Le cromlech

The most important cromlech in Europe is Stonehenge in England, which has several concentric circles of standing stones.

In Bex, archaeological surveys carried out on the Champ Peuffler site in 1966 revealed only a bone toothbrush handle (probably dating from the 19th century) and a cow's body, whose morphology seems to be pre-Roman. The historical reliability of the Bex cromlech is therefore not assured, unlike another cromlech attested in the Canton of Vaud, at La Praz (at the foot of the Jura). It should be remembered that in the Alps, it is not uncommon to find natural alignments of stones that form structured shapes.

For more information:
Archives cantonales vaudoise: PP 886/H6/13/27 (1966).
O.-J. Bocksberger, Découvertes archéologiques récentes à l'ouest de Sion. Nouvelles données sur le Néolithique valaisan, 1964 (https://doc.rero.ch/record/24140/files/BCV_N_112_081_1964_141.pdf), p. 145, n. 1.
D. Fournier, 'Les monuments préhistoriques de la région de St-Maurice', Echos de Saint-Maurice, 35, 1936, p. 40-47 (digital edition Abbaye de St-Maurice, 2011: http://www.digi-archives.org/pages/echos/ESM035006.pdf), spec. p. 44-46.