Santoche | |
Coordinates: | 47.4047°N 6.5081°W |
Insee: | 25531 |
Postal Code: | 25340 |
Arrondissement: | Montbéliard |
Canton: | Bavans |
Commune: | Pays-de-Clerval |
Elevation Min M: | 275 |
Elevation Max M: | 385 |
Area Km2: | 2.15 |
Population: | 87 |
Population Date: | 2014 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Santoche (in French pronounced as /sɑ̃tɔʃ/) is a former commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Pays-de-Clerval.[2]
Santoche lies 2km (01miles) north of Clerval in the valley of the Doubs on an ancient Roman road.
The commune has the only dolmen in the department and a rectangular mound surrounded by ditches called the Motte Jules César, which was once a Gallic temple.
Archaeological digs have discovered prehistoric objects and bones.