Le Gros Caillou (Vendegies-sur-Écaillon)
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The 2.3 m high, gray menhir Le Gros Caillou ( German "the great pebble" - also called Grès-de-Montfort), which is said to have originally been a dolmen , stands on a hill northwest of the hamlet of Vendegies-sur-Écaillon to the west from Maubeuge in the Nord department not far from the border with Belgium , in France .
Other objects with the same name
Le Gros Caillou is also one of the landmarks of the Croix-Rousse district in Lyons . It is a large, hard gray-white stone, the mineralogical composition of which suggests that the boulder was transported to Lyon by glaciers in the Alps.
In Oisy-le-Verger there is another menhir of this name .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 3.9 ″ N , 3 ° 30 ′ 29 ″ E