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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Forrières Alternative Name: Pierres du DiableCountry: Belgium
NOTE: This site is 4.963 km away from the location you searched for.
Province: Luxembourg Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Rochefort
Latitude: 50.130400N Longitude: 5.267100E
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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In 1849, J.B. Geubel (archaeologist, but principally judge to nearby Marche-en-Famenne) described the site as :
"un assemblage de six Dol-men, formant à peu près un cercle, composés chacun de trois pierres l’une formant la table sur les deux autres. Les tables ont été renversées et chacune d’elles est encore appuyée contre ses bâses (sic)".
He interpretes the site as :
" (un) monument qui doit appartenir au druidisme […]. Comme il n’y a que 17 pierres, je me suis informé du sort de la 18e et l’on m’a dit qu’il y a très longtemps, elle avait servi à l’empierrement du chemin qui longe cette colline."
A that time, 17 stones were present. Geubel left a drawing a one of the triliths (see underneath) but none of the others.
The first academic excavations were conducted in August 1897 ; by then, six more stones has gone.
The excavations couldn't date the monument due to the scarcity of inconclusive artefacts (flints, bones, pottery) found on site. The initial occupation of the site may be the Bronze Age.
The site has been re-used at various epochs.
The site was bought by the State in 1949 and listed in 1974.
Today, six stones of various sizes subsist under a few small trees. At the beginning of the 20th c., a Cross has been erected in front of the site.
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