Cromlech des Fourneaux

Cromlech des Fourneaux

The Cromlech des Fourneaux (also Les Pierres Gauloise - German  "Stones of the Gauls" - called) is located near the Rue du Docteur Quelet, south of Hérimoncourt , near Montbéliard in the Doubs department near the border with Switzerland in France .

Here on a hillside, far from any stone circle tradition , eight medium-sized (0.78 to 1.7 m high, 0.5 to 1.3 m wide and 0.15 to 0.4 m thick) stones and a single large stone ( 2.5 m high) in a semi-oval around an outcrop that appears to be a kind of triangular stone table or altar , the age of which is unknown. Cromlechs mostly date from the Bronze Age . The Celtic tribe of the Rauraques who lived here at the turn of the ages cannot be associated with the complex.

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