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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt Alternative Name: Pierre du DiableCountry: Belgium
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Province: Hainaut Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Clermont
Latitude: 50.259455N Longitude: 4.316060E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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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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