{"id":225,"date":"2018-11-16T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T15:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/?post_type=protoplace&#038;p=225"},"modified":"2018-11-17T18:15:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T18:15:03","slug":"mousseau-stone","status":"publish","type":"protoplace","link":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/protoplace\/mousseau-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Mousseau Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The menhir is a block of almost rectangular sandstone. It is 2.40 m high, 1.40 m wide and 0.70 m thick on average. Its presence hinders the exploitation of a sandpit, it was shot around 1911-1912 and then straightened after backfilling of it at the end of the activity.<\/p>\n<p>The menhir is reported as early as the eighteenth century. It is mentioned in several acts of the abbey of Saint-Germain-l&#8217;Auxerrois under various denominations: Pierre de Monceau, Big Stone, Big Caillou, Brush Bourne, Bourne.<\/p>\n<p>The name &#8220;Mousseau&#8221; or &#8220;Montceau&#8221; probably corresponds to the ancient existence of a tumulus nearby.<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered in 1875 during the exploitation of the sandpit. The owner of the land Jean-Baptiste Piketty searched the site. It presented itself as an oval pit (7 m long by 3 m wide), 2 m deep, surrounded by a dry stone wall. It did not have a blanket. According to the authors, the description of the interior of the tomb is variable: according to some, the ground was paved with limestone flat stones (Ph.Salmon) and the pit contained the remains of about forty individuals lying in disorder ( JB Piketty), for others, the ground was covered with millstone blocks (Adrien de Mortillet) and the bodies were aligned in two rows (F. Martin).<\/p>\n<p>The archaeological material collected, mainly by Piketty in 1875, consists of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flint Tools Ceramic Adornment Elements<\/li>\n<li>5 polished axes<\/li>\n<li>4 large blades<\/li>\n<li>4 retouchoirs<\/li>\n<li>4 scrapers<\/li>\n<li>several nuclei<\/li>\n<li>saw<\/li>\n<li>flakes<\/li>\n<li>polished ax in diorite<\/li>\n<li>small and large wheel sandstone<\/li>\n<li>crusher<\/li>\n<li>millstone firing pin<\/li>\n<li>bone punch<\/li>\n<li>13 shell beads<\/li>\n<li>shells and fossils<\/li>\n<li>fragments of a clay vase poorly cooked<\/li>\n<li>small vase with handle<\/li>\n<li>many fragments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"index.php","protoplace-type":[],"class_list":["post-225","protoplace","type-protoplace","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/protoplace\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/protoplace"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/protoplace"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"protoplace-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/protoplace-type?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}