Four Sarrazin

Le Four Sarrazin, also called les Pierres Chevêches, is a dolmen at Saint-Just in the French department of Ille-et-Vilaine. It stands at the western end of the Grée de Cojoux, within a rectangular mound oriented east-west that measures 22 m long by 7 m wide and is edged by small slabs set into the ground.

The burial chamber is offset within the mound and measures 7 m long and 1,20 m wide. Fourteen upright slabs of quartz-veined schist define it, with an average height of 1,20 m, a width of 0,50 m and a thickness of 0,30 m, although several appear to have disappeared since the XIXe siècle. A small schist slab perpendicular to the chamber near its south-east angle marks the side entrance. Three capstone slabs remain, but they have been overturned inside the chamber; a plan by Ramé showed four.

The easternmost capstone measures 2,50 m long, 0,60 m wide and 0,80 m thick. On the face that was originally on the outside, near its upper right edge, it bears about ten cupules, including one very large and deep example measuring 14 cm across and 10 cm deep. The tomb has a close overall resemblance to the covered alley of Crec'h Quillié.

Alfred Ramé provided an early description and plan in 1864, followed by P. Bézier in 1883, but the dolmen was already damaged. It was classified as a monument historique by decree of 3 mars 1975. Dolmens with a side entrance are fairly common in northern Brittany and date to the late Neolithic, towards 2500 av. J.-C. The typological estimate for Le Four Sarrazin places it between 4500 BCE and 3300 BCE.

Four Sarrazin is a megalith (abstract root) in Saint-Just, 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 Sarrazin", shown in the original language.