According to the information panel: "Scientists suspect that the holed stone once encircled a tree, and that after the tree died, the hole remained in its current form. The stone was moved here during the Ice Age. Another story was told by the old 'log cutters' (as the forest workers were formerly called here): 'Napoleon had a new cannon tested on this stone, and a cannonball left this hole. True or not...'"

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