Saturday, October 23, 2010

' Le Pierre aux: Holy Oeufs' A late Neolithic stone located near St Chaffrey, Serre Chevalier, France


Thirty minutes from St Chaffrey in the pine forest can be found lying a sacred stone on the ground next to the edge of the Ravin de Réguinier, the other side down on the fields of Dormilliou cultivated until 1914. The holy stone is 0.70 m wide and 1,15 m in length. The thickness is 42 cm. Been eroded in no obvious special order 13 cups that have average 4 cm in diameter. The stone set long ways towards the North South direction. This may be the work of erosion or the freezing. There must be some men have attacked the block, through post one after the other in a rotation with small stones or pebbles.

These megalithic with cups is similar to those who in Maurienne and TARENTAISE Valley, and particularly to LAN le Villard, detailed Saint Martin de Belleville and Bourg Saint Maurice. There are more or less regularly the cups.Engravings of Sun, shapes or spirals accompany sometimes. similar stones were listed in the Briançonnais, such as ' table Percee "on the Col of l ' patented, is the"Pierre de Fontenil".

Recently two new megaliths were discovered by the same way: one on the way to the Puy Saint Pierre and the other in the Alpine meadows of l ' Eychauda close to MONETIER.All reside on the same level (when above 1500m) .these stones come from a similar pastoral civilization, the carved stone axes that have been discovered at Oulx, Salbertrand and Cezanne Italy and Ubaye (South of Lac Serre Ponçon) in France Freissinière (near l ' Argentière). François Arnaud discovered no less than 27 in the region that green from the stone made of the high Durance which they were made in the Briançonnais.

These lucky finds are localized in the Alpine pastures, the 7 stones with cups on the Maurienne. All these testimonies are proof of a Neolithic human presence in these areas, but the Alps, having been covered with ice were uninhabitable before the fourth millennium. It is from this period that warms the climate and the glaciers withdrew.Thus the first populations could not here 2000 years ago gewesen.Die archaeologists agree, that the age of the stones date late Neolithic. It is at the beginning of the bronze age, compared to 2000 - 1700 BC intended. The same techniques were used for a long time and it is possible that this stone was cut by a group of farmers, came here at the beginning of the second millennium.

Elsewhere, the cups are sometimes accompanied by sewer and it is assumed that these megaliths as offerings collect tables, the blood in the cavities can have traded.It is Chaffrey.Hier absolutely not the case with St these megalithic that called stone of eggs, as tradition goes, that food for lepers and the victims of the plague of the middle ages remained so regularly from the people of the village.In fact, while still higher on the right bank of the gorge at the end of the cliffs called found Combe de Ricou, the Gorge has completed, shelters under rocks and a small cave, receiving today is hampered, rubble and at the foot of which a water source aus.Es is called seals in this Valley, ' cave of Lepreux', according to local tradition, always ging.Dies is refugees with the plague no chance that selected stone to plague victims, but in fact a sacred stone to feed.








This article was written by Lin Davidson, a more important to different Web pages using Serre Chevalier, a ski resort in the French Alps Beitrag.Lin's blog about life in France arisen because a journal about life in France has kept you since leaving England in 2002.

Lin is also one of the founders of Serre Chevalier property, a site about buying real estate in the French Alps.


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