Dolmen La Pierre Tournante (Tavers)
The dolmen La Pierre Tournante ( German "the rotating stone" - also called Dolmen Feularde ) is a dolmen near the hamlet of Vau near Tavers in the far west of the Loiret department on the border with the Loir-et-Cher department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
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Its approximately 50 cm thick capstone measures approximately 4.0 × 4.0 meters and is supported by many low bearing stones. It was classified as a Monument historique in 1948 .
According to a popular legend, it turns once a century, on Christmas Eve, at midnight, and the earth opens and reveals a great treasure.
There are such and similar legends about menhirs of this name in the Eure department ( Pierre Tournante of Bosgouet and in the Calvados department (Pierre Tournante Livarot)) and the dolmen La Pierre Tournante near Nogent in the Haute-Marne department .
Nearby is the Pierre du Vert-Galant dolmen .
literature
- Volker Pingel : Megalithic groups and their archaeological differentiation. A look back . In: Karl W. Beinhauer et al. (Hrsg.): Studies on megalithics. (State of research and ethnoarchaeological perspectives) = The megalithic phenomenon . Beier and Beran, Weissbach 1999, ISBN 3-930036-36-3 , ( Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 21), pp. 37–50.
Web links
- Dolmen dit La Pierre Tournante in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 14 " N , 1 ° 35 ′ 16" E