Allée couverte de Four-ès-Feins

Four-ès-Feins, also called the Four des Fées, is a gallery grave at Miniac-Morvan in the French department of Ille-et-Vilaine. It belongs to the Neolithic monument type known in French as an allée couverte, or covered alley, in which the main gallery is entered directly without an antechamber or passage in front.

The monument extends 10 m in length and 1,50 m in width along an east-west axis. Its sides are marked by six orthostates on the south and five on the north, each between 0,50 m and 0,60 m high. Three roof slabs, with a thickness of 0,50 m to 0,60 m, and the end slab at the chevet remain in place.

The slabs and several loose blocks visible close by are made of granite. These scattered blocks are thought to have formed part of the original construction. The monument was classified as a historic monument in 1965. No further information about its discovery, burials or excavation history is given in the available material.

The gallery grave is dated here by typological estimate to 4500 BCE to 3300 BCE. More generally, monuments of this kind were built mainly in the Neolithic and are thought to have served as community burial places, perhaps for members of the same family or hamlet, with the burial helping to reinforce community ties. Such graves are also found in the Loire valley of France, south-west Great Britain and Ireland.

Allée couverte de Four-ès-Feins is a gallery grave (allée couverte) in Miniac-Morvan, France. A typological estimate: 4500 BCE to 3300 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Four-ès-Feins", shown in the original language.