Pierre de Faon, Gallo-Roman burial mound in Marcé-sur-Esves, France

Pierre de Faon is an ancient stone structure built as a burial monument along the Roman road connecting Vendôme and Poitiers. It measures roughly 3 to 4 meters per side and about 2.50 meters high, constructed from flint stones and now shows no visible original facing.

This burial monument was built in the Roman period, likely between the 2nd and 3rd centuries. It received official protected status in 1938 when registered as a historical monument.

The name "pierre de Faon" led several historians after World War II to read the ruin as a fanum, a Gallo-Roman temple; Louis-Auguste Bosseboeuf had already rejected that idea fifty years earlier. The monument stands beside the Roman road from Vendôme to Poitiers, whose line the D 336 follows here.

The site sits about 1.7 kilometers north of Marcé-sur-Esves town center near road D 336 at a location called 'la Pierre'. It is easily accessible from the nearby road where you can park.

Louis-Auguste Bosseboeuf rejected the temple reading fifty years before historians after World War II revived it; recent opinion favours a burial pile. In the early 20th century a second masonry block, probably the upper part of the pile, was still visible, but it has since disappeared.