Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt

The Dolmen du Mont de Viscourt (also called Pierre du Diable ) is a replica of a dolmen. It is located in Clermont in the province of Hainaut in Belgium , near the border with France .

According to a local legend, a large stone in a field along the old Roman road from Trier (DE), via Dinant (BE) to Bavay (Bagacum - FR) was referred to as the "devil's stone" or "devil's table" until the 19th century . At this point the Via Belgica was called "Devil's Road" and the field "Devil's Field".

In 1860 the owner of the Teufelsfeld tried to destroy the stone, but it did not succeed. In 2004 he was noticed by two archaeologists at Rue du 11 Novembre (Clermont - Thuillies road), at the foot of Mount Viscourt. In an old barn were two more stones that a farmer had removed from a field on Mount Viscourt about 30 years earlier.

In 2006 all the stones were set up on the Place du Puits in the center of Clermont to recreate a dolmen .

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See also

• Dolmen La Table des Diables , a pseudodolmen.

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 34 "  N , 4 ° 18 ′ 58"  E