belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I have the IGN's, but it appears that Tony still has my copy of Burl! I should have checked earlier. I could take the Cope, but its bloody heavy
Megalithic and Prehistoric Sites
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Arrggghh....dunno if you've got time for the delivery?
Megalithic Brittany by Aubrey Burl - AbeBooks
Voley
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I always thought that but it's up for debate, apparently. There's no evidence for there being earth surrounding them. If it was the norm, we might expect to see a long barrow or two around here with the earth still intact. But it's not definite, either way. Another one of those things we just don't know about for sure.
belboid
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Ta, but thankfully I have confirmed the location of the book and can collect it on our way.
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
Went there when I was 11 or so.
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
Yeah, the stones were impressive, remember sitting on them to have my photo taken, but tbh my most abiding memory of that day was the jewellery I bought from a street trader. Typical pre-teen!
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
WellJel
belboid
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Not a bad day out. It’s deeply frustrating that in the summer months you can only go amongst the stones on a one hour tour. That should just get you around the first section, but the other four are still fenced off so totally inaccessible. And this last weeks tours are only in French.
Still, we got up close and personal with seven thousand year old tombs, giant men(hirs), le petite Menec and, fuck it, who’s gonna notice me jumping the fence at this hour?
Karcado cairn, from outside and in
Le Quadrilatere
Le Geant de Manio (avec MlleB)
Kermario Dolmen
Carnac 2, avec ouisseaux
Carnac 2
Kermario Dolmen in Carnac 2
Le Petite Menec
Still, we got up close and personal with seven thousand year old tombs, giant men(hirs), le petite Menec and, fuck it, who’s gonna notice me jumping the fence at this hour?
Karcado cairn, from outside and in
Le Quadrilatere
Le Geant de Manio (avec MlleB)
Kermario Dolmen
Carnac 2, avec ouisseaux
Carnac 2
Kermario Dolmen in Carnac 2
Le Petite Menec
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Ooooh, some gorgeous shots there.
belboid
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Tyvm. I must have a dozen shots like the second one down. They all look exactly the same, but I do like them.Ooooh, some gorgeous shots there.
belboid
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Another nice day, pootling around the Arzon peninsula. A couple of cracking dolmens - one with nice carvings on - some sticky up things, Caesar’s great big arse and the most pathetic alignment that is only worth visiting to see how crap it is and how annoying it must be to SuperU (supermarket) who had to build their access road around it.
There’s also the Cairn de Petit Mont which is bloody big and would be incredibly groovy if only the Nazis hadn’t carved half of it out and stuck a base there!
There’s also the Cairn de Petit Mont which is bloody big and would be incredibly groovy if only the Nazis hadn’t carved half of it out and stuck a base there!
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
belboid
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Okay then…
Had to get up far too early this morning (before 8am!) to make a trip to Gavrinis. A pleasant boat trip across the second fastest current of water (to Corryvreckan, iirr) in Europe, a stroll up to the visitor centre, a fifteen minute talk in French that we couldn’t understand, a walk up to the mound followed by another fifteen minute talk we couldn’t understand. Then hanging around fifteen minutes while the other groups went inside ahead of us. Then finally we got to go in for a whole seven minutes! Which is at least two minutes longer than everyone else got cos the guide felt sorry for us. Then another fifteen minute talk before we all ambled back to the boat. Which did go around the isle of Er Lannic with a stone circle disappearing into the sea and another that is totally underwater already.
And, I may complain about seven measly minutes, but baise moi, c’est magnifique. The reliefs on nearly all the stones are amazingly detailed and preserved. In a couple of spots you can still make out the original colouring. I could have stayed for hours. Except I couldn’t.
And that was just this morning.
El Lannic
Had to get up far too early this morning (before 8am!) to make a trip to Gavrinis. A pleasant boat trip across the second fastest current of water (to Corryvreckan, iirr) in Europe, a stroll up to the visitor centre, a fifteen minute talk in French that we couldn’t understand, a walk up to the mound followed by another fifteen minute talk we couldn’t understand. Then hanging around fifteen minutes while the other groups went inside ahead of us. Then finally we got to go in for a whole seven minutes! Which is at least two minutes longer than everyone else got cos the guide felt sorry for us. Then another fifteen minute talk before we all ambled back to the boat. Which did go around the isle of Er Lannic with a stone circle disappearing into the sea and another that is totally underwater already.
And, I may complain about seven measly minutes, but baise moi, c’est magnifique. The reliefs on nearly all the stones are amazingly detailed and preserved. In a couple of spots you can still make out the original colouring. I could have stayed for hours. Except I couldn’t.
And that was just this morning.
El Lannic
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
The afternoon was a generally sedate perambulation around Locmariaquer. Two of the ‘big three’ there are actually mostly reconstructed. I’m not quite sure how I feel about them. Er Grah is just big and rocky, which is better than the car park it used to be, but it’s still just a bunch of rocks you can’t really get near enough to.
The Table de Marchands looks well impressive but, again, it’s mostly reconstructed from (well informed and studied) guesswork. There were only about seven stones actually standing in the seventies but now they’ve made it into this.
They have done a really good job inside tho and it looks spectacular.
And finally there is the wholly original and proper bloody massive Grand Menhir Brise. 21 feet tall and more than seven wide it’s hardly surprising it fell down after a couple of centuries
Fucks sake, out of room again.
The Table de Marchands looks well impressive but, again, it’s mostly reconstructed from (well informed and studied) guesswork. There were only about seven stones actually standing in the seventies but now they’ve made it into this.
They have done a really good job inside tho and it looks spectacular.
And finally there is the wholly original and proper bloody massive Grand Menhir Brise. 21 feet tall and more than seven wide it’s hardly surprising it fell down after a couple of centuries
Fucks sake, out of room again.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Reasons to be Cheerful. Part 3
More general sites around Locmariaquer.
Yup, a menhir vandalised with a carving of some dead twat. Disgraceful.
Dolmen of Mané-Rethual
Menhir La Motte de Beurre
Tumulus de Mané er Hroeck
Dolmen de Kerlud
Kerran Dolmens
And finally, Kercadoret Dolmen. At least according to the Megalithic Portal app, which has otherwise been spot on. I am supposedly right on the spot and there might just have been some stonework just in front of me. But after fifteen minutes of getting scratched to fuck stumbling through the woods, I thought it best to leave it be.
More general sites around Locmariaquer.
Yup, a menhir vandalised with a carving of some dead twat. Disgraceful.
Dolmen of Mané-Rethual
Menhir La Motte de Beurre
Tumulus de Mané er Hroeck
Dolmen de Kerlud
Kerran Dolmens
And finally, Kercadoret Dolmen. At least according to the Megalithic Portal app, which has otherwise been spot on. I am supposedly right on the spot and there might just have been some stonework just in front of me. But after fifteen minutes of getting scratched to fuck stumbling through the woods, I thought it best to leave it be.
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belboid
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Indulge me as I give a separate post to what has, I think, been my favourite single site so far. Possibly it’s just I knew the others were going to be great and this one took me by surprise.
mrsb wanted to go there because it appeared to be almost directly onto the beach. Indulging her was the least I could do. Upon arrival, it wasn’t right on the beach but was still pretty groovy. Sadly, the Mayor of Locmariaquer asked us not to go inside to preserve its existence.
Then, as luck would have it, Google told me that the Mayor of Locmariaquer is a cunt. So I could happily ignore his request. What an excellent resting place Les Pierre’s Plates is.
mrsb wanted to go there because it appeared to be almost directly onto the beach. Indulging her was the least I could do. Upon arrival, it wasn’t right on the beach but was still pretty groovy. Sadly, the Mayor of Locmariaquer asked us not to go inside to preserve its existence.
Then, as luck would have it, Google told me that the Mayor of Locmariaquer is a cunt. So I could happily ignore his request. What an excellent resting place Les Pierre’s Plates is.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Gem, innit?
We stayed at the Municipal site just by there.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
This story struck me. 10,000 years ago, and you can still see these people mourning a lost baby:
belboid
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A real beauty, my pics don’t catch its wonder at all. Well, the third one does a bit, looking down the passageway
belboid
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A chill day today, we actually did things other than going to see old stones. Pont Aven was where Gauguin and mates hung out. It’s very pretty, but expensive and actually quite boring. Plus a relatively modern graveyard -for boats- near La Magouer. Best bit of the day was undoubtedly the megaliths near Erdevan, very well worth a visit.
Getting down with the Kerzerho Alignments
Geants de Kerzerho & the Table de Sacrifice. The pics don’t show how big they are. They’re bloody massive.
Crucono Dolmen - bang in the middle of the village, up against a farmhouse wall, an absolute beauty of a dolmen. The capstone is over seven metres long and weighs more than forty tons. Totes amazeballs, as they said back then.
Getting down with the Kerzerho Alignments
Geants de Kerzerho & the Table de Sacrifice. The pics don’t show how big they are. They’re bloody massive.
Crucono Dolmen - bang in the middle of the village, up against a farmhouse wall, an absolute beauty of a dolmen. The capstone is over seven metres long and weighs more than forty tons. Totes amazeballs, as they said back then.
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Yes, I actually felt a bit of trepidation going under that capstone!
Is that the one where a hermit or some such lived, wayback?
belboid
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Hmm, not that I can see, could well be wrong tho.Yes, I actually felt a bit of trepidation going under that capstone!
Is that the one where a hermit or some such lived, wayback?
I missed out our visit to the Devils Arse,aka Tuchenn Pol, just south of Lorient airport. Hard to get a good photo off, it’s an impressively laid out passage grave amidst three tumuli. Again, the Nazis fucked it up.
(Mlle b is sat in the same spot in both pics)
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ska invita
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Artificial islands surrounding British Isles were used for ancient parties, archaeologists find
Ancient elites partied on human-made islands.
Hadn't heard of Crannogs before ... Bit of a clickbait title tbh, but these human-made islands date back to 4000bce onwards... Another feature of the ancient landscape
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
We've known they were elite sites for years, and those are inevitably bound up with prestige events and feasting.
Crannogs are still cool though, would love to live on one.
Crannogs are still cool though, would love to live on one.
ska invita
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No we havent, i only just read it this morning
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