The site of Raillencourt-Sainte-Olle, ‘ Le Grand Camp’ (Nord) is located on a plateau about 30 m above the Scheldt valley, northwest of the city of Cambrai. Rescue archaeology was undertaken in 1999 and 2000 on a total surface of 1.6 hectares : 14 pits were discovered but they revealed no building plan. Five of these pits yielded the majority of the artefacts. Characteristics of the different categories of artefacts, in particular ceramics, associated with three radiocarbon dates, indicate that the settlement dates from the end of the Neolithic period, at the beginning of the second half of the 3rd millennium, corresponding more or less to the final stages of the Deûle-Escaut culture. The original composition and abundance of the artefacts ...