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Des chirons ou tas de pierres, dont quelques-uns ont d’énormes dimensions, existent dans tout le pays. Il serait ridicule d’assigner une date très ancienne à tous ces monticules ; mais on peut affirmer qu’un certain nombre d’entre eux a été formé dans les temps les plus reculés pour servir de monuments funéraires.
Chirons or heaps of stones, some of which are of enormous dimensions, exist throughout the country. It would be ridiculous to assign a very old date to all these mounds; but it can be said that a number of them were formed in the earliest times to serve as funerary monuments.
1864, Eugène Henri E. Beauchet-Filleau, Essai sur le patois poitevin, ou, Petit glossaire de quelques-uns des mots usités dans le canton de Chef-Boutonne, page 64:
Il y a près de Chef-Boutonne, le « Champ des Chirons » qui doit son nom à la présence de quinze à vingt énormes amas de pierres ; ces chirons ayant été détruits et les pierres enlevées, il s’est trouvé que ces prétendus chirons étaient des tombelles qui recouvraient des squelettes et n’étaient autres que des sépultures gauloises. Le dernier, qui existe encore en partie, a été ouvert en novembre 1857 et nous conservons divers fragments de poterie, etc., qui y ont été trouvés avec quatre squelettes
There is near Chef-Boutonne, the « Field of Chirons » which owes its name to the presence of fifteen to twenty enormous piles of stones; these chirons having been destroyed and the stones removed, it turned out that these so-called chirons were tombs which covered skeletons and were none other than Gallic burials. The last, which still partly exists, was opened in November 1857 and we preserve various fragments of pottery etc. which were found there together with four skeletons.
References
^ Bruno Comentale, Les Cahiers nantais, IGARUN, 2013, pages 15-23
