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Ile Grande (Allee-Couverte) — Fieldnotes |
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Access: Easy to find from the map on TMA, and signposted once you get fairly close. There's a layby right next to it & it's only a few paces across grass. Visited Thursday 12 April 2012 Lovely, lovely, lovely - especially in the sun today instead of the pissing rain a few years ago! The site seems to have been tidied up a bit & a shrub/tree that had been growing through the east-side seems to have been removed (though I only noticed this when I saw the photos from last time). Nice glimpses of the sea through the trees. |
Posted by Moth21st April 2012ce |
Ile Grande (Allee-Couverte) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
  
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Posted by Moth 21st April 2012ce |
Prajou Menhir (Allee-Couverte) — Images |
   
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Posted by Moth 21st April 2012ce |
Prajou Menhir (Allee-Couverte) — Fieldnotes |
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Access: Good - very short walk on grass, only yards from a parking space. Visited Thursday 12 April 2012 Even more wonderful on a sunny day than when it's peeing down!!! Just to clarify, this is on the west of the road coming from the mainland, just before you approach the causeway/bridge to Ile Grande. There is a small lay-by/parking space south of it. It's probably easier to spot on the way back if you go across to see Ile Grande allée couverte, which is why Jane described it the way she did. Either way, keep your eye open on the west side of the road for a gap in field edge less than 100m on the mainland side of the causeway/bridge. When we were there last week, there was a little sign in the entrance to the field. In line with the allée couverte & right next to it, there's also a curious long mound that makes you think it's a still couverte allée.... It even has a standing stone sticking out, but I haven't (yet) seen it referred to in any books etc. |
Posted by Moth 17th April 2012ce |
La Loge Aux Loups (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Fieldnotes |
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Visited 5th May 2011 It's a misty morning, the fog clinging to the trees and muffling the sounds of the forest around us as we sit at 'The Wolves Lair', a unique combination of table dolmen and allee couverte, dating from around 2,500BCE. The small dolmen was once said to house wolves, hence the name, now it is moss covered, seemingly becoming part of the forest, but this morning it feels like a place out of time, and I almost expect to see huge lupine shapes slinking between the trees around us. Two lines of stone, now jumbled, extend out from the dolmen, and there is still evidence of a vague raised mound on which the monument stood. We only found out about this place quite late into our weeks holiday, by spotting it in a book on Brittany megaliths we picked up from the museum at Carnac. It is nice and easy to find, just south of the town of Tredion on the D1 a small signposted parking spot points the way to a path through the woodland to the dolmen. On the walk through the forest several large fallen stones were visible, and it was difficult to tell whether they were once fallen menhirs, as they seemed too worked in shape to be just natural stones. There is something about this place which draws me to it, whether it is the particular atmosphere of the setting on this misty morning enhancing the place, or some innate magic of the site I don't know, but the whole place is so evocative it makes it hard to leave. This is a true forest temple, a place of myth and the archetypal ancient ruin in a forest. I really liked it here. I just love the way the forest seems to embrace the monument, moss shrouds the stones and oaks protectivly encircle it, whilst a smally holly tree grows from the back of the dolmen, how much more Druidic can you get! This is one of the best dolmens I've ever visited, and coupled with the ease of access, but remote feel there is no excuse not to come back! |
Posted by Ravenfeather16th April 2012ce |
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