Dolmen Le Chillou du Feuillet
The Neolithic dolmen Le Chillou du Feuillet (also called Le Cimetière des Fées - ( German fairy cemetery ) - or Le Cimetière des Pucelles - ( German virgin cemetery ) - is located north of Descartes , on the border with Marcés-Sur-Esves, near Chatellerault in the Touraine in the Indre-et-Loire department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The dolmen, open to the east, consists of five supporting stones made of sandstone (one has been moved) which form a chamber and support the ceiling slab, which was presumably inclined due to an attempt at destruction. The overhanging sandstone capstone is about 4.0 m long and 2.5 m wide. The emptied chamber was filled in the past.
The dolmen has been classified as a monument historique since 1911 .
The dolmen is located about eight kilometers southeast of the menhir Pierre Percée von Draché .
literature
- Gérard Cordier: Inventaire des mégalithes de la France, I. Indre-et-Loire 1963
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Coordinates: 47 ° 1 ′ 5.8 ″ N , 0 ° 40 ′ 28 ″ E