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Kerarmel Menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.39 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Kerarmel menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 19th May 2011. This nice pointed deltoid menhir must be over 5 metres in height, and is easily found just beside the D.778 road south of St Jean-Brévelay by the farm of the same name.
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Log Text: This nice pointed deltoid menhir must be over 5 metres in height, and is easily found just beside the D.778 road south of St Jean-Brévelay by the farm of the same name. It seems a strange position to me, on a hillside. It has a chestnut tree growing beside it, and from many angles it looks like the stone is the trunk of the tree.
Lann Doaur menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.38 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Lann Doaur menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 20th May 2011. This menhir, more than 4 metres tall, is right beside the dirt track between Kertuhet and Kercado.
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Log Text: This menhir, more than 4 metres tall (4.5m), is right beside the dirt track between Kertuhet and Kercado. Its almost 3 metres in width, but less than a metre thick
St Jean-Brévelay stèle
Trip No.204 Entry No.33 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
St Jean-Brévelay stèle submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd May 2011. Right out the back of the church, is the remains of an iron age stele, almost used as a roadsign.
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Log Text: Right out the back of the church, is the remains of an iron age stele, almost used as a roadsign.
St Jean-Brévelay menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.32 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
St Jean-Brévelay menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd May 2011. Right outside the church is a splendid 4 to 5 metre tall menhir. It looks like an original, but I couldn’t find it mentioned in any of my books.
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Log Text: Right outside the church is a splendid 4 to 5 metre tall menhir. It looks like an original, but I couldn’t find it mentioned in any of my books.
Larcuste cairns 3
Trip No.204 Entry No.45 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Larcuste cairns 3 submitted by TheCaptain on 25th May 2011. To the south of the two restored cairns, it is clear to see that there is a faint raise in the adjacent field which is the ploughed out remains of a further cairn.
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Log Text: To the south of the two restored cairns, it is clear to see that there is a very faint raise in the adjacent field which is the ploughed out remains of a further cairn. In fact there were once two more cairns here.
Larcuste Cairns
Trip No.204 Entry No.42 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Larcuste Cairns submitted by TheCaptain on 25th May 2011. The deteriorating noticeboard at the site.
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Log Text: The remains of these chambered cairns are easily found by following the plentiful roadsigns a couple of kilometres to the south of Colpo. This well known and important site occupies a hilltop position in open countryside, but has a large area set aside around it. What it consists of these days are the remains of two cairns, but once there were several more lined up with them. Looking around, a bit further to the south on the top of the hill it is easy to imagine there being another large cairn or two, with undulations in the ploughed fields suggesting their position.
The two cairns we have today are largely made up of dry stones, and sit beside one another, with their eastern entrances aligned with one another. The site has been dated to about 4000 BC. Both of the cairns have had major restoration work carried out on them after excavations in 1968 to 1972, and its a shame to report that, although lots of concrete and cement has been used to hold them together, much of this work is now falling apart. I guess its due to the number of visitors this place must get, but its in need of further work to prevent deterioration. This is what prevents me giving a 5 for the condition of the place.
I have since read that there were indeed once 4 cairns here originally, the other two of which have been completely ploughed out. I have also read that there are some very faint engravings and carvings of crooks and serpents on a few of the large stones inside cairn 1.
Larcuste cairns 1
Trip No.204 Entry No.43 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Larcuste cairns 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 26th May 2011. Cairn 1, the northern of the two restored cairns, contains two dolmens with entry passageways, which both open to the east.
Only the northern chamber has its capstone in place, along with one of its passageway covers.
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Log Text: Cairn 1, the northern of the two, contains two dolmens with entry passageways, which both open to the east. The chambers are made up of alternating slabs and drystone walling. Only the northern chamber has its capstone in place, along with one of its passageway covers.
If the reconstruction is accurate, then it looks to me as if this was built in two stages, the southern single dolmen built first in a smaller cairn, with the northern chamber being added at a later dateto the outside of the original cairn. Each chamber is about 3 metres by 2.5 metres, with a 3 to 4 metre long entry passageway.
I have read that there are some very faint engravings and carvings of crooks and serpents on a few of the large stones inside this cairn 1.
Larcuste cairns 2
Trip No.204 Entry No.44 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Larcuste cairns 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 27th May 2011.
Site in Bretagne:Morbihan (56) France
Larcuste cairn 2 (with cairn 1 behind), seen here from the southwest.
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Log Text: Cairn 2 is a slightly bigger mound, with only a single eastern facing entrance. From this entrance, the passageway continues for about 10 metres into the cairn, and from which 6 chambers open out onto the sides. Each chamber is topped with a capstone, 4 of which remain today. Most of the walling is made with dry stones, very few large slabs are in place. Some of these chambers are quite round, while others look sort of squareish, and all are about 1 to 1.5 metres in dimension.
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.
Roche de Migourdy
Trip No.204 Entry No.28 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 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Roche de Migourdy submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Sep 2013. What you find is a nice 25 metre diameter mound at the top of the hill in a field, covered in 2005 with trees and dense undergrowth.
Within this mound is the remains of a very nice dolmen a couloir, still mostly buried within it.
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Log Text: This was a nice one to find, and is a few hundred metres walk up a track and then across a field to the south of the village of Kergoff, which itself is a few kilometres south of Plumelic. What you find is a nice 25 metre diameter mound at the top of the hill in a field, covered as usual with trees and dense undergrowth.
Within this mound is the remains of a very nice dolmen a couloir, still mostly buried within it. The chamber is about 3.5 m by 2.5 m and lined with large slabs. The whole thing is topped by a single large capstone, and there is room enough to stand up within it. A couple of stones remain from the entrance passageway.
I understand that this mound once had two dolmens within it, one of which has now been wrecked. I found no sign of another chamber anywhere, but that is not to say that there aren't remains hidden in the thick undergrowth somewhere.
Menhir Fourchu
Trip No.204 Entry No.25 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Menhir Fourchu submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Sep 2013. This is a nice menhir stood at the side of the road just to the east of Lezonnais. It is about 3.5 metres tall, 1.5 metres wide and only 0.3 metres thick, and has a nicely forked shape at the top, hence its name, and a sort of nose on one side.
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Log Text: This is a nice menhir stood at the side of the road just to the east of Lezonnais. It is about 3.5 metres tall, 1.5 metres wide and only 0.3 metres thick, and has a nicely forked shape at the top, hence its name, and a sort of nose on one side. Around this area are many stones stood up beside the road, in gardens etc, of which I assume are mostly modern and field clearance, otherwise I would have known about them, but perhaps they are the remains of something once much more significant.
Dolmen de Coëby 1
Trip No.204 Entry No.20 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 3 Access 4
Dolmen de Coëby 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Sep 2013. Just beside the D.766 road north of the Grande Loge can be found the remains of this dolmen. It's difficult to tell exactly what it is the remains of, but there are half a dozen large stones still standing.
I understand that there are more than half a dozen dolmens and chambers to be found in this piece of forest, but they are not easy to find. I am not at all surprised. It would be nice if a little woodland walk was arranged, as at many other communities.
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Log Text: In the thick forest, just beside the D.766 road north of the Grande Loge can be found the remains of this dolmen. It's difficult to tell exactly what it is the remains of, but there are half a dozen large stones still standing. It was possibly a large simple chamber of which the capstones have now fallen, of which the largest is approximately 4 m by 4m trapezoidal shape.
The forest was obviously undergoing a major clear out when I visited, after having become totally overgrown and impenetrable. I understand that there are more than half a dozen dolmens and chambers to be found in this piece of forest, but they are not easy to find. I am not at all surprised. It would be nice if a little woodland walk was arranged, as at many other communities.
Menhirs de Coëby 1
Trip No.204 Entry No.22 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Menhirs de Coëby 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 10th Sep 2013. In the thick Coëby forest can be found the remains of many dolmens and other megalithic structures, although most are very difficult to find.
At the junction of lanes in the forest, there are a couple of easily found menhirs. Both are about 3 metres high, and they are about 15 metres apart.
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Log Text: At the junction of lanes in the forest, there are a couple of menhirs. Both are about 3 metres high, and they are about 15 metres apart. Not marked on any map I have seen, they are however easy to find.
Babouin et Babouine
Trip No.204 Entry No.27 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Babouin et Babouine submitted by thecaptain on 24th Aug 2005. Babouin menhir
It is not known whether the face is original, or more likely the stone was carved in more recent history.
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Log Text: Deep in the forest to the east of Trédion can be found these two bizarre menhirs. Babouin, the baboon, is only about 1.4 metres tall, but has been resculpted at some point to have a flat front surface with a rounded shaft below a larger rounded head. On the flat face of this head has been carved a rough face within a circle, which is looking out into the forest to the south.
Babouine, the female stone, is 3.2 metres tall, slightly leaning, and has been carved into a strange three tiered cylinder shape, all the way up from ground to top. On the top section there is carved a very rough face, while on the protruding middle section a semicircular groove, perhaps a smile, or more likely the sort of necklace often seen below breasts in these ancient carvings.
It is not known how old either the original menhirs, or the recarvings are. Perhaps they are reworkings by the Gauls, or perhaps much more modern masons work. It's all a mystery, but one thing is sure, these two stones are well worth a look.
Grand Breuil Menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.24 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Grand Breuil menhir submitted by theCaptain on 7th Jul 2011. This menhir is easily found at Grand Breuil, right at the junction of the D.112 and the road for Lezonnais.
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Log Text: This menhir is easily found at Grand Breuil, right at the junction of the D.112 and the road for Lezonnais. The stone is about 3 metres tall, and in a little grassy area beside the road junction. It looks to have been nicely shaped, and is cared for to this day. There is a very nice garden on the opposite side of the road, all landscaped and with little megalithic creations in it.
Grande Villeneuve Menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.26 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Grande Villeneuve menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Jul 2011. This menhir is to be found in a garden in the hamlet of the same name, a kilometre or so to the north of Tredion.
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Log Text: This menhir is to be found in a garden in the hamlet of the same name, a kilometre or so to the north of Tredion. The menhir is about 4 metres tall and nicely shaped, although it looks to have lost its top at some point, due to a lightning strike.
La Loge au Loup
Trip No.204 Entry No.18 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 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
La Loge au Loup submitted by stollentroll on 14th Dec 2005. Dolmen La Loge au Loup.
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Log Text: Easily found a few kilometres south of Trédion just to the west of the D.1 road to Elven, this nice site is signposted and has a parking place from where it’s a couple of hundred metres walk up into the lovely woodland on the ridgetop. I thought it to be a strange monument, which looks in some ways to be an Arc Boutté type allée couverte with a V dolmen built on top of it!
The passageway is about 9 metres long and faces 120°, with its paired stones leaning against each other. At the west end is a large capstone, 4 m by 3 m, sitting on top of extra support stones making a sort of chamber 2,5 metres wide, but it is filled up with the leaning stones of the passage. Its almost as if there is a complete V form dolmen built on top of the allée couverte using the same entrance, as there are extra rows of stones outside the passageway. Perhaps the allée couverte was built within the V dolmen. Around the outside are several other shaped stones, no doubt a peristalith of the original mound, of which much remains.
This is a lovely little place to sit in the shade on a hot day, and well worth a visit.
La Pierre Branlante (Trédion)
Trip No.204 Entry No.19 Date Added: 6th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Jul 2005
La Pierre Branlante (Trédion) submitted by johnstone on 1st Apr 2018. The so called dolmen on June 22, 2012
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Log Text: The track up to this from the road between Tredion and Ervan was gated and with a keep out sign. I hoped I would be able to perhaps get to this later from the other side in the forest, but there was no such luck.
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.