Dolmen de la Salle des Fées

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Dolmen de la Salle des Fées

The Dolmen de la Salle des Fées ( German  hall of the fairies - also called "Salle aux Fées") is located in a field northwest of the D61 road and west of the River Tenu , near the hamlet of Le Port Faissant, about south of Sainte-Pazanne , southwest of Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).

A tangle of large slabs of rock around a few trees in the middle of the field has been preserved. It is impossible to determine the type of system or the shape of the chamber. The dolmen has been classified as a monument historique since 1889 .

literature

  • J. L'Helgouach & H. Poulain: Le cairn des Mousseaux à Pornic et les tombes mégalithiques transeptées de l'estuaire de la Loire. Association pour la diffusion des recherches archéologiques dans l'Ouest de la France, Rennes 1984

Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 44.8 "  N , 1 ° 47 ′ 29.4"  W.