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La Roche Longue (St-Marcan)
Trip No.209 Entry No.13 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
La Roche Longue (St-Marcan) submitted by thecaptain on 30th Jun 2009. View of La Roche Longue seen from the west.
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Log Text: This well shaped menhir is just under 3 metres tall in a field to the east of the St Marcan cemetary. As with my previous visit, the field is planted with maize, and is today sodden wet, which prevents me from being abole to walk right up to the stone. However, this time I can walk up the western edge of the field by the cemetary, and photograph its other side in the afternoon sunshine.
Menhir du Perron (St-Marcan)
Trip No.209 Entry No.14 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition -1
Log Text: A 2 metre tall menhir similar to the Roche Longue of St Marcan, once stood in the fields of Perron, about 800 metres south of La Roche Longue. It somehow disappeared in the 1930's.
Beleven allée couverte
Trip No.209 Entry No.11 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Beleven allée couverte submitted by thecaptain on 24th Jun 2009. There is even a sign here, but unfortunately while holding my camera above my head to get the picture, I have chopped off the bottom and left side a bit.
Still, it shows a plan and good artistic reconstruction of the place.
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Log Text: Remains of a fairly disturbed but mostly complete allée couverte can be found in dark woodland to the northwest of the village of Plouer-sur-Rance, to the north of the magnificent ancient city of Dinan. Although the quartz block stones of this 14 metre long allée couverte are fairly well disturbed, it is in fact mostly complete, with a well defined terminal cella, and even with traces of its mound still to be seen. It is possible that it once had a lateral entrance.
Remarkably, it is stated that this monument was only discovered in 1972, which I find hard to believe, and it was classified as a monument historique as recently as 1981.
The poor thing is very close to a busy express highway, the N176, which runs along this northern edge of Brittany, but although the noise from the traffic is constant, the dense woodlands do a good job of hiding it all.
Despite looking on maps as if it would be very difficult to access, its on a wooded hillside right next to the dual carriageway road , there is in fact an emergency phone and layby nearby on the northbound carriageway, where it is possible to park and visit the monument. From the layby, hop over a little fence and follow a well worn path to the left for about 100 metres, and there it is ! Brilliant, its like the layby is deliberately put there for us stonehunters !
Outre Tombes
Trip No.209 Entry No.12 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Outre Tombes submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jul 2009. There are several information plaques at the site.
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Log Text: This horseshoe of megalithic stones has alternatively been considered as a megalithic enclosure (cromlech) or perhaps the stones once surrounding a dolmenic burial chamber. Seven stones are shaped in a sort of semi circle, of diameter about 7 metres.
This monument was classified as a historical monument in 1966, but by 1977 had disappeared, being the victim of an expansion of the local quarry at Vaujour. When this was discovered, the police were called in, but it was all thought to be too late. However, in 1989 it was found that most of the stones hadn't simply been destroyed, but had been moved and dumped into a nearby field, although one had gone through the stonecrusher. With the help of a plan and photograph of the site taken in 1962, the local people (with the help of the quarrying company) had the site recreated in 1998, just a few hundred metres from its original position.
There is also a small menhir erected at the site, the origins of which I do not know, but the stone does not look modern. Today, the site sits in a little meadow near to the top of the quarry, and can be found beside the little road which runs along the top of the hills to the northeast of the massive Vaujour quarries. There are several information plaques at the site, telling of its history and with diagrams and pictures.
Puerco Pueblo.
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2009
Puerco Pueblo. submitted by thecaptain on 28th May 2009. I believe these must be the Puerco Pueblo ancient ruins.
They are definitely somewhere in Petrified Forest national park, and the old photo is in my album on the same page as the petroglyph pictures!
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Agate House
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2009
Agate House submitted by thecaptain on 28th May 2009. Agate House in Petrified Forest National Park.
picture from November 1990.
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Tuzigoot Monument
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 26th May 2009
Tuzigoot Monument submitted by thecaptain on 26th May 2009. Tuzigoot Monument, pueblo built by the Sinagua culture.
Nov 1990.
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Montezuma Castle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 25th May 2009
Montezuma Castle submitted by thecaptain on 25th May 2009. Montezuma Castle, on a hot day in November 1990.
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Newspaper Rock (Petrified Forest)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2009
Newspaper Rock (Petrified Forest) submitted by thecaptain on 20th May 2009. I believe that this is Newspaper Rock, its certainly in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.
From a visit in November 1990.
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Puerco Pueblo Petroglyphs
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2009
Puerco Pueblo Petroglyphs submitted by thecaptain on 20th May 2009. Bird and Frog petroglyph, possibly part of Newspaper Rock, its certainly in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.
From a visit in November 1990.
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Murat-sur-Vèbre Centre d'Interprétation
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2009
Murat-sur-Vèbre Centre d'Interprétation submitted by thecaptain on 12th May 2009. I believe the real Favarels statue menhir has been taken inside the museum at Murat-sur-Vèbre, but a replica has been made and put in the place of the real one outside the information office.
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Whitefield's Tump
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 9th May 2009
Whitefield's Tump submitted by thecaptain on 9th May 2009. Whitefield's Tump is a largely shapeless remains of a Long Barrow on the northwestern part of Minchinhampton Common.
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The Toots (Oldbury)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2009
The Toots (King's Stanley) submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Apr 2009. The Toots - seen on the skyline of Selsley common above the church. Viewed here from Stroud
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Hetty Pegler's Tump
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Hetty Pegler's Tump submitted by thecaptain on 15th Mar 2009. The closure notice.
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Log Text: March 2009 and Hetty Pegler`s Tump was closed and sealed off to the public, due to concerns over its safety, with the internal drystone walling collapsing due to vandalism and the weight of the capstones resting on these walls since the 19th century reconstruction. Scaffolding has been used to prop up the chambers, and the entrance passage and courtyard sealed and filled with earth.
Table des Fées (Rocheville)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2009
Table des Fées (Rocheville) submitted by thecaptain on 5th Apr 2009. La Table des Fées.
My Dad can be seen in the lane, with the gap through to the stone seen.
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Avening burial chambers
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2009
Avening burial chambers submitted by thecaptain on 24th Mar 2009. The view of where the burial chambers are from the road.
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Gatcombe Lodge
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2009
Gatcombe Lodge submitted by thecaptain on 24th Mar 2009. Having read several tales of people being stopped and questioned by rapidly arriving police here, I didn’t spend long, and just took a photo from the entry to the estate.
It looks to be the regular shapeless lumpy bumpy mess covered in trees.
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Nympsfield
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Mar 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Nympsfield submitted by AngieLake on 11th Oct 2015. A magical double rainbow (you can't see the upper arc here) over Nympsfield longbarrow, viewed from the rear of the mound. 22nd Sept.
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Log Text: This Chambered long barrow with a pair of side chambers and an end chamber, is located in Coaley Peak picnic area, on the edge of the Cotswold Hills in Gloucestershire. Once covered by a mound 27m long by 18m wide and with a horned forecourt, it contained between 20 and 30 burials. These days it is an easy and pleasant place to visit, with plenty of parking, picnic areas etc nearby, and some splendid views from the edge of the Cotswold Hills over the Severn Valley below, and over to the Forest of Dean and the Welsh Hills.
Buckholt Wood
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 14th Mar 2009. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Buckholt Wood submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 17th Jun 2011. Fairly easy to find - near entrance to overspill car park for Woodchester Mansion - if you miss the Barrow which is not that conspicuous then look for the Glider Winch at the W end of the Airfield
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Log Text: The remains of this badly damaged Long Barrow with possible Chambered Tomb can today be seen as a slight raise in the ground at the end of the Nympsfield Gliding Club – today to be seen just behind the winching equipment. This site has been badly damaged in the past by ploughing. I found nowhere obvious to park while driving north, and thought I’d come back later in the day, but didn’t. There seems to be a trackway nearby from where a better look could be had.
Soldier's Grave
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Mar 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Soldier's Grave submitted by thecaptain on 10th Apr 2009. There are several fairly large bits of stone laying around nearby, which once may have formed part of the structure.
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Log Text: This large round barrow can be found on the top of the Cotswold escarpment just into the woods at the northwest corner of the country park / picnic area, a couple of hundred yards to the north of Nympsfield long barrow. It is said to be a really unusual round barrow from the Neolithic, and not a Bronze Age round barrow at all! The top of the barrow has a very large depression in it, where it has been cut into in the past. From Grinsell - Barrows in England and Wales, “a boat-shaped hollow lined with dry-stone walling, in which were the remains of up to 44 individuals, mostly unburnt”. There are several fairly large bits of stone laying around nearby, which once may have formed part of the structure.