Pierre Birette
The Pierre Birette , also Coeur de Birette , Rocher du diable 'or Polissoir Pierre du Diable, is a heart-shaped stone with grooves in the gardens of the castle Le Grand-Pressigny in Le Grand-Pressigny near Chatellerault in the Indre-et-Loire department in France . In 1954 he was transferred from Le Petit Pressigny near the Grand-Pressigny Musée de la Préhistoire .
The stone has eight partially parallel grooves on the surface, which are considered to be Neolithic . It is believed that the grooves were made when ax blades were sharpened on the stone.
Nearby is the Le Grand-Pressigny flint mine .
The Pierre Birette was placed under protection in 1912 when it was still in the Garenne des Bordes in the municipality of Le Petit-Pressigny . Of known in France stationary stones with Wetzrillen or grinding pans 66 stand as monuments historiques under monument protection .
literature
- Pierre Glaizal, Jean-Paul Delor: Les polissoirs néolithiques de l'Yonne, Esquisse d'un paysage proto-industriel. Les Amis du vieux Villeneuve, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne 1993.
- Louis Dubreuil-Chambardel: Le Polissoir fixe du Petit-Pressigny In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris 1, 1910, pp. 647-649 [1] .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Birette is an animal-woman chimera of folklore on the Loire
- ^ Louis Dubreuil-Chambardel, Le Polissoir fixe du Petit-Pressigny. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris 1, 1910, pp. 647–649. '
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Coordinates: 46 ° 55 ′ 18 ″ N , 0 ° 48 ′ 12 ″ E