Moth

Access: You can drive right up to it. It’s by a restaurant with a name summat like ‘The Menhir’.

Visited Sunday 27 September 2009 (& sometime in June 1999)
In ‘Megalithic Brittany’, Burl does not say so, but surely this must be modern – so much so that I nearly didn’t post it.

Nice setting, but a bit crap really. The text carved into it seems to be about some geezer from Jersey who had a miraculous escape. (Can you tell I’m rubbish at French?)

Co-ordinates a little approximate because of cloud on Googlemaps! The site is signposted once you get near it, so should not be difficult to find.

Access: Easy once you’ve navigated the back-roads towards Lesconil and found the signposts & info board. Down a small path to the edge of a wood. Vaguely think there may have been a kissing-gate.

Visited Sunday 27 October 2009
Stunning. Must-see. I’d longed to see an arc-boutee passage-grave for years but it had never been practical on my previous trips to Brittany.

Much more impressive & complete than the more famous Castel Rufel arc-boutee which had been the one I was longing to see! (Though Castel Rufel may ‘have the edge’ on setting.)

Not sure this is a bone fide menhir – can’t find any trace of it in books on the area. No idea what it’s called if it is genuine, so I’ve given it a name myself.

‘Visited’ Saturday 3 October 2009
Looking for Menhirs de Roch Toul and Menhirs de Trimen we came across this stone. It’s quite nice & very easy to find, but didn’t look quite right if you know what I mean! (Though it looks more convincing in the photo....)

‘Visited’ Saturday 3 October 2009
We had planned to see these stones as they are so close to Castel Rufel and close to the road. (See also Menhirs de Roch Toul.)

In the end, it looked as if they were in crop. The weather was also poor & we had a fairly long journey ahead, so we didn’t check for possible access.

From ‘Guide to the Menhirs and other Megaliths of Central Brittany’ (Mezert Books) by Samuel Lewis there are three menhirs, one standing, two fallen. From photos, they look quite big.

Approximate co-ordinates only

‘Visited’ Saturday 3 October 2009
We had planned to see these stones as they are so close to Castel Rufel and next to the road. (See also Trimen.)

In the end, the weather was poor & we had a fairly long journey ahead, so as they don’t look that spectacular in the photos we’d seen, we didn’t try very hard. We thought we saw one of them as we drove past, but I’m not sure.

In ‘Guide to the Menhirs and other Megaliths of Central Brittany’ (Mezert Books) Samuel Lewis says:

“The stones are not hard to find as they actually stretch across the road, two on one side and one on the other. Close by, and also beside the road, is another menhir of the same height.”

I think it was this ‘extra’ stone we saw.

Access: Easy 5 minute walk to the alignments from the end of the road across brushy/moorland-type grass. Not much space for parking.

Visited Sunday 27 September 2009
A beautiful setting. Difficult to know what’s prehistoric & what’s natural, as there are lots of stones lying about. Some bits are obvious – & I suspect these are the only bone fide bits!

There’s also a strange little setting of rocks by a small ruined building on a smaller promontory down the hill towards the beach. I suspect these are associated with the building, but difficult to be sure.