Agneux caves are located in a limestone massif in the Côte Chalonnaise (southern Burgundy), which is divided by a narrow valley near Rully. The neighboring sites of Grotte de la Mère-Grand and La Grange are situated on the southern slope of this valley while Agneux caves can be found on the northern slope. Inside of these two karstic caves, just over 30 meters long, palaeolithic cave art was discovered.

Although the sediments were removed in the 19th century and the cave walls were damaged by numerous modern graffiti, it was possible to reconstruct the original context of the depictions. The combined results of all analyses (including an evaluation of local literature from the 19th century, C14 dating of remaining sediment, analysis of the height and dates of the graffiti, test excavations, microphotography, detailed microstratigraphy of the individual panels) now allow some of the panneaus to be dated to the Upper Palaeolithic.

A panel in Agneux I shows two animal protomes painted in black. Agneux II yielded one panel depicting an engraved cervid.

The field work was carried out from 2017 to 2021 under the direction of Harald Floss by Juan Francisco Ruiz López (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), Annika Rebentisch and Klaus Herkert and was funded by University of Tübingen, DRAC Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and SFB 1070 ResourceCultures.