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Roche-aux-Fées (Essé)
Trip No.210 Entry No.2 Date Added: 16th Sep 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2010. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Roche-aux-Fées (Essé) submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Sep 2004. Roches Aux Fees viewed from North West
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Log Text: June 2010 visit to France to see my sister, and as usual I had my Dad with me. I had decided on a long detour to visit La Roche-aux-Fées, but before we came here, I had told him nothing about it, except to say we were going to visit somewhere special. He is well used to me taking him to old stones all over the place, often on wild goose chases in woods and across fields finding nothing. But not this time.
This monument is now presented quite differently to when I previously visited in 2005, with a large new car park and visitor centre in what would have been fields to the south. Unfortunately, the visitor centre was closed, being open at weekends and holidays only this time of year until July and August when it becomes daily. I have read that this centre is very good, and with a decent book and gift shop.
From the visitor centre, a pathway leads through a nicely landscaped area towards the monument itself, which is hidden behind trees and hedges, until you round the end of a hedge (with a large fallen stone at the corner), and then there it is, in all its splendor, viewed towards the wonderful portal entrance. Even on my second visit here, it is awe inspiring, especially the work on the portico, which is over 4500 years old and still completely level.
My Dad was well impressed too, and couldn’t quite believe what he was seeing. “Oh My!, How can this be so big? What’s this for?” he asked. “It can’t be just to bury somebody in. All these separate room bits? Why? It’s a bit like the side chapels in a Cathedral”. Pretty much my thoughts exactly, and it is good to hear these things coming from somebody else with no prompting.
Somebody had made little piles of pebbles and other decorative bits and pieces placed at various places, which looked good. I am impressed by one of the massive capstones which seems to have been fitted exactly into a gap in the supporting side stones. This place is truly absolutely fantastic. I don’t have the words for it.
The new field around the monument has been splendidly done, and gives it the space it needs. Only two other people came to visit in the time we were here, a large improvement over my previous August Saturday visit. One downside are the various noticeboards now erected here, stating that cracks have been found in some of the stones, and people should be careful and not climb on the stones. I hope that there is no bad damage to the place. What would the Fairies think?
Roche Rock
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 6th Nov 2012
Roche Rock submitted by theCaptain on 6th Nov 2012. Passing on the way to visit the Eden Project, the rock and chapel were lit up by the most amazing silvery sunlight against a dark grey sky.
By the time I had stopped the car and got out, it had gone. I waited a while, and took a couple of pictures, some of which have it fairly well lit, but not so good as the initial view!
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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.
Roche d'Avon
Trip No.204 Entry No.148 Date Added: 17th Aug 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Couldn't find on 20th Jul 2005
Log Text: In the book I have about Bougon, there is a map showing a dolmen at Roche D'Avon. A drive past the area and there is nothing obvious to see except a major farm of this name.
Roche d'Arthur
Trip No.204 Entry No.219 Date Added: 4th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bourgogne:Côte-d'Or (21))
Visited: Couldn't find on 4th Aug 2005
Roche D'arthur submitted by AlexHunger on 11th Jul 2010. Unusual Stone in Bourgogne. I have classed it as a Menhir, but it is probably a natural stone that has been arranged near the top of a hill in what is now a hiking area. A local web site believes it was and probably is still being used in fertility rites. A woman sliding down the stone was assured of hightened fertility.
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Log Text: The village of Roche-en-Brenil is supposed to have two menhirs, but I could find no sign of either of them. It's a shame that these places do not have village maps with things marked, or any signposts like they do elsewhere. The area is covered with forests, and looks to be lots of natural granite outcrops.
Roche Buquet
Date Added: 12th Oct 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2012
Roche Buquet submitted by thereddragon on 9th Oct 2012. Site in Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) France
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Roche Aux Loups
Trip No.203 Entry No.314 Date Added: 29th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Roche Aux Loups submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Jun 2011. It’s a simple dolmen with a capstone which looks to be precariously balanced on just two supports, although a view from further down the lane confirms there to be a third support stone.
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Log Text: This dolmen is signposted from the main road, but when you get there down the farm track, its fenced off in a field with no access signs, but you get a good view across the field. It’s a simple dolmen with a capstone which looks to be precariously balanced on just two supports, although a view from further down the lane confirms there to be a third support stone.
Roche a Trois Pieds
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 25th Jun 2010
Roche a Trois Pieds submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Jun 2010. The Roche a Trois Pieds is beside a natural outcropping of quartz rock in woodland at the top of the hill.
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Roc'h en Aud Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.419 Date Added: 21st May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Roc'h en Aud dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 12th Jun 2006. Roc'h en Aud dolmen is a curious affair, right in amongst the houses.
Around the top of the side slabs is a sort of circle of capstones, overhanging the chamber, but the top of the main chamber is not covered.
The covering was originally of a sort of large corbelling arrangement with the top stone gone. Intriguing.
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Log Text: This is a curious affair, right in amongst the houses. It has a sort of square chamber, 4 m by 4 m with an entrance in the middle of the eastern side. But around the top of the side slabs (three per side) is a sort of circle of capstones, overhanging the chamber. The top of the main chamber is not covered. It looks to me as if the covering was of a sort of large corbelling arrangement with the top stone gone. Intriguing.
Roc de l'Oie
Trip No.200 Entry No.81 Date Added: 18th Jun 2020
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 24th Sep 2000. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Roc de l'Oie submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Apr 2016. celebrated rock shaped like a goose, to the east of Castres.
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Log Text: Celebrated rock shaped like a goose, in the Sidobre region to the east of Castres.
Roc de Cazelle
Trip No.203 Entry No.217 Date Added: 21st Apr 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2005. My rating: Access 4
Roc de Cazelle submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Jan 2011. This place has been inhabited from 40,000 years ago right up until the 1960’s when the last farmer and his wife moved on.
There is an overhanging cliff with several levels of caves and shelters and these days is a little visitor park showing life in the troglodytic fashion since prehistoric times.
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Log Text: This place has been inhabited since 40000 years ago right up until the 1960’s when the last farmer and his wife moved on. It is an overhanging cliff with several levels of caves and shelters and these days is a little visitor park showing life in the troglodytic fashion since prehistoric times with many little scenes recreated and artisans demonstrating their trades and crafts.
Rippon Tor
Date Added: 24th Dec 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 9th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Rippon Tor submitted by AngieLake on 19th Oct 2007. Having just puffed my way up the side of the tor (!), this is the first view of the Cairn that Butler calls 'C1' from the west side. In the centre of the pile of stones is a modern Trig. station. (The height of Rippon Tor is 473m.)
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Log Text: The forecast is for a cold icy but bright sunny day as we pack up and leave Splash Cottage, so I decide for a walk up to Rippon Tor and around before the journey home. Unfortunately the real weather up there means I am in the clouds and fog. I make the effort to climb the tor, but its freezing fog up there, and can't see more than about 25 metres, so have a quick wander to the hilltop cairns, cross and millstone, then back down to the car via an old boundary cross at the edge of the frozen Blackslade Mire.
Ringmoor Down Stone Row
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jan 2019
Ringmoor Down Stone Row submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Jan 2019. Ringmoor Down Stone Row looking back south uphill towards the circle.
April 2013
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Ringmoor Down stone circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 31st May 2013
Ringmoor Down stone circle submitted by TheCaptain on 31st May 2013. "restored" in 1909, supposedly not very accurately, some of the stones used were probably not original, and just found nearby.
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Ringmoor Down Cairn 4
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2013
Ringmoor Down Cairn 4 submitted by TheCaptain on 30th May 2013. marked on the OS map as enclosure, is likely the remains of a fairly large ring cairn of 35 metres diameter.
It is not easy to find, although given the right conditions, the central area can be seen to be flattened off from the basic moor.
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Ringmoor Down Cairn 3
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 23rd May 2013
Ringmoor Down Cairn 3 submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd May 2013. Ringmoor Down Cairn 3 does not look entirely convincing to me. It consists of a circle of fairly small stones of which only one or two are earthfast.
There are no obvious cairn remains within this circle.
Viewed here looking northwest
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Ringmoor Down Cairn 2
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2013
Ringmoor Down Cairn 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 28th May 2013. The splendid Ringmoor Down Cairn 2 and its cist looking in a southeasterly direction across to Legis and Trowlesworthy tors
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Ringmoor Down Cairn 1
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 29th May 2013
Ringmoor Down Cairn 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 29th May 2013. The 10 metre diameter Cairn 1 is about 100m east of Brisworthy stone circle.
Not much is to be seen these days, just 4 or 5 dark stones of its surrounding kerb seemingly laying around the egde of a darker patch of grass.
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Rillaton Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 24th Oct 2009
Rillaton Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 24th Oct 2009. The chamber is halfway up the eastern side, in a separate depression of its own, and cannot be seen as you pass, so I suspect most people who pass this way do not realise it is there.
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Rieuviel statue menhir 2
Trip No.205 Entry No.128 Date Added: 10th Nov 2020
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Rieuviel statue menhir 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 19th Nov 2010.
This fine male statue-menhir is to be found through the hamlet of Rieuviel, about 100 metres beyond the last house. He is concreted in to a little plinth, and makes a sort of entrance to the lane with a cross mounted on the other side.
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Log Text: This fine male statue-menhir is to be found through the hamlet of Rieuviel, about 100 metres beyond the last house, and always bearing to the right. He is concreted in to a little plinth, and makes a sort of entrance to the lane with a cross mounted on the other side. Unfortunately, the poor chap is being used as a fence post, and the wire fence is scratching and degrading this 5000 year old stone.
It stands about 1.7 metres tall, and the engravings on the front are superb, and very clear. He has a full face, arms (with fingers), collar piece, belt with buckle, legs (with toes). I could not make out what weapons he carries, and the back is not clear. He really is a fine fellow, and should not be treated in the poor way that he is. He and his female neighbour need better looking after.