Dolmen Nord Wéris is an impressive prehistoric tomb located at the edge of fields and forests in the Famenne region. It features enormous puddingstone blocks forming a passage grave approximately 6 meters in length, with a rectangular burial chamber. This monument is part of Wéris's remarkable megalithic landscape, the largest and best-preserved site of its kind in Belgium. Nearby are Dolmen Sud Wéris, menhir A, and a variety of standing stones dispersed throughout the area. Visitors can reach the site through short hikes starting from the center of Wéris village, where rural paths allow clear sightlines of the robust, earthen-covered structure.

 

Research dates Dolmen Nord Wéris to the 3rd millennium BCE, built roughly 5,000 years ago by Neolithic farming communities who used locally sourced puddingstone carried down to the plateau site. The tomb consists of a rectangular chamber and a brief entrance corridor, once likely enclosed beneath an earthen mound, as indicated by the sloping embankment on its eastern side. Excavations near the dolmen have revealed Neolithic tools, including flint blades, tanged arrowheads, scrapers, hammerstones, polished axes, and fragments of human bones indicating burials spanning all ages, associated with the Seine-Oise-Marne culture. The site shows evidence of reuse during the shift from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age, marked by All-Over-Ornamented beaker pottery, along with Gallo-Roman coins and ceramics pointing to activity during Roman times.