Ormesson

A small rural commune, Ormesson has a church of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption dating from the 12th century. It is a typical Gâtinais building in the early Gothic style, with a belfry (simple roof with two shallow slopes). A large fortified-looking farmhouse bears witness to the village's main activity: farming.

The white sand extracted from the Ormesson quarries was used in the glass industry. Today they are a very pleasant place to walk around.

Located in the commune, the paleolithic site "des Bossats" has been the subject of archaeological excavations since 2009 under the direction of Pierre BODU, director of the Prehistoric Ethnology team at the CNRS. These excavations have revealed the superposition on the same site of several human occupations attributed to two different species: Neanderthal man and Homo sapiens. In this small cirque surrounded by sandstone blocks, geological chance has perfectly protected the traces of these ancient populations. 

The richness of the remains uncovered (remains of animals killed in the hunt, areas of fireplaces and fuel, presence of dyes, etc.) makes this deposit an exceptional site in the prehistoric landscape of the Paris Basin and a major site for the knowledge of the last Neanderthal populations and the first groups of Homo sapiens.

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