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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 !
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sainte Marguerite Au Pé Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.17 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 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Sainte Marguerite Au Pé Dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 18th Nov 2005. St Marc cromlech, a little circle of stones about 5 metres in diameter near St Nazaire.
It’s the remains of a burial chamber, rather than a proper stone circle.
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Log Text: While at Dissignac there was a map showing a cycle ride which passed a cromlech a couple of kilometres to the south along Route du Cromlech so I went to have a look. Its easily found just north of the road junction and in a little piece of land between houses with its own signpost outside. It’s a little circle of stones about 5 metres in diameter and I suspect it’s the remains of a burial chamber indeed there seems to be an inner bit still with a capstone.
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.
Gaudinais megalithes
Trip No.203 Entry No.15 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Gaudinais megalithes submitted by thecaptain on 18th Nov 2005. Gaudinais megalithes, near to the village of Langon.
Remains of a rectangular tumulus, with embanked stones set around the outside, which reminded me of a small version of King Arthurs Hall.
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Log Text: A signpost to Vestiges Megalithiques de La Gaudinais points down a gravel track to this from the main street on the west side of the village of Langon so I just had to go and have a look. I have no idea what I found or even whether it is the proper megalithic remains but I had a good look around.
What I found was a sort of embanked rectangle of stones in woodland a bit like a small version of King Arthur’s Hall on Bodmin Moor. The dimensions of this rectangle are about 16 metres by 6 metres with the long axis on an alignment of 090°. I later found that this is the remains of a rectangular tumulus, with stones set around the outside, similar to that at Les Demoiselles. There are also the remains of two further tumulus mounds here, but in muxch less well preserved condition.
Demoiselles de Langon
Trip No.203 Entry No.14 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 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Demoiselles de Langon submitted by thecaptain on 17th Nov 2005. Les Demoiselles de Langon.
Near to the stadium in the village of Langon, these alignements consist of between 30 and 40 white quartz stone blocks in a field.
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Log Text: Found near to the stadium in the village of Langon and signposted from the main street These alignements consist of between 30 and 40 white quartz stone blocks in a field. Though I have read somewhere about them being arranged in two rows this most definitely isn’t the case. I have also read about them being astronomically aligned but to me they seem quite randomly scattered about! Many intersecting lines of 4 or 5 stones perhaps but nothing obvious. It would be nice to see a plan of this place to see if I could make more sense of the stones. There are probably many more stones that have been removed or are hiding in people’s gardens or under hedges.
Grotte-aux-Fées (Tréal)
Trip No.203 Entry No.13 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 4 Access 4
Grotte-aux-Fées (Tréal) submitted by greywether on 27th Jun 2005. From NW. June 1994 - shortly after it was restored.
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Log Text: A fine lateral entry allée couverte at the top of a hill just to the northwest of the Saint Just megaliths and signposted from there. The main chamber is about 13 metres long 1.2 m wide and oriented 102°. The entrance is on the south side with a couple of laterally set portal stones near the east end. There are 8 capstones in place and all the stones get larger to the west end. The stones are made from the strange lumpy local Schist.
Alignement dit le Rocher
Trip No.203 Entry No.12 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 13th May 2005
Alignement dit le Rocher submitted by johnstone on 10th Mar 2018. This menhir stands at the beginning of the road “Le Rocher” almost hidden in the bushes.
It may be the first stone belonging to the alignment further on, June 26, 2013
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Log Text: To the east of Saint Just village I spent no time looking for this menhir as it was by now pouring with rain, although I thought I saw something near a farmhouse as I drove past.
Croix Madame
Trip No.203 Entry No.11 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Croix Madame submitted by aolson on 3rd Aug 2020. Croix Madame tumulus 1 is rectangular, about 22 by 10 meters. Tumulus 2 is circular with a diameter of about 10 meters, the edge of which is just visible in the bottom of this picture. They are located on the south side of the path at 47.76436, -1.96858.
More information at t4t35.fr
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Log Text: At the western end of the village to the east of the Alignements du Moulin are the remains of some some bronze age burial chambers. At least four mounds are known, some of which have the remains of stone chambers within.
I did not find them initially and didn’t spend a lot of time looking for them on the way back as it was by now pouring with rain and everything was getting soaked. I expect that the humps and bumps seen in the ground here are the remains of these, with nothing spectacular to be seen.
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.
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 tertre
Trip No.203 Entry No.7 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Croix St Pierre tertre submitted by greywether on 27th Jun 2005. Tetre tumulaire from W
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Log Text: Another long mound this time in an east west alignment with a sort of rectangular arrangement of stones sticking up from within it rather like the peristalith stones from an allée couverte. There is a single larger block of stone near the western end.