Allée couverte Four-ès-Feins (Miniac-Morvan)

Allée couverte de Four-ès-Feins

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 .

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See also

• Megalithic sites in Brittany

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)

Web links

Commons : Allée couverte Four-ès-Feins (Miniac-Morvan)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 29'54.1 "  N , 1 ° 54'57.8"  W.