Dolmen dit Table-des-Marchands, Locmariaquer

Table des Marchand - a neolithic tomb located in Locmariaquer in French Brittany, in the Morbihan department. From 1889, the monument Historique inscribed on the list of monuments.

Established at the beginning of the 4th millennium BC The tomb, 6 meters high, has a 30 × 25 m oval shape. It is surrounded from the outside with two walls with a diameter of 18 and 20 m. An input hole with a height of 1.30 m, oriented south-east, leads a long for 7 meters corridor to the grave chamber. The chamber, 3.50 × 3 m and 2.40 m high, is covered with a large ceiling stone with dimensions of 6.50 × 4 m and a weight of 40 tons. The construction was built of granite. The exception is the back wall of the grave chamber, made of sandstone imported from a distance of over 50 kilometers, decorated with 53 arched rites arranged in two opposite panels.

Since Roman times, the tomb was used as a source of building material and was mostly demolished within the centuries. It owes its current appearance to the reconstruction made in 1991. The first archaeological work on the position was carried out in 1814, the next in 1883 and in the 1980s.