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| Site Name (A/D) |
Site Type | Country (A/D) |
County/ Region | Visited? (A/D) |
Date (A/D) |
Cond | Amb | Acc | Comments | Trip Number (A/D) |
Trip Order |
| Kerivin Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 28th Jun 2016 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Not far off the busy road between Morlaix and Roscoff, this Tee shaped allee couvetre is becoming very overgrown, and its difficult to make anything out at all now. It is also not far from a field corner where people have decided to dumpstuff, so overall its not a winner. I seem to remember this from many years ago as being a good and interesting place to visit. | 216 | 1 |
| Kerampeulven Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 28th Jun 2016 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Overnight ferry to Roscoff, then drive south through Morlaix and stop for a look at this lovely menhir. | 216 | 2 |
| Menhir de Coat Mocun (Huelgoat) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Couldn't find | 28th Jun 2016 | Having a look round the area for several menhirs, I had previously identified a couple of large promising looking rocks from the various satellite views. One of these menhirs was near to the main road, a fallen menhir re erected when the new road was being built. I could not find it, obviously well hidden. | 216 | 3 | |||
| Menhir de Coat Mocun 2 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Saw from a distance | 28th Jun 2016 | Having a look round the area for several menhirs, I had previously identified a couple of large promising looking rocks from the various satellite views. I only got to look at one of these directly due to hedges etc, but I felt pretty sure it was not a fallen menhir, but just a natural outcropping of the local granite, of which there is plenty around here. I didn't even bother to take a photo! (wish I had now). | 216 | 4 | |||
| Menhir de Coat Mocoun (sud) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 28th Jun 2016 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Spent some time looking for various menhirs one morning in June 2016 near to Coatmocun, while travelling through the area (by chance, followings signs south from Morlaix, not on the main road). Following a pathway through some newly cut scrubland which was until recently forest, heading towards the noise of the quarry, the path eventually entered into some wooded land, with many boulders laying around, the remnants of quarrying. I didn't fin... Read More |
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| St-Guinec menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 28th Jun 2016 | 5 | 3 | 5 | Trying to figure out all the stones in this area, and not getting on very well, we come for a look at one I know I can find, although it has to be seen over a gate into the well hedged garden. | 216 | 6 |
| Menhir du Roz Perez | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Couldn't find | 28th Jun 2016 | Spent some time searching for this and other menhirs in the area, but could not find this one. However, using a combination of maps, satellite views and my own hunting, I am pretty sure I can now locate this menhir at N48.3527, W 3.8009. The shadow on Flash Earth gives it away. Looking closely, are there a few other fallen menhirs nearby? Could this once have been a row? Unless anyone can find better information, I think a new sitepage should be ... Read More |
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| Leintant menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 28th Jun 2016 | 3 | 3 | 4 | With better info than in 2005, I managed to find this menhir this time, not far off the lane and at the edge of a bank. I saw no other stones of the alignment, perhaps they are here but overgrown, or maybe this is just a solitary menhir. But we had better be getting on. | 216 | 8 |
| Alignement de Leintant | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 28th Jun 2016 | 2 | 3 | 4 | With better info than in 2005, I managed to find this in June 2016, not far off the lane and at the edge of a bank. I was still unsure whether this was a single menhir, or the recorded alignment of one standing and 3 fallen stones in a bank. I saw no other stones of the alignment, no doubt that if they are here, they are somewhere overgrown in this bank. But we had better be getting on. | 216 | 9 |
| Er-Grah tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 28th Jun 2016 | 3 | 3 | 3 | All manicured and caged in, Er-Grah has lost its spirit | 216 | 11 |
| La Table des Marchands | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 28th Jun 2016 | 5 | 3 | 3 | La Table des Marchands was completely rebuilt in 1988, just a year after I first visited. I really wish I had got pictures from that first visit in 1987 before the major restoration, I know it looked nothing like it does now. Its all a bit too neat and tidy, but it has to be said they have done a good job on the lighting in the chamber, showing off the carvings very well. | 216 | 12 |
| Grand Menhir Brisé | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 28th Jun 2016 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Grand Menhir Brisé. Amazing to think of this standing in a row of 19. | 216 | 13 |
| Mané-Réthual Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 28th Jun 2016 | 4 | 4 | 4 | An impressively long chamber, now mostly uncovered and looking like an allée couverte, which has had several building periods, including modern concrete! Two of the huge capstones are re-used menhirs, probably from the row of menhirs with La Grande Menhir Brise. There are carvings on the underside, now the chamber roof. | 216 | 14 |
| Menhir La Motte de Beurre | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 28th Jun 2016 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Broken large menhir in a sort of front garden. I don't remember this being here before. Later find out that the lower part supposedly has a flying bird engraved in it, shame I didn't know to look. | 216 | 15 |
| Mane Lud Dolmen | Chambered Cairn | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 28th Jun 2016 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Just a few hundred metres away from the famed sites at the Grande Menhir Brisé, but it is not visited by many people | 216 | 16 |
| Mane Lud tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Saw from a distance | 28th Jun 2016 | Saw somewhere that there is supposedly a second dolmen of Mané Lud in this large 80m long tumulus. There is certainly a large mound amongst the trees, but nothing obvious of a dolmenic chamber to be seen. I later find that there is a second closed off burial chamber. "the Mané Lud tumulus is a large burial monument comprising a closed burial chamber and two arcs of standing stones; inside there is also a passage grave. Only the dolmen is clearly... Read More |
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| Mané-er-Hroëck tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 29th Jun 2016 | What I remember as a magnificent cairn with chamber down some steps is at the moment closed off to the public. Shame. | 216 | 20 | |||
| Pierres Plates (Locmariaquer) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 29th Jun 2016 | 4 | 5 | 5 | Take Dad to see this famous angled passage grave with its many sculpted stones right at the end of the Locmariaquer peninsular overlooking the sea. The chamber has many nicely carved stones. | 216 | 22 |
| Kermaux menhirs | Standing Stones | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 29th Jun 2016 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Hoping to stop for a coffee at the creperie in the middle of the Kermario alignements, we found it closed. However to the south of the parking area, beside the wall around the Kermaux campsite is a pair of menhirs which seem very left out, so I go to give them some attention. | 216 | 23 |
| Mané Roullarde | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 29th Jun 2016 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 216 | 24 | |
| Kermarquer Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 29th Jun 2016 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Much easier to find and photograph than in 2005, it's surroundings having been cleared. An excellent monument | 216 | 25 |
| Carnac Plage Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 29th Jun 2016 | 4 | 3 | 5 | In square Leblois in the seaside resort of Carnac plage can be found a dolmen and a menhir. | 216 | 38 |
| Carnac Plage menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 29th Jun 2016 | 4 | 3 | 5 | In square Leblois in the seaside resort of Carnac plage can be found a dolmen and a menhir. | 216 | 39 |
| Twelve Men's Moor Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cornwall | Visited | 16th Jun 2026 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Stop on the way home for a walk up and around Kilmar Tor, intending to visit multiple ancient cairns and cists. Start from the parking space at the end of the lane up to Trewortha farm, and walk south along the trackway and around the eastern side of Kilmar Tor. Heading south over the open moor, littered with granite blocks and old workings, I find this stone and it certainly looks like an old menhir rather than a relatively recently quarried blo... Read More |
216 | 40 |
| Kilmar Tor. | Rock Outcrop | England | Cornwall | Visited | 16th Jun 2026 | 4 | 5 | 3 | Kilmar Tor is an excellent tor with multiple granite outcrops, the best of which is no doubt "High Rocks" near the western end. After getting to the top of Kilmar Tor (nearly), with time and weather being what it is, I am not going to do a thorough exploration, one for another time. I did at least get up to the trig point, and am not convinced at all about these so called propped stones. | 216 | 41 |
| Trewortha Kerb cairn and cist | Chambered Cairn | England | Cornwall | Visited | 16th Jun 2026 | 5 | 4 | 3 | Back down to the south from Kilmar Tor and find the old quarry railway, with its amazing lines of granite sleepers, and follow this west and around the end of Kilmar tor to the north until it ends, from where I can head down to the northwest towards Trewortha farm, stopping to have my pasty lunch at a convenient block to sit on. There is a lot of shooting going on over at the farm, and the sounds it makes echoing off the newly denuded Smallacomb ... Read More |
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| Trewortha cairn and cist NE | Cairn | England | Cornwall | Visited | 16th Jun 2026 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Once I have had my fill of the main event, I head to the northeast to find its neighbour, which is much less distinct within its surrounding of ferns and bushes. Just a couple of kerbstones stand proud, otherwise it looks not much more than a round stone cairn, but there is almost certainly a cist within and might tidy up quite nicely. | 216 | 43 |
| Trewortha Cairns | Barrow Cemetery | England | Cornwall | Visited | 16th Jun 2026 | 3 | 3 | 3 | With the weather getting worse, I now head on northwards and back towards the car passing the "mound" marked on the map (a cairn?) to the Trewortha Cairns which form a sort of line alongside the southern edge of the trackway to Trewortha Farm. I looked at about four of them before deciding that there are too many to look at closely and photograph each of them in this weather. Some are not much more than a grass and stone lump covered with ferns, ... Read More |
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| Twelve men's moor cairn and cist | Cist | England | Cornwall | Visited | 16th Jun 2026 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Heading on northeast I get to the marked cairn with cist. This is quite interesting to see as it looks like it is in two halves, one of them complete and covered, while the other half has been removed to show the cist and the stone construction of the cairn. I wouldn't be surprised if there were several more of these out here. I now head back to the car along the track, and see a cuckoo flying across to the north. Brilliant. Time to get out of my... Read More |
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| Treen standing stone A | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cornwall | Visited | 15th Jun 2026 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Park at Treen, then walk down towards Penberth Cove, and after passing through the first field wall, there is a small stone standing in the field. It is possibly just a cattle scratching post, but it seems very old and has been firmly retained in the ground with a lot of packing stones. Like many of the stones around this part of the coast, it could be an ancient stone. | 216 | 46 |
| Treen cliff standing stone | Modern Stone Circle etc | England | Cornwall | Visited | 15th Jun 2026 | 3 | 4 | 3 | From Penberth Cove I walk up and along the coastpath to the west, and in the little valley before Trewyn Dinas headland can be seen a stone standing within all the undergrowth, shining bright amongst all the green. I wasn't going to battle my way through all the growth, so made do with seeing just the top of it from a small distance away. There is a spring right beside it, so it could have been placed there to mark this. | 216 | 47 |
| The Logan Rock (Treen) | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | England | Cornwall | Visited | 15th Jun 2026 | As I sit and watch the world from Trewyn Dinas, I try and figure out the route to the logan rock when I realise I cannot see it, wondering if it has been dislodged and fallen again. Much to my relief it is just the viewpoint on the headland, as further around the coast to the west it can clearly be seen. It is here that the old path drops down over the cliffs to the amazing Pedn Vounder (Pednee) beach, which features in so many pictures of the we... Read More |
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| Godrevy Headland Barrow | Round Barrow(s) | England | Cornwall | Visited | 14th Jun 2026 | 2 | 5 | 4 | Today is a circular walk around the Godrevy headland on a very sunny day. Some lovely clifftop views and suchlike including seals in the coves below. Just before I get to the Lighthouse on the Island I stop and eat my pasty near the remains of the large barrow. After lunch a gentle stroll to watch all the goings on on the beaches and have an icecream, before heading over the Red River and the dunes to Gwithian for a pint. | 216 | 49 |
| Cheswick Roman Villa | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Gloucestershire | Visited | 1st Aug 2026 | -1 | 1 | An afternoon exploration of the now non existent remains of Cheswick Roman villa, within a maze of new streets and dead end footpaths of the new housing development near Lockleaze sports centre. All that I could find to show of its existence is a small noticeboard. | 216 | 50 | |
| Stoke Park Long Barrow | Long Barrow | England | Gloucestershire | Visited | 1st Aug 2026 | 3 | 4 | After exploration of the now non existent remains of Cheswick Roman villa, I came for a look at "Stoke Park Long Barrow". All I could see of this supposed longbarrow / pillow mound was a large clump of brambles, with no way of telling whether there was anything inside. Another large clump is nearby. Ambience rating depends upon which direction you look! | 216 | 51 | |
| Pendeen Fogou | Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House) | England | Cornwall | Visited | 10th Jun 2026 | 4 | 4 | 3 | On a circular walk from the lighthouse, with the aim of visiting the fogou, I called at the splendid farmhouse. An eccentric looking old gent came out to greet me and took great delight in showing me his fogou, surrounded by cows with their calves which he referred to as his daughters. He was telling me it's the best fogou in England, but I am not so sure, that at Halliggye topping my list. From the entrance, it's a steep clamber down into it bas... Read More |
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| Boswens Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cornwall | Visited | 10th Jun 2026 | 4 | 4 | 3 | A spectacular two to three metres tall menhir standing near the top of the hill with the air traffic control radar on it. It stands within a circular stone edged cairn and is clearly visible from a long distance. There's a cuckoo doing its thing nearby. | 216 | 53 |
| Wheal Buller | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cornwall | Visited | 10th Jun 2026 | 4 | 2 | 5 | A splendid 3 metre stone standing in a hedge beside the road, which I first caught a glimpse of a few years ago, so thought I would pay it a proper visit. It looks to be fairly recently restood. | 216 | 54 |