Grotte du Géant

The Grotte du Géant ( German "giant cave" ) is a natural cave on a rocky promontory, about 20 m above today's river level, on the right bank of the Moselle in Gondreville , between Toul and Nancy in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in France .

The origin of the grotto goes back to the time when the valley was used by the Meurthe ( German "Mörthe" ), the third largest tributary of the Moselle .

The cave was examined and described by Nicolas Husson (1814-1890) in 1864. He found bones and various old pottery shards. In the early 20th century, Jules Beaupré (1859–1921) led several methodical excavations and found objects from the Neolithic and fragments of a bowl in the grave , identical to that of Camille Husson (1843–1886) in the “Trou des Celtes” grotto near Pierre -la-tiche found. The map of the giant cave was published by Jules Beaupré in 1901.

literature

Jules Beaupré: Répertoire archéologique pour le département de Meurthe-et-Moselle, époques préhistoriques, gallo-romaines, mérovingiennes. 1897

Individual evidence

↑ The Meurthe initially formed the upper course of the Moselle until it formed its own upper course during the Saale Cold Age about 250,000 years ago.

48.6596 6.0383Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '34.6 " N , 6 ° 2' 17.9" E

[1] The Meurthe initially formed the upper course of the Moselle until it formed its own upper course during the Saale Cold Age about 250,000 years ago.