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Champ Dolent Menhir
Trip No.208 Entry No.6 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Champ Dolent menhir submitted by rw1 on 2nd Mar 2008. 09/2007
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Dent de Gargantua
Trip No.208 Entry No.1 Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dent de Gargantua submitted by thecaptain on 6th Apr 2008. Le Dent de Gargantua. The view from the roadside. It's in there, honestly !
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Log Text: This 4 or 5 metre tall white quartz menhir is contained within a private orchard near to Chablé in the community of St Suliac, near the Rance estuary south of St Malo. Although it is very close to the road, getting to see it through the hedges which surround it is not easy. Not too long ago, there was an allée couverte nearby which has now been destroyed by the farmer, and also another menhir, Le Gravier de Gargantua.
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
Image copyright: Néolithique02, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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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.
Champ des Roches
Trip No.208 Entry No.2 Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Champ des Roches submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Jul 2005. About 70 big white quartz stones arranged in 5 lines, perhaps 6, which are not quite parallel as they converge towards the east.
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Los Millares
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Spain (Andalucía)
Visited: Yes on 10th Apr 2008
Los Millares submitted by thecaptain on 10th Apr 2008. Los Millares site is large, spectacular and very well maintained with some reconstructions for instructive purposes
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Woodbarrow Stone Setting
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 21st Apr 2008
Woodbarrow Stone Setting submitted by thecaptain on 21st Apr 2008. It is possible that what I found is the remains of two rows, or perhaps even the remains of an Exmoor six-pack, the two rows being about 7 metres apart.
One fallen stone in the foreground, another leaning stone is in the clump of long growth mid picture.
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East Pinford 2
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2008
East Pinford 2 submitted by thecaptain on 3rd May 2008. Said to be a six stone rectangle similar to East Pinford 1, with only one stone still standing.
I certainly found a stone standing at the grid ref noted here, about 0.3 metres high.
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Trout Hill 2
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 26th May 2008
Trout Hill 2 submitted by thecaptain on 26th May 2008. One of the stones is a full metre high, and a splendid stone for Exmoor.
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Gutter Tor north
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2008
Gutter Tor north submitted by thecaptain on 10th Jun 2008. Right beside the road at SX574672 are the remains of a fairly large cairn, about 22 metres in diameter.
However, this cairn has been well and truly messed around with, no doubt going to make up the road and the nearby walls. In fact, it is perhaps surprising there is anything left of it at all.
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Le Trepied
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Guernsey)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2008
Le Trepied submitted by thecaptain on 11th Jun 2008. Postage stamp featuring Le Trepied Chambered Tomb beside the road close to Le Catioroc at Perelle Bay in Guernsey.
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Whittenknowles Rocks
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2008
Whittenknowles Rocks submitted by thecaptain on 15th Jun 2008. To the west of the Drizzlecombe sites, on a southern facing hillside, can be found the remains of the very large Whittenknowles Rocks ancient settlement.
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Binisafuller
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Spain (Balearic Isles (Menorca / Minorca))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2008
Biniparratxet submitted by thecaptain on 15th Jun 2008.
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Trepuco
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Spain (Balearic Isles (Menorca / Minorca))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2008
Trepuco submitted by thecaptain on 15th Jun 2008. The ancient settlement of Trepucó includes the largest taula on Menorca.
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Trout Hill 1
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2008
Trout Hill 1 submitted by thecaptain on 20th Jun 2008. Trout Hill 1. Looking uphill towards the south showing stones 2 and 1.
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Kemp Howe
Date Added: 9th Oct 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2008
Kemp Howe submitted by thecaptain on 16th Jul 2008. The remaining arc of Kemp Howe stone circle, looking south westish.
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Castlerigg
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2008
Castlerigg submitted by thecaptain on 6th Jul 2008. Removing of the turf at the centre of the circle before some sham "ceremony"
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Maiden Castle Barrow Cemetery
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2008
Maiden Castle Barrow Cemetery submitted by thecaptain on 8th Jul 2008. Inspired by Jim's recent pictures, I just had to search out and find this picture I had taken of a barrow cemetery at Maiden Castle, back in 1985 or 6.
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Erme Pound
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2008
Erme Pound submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Aug 2008. The faint remains of one of the hut circles within the Erme Pound settlement.
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Shaugh Moor Cairns
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2008
Shaugh Moor Cairns submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Aug 2008. Downhill from the Shaugh Moor stone row and cairn, is a cairn which is in surprisingly good condition considering its position.
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Colchester Castle Museum
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2008
Valence House submitted by thecaptain on 24th Aug 2008. The Dagenham Idol while on display at Colchester Castle Museum in 2008.
Found in the Thames mud when the Ford factory was built in the 1930's, and dated to 2250BC.
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