The Trou Magrite is a cave and prehistoric site in Pont-à-Lesse in the Belgian municipality of Dinant. From the Mousterian to the Iron Age, it was inhabited in stages. Among the artifacts excavated is an anthropomorphic figurine in mammoth ivory. Fossils of two Neanderthals have also been found.
The location of the cave was certainly strategic, on a terrace 26 meters above the Lesse near the confluence with the Meuse. It consists of a spacious hall of six meters wide and twelve meters high, with a "vestibule" of seven meters next to it. In the 19th century, the Trou Magrite was owned by the de Villers Masbourg family, who made the most of the picturesque character of the site by having a path built to it around 1830-1840 and by excavating a metre of soil to enlarge it. Later, the Radzitzky d'Ostrowick family became the owners of the land.
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