Table des Diables, Sainte Suzanne, Mayenne, N 48.0843, W 00.3041 by gps.
Visited Saturday, 30 April 2005. Access 3, Condition 2, Ambience 4.
Also known as La Pierre au Diable, this site is an 800 metre signposted uphill walk southwards from a parking place near to la Vallette. As with many of these monuments, this is at the top of a ridge within an enchanting forest full of birdsong and wildflowers – a cuckoo being particularly prominent here. The stones are surrounded by wizened old oak trees and large pines, without which the views would be superb.
A lot of this site looks natural until you look closely. Apart from the very large (4 m by 2 m) stone sat on top of a rocky outcrop, with a couple of small supports, just west of this are remains of what looks to me like a wrecked allée couverte, with two rows of parallel edge set stones about a metre apart. Perhaps the large rock on top of the outcrop was once a capstone for this ruined monument.
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