Stèle-menhir des Buttes Noires, Champcueil

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Although this menhir is located at the edge of a road connecting Beauvais and Loutteville in Essonne, it was not discovered until 1993. It's a rectangular monolith measuring approximately 2.20m high with an analogous width and an average thickness of 60cm. A bilateral investigation was conducted down to its base 1 meter lower and allowed the extraction of ceramics dated back to the final Bronze Age, suggesting late reuse of the monument. The south face features a set of difficult-to-read pitted carvings. A motif "arciform with short apical appendage" can be noted approximately 1.60m from the ground as well as six other figures that are more or less rectangular. A natural cavity in the shape of a "bell" is present on the north face, recalling the carving. A cupule could be natural along with a long pitted groove starting from it to the western end of the monolith. The latter, undocumented to date, has been reported and verified.