FAIRY STONE DOLMEN
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Listed building since 1889
Classified as a historic monument since 1889, the building, which can be freely observed today, is only part of what it was originally. Two upright stones measuring from 2.20 m to 2.40 m high and the bedside slab are made of local limestone. The monumental cover table is 6 m long, 4.70 m wide and 0.58 m thick, or about 60 tons. This megalith is a collective burial site estimated to date from the end of the Neolithic period (2500 to 2000 BC). During the 1844 excavations, objects (flint arrowheads, bone buttons, lead beads, etc.) and human bones were found. As is often the case in such ancient places, local legends circulate. One of them tells that women who wanted to have children would visit the fairy Esterelle, who had made her home there, so that she could help them get pregnant.
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