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Quick question: heading to Carnac for 11 day hols in the summer. Is there a guide, in English, to the sites in the area? I will be hiring a car, so say a 50 mile zone radiating out from Carnac. Vaguely remember this or a similar question coming up here before. Thanks folks.

Aubrey Burl did a good one, Megalithic Brittany, which you should be able to pick up secondhand.

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Quick question: heading to Carnac for 11 day hols in the summer. Is there a guide, in English, to the sites in the area? I will be hiring a car, so say a 50 mile zone radiating out from Carnac. Vaguely remember this or a similar question coming up here before. Thanks folks.
I have Burl's 1985 book Megalithic Brittany I could loan you if it helps. It's a 176 page paperback guide to over 350 ancient sites and monuments.

My advice is always this: Buy the two blue IGN 1:25000 scale maps that cover the area. Look through the gazeteer bit on here, I logged pretty much everything in the environs of Carnac (and certainly all the good stuff).
The maps are really good, every site has a red star on it. You have to get off the beaten track, away from the fenced off Alignements, and to the more remote sites.
Petit Menec, Manio, Kercado, Moustoir... The Burl book is amazing, but also a bit out of date now in terms of roads, directions, condition of sites etc.

I went last year and found the book 'The Megaliths of Brittany' by Jacques Briard a great overview of the area. Only a simple picture book really, however, great for identifying which sites I wanted to prioritise.
I bought it off Amazon marketplace cheaply

Forgot to say, I also bought a second hand version of the book by Burl. I personally found the layout very boring indeed and not a book to browse. I used it simply for more detail on the sites I had decided to visit. No doubt it is very thorough indeed just that I like nice colour photos to capture my imagination when planning a trip and this book is not that.

Good choice, I took Julians book along, gave me chance to catch up with some of the essays in the book as well as the sites in Brittany. Of course the web is also full of information. Have a great trip, plenty to see on the way there and the way back as well!

Derek , You might find these useful .

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2003JHA....34..401H

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2007JHA....38..493H

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