Menhirs of the Béroche
During the construction of the A5 motorway , the menhirs of the Béroche (from Latin parochia - parish) came to the places Vaumarcus , Saint-Aubin-Sauges , Gorgier , Bevaix (today the municipality of La Grande Béroche ) and in the area of La Saunerie (today the municipality of Milvignes ) to the fore. The menhirs are made of granite or slate , were erected in the Neolithic and later buried because they hindered field work. The Béroche is located on the southern slope of the Jura near Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland .
The Vaumarcus-Dernere la Croix and Bevaix-Tretel sites offered the opportunity to trace the stones to the 5th and 3rd millennium BC. To date. The Bevaix menhir is now in the Laténium Archaeological Park in Hauterive . The three-meter-high, almost three-ton stone was brought into a human shape and shows the appearance of a face, hands and ribs. Erratic blocks deposited by the Rhone Glacier served as material for the monuments.
The north shore of Lake Neuchâtel, in the hinterland of the “pile dwellings”, is known as “Swiss Brittany” because of its accumulation of megalithic monuments . In Auvernier- La Saunerie there is an «Allée couverte» ( gallery grave ), offset a few meters from the place where it was discovered in 1876.
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literature
- M. Egloff: Des premiers chasseurs au début du christianisme. In: Histoire du Pays de Neuchatel. Volume 1, pp. 45-73; 1989.