Dolmen de la Maison des Fées

The Dolmen de la Maison des Fées, also called the dolmen des Pierres chasses, is a dolmen at Miré in France. It is a megalithic tomb consisting of a large capstone supported by upright stones. The site has been protected as a historic monument since 1911.

Its capstone is trapezoidal and rests on four orthostats. All the slabs are made of Eocene sandstone, described as grès à sabalites. The upright stones meet at the north and south corners, suggesting that the burial chamber was square. The upper part of the capstone has a shallow hollow.

During work on a road ditch, the north-west orthostat was destroyed. The ditch was later routed through the centre of the dolmen, at an unknown date. No objects or grave goods are reported as having been found when the ditch was dug, so little is known about what the chamber once contained.

The dolmen is estimated by typology to date from 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. According to legend, it was built by fairies. The impressions of a fairy's head and hands, said to have carried the stone, may be seen on the capstone. More generally, dolmens are single-chamber megalithic tombs found in large numbers across France.

Dolmen de la Maison des Fées is a dolmen in Miré, France. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Dolmen de la Maison des Fées", shown in the original language.