Pierre-Percée (Courgenay)
The Pierre-Percée by Courgenay ( French Pierre-Percée for German Lochstein ) is a stone with a soul hole . The megalith is in the village of Courgenay in the Swiss canton of Jura . It is 2.5 m high, 2.3 m wide and around 50 cm thick and consists of Kimmeridgium limestone. The axes of the oval soul hole are 35 and 41 cm.
The Pierre-Percée appears to be the original access stone to a dolmen covered by a tumulus . No bones or other remains were found.
The Pierre-Percée is not an isolated incident. Remains of dolmens with a soul hole from around 3000 BC One finds z. B. in Aesch and Laufen in Switzerland, Aroz and Traves in France, and in Degernau and Schwörstadt in Baden-Württemberg .
literature
- François Schifferdecker: Vieille pierre percée et capuche. Le patrimoine au present. In: Bulletin de l'Office du patrimoine historique. 7, 1985, pp. 6-10.
Sources and web links
- www.erratiker.ch - Courgenay ( Memento from March 8, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
- Le mystère de la Pierre Percée de Courgenay (French)
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '11 " N , 7 ° 7' 37" E ; CH1903: 576,473 / 250296