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French archaeological academia was dismissive of Morlet's 1925 report, published by an amateur and a peasant boy.

Morlet invited a number of archaeologists to visit the site during 1926, including Salomon Reinach, curator of the National Museum of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, who spent three days excavating.

Reinach confirmed the authenticity of the site in a communication to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Similarly, famous archaeologist Abbé Breuil excavated with Morlet and was impressed with the site, but on 2 October, Breuil wrote that " everything is false except the stoneware pottery.