Pierre du Bigot
The Pierre du Bigot is a boulder from the Ice Age on a hill in the hamlet of Bigot in Saint-Martin-d'Hères in the Isère department in France . In the Neolithic , between 4500 and 3500 BC He was provided with small bowls ( French cupules ).
The pink granite stone was discovered in 1911 by the archaeologist and ethnographer Hippolyte Müller (1865–1933), who informed the French prehistoric society. He described it with rounded corners and dimensions of two meters in length and 1.5 m in height. The stone has a volume of four cubic meters. 46 small bowls are carved into its flat surface.
literature
- Hippolyte Müller: La pierre à cupule du Bigot (Saint-Martin d'Hères) In: Rhodania, n.1295 , 1928
- Histoire des communes de l'Isère: Grenoble et son arrondissement , t. 4, Grenoble, Horvath, 1987 ( ISBN 2717104925 ), p. 164
Web links
Commons : Pierre du Bigot - Collection of Images
Coordinates: 45 ° 9 ′ 41.4 ″ N , 5 ° 46 ′ 46.2 ″ E