Allée couverte Four-ès-Feins (Miniac-Morvan)
The Allée couverte Four-ès-Feins ( German "Herd of the fairies" ) is located near the Beillac Farm, southwest of Miniac-Morvan in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in France .
The east-west oriented gallery grave is over 10.0 m long and 1.5 m wide. It is bordered by six 0.50 to 0.60 m high bearing stones on the south and five on the north. Three 0.5 to 0.6 m thick cover plates are still halfway in situ . All the blocks in the immediate vicinity, which once formed structural elements, are made of granite .
The Allée couverte has been classified as a Monument historique since 1965 .
Nearby are the megalithic complexes in the Bois de la Tougeais and the Allée Couverte La Maison des Feins .
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard , Loïc Langouët, Yvan Onnée: Les mégalithes du département d'Ille-et-Vilaine. Institut Culturel de Bretagne et al., Rennes 2004, ISBN 2-86822-092-4 , p. 6.
- Entry no.PA00090630 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
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Coordinates: 48 ° 29'54.1 " N , 1 ° 54'57.8" W.