Archaeological digs volition resume on the megalithic site of Wéris (in the municipality of Durbuy), listed inwards 1974 too placed on the List of Exceptional Heritage Sites inwards Wallonia since 2014.
Wéris I dolmen [Credit: Jean-Pol Grandmont/WikiCommons] |
With its 17 standing stones too 2 covered alleyways, the megalithic champaign inwards Wéris makes upwards the entire construction, the oldest of its sort inwards Belgium. Spread over a length of viii kilometres, these 2 parallel menhirs create got been discipline to several excavations since the terminate of the 19th century.
The fresh dig is to comprise “a global search, on a large scale, which volition enable a ameliorate agreement of both the full general layout of the monuments too their interaction inside the countryside.”
The government minister states that the projection volition equally good live on the chance to reposition the 2 menhirs, discovered inwards 1984, inside their trench, too to await for the foundation trench of the menhir ‘Dantinne’, moved inwards 1947 along the Erezée road. Lastly he says that it volition equally good enable the production of an archaeological assessment of the site.
The Walloon Heritage Agency volition undertake coordination of the project.
Source: The Brussels Times [September 24, 2018]
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