Allée couverte Le Blanc Val
The small Allée couverte Le Blanc Val (also Allée couverte du Blanc Val - German "White Valley" ) was discovered in 1949 by a farmer south of Presles in the Val-d'Oise department in France while plowing, initially examined secretly and then excavated and in 1951 placed under protection. 21 skeletons, polished axes made of flint and green stone and flakes of flint blades were found. The objects also included items made from bone and antler, as well as pottery shards from the Neolithic .
The chamber consists of nine supporting stones. The door stone, broken horizontally at 3/4 of its height, with a soul hole 50 cm in diameter, separates the chamber from the approximately one meter long antechamber, which consists of three bearing stones. All capstones are missing. The approximately 1.3 m high gallery tomb in the style of the Seine-Oise-Marne culture is 4.6 m long and 1.4 m wide. The access area is in the southeast. It is currently about one meter below ground level. It was probably at ground level in the past. Access must have been from above.
- Allée couverte Le Blanc Val
Allée couverte Le Blanc Val
Allée couverte Le Blanc Val
Allée couverte Le Blanc Val
Scheme of a gallery grave - ( French Allée couverte )
Nearby are the gallery tomb Dolmen de la Pierre Plate and southwest of the village of La Croix the Pierre Turquaise .
Web links
- Allée mégalithique sépulcrale in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description, pictures and plan (French)
- The Megalithic Portal - description, pictures, location information (English)
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 13 ″ N , 2 ° 17 ′ 0.6 ″ E