Dolmen de la Table au Loup
DatedEst. 4000–3000 BCE
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Le grand dolmen de la Table au Loup ou dolmen de Maleu est un dolmen situé sur le lieu-dit de Conte-Terre, à Sériers, sur la commune de Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère, dans le département français du Cantal.
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Dolmen de la Table au Loup: the whole story
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The Grand dolmen de la Table au Loup, also known as the dolmen de Maleu, stands at the place called Conte-Terre in Sériers, within the commune of Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère in the French department of Cantal. It is a dolmen, a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb built with upright stones and a large capstone.
The monument consists of two supports and a covering slab. Damage and clandestine digging affected the structure, leading to its reconstruction. Restoration work took place in 2008. The site has been listed as a monument historique since 4 avril 1911.
The dating given for the dolmen is 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE, based on a typological estimate. This period is consistent with the wider setting of dolmens in France, most of which belong to the Late Neolithic and often formed part of a mound covered with earth or smaller stones.
France is described as the dolmen country of Europe, with some 4,500 dolmens scattered across 60 French departments. The Dolmen de Bagneux at Saumur is the largest, and some of the oldest megalithic monuments in Europe are found in western France. The Grand dolmen de la Table au Loup is part of the megalithic sites of Cantal.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Grand dolmen de la Table au Loup", shown in the original language.
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Dolmen de la Table au Loup is a dolmen in Sériers, France. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Grand dolmen de la Table au Loup", shown in the original language.
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Le dolmen fait l'objet d'un classement aux monuments historiques le 4 avril 1911.
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Le dolmen est constitué de deux supports et d'une dalle de couverture. L'édifice a subi des dégâts et des fouilles clandestines qui ont nécessité sa réédification. Une rénovation a notamment lieu en 2008.
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Bibliographie
Laurent Barbier, R. Blasselle, Claire Gautrand-Moser, M.C. Lorang et M.N. Rouillon, « Répertoire préliminaire à un inventaire des monuments mégalithiques d'Auvergne », Revue archéologique du centre de la France, vol. 12, no 3, 1973, p. 253-279 (ISSN 1951-6207, lire en ligne).
Jean-Paul Demoule, La révolution néolithique en France, Paris, La Découverte, 2007 (ISBN 978-2-7071-5138-4)
Liens internes
Sites mégalithiques du Cantal
Liste des monuments historiques du Cantal
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The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-08) from the cited Wikipedia article “Grand dolmen de la Table au Loup”, translated from French. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
French dolmens
France is the dolmen country of Europe: the Dolmen de Bagneux at Saumur is the largest of some 4,500 dolmens scattered across 60 French departments, and one of the largest in Europe. A dolmen is a single-chamber megalithic tomb with two or more upright stones carrying a great capstone. Most date to the Late Neolithic, about 4000 to 3000 BCE, and many were covered with earth or smaller stones to form a mound.
Some of the oldest megalithic monuments in Europe are in western France. The Cairn of Barnenez in Finistère dates to the early Neolithic, around 4000 BCE, and with the Tumulus of Bougon and the Locmariaquer megaliths it is among the earliest megalithic monuments in Europe; it also has megalithic art. La Roche-aux-Fées near Essé in Ille-et-Vilaine is a covered corridor about 20 metres long, built of some 48 blocks, the heaviest around 45 tonnes, and divided into two chambers. It is thought to date from 3000 to 2500 BCE, and its entrance is aligned on sunrise at the winter solstice.
Folklore: the name of La Roche-aux-Fées, "the fairies' rock", comes from a legend that fairies placed the stones. Such stories are traditions about the monuments, not evidence of how they were built.
Because the Atlas draws on national inventories, its French records include many small and ruined dolmens, often reduced to a capstone resting on a few supports. Dates rest on the typology of the monument and, where a dolmen has been excavated, on radiocarbon dating of material from the chamber.
When visiting, look for the capstone and its supports, for the low rise of the old mound around the stones, and for the direction in which the entrance faces.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Dolmen, Wikipedia: Dolmen de Bagneux, Wikipedia: La Roche-aux-Fées, Wikipedia: Barnenez, Wikipedia: Carnac stones · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dated moments in the story
- 1911
Le dolmen fait l'objet d'un classement aux monuments historiques le 4 avril 1911.
Source - 1951
253-279 (ISSN 1951-6207, lire en ligne).
Source - 2007
Jean-Paul Demoule, La révolution néolithique en France, Paris, La Découverte, 2007 (ISBN 978-2-7071-5138-4) Sites mégalithiques du Cantal Liste des monuments historiques du Cantal
Source - 2008
Une rénovation a notamment lieu en 2008.
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Dates
Est. 4000–3000 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for dolmens in France; this site has not been dated itself. Most dolmens date from the Late Neolithic period (4000-3000 BCE).Source for this date
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- Coordinates
- 44°59′13″ N, 3°00′36″ EFor a GPS or map app: 44.98694, 3.00992
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