(From the Breton toal = table, an doal = a table and men (or maen) = stone)
The world dolmin(e) or tolmin(e) (‘stone table’) is attested in Breton place names, in particular in the Vannes area, e.g. at the Table des Marchands at Locmariaquer in 1792. Now used worldwide, it designates a burial structure comprising one or more stone tables resting on vertical pillars (orthostat slabs). Originally covered by a tumulus, a dolmen forms the remains of a more substantial structure which is no longer present