The site is called “La Pierre qui Tourne”, which would imply one stone \u2013 but there are two.<\/p>\n
The stone on the left, broken at mid-height then repaired, is called “Pierre qui Tourne”. The stone on the right is called “Polissoir” (polishing stone). Both are made of landenian sandstone.
\nStrangely enough, the different narratives are sketchy and confusing ; we’ll limit ourselves to a minimum.
\nIt is generally said that they have been found in 1868, nearby (and near each other ?) \u2013 but no plausible spot(s) has (have) been identified.
\nThey have been first investigated in 1878 by Mr Van Bastelaer, president of the Archaeological Society of Charleroi \u2013 but there is not much trace of any report about the stones proper.
\nThey have been erected to their present location in 1897 ; the “Pierre qui Tourne” was broken during WWI and repaired in 1920 \u2013 but even all that is doubtful, as the two parts do not match : the “Pierre qui Tourne” might be made of two distinct polissoirs arbitrarily assembled to match the other stone, today called “Polissoir” (polishing stone).
\nTo complicate matters, an inhabitant who, to this day, has always lived next to this spot, teenager during WWII, maintains that both stones were retrieved from the forest during WWII, and that the break and the repair date from that time.
\nPhoto taken April 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"index.php","protoplace-type":[],"class_list":["post-281","protoplace","type-protoplace","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/protoplace\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/protoplace"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/protoplace"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"protoplace-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/protoplace-type?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}