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Menhir — The Turning Stone (La Pierre Tournante), Tavers

Menhir — The Turning Stone (La Pierre Tournante), Tavers

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Menhir — The Turning Stone (La Pierre Tournante), Tavers

Name: Menhir — The Turning Stone (La Pierre Tournante), Tavers
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Location: Tavers, Orléans, Centre-Val de Loire, France

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🚴 Dirk Sikora 🥾

August 29, 2020

The dolmen La Pierre Tournante (German "the rotating stone" - also called Dolmen Feularde) is a dolmen near the hamlet of Vau near Tavers in the far west of the Loiret department on the border with the Loir-et-Cher department in France. In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature).

Its approximately 50 cm thick capstone measures around 4.0 × 4.0 meters and is supported by many low bearing stones.
It was classified as a Monument historique in 1948.
According to a popular legend, it turns once a century, on Christmas Eve, at midnight and the earth opens and reveals a great treasure.
There are such and similar legends about menhirs of this name in the Eure department (Pierre Tournante of Bosgouet and in the Calvados department (Pierre Tournante Livarot)) and the dolmen La Pierre Tournante near Nogent in the Haute-Marne department.
Nearby is the Pierre du Vert-Galant dolmen.

Source: Wikipedia

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🚴 Dirk Sikora 🥾

August 29, 2020

Wikipedia writes primarily about "la Pierre Tournante à Livarot, la Pierre Tournante à Fresney-le-Puceux, la Pierre Tourneresse à Gouvix et la Pierre Tourneresse à Cairon".
It can be assumed that this is assigned to the same legend.

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