Christophe submitted by theCaptain on 6th Jan 2011. In a gigantic cliff face beside the river Vézère is found this World Heritage Site.
It's an entire troglodytic city which was inhabited continuously from 50000 years ago until a few centuries ago.
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Log Text: Hitch Hiking Trip round France in the summer of 1978. Camped for a couple of days at Les Eyzies to visit and wonder at the ancient sites here.
Pierre Levée (Salles-de-Castillon)
Trip No.203 Entry No.221 Date Added: 21st Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Aquitaine:Gironde (33))
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Pierre Levée (Salles-de-Castillon) submitted by thecaptain on 4th Jul 2005. La Pierre Levée, Salles-de-Castillon, Gironde.
This was one of the more interesting sites I found in my last session in France. It comes with its own wine, made by the chap in the picture, in his "chateau" at which this menhir is at the entrance.
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Log Text: This one comes with its own wine! While driving from Peyre Lebade towards Clotte I saw this stone standing at the entrance to a farmhouse wine producer and noticed that the farm was called Chateau de la Pierre Levée.
I stopped to have a better look and a man on his tractor in the vineyard came over to me so I tried to ask him about the stone. Apparently somewhere in his garage he has an archaeological panel with some information on it which he intends to get erected by the stone but he couldn’t find it. He called his wife who told him it was in the garage and went to look for herself also to no avail ! At this point I enquired of their wine and got taken on a little tour of the place and a tasting or two (how could I refuse?) so of course bought a case of mixed vintages for a very reasonable price as a souvenir.
The menhir at the entrance is just over 2 metres tall but I have to say looks fairly recently erected there although the stone looks as old as the hills. I think I saw somewhere that the menhir after which the wine is named was in a corner of a field. Perhaps it has been fairly recently moved here. It’s a pity I couldn’t fully converse with the chap he had a thick accent which didn’t help and although we chatted well about simple things the details were missed.
Peyre Lebade
Trip No.203 Entry No.220 Date Added: 21st Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Aquitaine:Gironde (33))
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Peyre Lebade submitted by thecaptain on 9th Jan 2006. Peyre Lebade near the village of Salles-de-Castillon in Gironde.
In the corner of the road junction to the west of the village centre can be seen a small standing stone fenced in to a little grassy garden area.
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Log Text: While looking at the village map by the Mairie to see if it marked any of the supposedly local ancient stones I noted an area called Peyre Lebade so of course I went to have a look. In the corner of the road junction here to the west of the village centre can be seen a small standing stone fenced in to a little grassy garden area. It cant be much more than a metre tall and is well weathered so I assume it’s a proper menhir.
Dolmen de Puy Landry
Trip No.203 Entry No.222 Date Added: 21st Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Gironde (33))
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Dolmen de Puy Landry submitted by thecaptain on 9th Jan 2006. Close inspection shows the main stone to be about 1.5 metres tall with a fallen companion about a metre away to the north. These stones are on top of a mound running in an easterly direction and there are several other stones lying about in the vicinity, which leads me to suspect that this is indeed the remains of a dolmen or allée couverte, rather than a menhir.
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Log Text: The old chap at Chateau Pierre Levée knew of this dolmen's existence but the chap at Puy Landry winery didn’t but he pointed me in the direction of a menhir on the top of Puy Landry hill about a kilometre to the north but ce n’est pas grand.. I initially thought it was too far to go walking to in the intense heat and suspected he was pointing me to the Clotte menhir on the ridge but having driven nearby to have a better look it didn’t seem so far. About 400 metres from the D21E road up a track between the vineyards to the top of the ridge and in the woodland can be seen a standing stone.
Closer inspection shows the stone to be about 1.5 metres tall with a fallen companion about a metre away to the north. These stones are on top of a mound running in an easterly direction and there are several other stones lying about in the vicinity which leads me to suspect that this is indeed the remains of a dolmen or allée couverte.