Allée couverte Autel des Druides
The Allée couverte Autel des Druides ( German "Altar des Druiden" - also called "Roques des Druides" or "du Grand Breuil") is located east of Les Moitiers-d'Allonne on the Cotentin peninsula in the Manche department in Normandy in France . The gallery grave, discovered in 1895, is located near the top of a hill on a side road, north of the D902.
The approximately 20.0 meter long north-south oriented megalithic complex was restored in the 1960s after it had long been used as a cattle shelter. The width between the 20 in situ and several collapsed and missing lateral bearing stones is 1.5 to 2.0 m, the height under the six overlying cap stones (about the same number are missing) is 1.5 m. There are two particularly large end stones and evidence of an antechamber in the north.
The finds consist of shattered ceramics from the Neolithic period, such as those found in the Allée couverte of Bretteville-en-Saire and in the Paris Basin and assigned to the Seine-Oise-Marne culture (SOM), as well as flint and the pearls of a necklace.
literature
- Léon Coutil : Inventaire des monuments mégalithiques du département de la Manche. In: Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences. Compte Rendu de la 35me Session. Lyon 1906. Notes and Mémoires. Secrétariat de l'Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences, Paris 1907, pp. 739-766 .
- Information archéologiques de Gallia. In: Préhistoire. 1971, p. 333.
- Vincent Carpentier, Emmanuel Ghesquière, Cyril Marcigny: Archéologie en Normandie (= Collection Histoire ). Édition Quest-France et al., Rennes et al. 2007, ISBN 978-2-7373-4164-9 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 39 " N , 1 ° 44 ′ 44.4" W.