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Alignements du Moulin S
Trip No.203 Entry No.2 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Alignements du Moulin N submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Nov 2005. St Just megalithic wonderworld. The Alignements du Moulin north row, looking east.
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Log Text: There are two long roughly parallel lines running east west with a third less well defined row to the southwest running in a north south direction. The first row reached is the northernmost and consists of at least 14 large white quartz blocks with a few grey stones in it as well with an alignment of 099°. One of the large stones towards the western end has been used at some later stage as a part of a burial chamber with at least two burial cists to be seen adjacent to it.
Just to the south of this row is another row, with an alignment of 111° but this time consisting of taller thinner stones of various types and colours, which get bigger in size towards the middle where the row runs over a cairn and then get smaller again. The stones start off about a metre high but the stones in the middle are up to 5 metres tall. These central stones alternate between white blocks and black blocks of stone with various other colours and shapes being mixed in as well. I absolutely love this row. It is completely bonkers. So weird. The whole place is odd and not like anything else I have seen. Large white blocks and tall thin black stones. All mixed up and running across this ridge.
The third row I found consists of about 5 white quartz blocks to the west of the ends of the two main rows and running in a north south direction. I am not sure if this is the third row considered to be a part of these same alignments. All three rows appear to converge on a point to the northwest. They have started to clear the gorse away from these stones and I disturbed a large vividly coloured green lizard at one point here.
Château Bû
Trip No.203 Entry No.5 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Château Bû submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Nov 2005. Château Bû, part of the St Just megalithic wonderworld.
A chambered tumulus with a stone circle on the top and also 3 or 4 large white menhirs.
Most strange. Like nothing I have seen before at all. Sort of like three or four monuments in one all on top of each other.
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Log Text: This is now fenced off to prevent the massive erosion which was happening but clearly visible although becoming a little overgrown. Just what the heck is it ? A chambered tumulus with entrance to the east but with a stone circle on the top and also 3 or more large white menhirs. Most strange. Like nothing I have seen before at all. Sort of like three or four monuments in one all on top of each other.
Le Tribunal
Trip No.203 Entry No.9 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Le Tribunal submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Nov 2005. One of the stones in the arc of the Tribunal, at St Just.
An amazing rock, in an amazing place.
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Log Text: What is now an arc of 9 large white stones is the remains of what was once a 15 stone semicircle facing towards a single large white stone (the Judge) about 50 metres to the east. This is said to be an astronomical alignment of some kind. One of the stones at the southern end of the Tribunal is the most fantastically marked stone with black and white swirls everywhere.
I met some Americans here one of who asked if I knew anything much about the stones as she could see I was taking notes. They had been looking for information on the internet and had found about Saint Just being a focal point of many Ley lines. She had also found the megalithic portal. When I told them what I was doing they made sure they took my picture with some stones in action taking notes and said they would send the picture on. They also wanted my autograph on their little leaflet and map that they had ! A nice moment.
Dolmen Ouest de la Croix de Saint-Pierre
Trip No.203 Entry No.8 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dolmen Ouest de la Croix de Saint-Pierre submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Nov 2005. Croix St Pierre west dolmen, part of the St Just megalithic site.
The white blocks seen behind this are the arc of Le Tribunal.
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Log Text: Another fenced off but recently restored mound with a round cairn enclosing a chamber which opens to the east.
Croix St Pierre east
Trip No.203 Entry No.6 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Croix St Pierre east submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Nov 2005. Croix St Pierre north and south dolmens can be seen in the background of this picture amongst the long grass, with in the foreground the simpler and smaller burial chamber.
I think these three structures were once in a single long mound, but I may be wrong, and perhaps they were once in seperate individual round mounds.
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Log Text: A large long mound with two large dolmenic chambers within it opening to the side and also a smaller one near one end. This has been excavated and restored in 1990/91 and was dated to 3500 to 4000 BC. As with all of these chambers it is fenced off to keep the masses out.
Le Four Sarrazin
Trip No.203 Entry No.10 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Le Four Sarrazin submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Nov 2005. Le Four Sarrazin is a lateral entry allée couverte near the western end of the St Just complex.
Some of the capstones have cupules, a few of which can be seen in the near stone here, but there is a much better arrangement underneath.
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Log Text: A little ruined allée couverte in a mound at the western end of the Saint Just megalithic wonderland almost overlooking the gorge down to the river. The chamber is aligned roughly east west on 109° with the entrance being near the east end on the southern side. There are three remaining fallen capstones one of which has a fine pattern of cupules in its underside. It has been dated to 2500 BC.
Alignements du Moulin N
Trip No.203 Entry No.1 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Alignements du Moulin N submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Nov 2005. St Just megalithic wonderworld. The Alignements du Moulin north row, looking east.
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Log Text: There are two long roughly parallel lines running east west with a third less well defined row to the southwest running in a north south direction. The first row reached is the northernmost and consists of at least 14 large white quartz blocks with a few grey stones in it as well with an alignment of 099°. One of the large stones towards the western end has been used at some later stage as a part of a burial chamber with at least two burial cists to be seen adjacent to it.
Just to the south of this row is another row, with an alignment of 111° but this time consisting of taller thinner stones of various types and colours, which get bigger in size towards the middle where the row runs over a cairn and then get smaller again. The stones start off about a metre high but the stones in the middle are up to 5 metres tall. These central stones alternate between white blocks and black blocks of stone with various other colours and shapes being mixed in as well.
I absolutely love this row. It is completely bonkers. So weird. The whole place is odd and not like anything else I have seen. Large white blocks and tall thin black stones. All mixed up and running across this ridge.
The third row I found consists of about 5 white quartz blocks to the west of the ends of the two main rows and running in a north south direction. I am not sure if this is the third row considered to be a part of these same alignments. All three rows appear to converge on a point to the northwest. They have started to clear the gorse away from these stones and I disturbed a large vividly coloured green lizard at one point here.
Dissignac Tumulus
Trip No.203 Entry No.16 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dissignac Tumulus submitted by Dipo on 6th Jun 2008. Overall view showing the two entrances and tumulus.
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Log Text: Signposted from miles around and it has its own little parking area picnic site bus stop and kiosk but when I arrived here (on a Saturday morning in mid May) it was all shut and fenced off and it looked pretty permanent. It’s a restored tumulus with two large passage graves inside with the chambers facing southeast. It was fairly substantially rebuilt at some point in the past which doubled the size of the mound and extended the chambers by 4 metres.
Plessis Gamat Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.19 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Plessis Gamat Menhir submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Jun 2005. Pretty 2.3 Meters tall trangular thin block with quartz veins which once had cross on top in Saint-Brevin-Les-Pins fields, Chemin Du Plessis.
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Log Text: Signposted locally this is a lovely pointed pale granite stone about 2.8 metres tall. It is found by going down a little track opposite the electric station then right into a field where its found in the bushes on the right.
Rossignols Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.21 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Rossignols Dolmen submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Jun 2005. Large 4 Meter by 2.5 Meter capstone supported by smaller stones that are largely burried. The chamber is about 4 Meters by 4 Meters. There are indications that the capstone was cut down from that size when someone tried to break it. Saint-Brevin-L'Océan at Allée Des Rossignols / Square Victor Lesueur.
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Log Text: In amongst the houses in this little seaside town this dolmen has its own plot of land with a picnic area and is signposted from various places in the vicinity. It has obviously been covered over by sand dunes as it is all in a hollow in the ground surrounded by trees. There is a massive capstone 4 by 3 metres and 1 metre thick but this covers only about half of the chamber which is surrounded by upright slabs many of which are still in position part buried in the sand.
Joselière Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.29 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Joselière Dolmen submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. Unusually square 4 chambered square Cairn with double entrances in Pornic. Chambers with apses similar to single Maltese temples. Excavated In 1970s and restored 1985.
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Log Text: As soon as I got here this nice quiet place was flooded with people either returning from the beach or a walk along the clifftop. It is superbly positioned in a field about 50 metres from the sea but it’s a shame about the wartime gun emplacement here also. This transepted burial mound has been restored recently and is in fine condition. It consists of a single entrance corridor which faces eastwards on a bearing of 112° with four internal chambers opening up on the sides which are about 2 metres in width and high enough for me to stand up inside. The cairn is very square with sides about 11 metres in length barely bigger than the internal structures and with a nice white quartz stone at the entrance.
Prédaire Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.30 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4
Prédaire Dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. From ichel Baconnais
Le dolmen du Pré d'air. Jusque vers 1970, ce lieu était recouvert d'épineux. Pour des raisons touristiques, la végétation a été enlevée, et le sol s'est érodé très vite. Ainsi, en 2003, la pierre du sommet présentant un danger, a été enlevée à la hâte sans repérage préalable. Aujourd'hui, ce site ruiné par la main de l'homme, n'est plus qu'un tas de pierraille. L'endroit était autrefois connu sous le nom "Perder" ou "Peurdaire", ce qui signifiait les ...
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Log Text: This much ruined transepted burial mound sits on a clifftop overlooking the sea to the south of the seaside harbour town of Pornic. I had chosen to spend the night at the campsite la Boutinardière and went for an evening stroll for 20 minutes or so northwest along the Sentier des Douarniers coastal footpath past some strange jetties with boat lifts jutting into the sea at the foot of the cliffs before reaching the dolmen as the sun was going down.
The main entrance corridor is about 7 metres long and is orientated on a bearing of 142° which looks directly towards a nearby headland. There are two large transept chambers each about 2.8 m by 1.7 metres in size but only a single smaller end chamber perhaps about 2.2 by 2 metres in size. Strangely situated side on to the slope maybe the shape of the ground has changed significantly over the millennia.
Just up the slop from the remains is a very large stone which is possibly the remains of a large capstone but perhaps just a boulder placed here to prevent vehicles driving down over the remains from the fields above. It was apparently excavated in 1878 with finds from the Neolithic which are now in the Musée Dobrée in Nantes.
Tumulus Des Mousseaux
Trip No.203 Entry No.26 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Tumulus Des Mousseaux submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Jun 2005. Large Cairn with 2 chambers and entrances facing south East, spectacular capstones, some repaired. Excavated 1970s and restored in 1985. Similar to Malta temples, but smaller. In Pornic.
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Log Text: This monument is signposted from all sorts of places and easy to find if approaching from the north but probably not so if coming from the south as the fortified harbour and seaside town of Pornic is a maze of small streets and indeed barred to a campervan. The tumulus is enclosed by houses and reaches right up to the roadside but does have its own little area with a sign telling about it but its all a bit busy and noisy. This is a superbly restored double chambered tomb enclosed in a triple stepped cairn. The two chambers both have double transept (side) chambers and open towards the southwest the southern one being double sided while the northern one is single sided and they are about 9 metres in length. The height of the chambers increases as you enter from about 1.8 metres at the entrance to well over 2.4 metres inside this being achieved because the capstones do not sit adjacent to one another but rest on top of each other as they progress inwards. Excavations showed this tomb to date to about 3500 BC. Obviously once known as the Dolmen des Mousseaux this has been renamed Tumulus des Mousseaux as can be seen on all the multitude of signposts pointing to it which have been changed !
La Pierre de Gargantua (St Brevin)
Trip No.203 Entry No.18 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 3
La Pierre de Gargantua (St Brevin) submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. Hardly 1 Meter tall menhir nearly smothered by tall grasses in traffic island near highway towards Saint-Brevin-Les-Pins / Saint-Nazaire bridge.
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Log Text: I spent nearly an hour looking for this and eventually found it after asking a local. It is in a swamp just beside a large road junction and can be found by taking a dead end track then across some open land before dropping down into the wetlands in the corner of the road interchange.
Having found it it was not all that exciting being only abut a metre high and surrounded by tall grasses. Its hardly a Gargantua ! Perhaps its sinking into the swamp. I understand the name is something to do with a legend attached to the stone but unfoprtunately do not know anything of it.
Moulin Chevalier Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.20 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Moulin Chevalier Dolmen submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Jun 2005. Probably an Allee Couverte judging from shape of largely burried and overgrown mound. Only 2 capstones and a few smaller blocks visible. 2 Km East of Saint-Brevin-Les-Pins.
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Log Text: I am not quite sure what to make of this. It is either a fairly undisturbed dolmen still well contained within its mound or else it is a bit of a wreck ! The mound is about 8 metres by 4 metres and is found down a little track left at the edge of a field but there are no signposts. There is possibly a second mound close by.
Les Pierres Couchées
Trip No.203 Entry No.22 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Les Pierres Couchées submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. Employees insist the broken rocks in parking lot are the remains of this once listed menhir. At parking of Les Pierres Couchees allotment / Camping site.
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Log Text: Now incorporated into a campsite of the same name I was expecting to find a fallen menhir. I was told the stone was round the back of the office building but I could not find it initially. Upon my return to the parking area later I found what looked to be some ancient stones right behind my campervan which had hidden them from me originally ! If what I saw was indeed the Pierres Couchées then it looked to me to be more the remains of some sort of burial chamber rather than a fallen menhir.
Pierre de Couche
Trip No.203 Entry No.23 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Pierre de Couche submitted by AlexHunger on 3rd Jun 2005. About 2 Meter tall in small alley near Allée Du Menhir and main road in L'Ermitage / Saint-Brevin-L'Océan
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Log Text: In a little enclosure on the opposite side of the busy dual carriageway road from the campsite this stone is just over 2 metres tall in pale granite. It’s a nicely shaped stone but far too enclosed within the houses and noisy.
Menhir dit la Pierre Attelée
Trip No.203 Entry No.24 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Menhir dit la Pierre Attelée submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Jun 2005. About 2.5 Meter tall imposing block of reddish granite in Saint-Brevin-Les-Pins park. Smaller, possibly modern stone outside on the street.
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Log Text: A more than 3 metre tall menhir in a clearing in the forest of Attelée amongst the sand dunes to the south of this pleasant seaside town. It was a nice cool lump of granite to find on this warm afternoon.
Menhir du Boivre
Trip No.203 Entry No.25 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Couldn't find on 14th May 2005
Menhir du Boivre submitted by johnstone on 17th Mar 2018. The front side, July 6, 2013
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Log Text: This menhir is supposed to be 3.8 metes tall and nicely shaped but I could not find it. I took both the high road (a gravel track ) and the low road through the farmyard of the same name looking but I didn’t even catch a glimpse of it.
Moulin du Motte
Trip No.203 Entry No.27 Date Added: 1st Apr 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 14th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3
Moulin du Motte submitted by dt44 on 11th Apr 2008. Moulin du Motte nearby les Mousseaux
Le burial chamber is in a private garden.
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Log Text: Nearby to the east of the tumulus des Mousseaux are the remains of two more burial mounds of which remains can be seen in various gardens in the vicinity. The large tumulus du Moulin du Motte is these days hardly visible behind a large garden wall and some new holiday homes but a bit further to the west down the lane some large stones can be clearly seen in a garden. These are the remains of the Trois Squelettes tombs three chambers which were once covered by a single large mound.