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Menhir Bois-es-Lucas
Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Couldn't find on 19th Sep 1992
Menhir Bois-es-Lucas submitted by regina on 30th Sep 2018. Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) France
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Emerald Coast, day 2, Dinan, Corseul, St Caste. Roman tower, dolmens, Lunch at Le Guildo castle. Failed to find
Ville-Tinguy dolmen
Date Added: 12th Jun 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 1992
Ville-Tinguy dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 20th Dec 2008. I have seen this described as an allée couverte, but it looked more like a simple dolmen to me, unless there is much of it ruined and not visible amongst the crops. At least one capstone is held up proudly in place for all to see as they drive past.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Emerald Coast, day 2, Dinan, Corseul, St Caste. Roman tower, dolmens, Lunch at Le Guildo castle.
La Hautière
Date Added: 12th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 1992
La Hautière submitted by theCaptain on 18th Mar 2014. This is a fairly large allée couverte in a field to the east of the D.768 road between Créhen and Trégon, which had just been cropped for hay when I visited in 2005, so it was easy to get to.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Emerald Coast, day 2, Dinan, Corseul, St Caste. Roman tower, dolmens, Lunch at Le Guildo castle.
Ville Génouhan allée couverte
Date Added: 12th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 1992
Ville Génouhan allée couverte submitted by theCaptain on 20th Mar 2014. Remains of a fairly standard looking allée couverte 12 metres long with still 6 capstones in place. Most of the sidestones seem to have collapsed inwards, making much of it look like not much more than a long pile of stones.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Emerald Coast, day 2, Dinan, Corseul, St Caste. Roman tower, dolmens, Lunch at Le Guildo castle.
La Ganterie
Trip No.208 Entry No.4 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
La Ganterie submitted by thecaptain on 9th Apr 2008. Revisiting this in March 2008, it was not so overgrown as it had been in June 2005, but it was still impossible to tell how long the allée couverte was, with the eastern end (right) all covered in very thick brambles and other bushes.
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Log Text: Revisiting this in March 2008, and it was not so overgrown as it had been in June 2005, but it was still impossible to tell how long the allée couverte was, with the eastern end all covered in very thick brambles and other bushes. The more open western end has one or two capstones still sitting on top of their supports, with the two side walls of the allée being about 1.5 metres apart.
Coët Correc allée couverte
Trip No.203 Entry No.584 Date Added: 8th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 26th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Coët Correc allée couverte submitted by greywether on 26th Jun 2005. Detail of the entrance and porthole at the E end.
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Log Text: A few kilometres to the east of Liscuis can be found this nice allée couverte. Once off the busy N.?? Road, it is thankfully signposted, as it's a bit of a tortuous journey to get there. From a parking place up a steep lane, it's then several hundred metres of walking, some of which is overgrown, to find the monument.
Once you get there, you are immediately taken aback by what has happened to it, presumably as an act of christianisation, as a large double staircased calvary has been built right over the end of the chamber ! A most interesting feature !
The prehistoric remains are of an 11 metre long allée couverte, facing east at 095°, but with a lateral entry on the southern side near the eastern end. The main chamber is about 1.5 metres wide, up to 2 metres tall, and is paved, but has only the two westernmost capstones still in place. There is a little vestibule arrangement south of the entry, which is blocked off with two doorstones, which have an oval entrance carved into them, which is only just big enough for me to squeeze through, a very nice feature. A pity it was all a bit overgrown though.
Thiemblais menhir
Trip No.208 Entry No.3 Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Thiemblais menhir submitted by neolithique02 on 21st Feb 2014. Le menhir de Saint-Samson sur Rance (Côtes d'Armor) Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D''Armor (22) France
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Log Text: My second visit to this most wonderful menhir, about 1:30pm, late March 2008, in a hazy sun, and some of the carvings on the front face can be seen. An hour or two earlier would have been better, as would a stronger sun. After a while, you "get your eye in" and more and more wonderful carvings come into view. I can see on here (with the eye of the knowing, and the full def picture) the animal (mid left, just above the quartz vein) and a couple of crosses and other bits and pieces.
Having got hold of a new book about the megalithes around Dinan, I can report that a revised picture of the carvings has been published in the last year or so, after various techniques have been used to make the carvings more prominent. These seem to agree more with what I saw several years ago and have been recorded in my photographs. Mind you, it seems that the "animal" on the mid left of the stone may have turned around, and its legs almost doubled in length !!! Now it is perhaps running to the right, rather than grazing to the left....
But to be serious for a while, this really is one of the most magnificent megalithic sites I have visited, and it has the capability of bringing emotions to the surface. Here is plain evidence of the cross symbol being used at important places 2500 years or more BC. And the importance of the animals....
And the shaping of the stone - look how flat the main face is, and how straight the upright edges are, even after about 5000 years of erosion. And this surely couldn't have been a one off ? Surely many more of these wonderful menhirs would have been carved and patterned ? Damn all those girls and floozies who have climbed and slid down the stone in their birth knickers in the hope of getting wed. The front face is almost polished smooth, with the carvings almost rubbed smooth.
Rochers de Ploumanac'h
Trip No.193 Entry No.2 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 29th May 1993. My rating: Access 4
Rochers de Ploumanac'h submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2020. Whale or pouring bottle?
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 1. Cycle Roscoff, Morlaix, Lannion, Ploumanac'h. Too far. 52 miles. Funny Rocks. Camp and head to Ploumanach for a big seafood dinner. The headland north of Ploumanac'h is now a municipal park, and has the most spectacular coastline where the pink granite rocks tumble into the emerald blue sea. This headland abounds in strangely shaped rocks, many with names such as the tortoise, the witch, the Egyptian and a bottle. There is a beautiful signed footpath which runs all around this headland from the beach where the Oratoire de St Guirec is positioned, marking the place where the Welsh monk landed after his voyage from Britain in the 6th century, allegedly arriving in a stone trough pulled by angels.
Oratoire de St Guirec
Trip No.193 Entry No.3 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 29th May 1993. My rating: Access 4
Oratoire de St Guirec submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Jul 2020. Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) France
The Oratoire de St Guirec on the beach named after St Guirec, the Welsh monk who allegedly landed here on his voyage from Britain in the 6th century, arriving in a stone trough pulled by angels.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 1. Cycle Roscoff, Morlaix, Lannion, Ploumanac'h. Too far. 52 miles. Funny Rocks. Camp and head to Ploumanach for a big seafood dinner.
The Oratoire de St Guirec is situated on the beach named after St Guirec, the Welsh monk who landed here on his voyage from Britain in the 6th century, allegedly arriving in a stone trough pulled by angels. The original wooden statue has been replaced by one of stone, after becoming damaged by the local tradition for girls to stick a pin in its nose when they wanted to marry.
La Tête de Mort
Trip No.193 Entry No.8 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993. My rating: Access 4
La Tête de Mort submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2020. Death warmed up
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones. At the northern end of Coz Pors beach is a large granite outcrop which viewed from some angles resembles a giant skull, known as La Tête de Mort.
Le Roi Gradlon
Trip No.193 Entry No.9 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993. My rating: Access 5
Le Roi Gradlon submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Jun 2020. Old postcard of Le Roi Gradlon
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones. A large granite outcrop which resembles a crowned kings head protruding up through the earth towers above the beach of la grêve blanche.
Kerguntuil Dolmen
Trip No.193 Entry No.10 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993
Kerguntuil dolmen submitted by greywether on 26th Jun 2005. There are two sites here: a dolmen and a more interesting allee couverte.
Photo shows dolmen with allee couverte in the background. Taken June 1994.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones.
Kerguntuil allée couverte
Trip No.193 Entry No.11 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993
Kerguntuil allée couverte submitted by greywether on 26th Jun 2005. Allee couverte from the NE. The entrance is on the right.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones.
Keryvon allée couverte
Trip No.193 Entry No.12 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993
Keryvon allée couverte submitted by thecaptain on 27th Feb 2007. Right beside the D.788 road from Trébeurden to Trégastel, and only feet from the cliff edge, is the remains of this allée couverte.
It has a single capstone on side supports only, but there are at least three of them on the south side, and possibly more. At the back, near the hedge, I think that there are a few peristalith stones also.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones.
Prajou-Menhir menhir
Trip No.193 Entry No.13 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993
Prajou-Menhir menhir submitted by regina on 30th Sep 2018. The little menhir next to the Allée couverte.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones.
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Trip No.193 Entry No.14 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by greywether on 26th Jun 2005. From the W. The art is in the end cell in the foreground. June 1994
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones.
Ty-Lia (Île Grande)
Trip No.193 Entry No.15 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993
Ty-Lia (Ile Grande) submitted by greywether on 26th Jun 2005. Allee-couverte surrounded by stones marking the edge of the mound.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones.
Saint-Uzec menhir
Trip No.193 Entry No.16 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993
Saint-Uzec menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Apr 2011. Its crowning glory is the way it has been christianised with the addition of a granite cross on top and carvings on its front (southern) face, which show scenes from the bible and the "roughly hewn instruments of passion".
In the past it was also painted. This was all done in 1674, when the nearby chapel was built.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Take lunch at the St Uzec menhir, where we have a lot of fun discussing the way it has been christianised with its roughly hewn instruments of passion, and some offerings left beside.
St Samson Chapel well
Trip No.193 Entry No.17 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993
St Samson Chapel well submitted by Ural on 26th Dec 2012. Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) France
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones.
Menhir a Vertu
Trip No.193 Entry No.18 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993
Menhir a Vertu submitted by theCaptain on 3rd Apr 2010. This is a wonderful little menhir, less than 2 metres tall, but a tremendous phallic shape, stands right outside the front door of the Chapel of St Samson.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Ooo Errr missus. This one goes well after the St Uzec roughly hewn instruments of passion.