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Jaumâtres Stones[modifier | modifier le code]

Presentation[modifier | modifier le code]

Type: Megalith

Owner: Private owner

Heritage status: Classified MH (1927)


Location[modifier | modifier le code]

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Country: France

Region: Nouvelle-Aquitaine

County: Creuse

Municipality: Toulx-Sainte-Croix

Coordinates: 46° 18′ 47″ N, 2° 13′ 36″ E


Jaumâtres Stones[modifier | modifier le code]

The Jaumâtres Stones, located at the top of Mont Barlot (591 meters), in the municipality of Toulx-Sainte-Croix in France, are one of the numerous granite block fields that we can encounter in the department of Creuse, including in the place called Rigole du Diable. They constitute a natural site classified in 1927.


Geological description[modifier | modifier le code]

These rocky clusters are called felsenmeer or blockfield. They refer to very massive rock nuclei that resisted intensive Quaternary erosion, between -100 000 and -10 000 years. Under the action of the rains, the frost and the wind, the decomposed parts of the rock were cleared causing a strange stack of more resistant boulders. Flutes, vertical furrows and basins gave these blocks strange shapes that drew legends to explain their formations. Names have been given to the most astonishing stones: the Rocker, the Oratory, the Sugarloaf, the Seat, the Frog, the Cradle of the Devil…. False archeology hypothesis At the beginning of the nineteenth century, politician and historian Jean-François Barailon claimed that these stones were carved by Gallic druids to celebrate "mysterious and bloody" cults. This theory, popular at the time, will be then refuted by Prosper Mérimée and Pierre de Cessac.


Art Representation[modifier | modifier le code]

George Sand has located at Pierres Jaumâtres his novel Jeanne (1844).


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