La Roche-aux-Fées

Local nameLa Roche-aux-Fées
LocationEssé, France

La Roche-aux-Fées is a Neolithic gallery grave, or dolmen, located in the commune of Essé, in the French department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany. Its name comes from a legend that claims that the stones were placed by fairies. The dolmen consists of more than forty stones forming a corridor four times longer than wide. Its northwest-southeast axis is on an alignment with sunrise at the winter solstice.

Tags MegalithArchaeological SiteHeritage
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Sketch of the Roche-aux… @ Alexander Blair, Sir Francis Ronalds
 

More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Roche-aux-Fées

Official Website https://www.rafcom.bzh/

Address D341, 35150, France

Coordinates 47°56'11.481" N -1°24'17.32" E

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