Gouffre de Sclayn
Gouffre de Sclayn is a cave in Andenne, Arrondissement of Namur, Wallonia. Gouffre de Sclayn is situated nearby to the cave Scladina, as well as near the museum Espace Muséal d’Andenne.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Scladina and Bonneville Castle.
Scladina
Cave
Photo: Thilo Parg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Scladina, or Sclayn Cave, is an archaeological site located in Wallonia in the town of Sclayn, in the Andenne hills in Belgium, where excavations since 1978 have provided the material for an exhaustive collection of over thirteen thousand Mousterian stone artifacts and the fossilized remains of an especially ancient Neanderthal, called the Scladina child were discovered in 1993. Scladina is situated 490 metres north of Gouffre de Sclayn.
Bonneville Castle
Castle
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.
Bonneville Castle is a stately home in Bonneville in the municipality of Andenne, province of Namur, Wallonia, Belgium. Originally a farmhouse with a 15th-century donjon, it was acquired in 1617 by Jacques de Zualart, who began an extensive rebuilding, the continuance of which ruined his son, Tilmant de Zualart. Bonneville Castle is situated 1¼ km southeast of Gouffre de Sclayn.
Église Saint-Maurice de Sclayn
Church
Photo: EmDee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Église Saint-Maurice de Sclayn is a church, which is situated 1 km north of Gouffre de Sclayn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sclayn and Bonneville.
Sclayn
Village
Photo: Gugus15, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sclayn is a town of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Andenne, located in the province of Namur, Belgium. It is located by the river Meuse.
Bonneville
Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.
Bonneville is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Andenne, located in the province of Namur, Belgium. The village church, dedicated to Saint Fermin, is a Romanesque building from the 11th century. Bonneville Castle is located in the village.
Thon-Samson
Village
Photo: Lucyin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thon-Samson is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Andenne, located in the province of Namur, Belgium. Thon-Samson is a member of the Les Plus Beaux Villages de Wallonie association.
Gouffre de Sclayn
- Type: Cave
- Also known as: “Fosse à la Souette”
- Category: landform
- Location: Andenne, Arrondissement of Namur, Namur, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.47992° or 50° 28′ 48″ northLongitude
5.02628° or 5° 1′ 35″ eastOpen location code
9F27F2HG+XGOpenStreetMap ID
node 5455203484OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entrance
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