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Ile Grande (Allee-Couverte) — Fieldnotes

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.

Ile Grande (Allee-Couverte) — Images (click to view fullsize)

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Prajou Menhir (Allee-Couverte) — Images

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Prajou Menhir (Allee-Couverte) — Fieldnotes

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.

Jelling (Complex) — Images

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Long Meg & Her Daughters (Stone Circle) — Images

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Bois-Couturier (Allee-Couverte) — Images

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La Pierre Turquaise (Allee-Couverte) — Images

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du Blanc Val (Allee-Couverte) — Images

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La Pierre Plate (Allee-Couverte) — Images

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Grotte de la Source (Rock Cut Tomb) — Images

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Dolmen du Font Mejanne No 3 (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Fieldnotes

Access: See Dolmens du Font Mejanne page.

Visited Tuesday 11 September 2007
Similar to Dolmen du Font Mejanne No 1 & Dolmen du Font Mejanne No 2, but with a suspicion a rocky cairn.

The same angling and shaping of the sideslabs, creating the same portal tomb-type feeling. Being the highest up the valley of the 3, its setting is even more beautiful.

Dolmen du Font Mejanne No 3 (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Images

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Dolmen du Font Mejanne No 2 (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Fieldnotes

Access: See Dolmens du Font Mejanne page.

Visited Tuesday 11 September 2007
Similar to Dolmen du Font Mejanne No 1 but somewhat bigger, and to me, more nicely proportioned.

The sides are also similarly angled and shaped, seemingly to form a narrower entrance, creating an effect a bit like a portal tomb.

Dolmen du Font Mejanne No 2 (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Images

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How?
Though I'd been interested in both for a long while, I finally got into stones & Cope relatively late in life and at around the same time (mid 90s). I guess my girlfriend at the time has to take the blame. She bought me 'Peggy Suicide' and she used to get those nice megalithic postcards from Mr Julian.

Why?
At first, looking at stones seemed just like a good excuse for stomping around in beautiful countryside. Little did I know how much more it would become. And that they're not always in beautiful countryside....

Where?
At the time I was living in Tufnell Park in London so started off with a lot of southern stones 'n' bumps, particularly on holidays to Devon, the Lands End peninsula and the west country in general. Since then, holidays became increasingly megalithacentric, and are now mainly wildlifecentric (tho often with some stones thrown in)!

A couple of years later I moved back to Leeds where I lived for much of my adult life (I'm originally from Kent) prompting numerous visits to stones 'n' bumps in places like Derbyshire, Cumbria, N Wales and of course Yorkshire. I now live near Oxford (see 'Life?').

I've seen stones all over the UK & further afield, including (but not limited to) bits of France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Menorca, Sardinia & even Jordan.

Strangely enough however, my most visited and probably favourite 'stony areas' are Aberdeenshire and Perthshire, though I've been to quite a few all over Scotland. This is again thanks to a (different) ex-girlfriend who comes from Montrose and is the mother of my glorious son Callan, who at the time of updating is now 21....

As you may have guessed, Callan is named after Callanish - at the time of his birth this was a long intended but unmade pilgrimage for me. Happily I've now been twice & hope to go again for the next 're-gleam'.

Life?
Currently living just to the north-west of Oxford with the gorgeous Jane (we got married in October 2004). Seafer (Jane's dangerous 'n' stripey cat) is no more and for the last 8 years we've been in the custody of Officer Dibble and Skipper (also cats). Jane's also responsible for increasing my love of travel & the expansion of my love of wildlife!

I'm an editor really, but now have a nice easy admin job 4-days a week working for a tiny IT training company who do expensive niche training for IT professionals.

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In a varying order

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Single malts
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A lot of other food that never had a face
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