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EAST OF
BRITTANY:
final part
photographs by
Anthony Weir
There follows a series of photographs of the large allées-couvertes of the Seine basin, the lower Loire and western lowlands.
La Pierre Folle, Montguyon (Charente)
Allée-couverte
near Gennes (Maine-et-Loire)
There are several tombs and at least one menhir close to Gennes.
Near Gennes (Maine-et-Loire), early evening.
Dolmen de la Frébouchère
, one of three tombs near
Le Bernard (Vendée)
Remains of a massive Allée-couverte in the park at Brantôme (Dordogne)
Tomb with pierced 'port-hole' door-slab,
La Pierre Trouée,
Trie-Château, near Gisors (Oise)
Tomb with remains of 'port-hole', Dampsmesnil (Eure)
La Pierre Turquaise , forest of Presles (Val d'Oise)
La Pierre Courcoulée
, a small
dolmen simple
composed of pudding-stone
at Les Ventes (Eure)
La Pierre Gargantua
, Neaufles-Auvergny (Eure)
taken through a 400mm lens...
...and another of many menhirs called
Pierre Gargantua
, at Crasmesnil (Orne)
3.3 metres high, with many cup-marks - those on the S face thought to represent the constellation of Ursa Major (The Plough, The Great Bear).
(Picture and information by courtesy of Claude Corbin.)
The photographer enjoying coffee somewhere in France.
Click the photo
to visit two of the most imposing tombs in Languedoc-Roussillon.
Click here to see a group of monuments around Arras
in the Pas-de-Calais
go back to part three
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Dolmen de la Cour du Breuil
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from the same publisher, around the same price:
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I am indebted to Bob Trubshaw,
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