In Corcelles-près-Concise (canton of Vaud, Switzerland), wedged between a path and a field four menhirs are still visible north of the village. Three out of the four megaliths are prehistoric : the one on the north-west (the tallest one in the foreground) was carved in 1843. It was erected the same year, at the place where an other megalith disappeared in the eighteenth century.
Although these menhirs were still visible, it was not until 1994 that excavations were undertaken to better understand the megalithic ensemble. A medieval pit, located west of the southern menhirs contained a megalith cut in two parts, which proves that there must have originally been a minimum of 4 menhirs. The excavations have also made it possible to date the whole of the Neolithic era.
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