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Mevoisins menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.263 Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Mevoisins menhir submitted by thecaptain on 24th Aug 2005. This wonderful 3 metre tall stone standing up in the hills between Mevoisins and Yermenonville, can be seen for miles around.
It turns out that this stone has only been here a few years, having been erected in the year 2000 to celebrate the millennium, but its such a lovely stone, I thought it deserves to be seen here.
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Log Text: This lovely 3 metre tall menhir can be seen from miles around, beside the D.329 road up in the hills between the two villages of Mevoisins and Yermenonville. It’s a gorgeous angular lump of flinty sarsen, but it turns out that it was erected only 5 years ago to mark the turning of the millennium. It seems that there was a big party to celebrate putting the stone up, using only manpower, logs and ropes.
This had me fooled into thinking it was the Pierre-qui-Vire, which is supposedly to be found in the community somewhere. So as not to fool anyone investigating this stone in the future, there is buried under the stone a computer, a mobile phone, some money and a listing of all the people living in the community.
Metheral Kerb Cairn
Date Added: 19th Apr 2025
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 8th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Metheral Kerb Cairn submitted by Bladup on 30th Dec 2024. Metheral Kerb Cairn, showing a couple of still standing kerb stones and a couple of fallen kerb stones, with the possible ruined cist in the center
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Log Text: So the boundary stone isnt the kerb cairn, so I still need to find that. With a bit of searching around, it becomes clear a short distance over to the southeast. There are a couple of reasonably sized slabs set on their sides and still upright, with several more forming a circular feature, around a clear cairn of stones. Are the side slabs the remnants of a cist?
Metheral Hill boundary stones
Date Added: 7th May 2025
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 8th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Metheral Hill boundary stones submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Apr 2025. I note that they are lined up side on to each other, and that they are aligned on to the position of the White Moor stone circle. Is this some kind of ancient alignment, or just my imagination running wild? More probably they are aligned along the boundary, of which a further marker is the Whit Moor Stone. I like to think its more ancient than that.
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Log Text: Walking back to Belstone from Hund Tor, I notice two stones standing, marked on the map as Boundary Stones. They are both about 5 foot tall, and have a T carved in them. They have obviously been here a long time as they are all weather worn, so much so that I wonder whether they were ever anything else. I then note that they are lined up side on to each other, and that they are aligned on to the position of the White Moor stone circle. Is this some kind of ancient alignment, or just my imagination running wild? More probably they are aligned along the boundary, of which the next marker is the Whit Moor Stone. I like to think its more ancient than that.
Metheral circle
Date Added: 17th Apr 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 8th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Metheral circle submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Nov 2024. Alan Endacott (second from left) with dig volunteers at the newly discovered Metheral stone circle on Dartmoor.
Photograph: Chris Walpole, borrowed from http://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/15/two-newly-discovered-stone-circles-dartmoor-sacred-arc-theory
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Log Text: From Belstone I head south, crossing the river Taw at the large shallow ford, then keep heading south along the east side of the river, following a simple track along a line of waterworks drains and features, then keep going some more. I don't think I would have been able to find the stone circle without an accurate grid ref and my gps, as it was not a clear thing to see, and not at all obvious. I was only sure I had found it when I walked across the remains of one of the filled in trenches, with its post stating "trench 5". My thoughts. I was initially not sure of there being anything making up a stone circle, but then I got my eye in and saw an arc of about three or four equispaced stones. They seem to be just natural boulders rather than shaped stones, although some have been set on their sides. Further exploration and I was able to find other stones which may have formed part of the circle, which seems to be much bigger than most of the Dartmoor rings. As I sat having my lunch, the circle seemed to take its place in front of me, with stones and shadows making their presence known around me, all seemingly equispaced. OK, yes I believe this to be a stone circle, although quite different to the normal Dartmoor stone circle, in both size, stone selection, and of course its flat valley bottom position, which to me seems unusual.
Merry Maidens Holed Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holed Stone
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2004
Merry Maidens Holed Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Feb 2004. The holed stone near to the Merry Maidens stone circle. This stone stands at SW 432246.
It is now in use as part of a gatepost entry to a field near to the Gun Rith standing stone
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Merry Maidens (Circle)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 26th Jan 2014
Merry Maidens (Circle) submitted by theCaptain on 26th Jan 2014. Here's something I tried before at Boscawen Un , but has worked better at The Merry Maidens.
Standing at the centre, I took a sequence of pictures all the way around, and joined them up using Microsoft Ice. So what we have here is the entire Merry Maidens stone circle as seen from the centre, afternoon of 19 Sept 2013.
What do people think?
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Merrivale NW
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Nov 2004
Merrivale NW submitted by thecaptain on 6th Nov 2004. Just to the south of the western end of the Merrivale southern avenue are the remains of a once large cairn with retaining circle.
The stones from this cairn were removed in 1851 to mend the road, leaving just a circle of uneven ground, with a few slabs remaining in an outer bank.
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Merrivale North Row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale North Row submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. Roughly in the middle of the Merrivale northern double row can be seen a few stones which may or may not have gone to make up a circle or other structure, perhaps in a similar manner to the cairn and circle in the southern avenue, not more than a few yards away from here.
This is a view looking east along the northern rows, and some extra stones can be seen here.
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Merrivale NE circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale NE circle submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. At the eastern end of the Merrivale northern double row is the remains of a cairn with a surrounding stone circle.
These stones can be seen here, along with the large stones at the end of the rows extending away from the circle in this view looking west.
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Merrivale Menhir
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 4th Sep 2007
Merrivale Menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Sep 2007. The last rays of an August setting sun light up the Merrivale longstone.
The little stone row (4) and Kings Tor behind it.
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Merrivale Cists
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale Cists submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. View loking north at the large cist with its broken capstone, just to the south of the Merrivale central avenue. The capstone has been split by stoneworkers a couple of centuries ago, with the middle part of it taken away for some other use, leaving us a view into the stone lined cist below.
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Merrivale circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 10th Nov 2004
Merrivale circle submitted by thecaptain on 10th Nov 2004. the small stones of Merrivale stone circle poking up above the skyline beyond the great menhir.
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Merrivale Centre S
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale Centre S submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. Looking northish at the end of row 3 and the remains of its cairn.
The stones in the background are some of those in the southern (or central) avenue.
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Merrivale Centre Row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale Centre Row submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. One of the larger and/or shaped "special stones" which make up part of the Merrivale central Avenue.
View looking south, with the unusual large capstone of the cist beyond.
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Merrivale Centre N
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale Centre N submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. The remains of the cairn with its central cist and surrounding stone circle which is in the middle of the southern (or central) avenue
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Merrivale
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 29th Oct 2004
Merrivale submitted by thecaptain on 29th Oct 2004. Merrivale site overview.
This is the view looking west overlooking the Merrivale site. I have tried to mark out where the various features are.
The stones in the foreground are remains of bronze age reaves and ancient settlement huts and field walls.
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Merlin's Cave (Cornwall)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2014
Merlin's Cave (Cornwall) submitted by theCaptain on 23rd Mar 2014. Inside Merlin's Cave back in 1986.
Note my friend giving scale to the place.
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Mérinville Polissoir
Trip No.204 Entry No.239 Date Added: 5th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Centre:Loiret (45))
Visited: Couldn't find on 5th Aug 2005
Log Text: The Mérinville Polissoir is another stone the farmers wife at Coinche said I should go to see. However, I am not exactly sure where to find it, and it is now pouring with rain, so I am not going to go for a long walk now, especially as it is getting late and starting to get dark. There is no sign to it, so I will for now leave it.
Mérinville Polissoir
Trip No.204 Entry No.243 Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Centre:Loiret (45))
Visited: Couldn't find on 6th Aug 2005
Log Text: Today I went back for a proper look for the Mérinville Polissoir, which is another stone the farmers wife at Coinche said I should go to see. I walked a lot down the forest track near to where it is marked on my map, but there was no chance of finding it without knowing exactly where to look. There is lots of marsh and ponds in the forest which doesn't help in trying to find anything. After quite some time going to look at any rock I can see, I decide its time to give up ! Shame.
Mentoul Menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.452 Date Added: 23rd May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Mentoul Menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Jan 2019. This menhir is found in a little grassy area just to the north of Moelan-sur-Mer town centre, between the houses.
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Log Text: This menhir is found in a little grassy area just to the north of the town centre, between the houses. Its about 3 metres high and 2 metres wide.