Polissoir by Grimery

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The Polissoir de Grimery is a sandstone slab with Neolithic notches that could have served as grooves for stone axes .

The polissoir of Grimery is a sandstone slab with grooves at the corner of the forest "Le Vautretion", on the edge of the field on a plateau overlooking the valley of the Essonne between the city of Buno-Bonnevaux and the airport (aérodrome Buno-Bonnevaux) in the extreme southeast of the Essonne department in France . It is located on the Chemin de Grimery , an old Roman road between the municipalities of Buno-Bonnevaux and Milly-la-Forêt .

In popular belief, the grooves on the Polissoir de Grimery were interpreted as sword blows by heroic warriors.

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The place bears the field name Champtier des Sept Coups d'Épée . However, the name for this place was given by another stone that was nearby and had seven clearly visible grooves. However, this was transported to the garden of the Saint-Léger church in Buno-Bonnevaux, 1.8 kilometers from where it was originally found. It is called Polissoir des Sept coups d'épée because of its seven grooves or because of its current location in the middle of the municipality of Buno-Bonnevaux, also called Polissoir à Buno-Bonnevaux . The name Polissoir des Sept coups d'épée was used as an alternative name for the Polissoir de Grimery , which remained in this place , because it also has seven clearly protruding parallel grooves at one point. In good light, however, several grinding grooves can be seen next to the seven mentioned. The local researcher Bernard Quinet, who examined the sandstone slab in 1973, counted a total of 14 grooves, nine depressions probably used as grinding tubs and three polished surfaces. The name Sept coups d'épée (German "seven sword blows") goes back to the popular belief that a warrior had cut the stone seven times with his sword, thereby creating the V-shaped grooves. In popular belief, the legendary Margrave Roland was often associated with these sword blows.

The stone, which is almost completely sunk into the ground and, according to Jacques Tarrête, is slightly more than 3 m long and 1.30 m wide, has a multitude of partially parallel grooves on the surface, which are considered to be Neolithic . It is believed that the grooves were made when the stone was used to sharpen ax blades. The stone axes were mostly made of flint in this region during the Neolithic Age . The Polissoir de Grimery is made of sandstone , which is common in the Fontainebleau massif .

The stone has been registered as a historical monument in the French monument list Base Mérimée since 1980 . Stones with sharpening grooves as well as grinding tubs are called polissoirs in French archeology . Of known in France stationary stones with Wetzrillen or grinding pans 66 stand as monuments historiques under monument protection , eight of which were found in Essonne department.

See also

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Polissoir in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ Polissoir à Buno-Bonnevaux , Monumentum, Carte des Monuments Historiques français
  3. ↑ Polissoir de Grimery , Mégalithes du monde (French)
  4. ↑ a b Jacques Tarrête: Circonscription d'Île-de-France. Gallia préhistoire, 24, 2, pp. 291-328, 1981, p. 322. [1]
  5. ↑ Pierre Glaizal: Le Silex et le Grès. Les polissoirs neolithiques du nord de l'Yonne, nouvelles découvertes. Les Amis du vieux Villeneuve, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne 1997
  6. ↑ André Leroi-Gourhan , Dictionnaire de la préhistoire (2e édition augm. Et mise à jour). Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1994

Web links

Commons : Polissoir de Grimery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 13.3 "  N , 2 ° 24 ′ 39.6"  E