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	<title>The Human Landscape</title>
	<link>http://www.montcocher.com</link>
	<description>Tracing mankind's presence in the landscape - from megalthic monuments to today</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>In the presence of antiquity</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2008/04/13/presence_of_antiquity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[menhir]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ancient]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a certain frisson that comes from being in the presence of antiquity. Standing by a menhir, or gazing on an ancient relic, connects us with the past. But from where does this excitement originate?
It can&#8217;t be a purely aesthetic buzz. Certainly, we may find beauty in the artefacts of the past. Yet I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The right approach</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/12/01/the-right-approach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[project]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a landscape photography project about my response to megalithic sites and what they mean - not in the archaeological or wider cultural sense, but what they mean to me. With their original significance forever obscured, this kind of personal response is the most appropriate - the question is, how to do it.

The images [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part of the landscape</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/30/part-of-the-landscape/</link>
		<comments>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/30/part-of-the-landscape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[landscape]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[project]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[megaliths]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[signs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
For me, it&#8217;s all about the landscape.
My interest in megalithic sites was rekindled by another, long-term project. Called &#8216;The Human Landscape&#8217;, it&#8217;s a photographic study of how we leave our marks on the world around us.
In part, this project is a reaction to the immense amount of twaddle that underlies landscape photography today. I&#8217;m tired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnac: reflections on the trip</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/29/carnac_reflections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/29/carnac_reflections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Brittany]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Carnac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Morbihan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alignments]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dolmen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recommendations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[technique]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the megalith enthusiast, visiting the Carnac region can be an overwhelming experience. There&#8217;s just so much to see. But here are some personal recommendations, as well as a few photography tips. 
Many of the monuments in the Morbihan department of France are among the most important megalithic sites in the world. And the department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnac day 6: Erdeven revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/27/carnac_6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/27/carnac_6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Brittany]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Carnac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Morbihan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alignments]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[menhir]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cromlech]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dolmen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Erdeven]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kerzerho]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[standing stones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When we first visited the Alignements de Kerzerho, we&#8217;d walked a short way down what seemed like a ancient path before being defeated by tired legs and loss of light. We vowed to return and on our last full day, we did.
First, we had some practical issues to attend to - shopping, dull stuff like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnac day 5: the best alignment</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/27/carnac_5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Brittany]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Carnac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Morbihan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alignments]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[key site]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[menhir]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alignment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[forest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Le Menec]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[standing stone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We hadn&#8217;t intended to visit Le Petit Ménec - and that would have been a huge mistake.
Most of the guide books, if they mention it at all, treat it as the least important of the Carnac alignments. Then we bought the Michelin guide to Brittany.
A quick aside here about guide books. It&#8217;s terribly important to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnac day 4: Locmariaquer and Kerlescan</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/24/carnac_4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/24/carnac_4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Brittany]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Carnac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Morbihan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alignments]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dolmen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[key site]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[menhir]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alignment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Grand Menhir Brise]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[kerlescan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Locmariaquer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[standing stone]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.montcocher.com/?p=14</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This was the day Trish dubbed me &#8216;Megalith Man&#8217; - a superhero with all the special powers of &#8230; a rock. Oh well&#8230;
We started early with a drive to Locmariaquer, situated on a small peninsula that frames the west side of the Gulf of Morbihan. Our objective was one of the most famous sites of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnac day 3: dull dolmens</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/24/carnac_3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/24/carnac_3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Brittany]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Carnac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Morbihan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mostly a sightseeing day, in spite of the dull, overcast conditions. We spent the morning at St Cado, a beautiful little village on an island in the River Etel estuary. While finding somewhere to eat our packed lunch (yes, we have become our parents) we passed through the village of Kerhuen which has its own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnac day 2: Mané Kerioned and Quiberon</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/23/carnac_2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/23/carnac_2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Brittany]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[tomb]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.montcocher.com/?p=12</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Things weren&#8217;t going well. Here&#8217;s a technical tip for you: if you decide to take your desktop Mac with you on holiday, and opt for the cordless keyboard and mouse, first check that you haven&#8217;t switched off Bluetooth. Logging into a Mac without a keyboard is problematic. I won&#8217;t bore you with the details, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnac day 1: the alignments</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/21/carnac_1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/21/carnac_1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Brittany]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Carnac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Morbihan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alignments]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[key site]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[menhir]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Erdeven]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kermario]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kerzerho]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Le Menec]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.montcocher.com/?p=11</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t expected them to be quite so close to the town. Heading out from the centre, we found ourselves at the visitor&#8217;s car park for the Le Ménec alignments almost immediately. A few stones peeked tantalisingly over the rise on the opposite side of the main road, but we resisted the urge to dive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnac - the megalithic motherlode</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/18/carnac-the-megalithic-motherlode/</link>
		<comments>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/18/carnac-the-megalithic-motherlode/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Brittany]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Carnac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Morbihan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[key site]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alignment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dolmen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[menhir]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.montcocher.com/?p=9</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a few weeks after deciding to embark on this project I found myself at ground zero for megaliths. Carnac.
We like to holiday in Brittany during autumn or winter. On a previous visit, we mooted the idea of driving up to Carnac, but were too busy.  It was a disappointment as visiting the alignments had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A golden age?</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/05/golden_age/</link>
		<comments>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/05/golden_age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[paganism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pagan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.montcocher.com/?p=8</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re entranced by the mysteries of the neolithic age, held by the puzzles its people have left for us, it&#8217;s all too easy to wander into the realm of fantasy. Those who long for a return to the &#8216;golden age&#8217; of our pagan forebears often describe it as a time of harmony between man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Menhir de la Chataigneraie, St-Simeon</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/02/chataigneraie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/02/chataigneraie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Orne]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s about time I photographed this standing stone. Not only is it just down the road, within easy walking distance, it&#8217;s also on land owned by friends of ours - so we&#8217;ve passed it many times.
The menhir is clearly signposted from the village. You crest a hill with, to the north, a small ancient-looking wood, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History uncovered</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/01/history-uncovered/</link>
		<comments>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/11/01/history-uncovered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[medieval]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[carving]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mediaeval]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[medival]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[stone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We always knew the heads were there. They shared our bedroom every night, quiet, unseen. Finally, we decided they should be uncovered.
Our house is old: it was built around 1500 during what is known, in this part of Normandy, as L&#8217;Epoque Anglaise (the English Era). Although the property spent part of its recent history as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Le Menhir de la Roche</title>
		<link>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/10/28/gorron/</link>
		<comments>http://www.montcocher.com/2007/10/28/gorron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mayenne]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[menhir]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[megalithic site]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve lost count of how many times I looked at the sign and thought, &#8220;I must take a look one day&#8221;. Then the sign disappeared.
It wasn&#8217;t much of a sign, to be sure. Crudely painted, it gave the impression the menhir was the kind of tourist attraction you might find on Craggy Island or some [...]]]></description>
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