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Site Type | Country (A/D) |
County/ Region | Visited? (A/D) |
Date (A/D) |
Cond | Amb | Acc | Comments | Trip Number (A/D) |
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| Robin Hood and Little John | Standing Stones | England | Cambridgeshire | Visited | 1st Jan 2016 | I don't remember them as overgrown as this. I must dig through my pictures. | |||||
| Horse Common Spring | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cambridgeshire | Visited | 23rd Sep 2017 | ||||||
| Bartlow Hills | Barrow Cemetery | England | Cambridgeshire | Visited | 3rd Sep 2018 | It's quite a climb to the top of the highest one. | |||||
| Heath Wood, Ingleby | Artificial Mound | England | Derbyshire | Visited | 14th Feb 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | This site in the Heath Wood is also known as the Danish Barrow Cemetery. A footpath leads down to the wood from the Ingleby Road. Not so easy to see the barrows as it is now a wood rather than the original grassy slope. Anyway it is a pleasant walk through the wood. | ||
| Anchor Church | Cave or Rock Shelter | England | Derbyshire | Visited | 14th Feb 2019 | Quite an adventure approaching the caves from the Ingleby side. Very narrow and tortuous path with possibility of falling into the Trent in many places. Worth the hike but my advice would be to approach from the other direction which is much easier (our return route). The footpath also leads to the ... Read More |
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| The King Barrow (Isle of Purbeck) | Round Barrow(s) | England | Dorset | Visited | 1st Jun 2018 | ||||||
| The Virgins Cup | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | England | Gloucestershire | Visited | 12th Aug 2017 | ||||||
| St Anthony's Well (Cinderford) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Gloucestershire | Visited | 18th Nov 2017 | ||||||
| The Giant's Stone (Gloucestershire) | Chambered Cairn | England | Gloucestershire | Visited | 1st Feb 2018 | Bumped into an archaeologist surveying the site when we visited and he seemed to think that there was a lot more to discover here. | |||||
| Windmill Tump | Long Barrow | England | Gloucestershire | Visited | 1st Feb 2018 | ||||||
| Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne | Chambered Tomb | England | Gloucestershire | Visited | 26th Nov 2018 | ||||||
| Hetty Pegler's Tump | Passage Grave | England | Gloucestershire | Visited | 23rd Nov 2018 | Difficult to get a sense of the layout from pictures until you go inside and find there is no one place to get a good photo. | |||||
| Little Doward | Hillfort | England | Herefordshire | Visited | 4th Apr 2018 | ||||||
| King Arthur's North | Cave or Rock Shelter | England | Herefordshire | Visited | 4th Apr 2018 | Very wet day visit. Went up to the Little Doward Hillfort to see the Tumulus but met with a group of Archaeologists who denied its existance. | |||||
| Castle Down, Tresco | Chambered Tomb | England | Isles of Scilly | Visited | 25th Dec 2017 | Christmas morning walk | |||||
| Beacon Plantation Long Barrow | Long Barrow | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 25th Oct 2018 | Access from the A16 Southbound Lay-by to the North of the site. | |||||
| Ash Holt Long Barrow | Long Barrow | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 25th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Located in Ash Holt Wood on the West side of the road about 100 meters from the given coordinates on the other side of the road. | ||
| Ash Hill Long Barrow | Long Barrow | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 25th Oct 2018 | Unloved by Farmer | |||||
| Hoe Hill Long Barrow | Long Barrow | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 25th Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | There is major damage to the barrow towards the Western end caused partly by rabbits but also by recent excavation. | ||
| Bully Hill (Tealby) | Round Barrow(s) | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 25th Oct 2018 | Easily seen from the road | |||||
| Bully Hills | Barrow Cemetery | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 25th Oct 2018 | Show up well from the road | |||||
| Spellow Hills | Long Barrow | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 25th Oct 2018 | No Easy access to this site. Had to take pictures from the road | |||||
| Giant's Hill Skendleby | Long Barrow | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 25th Oct 2018 | Very Overgrown with brambles | |||||
| Butterbumps Barrow Cemetery | Barrow Cemetery | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 26th Oct 2018 | Almost leveled out. Faint Undulations show where the tumuli were. | |||||
| Deadmen's Graves | Long Barrow | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 26th Oct 2018 | Well covered with shrubs | |||||
| Tathwell Long Barrow | Long Barrow | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 26th Oct 2018 | The view from the road is very misleading as you can't see the barrow because the height is less than the surrounding scrub. | |||||
| Baumber Cursus | Cursus | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 26th Oct 2018 | (Almost?) entirely ploughed out | |||||
| Revesby Barrows | Round Barrow(s) | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 26th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | Surrounded by a ditch | |||
| Folk Moot | Round Barrow(s) | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 26th Oct 2018 | Unkempt and Uncared for Barrows. | |||||
| Butt Mound | Round Barrow(s) | England | Lincolnshire | Visited | 26th Oct 2018 | In need of a haircut | |||||
| Old Vicarage | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Oxfordshire | Visited | 6th Dec 2018 | Not That easy to find as the stones were covered in ivy and brambles. Managed to clear some of the ivy from some of the stones but would really need to go better equipped to clear away the brambles. | |||||
| Flagstaff Hill | Stone Circle | England | Somerset | Visited | 6th Dec 2018 | Well I really don't think that this is the remains of a stone circle. It is an interesting hillside with lots of lumps and bumps but it appears to be made up of old stone walls and green lanes. The 12 stones mentioned here are aligned and appear to run along a lane which if you walk to the boundary ... Read More |
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| Danby Rigg (Slate Hill) | Marker Stone | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 20th Apr 2018 | ||||||
| Peyre d'Ermale | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | A little tricky to find but worth it. | |||||
| Dolmen de Peyrelevade (Paussac) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | ||||||
| La Monerie menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | ||||||
| Pierre Plantée (Lisle) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | We have a picture of this stone just like that. | |||||
| Le Breuil | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | 2 | 5 | It is difficult to be sure as the coordinates given here are for a location in a garden in the village of Breuil. The owner of the property knew nothing about a dolmen but other locals seemed to think that there was one down a track a little way from the village. We investigated and found two separ... Read More |
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| Dolmen de la Vaurelie | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Drive down the track where the dolmen sign is on the road or it's a long walk | |||||
| Dolmen de Palus | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | ||||||
| Peyrebrune (Seyssac) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | ||||||
| Eylias Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 7th Oct 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | A nice little dolmen in the middle of vines marked by a single tree. It is not visible until you are right on top of it so coordinates 44.689378, 0.395161 are more useful than the ones currently given for the site | ||
| Allée couverte de Blanc | Passage Grave | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 10th Oct 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | It is a large monument but low on ambience so It was good to see but no return visit planned | ||
| Dolmen de Peyre Nègre | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 10th Oct 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Barbed wire currently on the ground so access not too difficult | ||
| Menhir de Fixard | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) | Visited | 12th Oct 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | No one seems to have mentioned that this have been a pair of standing stones | ||
| Menhir des Goulards | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | 4 | 5 | 3 | It is right on the edge of a small wood surrounded by vines. You either have to approach through a vineyard from the North of the stone or along tracks from the South between vineyards. It is not a very big stone but it is covered on the wood side with sets of parallel lines. Rock Art? | ||
| Curton Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 7th Apr 2019 | It's a steep climb up to this dolmen but worth it. On our second visit to this site the sat nav brought us in from a different direction so there was no steep climb and we could take the car along a track almost up to the site. Also it was well signposted. | |||||
| Peyrefitte | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Day out with my new son in law who also is interested in megaliths | |||||
| Pierre du Maine du Prieuré | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 7th Apr 2019 | Huge Menir visible from good distance away across the fields. | |||||
| Menhir des Goulards | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 7th Apr 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | This is our second visit to this site. Earlier in the year this time and much less undergrowth so we were able to see a second Menir in the wood and some other large stones which perhaps are the site of a burial. | ||
| Sabatey Dolmen 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Gironde (33) | Visited | 7th Apr 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Important to approach this site from the Sabatey farm where the gate described by the captain can be found along with a sign. The road to the west may be closer to the site but access would be through a private wood with no paths. | ||
| Allée de Chanteloube | Passage Grave | France | Aquitaine:Lot-et-Garonne (47) | Visited | 7th Oct 2019 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Finding this allee couverte was not very easy. Our sat nav stopped us by a field telling us that the tomb was due South of our position. We crossed to the far edge of the field where the ground rose steeply through a wood. I climbed with some difficulty through the wood as there were no discernable ... Read More |
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| Calhau de Teberno Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Aquitaine:Pyrénées-Atlantiques 64 | Visited | 22nd Sep 2019 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Attractive little Dolmen which was well worth a look even on the very wet morning that we payed it a visit. | ||
| Lou Couraus Cromlechs | Stone Circle | France | Aquitaine:Pyrénées-Atlantiques 64 | Visited | 22nd Sep 2019 | 4 | 5 | 3 | The rain had eased a little after our visit to the dolmen near Buzy so we decided to take the track up to these stone circles. What a magical place even with rain and poor visibility the hike was worth the trouble. | ||
| Pierre des Quatre Curés | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Visited | 15th Oct 2016 | Off on a trip to the source of the Dordogne | |||||
| Thiemblais menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Truly impressive Menhir. | |||||
| Roche Longue de Guitté | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Seems to be called Pierre Longue now. | |||||
| Allée couverte des Meurtiaux | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 17th Sep 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Easy to find with a sign right on the Road. | ||
| Roche aux Fées de la Brousse | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) | Visited | 17th Sep 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Easy to find with a sign on the road. | ||
| Alignement dit les Rochers (Lampouy) | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | There are a huge number of alignments here. Some buried in undergrowth and obscured by trees but the effect is dramatic. | |||||
| Roche-aux-Fées (Essé) | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 14th Oct 2019 | 4 | 4 | 5 | This Dolmen is vast. Why it is possible to drive up and walk round it without paying anything is a mystery in these mercenary times. When you first walk through the trees and see it, it is quite breathtaking. It is such an enormous construction. | ||
| La Maison des Feins | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Visited | 14th Oct 2019 | 4 | 5 | 4 | Another magical site. Wonderful location in a wood. Must be one of the longest and most complete allee couvert we have visited in France. So many of the capstones are in place. In a way it is good that the tumulus is gone so we can appreciate the construction. | ||
| Haut Bézon allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Liked this site. There is quite a bit of the tumulus still in place. | |||||
| Jardin-aux-Moines tumulus | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Very interesting site. | |||||
| Hino allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | There is a lot to see around Ploermel. This is good but we liked the Haut Bezon even more. | |||||
| Dolmen dit Pierre des Champs-Morgan | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | We did try to visit this site but it is right in amongst the houses so it may be in a garden behind a wall but was not visible to us. | |||||
| Butte-Ronde | Chambered Tomb | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | We tried to find this tomb when visiting Jardin-aux-Moines tumulus as it is quite nearby. The coordinates given for this site are in the same wood but in an impenetrable section so we had to give up especially after my wife came face to face with an aspic viper. | |||||
| Dolmen dit des Tablettes | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Shame about the concrete and iron supports | |||||
| La Roche Piquée (La Gacilly) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Its steep going up to this menhir. | |||||
| Allée couverte du Sigré | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | 4 | 3 | Can't be sure that we found this site. We followed the path in the wood to about the right area and searched around, assisted by a friendly local dog. | |||
| Bodel Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Tripped over this menhir while looking for Haute Bodel Allee couverte | |||||
| Allée Couverte du Haut Bodel | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Probably mostly removed but there is something here. | ||
| Allée Couverte de Saint-Méen 1 | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Little search in the woods but well worth the visit. Difficult to take pictures because it is a large site and trees get in the way. I believe there is a second Allee Couverte less than 100 meters away. | ||
| Alignement dit le Pas de Gargantua | Stone Row / Alignment | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Easy to spot by the water tower | |||||
| Allée couverte dite la Maison du Diable | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Easy walk into the wood to find this charming spot. | |||||
| Ville Bouquet allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Very stiff climb up a path from the road which lead directly to the tomb. There are some vast rocks here. Found a more sensible route down which exited on a track by the river. | |||||
| Menhir de Camblot | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 17th Sep 2019 | 4 | 4 | 5 | On the corner right by the side of the road. Easy to find | ||
| Menhir de Bellouan | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 17th Sep 2019 | 4 | 4 | 4 | There is a sign by the road informing you of the presence of this menhir but no indication as to where it is. The trackway to it really does not exist any more. So just park the car and delve into the wood by the stream and follow the path until the stone is found. | ||
| Grand Breuil Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 17th Sep 2019 | 3 | 3 | Well it is almost impossible to find now. We drove around for ages looking for this menhir and when we did find it we couldn't see it. Access is impossible. Barbed wire surround it on all sides and inside this enclosure is a mass of trees bushes and undergrowth. | |||
| Dolmen de la Côte (St-Laurent-sur-Gorre) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | 4 | 2 | 5 | I'm afraid that this Dolmen is a bit ordinary. It just seems to have been plonked down on a convenient stretch of flat grass. | ||
| Dolmen de la Tamanie | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Somehow one feels that there ought to be more of this. Perhaps it was cleared away when the track came into use. | |||||
| Menhir de La Grande-Borne | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Have very similar pictures to those already published | |||||
| Ceinturat Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 24th Oct 2017 | It is a vast stone | |||||
| Grotte dite le Rocher des Fées (Cieux) | Cave or Rock Shelter | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 24th Oct 2017 | Bit of a hike but amazing rock formations here | |||||
| Pierre Branlante de Boscartus | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 24th Oct 2017 | Why doesn't it tip? | |||||
| Pierre à Sacrifice de Cieux | Rock Outcrop | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 24th Oct 2017 | ||||||
| Chez Moutaud Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Limousin:Haute-Vienne (87) | Visited | 12th Oct 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | |||
| La Pile d'Ordan-Larroque | Ancient Temple | France | Midi:Gers (32) | Visited | 6th Oct 2019 | 2 | 4 | 5 | The coordinates are more like 43.701293, 0.468710 on the Route de Cesar with views over a huge distance. | ||
| Petite Roche allée couverte | Passage Grave | France | Normandie:Manche (50) | Visited | 14th Oct 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Another ancient place. Well worth a visit. Difficult to determine where one tomb ends and the next begins and a view of the whole site is just not possible. | ||
| Menhir dit la Droite Pierre (Chênedouit) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 26th Oct 2017 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Took a bit of finding as the hedge running along the road is quite thick | ||
| L'Affiloire de Gargantua | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Normandie:Orne (61) | Visited | 26th Oct 2017 | Spotted from the road over 2 fields. Disguised by hedge | |||||
| Menhir de la Cohardais | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | So much dumping here now you have to walk round the outside of the wood and climb over a fence at the back to see the menhir. | |||||
| La Pierre du Hochu | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | We managed to walk right round this menhir in a circle before we found the correct path. | |||||
| Kerbourg Dolmen 2 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 17th Sep 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Well worth the extra 50m walk to this dolmen | ||
| Kerbourg Dolmen 1 | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 17th Sep 2019 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |||
| Dolmen de la Barbière | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 17th Sep 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Another well cared for Dolmen/Allee couverte in France | ||
| Plessis Gamat Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique | Visited | 18th Sep 2019 | 4 | 4 | 4 | An attractive Menhir just tucked into the wood. How does anyone know it had a cross on top? | ||
| La Pierre Aubrée | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | These coordinates take you to the hamlet La Pierre Aubree. Talking to locals they direct you to the Menhir de Breau as the local menhir. We did search on this side of the river but access is very restricted and the bank is mostly a wall of rock. The Menhir de Breau is only a couple of hundred meters... Read More |
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| Menhir de Breau | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | 4 | 5 | 3 | If you put these coordinates into google maps it looks as if you can drive almost up to the menhir. In fact the last kilometer is a grassy path which descends quickly via a hairpin to run along the river. At the end of the path is a weir and a house on the other side which I believe is the site of a... Read More |
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| Dolmen du Moulin Moreau | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Attempted to visit Moulin Moreau and we may have seen some of it dressed up as a garden feature | |||||
| Dolmen de la Motte | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 13th Oct 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | I would have rated this higher but the next day we stopped at two of the biggest dolmen I have ever seen so this is just a small cottage compared to the mansions we saw on the following day | ||
| Cromlech des Forges | Stone Circle | France | Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 | Visited | 14th Oct 2019 | 4 | 4 | 4 | The ambiance of this small ancient site does not seem to be spoiled by the fact it is right by the side of the road. There are many stones here as well as the main three manhirs. Not easy for a wheelchair visit other than a drive by. | ||
| Dolmen de la Pierre-qui-Vire | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Located this year in an attractive field of chicory. | |||||
| Dolmen du Marchais | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 1st Sep 2016 | 4 | 4 | 4 | The capstone on this dolmen is absolutely vast. It is accessed down a narrow footpath and then has a narrow ring of ground around it so it is difficult to get far enough away to photograph except from the approach path. It towers above you because you have to stand so close to it. There is a plaque ... Read More |
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| Pierre Levée de Soullans | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 18th Sep 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Don't stop on the D69. The wood is enclosed on the other 3 sides by small roads all of which have signs pointing to the Menhir. It is also a pleasant wood to walk through along the path. Once you get there it certainly is an impressive stone. | ||
| La Pierre Folle (Commequiers) | Passage Grave | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 18th Sep 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |||
| Les Pierres Jumelles | Standing Stones | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 18th Sep 2019 | 5 | 3 | 5 | shame that they are now in the village | ||
| La Sulette Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) | Visited | 18th Sep 2019 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Always good to have full access to an ancient site. | ||
| Dolmen dit de la Madeleine | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | 1 | It would be truer to say we tried to visit this site. We did find someone who knew of its existence but the access is over a private bridge to the island. A boat might be useful. Not possible to get close enough on either side of the river to take a picture. | ||||
| Dolmen de Confolens | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Zero ambiance here but we loved Confolens. Stayed here in both directions! | |||||
| Menhir Le Repaire | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | ||||||
| Garde Epée Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 19th Sep 2019 | 4 | 3 | 5 | This is a huge dolmen. | ||
| Rocher de la Vache | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 19th Sep 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Not as frequented as the nearby dolmen. Not really a path but there is a route through the trees so not difficult to find when you know it is at the top of the hill. | ||
| La Motte a Dognon | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 19th Sep 2019 | 4 | 4 | 4 | An interesting tumulus. It is well covered by undergrowth and ivy so it is difficult to see its construction but there are a lot of loose stones around the edges that you can see so it may be that it is stone rather than an earth mound. | ||
| Dolmen de Lambertie | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente (16) | Visited | 12th Oct 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The capstone is massive. Most of the tomb is below ground | ||
| Pierres Closes de Charas 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Visited | 18th Sep 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Only a short walk to this tomb as our sat nav took us down a dusty track and then we only had to walk across a bridge and a field to see it. We did not get to the other one as it was late and we assumed that it was in the middle of a field of sweetcorn being harvested. | ||
| Dolmen de la Pierre Levée (La Vallée) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Visited | 19th Sep 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | But why here? There is nothing remarkable about the location. Another interesting dolmen. | ||
| La Pierre Folle (Montguyon) | Passage Grave | France | Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) | Visited | 19th Sep 2019 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Magnificent huge monument with impressive stones. | ||
| Tumulus du Montiou | Chambered Tomb | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | ||||||
| Dolmen de la Pierre-Pèze | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Very impressive site | |||||
| Dolmen des Sept Chemins | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | ||||||
| Musée des Tumulus de Bougon | Museum | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | It is an interesting site. Once you have paid for entrance you have access to the museum and the experimental archaeology and then the site leads on into the Bougon Tumuli which are all fairly close together in one area. | |||||
| Pierre Levée de Bougon | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Attempted a visit to this dolmen as the bougon tumuli are so impressive but found nothing. | |||||
| Dolmen de la Garenne (La Mothe) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Eventually found the allee du dolmen but not before we spent ages trying to battle our way through the wood. | |||||
| Les Doignons | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | Failed to find this dolmen but the point on the road closest to these coordinates where the sat nav told us we had reached our destination was a large stone the top of which had been broken off to reveal an amonite. Could this be a menhir? | |||||
| Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levée (Neuville-de-Poitou) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 1st Oct 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Google says this is Dolman des Amoureux. There is a woodland site just above that was closed when we were there but maybe would supply a cup of tea in season. | ||
| Dolmen de Beaumont | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 1st Sep 2018 | No one in the village had heard of a dolmen nearby and I can only assume that the coordinates aren't correct. Nothing visible nearby. Farmer let us look in his area and beyond his land is a disused railway which is very overgrown so could hide anything. | |||||
| Dolmen de la Fontaine au Son 1 | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 25th Oct 2017 | Surrounded by chain link fence so difficult to get good pictures | |||||
| Pierre-Levée (Chiroux) | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 12th Oct 2019 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |||
| Dolmen de Laverré | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 13th Oct 2019 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Grassy capstone. Brambles beginning to take over. Small sign at roadside. Infrequently visited. | ||
| Dolmen de la Bie | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 13th Oct 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Great place. Windy hill. Vast capstone. Maybe it was once supported on other of the surrounding stones or maybe this is the way it was constructed with the angled stone. Very impressive. | ||
| Vaon Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Poitou:Vienne (86) | Visited | 13th Oct 2019 | 4 | 4 | 4 | What a wonderful site. Views in all directions. Clearly a resting place of importance. | ||
| Cairn Catto | Cairn | Scotland | Aberdeenshire | Visited | 29th Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 3 | The cairn is in a field of cows surrounded by double barbed wire fences. It is only possible to get to the first fence and take pictures from there. At least half of the height of the cairn is hidden by gorse so it is only possible to see the stones forming the top of the cairn. | ||
| Gray Hill circle | Stone Circle | Wales | Monmouthshire | Visited | 24th Nov 2018 | Well I am not an archaeologist but isn't this a burial chamber? It is not the least bit circular but formed of two rows of stones down the sides with others at the ends. | |||||
| Great House Camp | Hillfort | Wales | Monmouthshire | Visited | 25th Apr 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | We thought at first that we would not be able to get to view the fort as there is no path indicated on the OS map and the Great House seems to be very private. However when we parked nearby we found that there is actually a marked (in Welsh) footpath which passes by two sides of the fort. There is a... Read More |
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| Nant Tarw WNW | Stone Circle | Wales | Powys | Visited | 1st Apr 2018 | Not an easy place to access across the moor |