The "cave" of Naours is an underground city rediscovered at the end of the nineteenth century by Father Danicourt and since then became a popular tourist site. This is a place of refuge occupied since prehistoric times. Too beautiful a story since the first occupation would date rather religious wars in the seventeenth century.
On May 12, 2014, the work of Gilles Prilaux, equipped with a metal detector and a trowel, is precisely to specify the dating by finding evidence.
When suddenly: "In this room plunged into a darkness that I sweep with my torch, I see these tens, these hundreds of inscriptions made with pencil wood of incredible freshness. We must imagine small squares of 4 to 5 cm2, tiny spaces of expression where soldiers left a lot of information: dates, names, first names, cities and countries of origin, registration numbers, battalions. "The archaeologist Guess these graffiti were written during the First World War but can not decipher them ... more in our podcast (above)
(Rediffusion Avril 2019)
