Moth

‘Attempted visit’ Monday 28 September 2009
We so wanted to see this one, up to its knees in the sea!

Unfortunately we were let down by our lack of mapping & didn’t follow Burl’s instructions in ‘Megalithic Brittany’ well enough. (By this time we’d discovered that his descriptions weren’t always that great. Typically, they seem to have been pretty good for this one now I read them.)

We ran out of time as we were driving right across Brittany today, but I can now see exactly where we went wrong for future visitors....

Turn east off the D2 onto Route de Queffen about 2km south of Pont L’Abbe, maybe a few hundred yards south of a (new) roundabout. Once you’ve turned, I think you cross a little crossroads after a short distance. Continue for a short time from there, but when you reach a point where the road swings right and on the left there is a little laybyish bit and a path into the woods, STOP!

Take the path & this should take you to the menhir (according to Burl, around 100m but I’d guess it’s a bit further).

Don’t do what we did & follow the road right down to the sea & along. You’ll have terrible trouble turning & get really frustrated. We did! Not as frustrated as when we realised that the little layby where we ate our butties was right by the path to the menhir though!!!

Access: Pretty easy. You can park on the road down to the coast. You can see it from there & it’s an extremely short walk across bedrock & brushy grass.

Visited Monday 28 September 2009
I first saw this one in June 1999 & knew it was worth seeing again. I was also pretty sure that it was spectacular enough to overcome Jane’s ‘menhir fatigue’.

I was right! It was way taller than I remembered & Jane loved it, plus I noticed Le Ruen V-shaped passage grave just on the other side of the road where we parked!

Access: Easy – you will probably park right beside it or opposite it if you go to Le Ruen menhir.

Visited Monday 28 September 2009
I noticed this vaguely dolmenny thing as we got out of the car to go to Le Ruen menhir, which I had visited in 1999.

Checking Burl’s ‘Megalithic Brittany’, he says it’s a (rare) V-shaped passage grave, the best example of which is Ty-ar-Boudiquet. He’s right – Ty-ar-Boudiquet is spectacular. This isn’t, but is worth a look....

Approximate co-ordinates only

‘Visited’ Sunday 27 September 2009
I don’t usually add destroyed sites, but these two are in Burl’s ‘Megalithic Brittany’ (1984 edition). We scoured the area’s crossroads (as per his instructions) for this one. I wouldn’t want anyone to get as frustrated as we did, unnecessarily!

I’ve just searched Google and found in sevearal places that they are both thought to have been destroyed.