dolmen

This trip report was original posted on my blog. In July 2010 we did a short trip to France – five nights in the Loire Valley followed by four nights in Normandy. We are currently living in England, so flew from Bristol Airport to Paris, picked up a rental car and drove four hours to the Loire...

There are many interesting prehistoric sites in the Cotswolds - stone circles, standing stones, dolmen, long barrows, hill forts. The two best sites are the Rollright Stones (stone circle and a dolmen) near Chipping Norton in the north-east Cotswolds, and Belas Knapp (long barrow) near...

View of Cotswold countryside from the dolmen.

The Whispering Knights dolmen (burial tomb).

The Whispering Knights dolmen (burial tomb).

The King Stone.

The King's Men stone circle.

The King's Men stone circle.

Cornwall has a large number of prehistoric sites - ancient villages, stone circles, dolmen (called quoits), fogou. I have listed the best of them below for two parts of Cornwall - Penwith and Bodmin's Moor. A Google Map at the end of the article shows the locations. Penwith, the western tip of...

The back stone has fallen down.

Six standing stones and a capstone.

Pauline showing the scale of this dolmen.

Massive Neolithic dolmen.

Located in a village near Bodmin Moor.

Cream tea at Lanyon Farm Tea Room.

Lanyon Farm Tea Room.

Nearby Lanyon Farm Tea Room.

Cows enjoying the stones.

Cows use the stones to scratch.

Cows use the stones to scratch.