P2 - Tinglanfontaine - 8km

The walker of former times would have been jostled by the traffic of carts and mules heading all the way to Gaume. The load was iron ore, mined in the Ardennes by the Gallo-Romans. This deposit stretched from the Minîres to the slopes of the Grinchi, passing through the center of the village (the Fosses). Residents of the streets of Redu and Chenai have found sections of galleries in their gardens. One hundred meters behind the chapel, in a spruce plantation, a deep hollow in the ground exposes a red soil rich in ore. Extraction was still taking place in Porcheresse in 1926 for the nail factories of Membre and Sugny. Not far from here, the Trou de Sable provided residents with the red sand that so curiously tinges the mortar of the walls of many village houses. The walk begins, along a path shared with P2 and P3, in a mainly coniferous forest, Tinglanfontaine. Going down toward the Our, it runs along the left side of the Bois de Lalou, part of the land of Lalou (see P1).

The Roche Minguet served as a seasonal shelter for the Minguet family, that wandering clan whose memory is also found along the banks of the Rancenne (see G4). The Roche des Chevaux lies close to the Deux-Eaux, the confluence of the Our and the Lesse. It is said that farmers from Lesse used to throw their old, no-longer-useful horses from there.

A footbridge over the Our, near the Deux-Eaux, links Porcheresse to Lesse via the Vieux Chemin des Héverlains. People from the Pays de Herve had specialized in caravan transport. They led convoys of 15 to 20 horses. A text from 1638 even mentions the passage of a convoy of 500 horses led by Héverlains from Maastricht to Sedan!

In the Bois de Berlauchamp flowed springs carpeted with watercress. Today, this large hunting ground has lost some of its diversity due to an excessive density of game. The walker will notice that in many places only the fern survives… because the game does not eat it!