Cave aux Fées (Saint-Cergues)
The Dolmen Cave aux Fées (also: Chambre aux Fées ) in Saint-Cergues , in the Haute-Savoie department , in France , not far from the Swiss border , is popularly known as the "fairy cellar". Like the Pierre aux Fées dolmen , it stands on the old salt route to Genoa , near the bridge over the erosion groove of the Chandouze river , next to the road from Annemasse to Thonon-les-Bains . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The recessed rectangular west-east oriented dolmen has six bearing stones and a split capstone measuring 5.0 × 3.2 meters and up to one meter thick. The dimensions of the chamber are: length 3.2 m, width 1.9 m, height 2.3 m. The entrance is in the middle of the long side in the northwest of the plant. The floor of the chamber shows traces of small-scale paving. The intermediate masonry (also spandrel filling) for connecting the megaliths is still largely preserved.
literature
- Marc-Rodolphe Sauter, Jean-Christian Spahni: Révision des dolmens de la Haute-Savoie (France), Archives suisses d'anthropologie générale, Vol. 14, 1949, pp. 151-167
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
- The dolmen is registered in France as a monument historique .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cave aux Fées in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 46 ° 13 ′ 11 ″ N , 6 ° 18 ′ 35 ″ E