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<< Our Photo Pages >> Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Belgium in Hainaut

Submitted by Alta-Falisa on Saturday, 26 April 2014  Page Views: 2928

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt Alternative Name: Pierre du Diable
Country: Belgium
NOTE: This site is 9.469 km away from the location you searched for.

Province: Hainaut Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Clermont
Latitude: 50.259455N  Longitude: 4.316060E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt
Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt submitted by Alta-Falisa : Reconstructed dolmen. Photo : April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Up to the 19th century, a local legend designated a large stone lying in a field along a former Roman road which linked Trier (DE) to Dinant (BE) to Bavai (FR) by the names : "Devil's Stone" or "Devil's Table". At that point, the track was called "Devil's Road", and the field ... "Devil's Field" – no prize for guessing.

In 1860, the owner of the "Devil's Field", not the least impressed by those tales, broke up the "Devil's Stone" into small pieces to pave a road, a common practice at the time : several megaliths everywhere disappeared so. Incidentally, many flints are reported to have been found around "Devil's Stone".

Things did not stop there. For, if the "Devil's Stone" had gone, its memory kept lingering on. Finally, in March 2004, two archaeologists noticed along the current road Clermont – Thuillies, at the foot of Mount Viscourt (alt. 200 m, all told), a huge stone removed from a nearby field. From thread to needle, they were shown, stored in an old barn, two other stones that a farmer had had removed from a field on Mount Viscourt about thirty years earlier.

Eventually, in 2006, all three stones were retrieved from oblivion and moved to the centre of the village of Clermont, to form a dolmen, Place du Puits.
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Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt
Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt submitted by Alta-Falisa : The face of the Devil. You are supposed to recognized the face of the devil in the sinuosity of the capstone. Well, having never met this character, and not in a hurry to, I couldn't help. Maybe : the face is towards the reader, with the nose protruding ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt
Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt submitted by Alta-Falisa : Side view, showing clearly the type of stone selected for building megaliths. Let's repeat it: this dolmen is not in its original place, and is a reconstructed monument. Photo : April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt
Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt submitted by Alta-Falisa : It is all in the framing : a " dramatic " view of the reconstructed dolmen. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt
Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt submitted by Alta-Falisa : Clermont, Place du Puits. The dolmen was "reconstructed" in 2006 : the capstone does not belong to the two uprights, and it is not certain that the dolmen is thus complete. Well, that's all that was left over. As the region is very fertile and was permanently densely inhabited, many ancient monuments ("just stones" at that time) have disappeared in the course of the centuries, to make room fo... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt
Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt submitted by Alta-Falisa : And, nearby, a café serving Leffe beer.

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Re: Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt by Alta-Falisa on Saturday, 09 August 2014
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More about the legend of these stones : http://tienne79.blogspot.be/2007/09/notre-place-en-pleine-restauration.html
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Re: Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt by davidmorgan on Monday, 28 April 2014
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