Hi Gnomon,

If you are going to Brttany and are looking for a guide book to all the megalithic sites in the region, then there is one book that I would definately recommend geeting a hold of. As far as I am aware it is still one of the only guidebooks in English to be devoted to the megalithixc sites in Brittany. I believe it is a book that Julian has and has used on his travels.

The book is the excellent small hardback book called Megalihic Brittany " A guide to over 350 ancient sites and monuments" By Aubrey Burl.

176 pages.

Published in 1985 by Thames and Hudson, it is now out of print but if you go to the Abebooks site I have linked bellow (The largest market places for secondhand books on the net) There are Uk booksellers listing the book for sale for around £5.00-£10.00 plus postage.

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookSearchPL?ph=2&isbn=&an=Aubrey+Burl&tn=&pn=&sn=&kn=&cty=&bi=&fe=false&sgnd=false&dj=false&prl=&prh=&countryprovstatedisplay=&sortby=2&searchtype=refine&refinecriteria=tit&refinetext=megalithic+brittany&x=22&y=13

The book is just the right size to fit nicely into a small rucksack

Richard Salisbury

'Megalithic Mysteries - An Illustrated Guide To Europe's Ancient Sites' by Michael Balfour

Erm ... how do I put this. Don't follow the directions! And never believe the times to reach sites.

Now, this is a rumour right, so it comes with lots of alledgedly's attached ok?

Mr. Balfour doesn't seem to have actually been to many of the sites in the book. There are glaring omissions and inaccurate information, esepcially with regard to the above mentioned directions etc. Some say he just sent a photographer to many of them and wrote them up fom other books (or at least seems to have done). I know one person who has used it extensively and got very frustrated with it. Alledgedly. Well, the last part isn't alledged, he did get very frustrated with it :-)

Thanks Richard and FourWinds. Good information.
I'll certainly try to get hold of the Aubrey Burl book. The pictures in Balfour's book have me salivating in anticipation of a visit. I will have read it thoroughly by next August, so I won't rely on it for fieldwork. Thanks.