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Dolmen de Coëby 2
Trip No.204 Entry No.21 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Jul 2005
Dolmen de Coëby 2 submitted by regina on 30th Nov 2014. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
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Log Text: This is supposedly just beside the road, but the forest was far too thick for me to be able to find it.
Pierre Tabulaire de la Bataille
Trip No.204 Entry No.23 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Pierre Tabulaire de la Bataille submitted by johnstone on 1st Apr 2018. The big megalith in the wood, June 22, 2012
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Log Text: This is a massive slab of rock deep in the forest, found by following a trackway which now has a private sign on it, but I went for a look anyhow. I would think it is a natural slab of granite with its dimensions 10 metres by up to 5 metres, but it would appear to have been used as a capstone to a burial chamber under the eastern end, which has been dug underneath and surrounded with a couple more slabs. Whatever it is, this is a nice place to find.
La Quenouille de Gargantua
Trip No.204 Entry No.29 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Jul 2005
La Quenouille de Gargantua submitted by ogham on 19th Mar 2013. Still standing after all the others were pulled down.
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Log Text: I could not find this.
Dolmen de Men-Gouarec
Trip No.204 Entry No.30 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Dolmen de Men-Gouarec submitted by Ogham on 8th Jul 2011. Passage grave at Mein Gouarec, it is well sign posed and the farmer has ensured it is accessable even when crops are growing
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Log Text: This allée couverte with carved breasts on the back stone is signposted from miles around, and with its own little parking place and signpost. However, when I visited, I was not able to reach it as the farmer has a crop of sweetcorn growing all around it and there was absolutely no way through. this is not supposedly allowed, a pathway should have been kept clear, but what can I do about it ?
Colého Menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.31 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Jul 2005
Colého menhir submitted by Ogham on 19th Dec 2011. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
The menhir is well hidden in the woods at GPS location
47 47.943N 002 45.029W it is 6m in height, 1m in width and 0.5m in depth.
The location was obtained by hand held GPS.
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Log Text: Marked on my map as not far from the roadside near to a junction, I thought that this would be an easy menhir to visit. However, the woodland is very thick and filled with bracken, and I could not get to see it.
Kergonfalz allée couverte
Trip No.204 Entry No.34 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Kergonfalz allée couverte submitted by stollentroll on 14th Dec 2005. Allée couverte Kergonfalz
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Log Text: Just to the west of Bigan, and signposted from there, can be found the remains of this allée couverte right at a road junction. The allée is 9 metres long and oriented to the south, at a bearing of 185°. At the north end there is a closing slab and a little ante chamber behind that. One stone has been lost to the road. Three capstones are still in place, although fallen within the passage. It has been dated to about 2700-3000 BC.
Kergonfalz Tumulus
Trip No.204 Entry No.35 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Kergonfalz tumulus submitted by stollentroll on 14th Dec 2005. Tumulus Kergonfalz
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Log Text: To the west of Bigan, and signposted from there, can be found this dolmen almost completely still within its large mound, just over the road from the easily found allée couverte. The mound must be about 25 metres in diameter, and up to 5 metres high within woodland. The rectangular chamber is about 3 metres by 2 metres, and covered by a single capstone. The entry passageway to the chamber, although now completely fallen and dug into, comes off the chamber and exits to the outside at the east after turning through almost a right angle, a bit like a small version of the Bono tumulus.
Allée Couverte de Men Braz
Trip No.204 Entry No.57 Date Added: 11th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 4 Access 4
Log Text: In the vicinity of the Men-Braz are many other stones, which I am lead to believe are the remains of a much wrecked dolmen.
L'Etoile allée couverte
Trip No.204 Entry No.58 Date Added: 11th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 13th Jul 2005
L'Etoile allée couverte submitted by Ogham on 19th Jan 2012.
The site is at 47 50.252N 003 00.745W taken with a hand held GPS.
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Log Text: After all the time spent looking for the previous stones, I thought that I'd best not go on another long walk through the forest to try and find this one. My notes and books say that it is difficult to find, so I left it alone.
Toul Er Rest Dolmen
Trip No.204 Entry No.59 Date Added: 11th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 13th Jul 2005
Toul Er Rest dolmen submitted by Ogham on 20th Jan 2012. Not a good example of a dolmen.
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Log Text: I had a quick look for this, now to be found somewhere in the outskirts and building land of Camors, but could see no signs or obvious place for it to be, so moved on.
Lann-er-Bein allée couverte
Trip No.204 Entry No.60 Date Added: 11th Jul 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 13th Jul 2005
Lann-er-Bein allée couverte submitted by Ogham on 20th Jan 2012. You can sit in your car and look at this site.
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Log Text: I had a quick look for this, now to be found somewhere in the outskirts and building land of Camors, but could see no signs or obvious place for it to be, so moved on.
L'Armoirie menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.62 Date Added: 11th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 13th Jul 2005
L'Armoirie menhir submitted by Ogham on 20th Jan 2012. Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
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Log Text: I could not find the forest track which leads to this menhir, again there are no signposts obvious, and this stone is not even marked on the ign 1:25000 map, so I didn’t spend long looking.
Supposedly it’s a 1.5 metre tall menhir that has been broken, standing to the southwest of the alignement, between the D.779 and L'Armorie crossroads. So the menhir would be less imposing than most of the stones in the alignement.
Carnac Plage menhir
Trip No.216 Entry No.36 Date Added: 23rd Mar 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Carnac Plage menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Mar 2025. In square Leblois in the seaside resort of Carnac plage can be found a dolmen and a menhir.
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Log Text: In square Leblois in the seaside resort of Carnac plage can be found a dolmen and a menhir.
Carnac Plage Dolmen
Trip No.206 Entry No.35 Date Added: 23rd Mar 2025
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Carnac Plage dolmen submitted by Ogneslav on 19th Jul 2008. Carnac Plage dolmen
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Log Text: In square Leblois in the seaside resort of Carnac plage can be found a dolmen and a menhir.
La Pierre Levée (Graçay)
Trip No.205 Entry No.266 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Cher (18))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 27th Sep 2005
La Pierre Levée (Graçay) submitted by thecaptain on 19th Sep 2008. Just to the south of the D.68 road between Graçay and Nohant-en-Graçay, near to the hamlet of Les Villaines can be seen the remains of this dolmen, about 100 metres from the road in a field.
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Log Text: Just to the south of the D.68 road between Graçay and Nohant-en-Graçay, near to the hamlet of Les Villaines can be seen the remains of this dolmen, about 100 metres from the road in a field. When I was here, the field had been recently planted, so I did not venture any nearer to the dolmen. It was hard to make out any details, but one capstone can be seen to be still raised above the ground on its supports.
Pierre Fritte de Yermenonville
Trip No.204 Entry No.264 Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2005. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 3
Pierre Fritte de Yermenonville submitted by thecaptain on 24th Aug 2005. Pierre Fritte de Yermenonville.
While here in August 2005, there was an archaeological excavation going on at this dolmen, by Archeo. After my 3 km walk to the site on a Sunday evening, there was nobody there, and everything was shut away in the tents, so I could see nothing.
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Log Text: In the village of Mevoisins I saw a sign pointing to Dolmen de la Pierre Fitte, so I stopped and went for a look. Little did I realise that I would be walking 2.5 kilometres to it, at 7:00pm in the evening ! And when I finally got there, I couldn't even see the dolmen, as it was undergoing excavations by Archaeo, and enclosed in a tent. There were all sorts of tents and equipment, but nobody around at this time on a Sunday evening, so I left one of my cards. There was a pile of stones on old tyres in one part of the site, and I wondered if these were the dolmen stones. From what I could see through small openings in the big tents, there were no large stones to be seen, just sort of trenches etc, I guess the stones have been moved out of the way. While I was at Mevoisins menhir I had seen a row of cars slowly driving across the fields, and this must have been the archaeologists leaving for the day. While I was walking back, two cars drove past, and on up to the tents. I had missed them by 5 minutes, and might have got a guided tour of the site. Pity its so late, and that I ought to stop.
Mevoisins menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.263 Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Mevoisins menhir submitted by thecaptain on 24th Aug 2005. This wonderful 3 metre tall stone standing up in the hills between Mevoisins and Yermenonville, can be seen for miles around.
It turns out that this stone has only been here a few years, having been erected in the year 2000 to celebrate the millennium, but its such a lovely stone, I thought it deserves to be seen here.
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Log Text: This lovely 3 metre tall menhir can be seen from miles around, beside the D.329 road up in the hills between the two villages of Mevoisins and Yermenonville. It’s a gorgeous angular lump of flinty sarsen, but it turns out that it was erected only 5 years ago to mark the turning of the millennium. It seems that there was a big party to celebrate putting the stone up, using only manpower, logs and ropes.
This had me fooled into thinking it was the Pierre-qui-Vire, which is supposedly to be found in the community somewhere. So as not to fool anyone investigating this stone in the future, there is buried under the stone a computer, a mobile phone, some money and a listing of all the people living in the community.
Dolmen de la Ferme Brûlée
Trip No.202 Entry No.82 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2005
Dolmen de la Ferme Brûlée submitted by thecaptain on 10th Nov 2005. La Ferme Brûlée dolmen.
Just to the south of Fort Harrouard neolithic settlement, on the banks of the river Eure, is another of these dolmens inside a private garden with lots of keep out signs and security fences. However, it can be seen over the gate, down at the end of the driveway.
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Log Text: Down by the banks of the river Eure are marked on my map a dolmen and polissoir. I couldn’t park close so parked and walked back from some distance away during which time I got soaked by a torrential downpour. I eventually found a house called Le Dolmen but with lots of keep out signs and security devices. Down the far end of the driveway I could see the dolmen and managed a long distance photo of it part hidden by a van. There was no way I could get any sight of the polissoir which was a shame.
Fort Harrouard
Trip No.202 Entry No.84 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 3rd May 2005
Fort Harrouard submitted by thecaptain on 10th Nov 2005. Fort Harrouard seen above the river Eure.
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Log Text: This ancient defended settlement is positioned on a steep hillside high above the river Eure near the village of Marcilly-sur-Eure.
Petit Menhir (Changé)
Trip No.204 Entry No.258 Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Petit Menhir (Changé) submitted by thecaptain on 25th Nov 2006. Petit Menhir (Changé)
A large slab of the grey stone stands just outside the remains of the two dolmens.
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Log Text: A large slab of the grey stone stands just outside the remains of the two dolmens. It is about 2 metres tall, but was leaning against a wooden post to hold it upright when I visited, due to the excavations going on here.