Allée couverte de la Bertinière

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Allée couverte de la Bertinière
Scheme of a gallery grave

The Allée couverte de la Bertinière , west of La Sauvagére in the Orne department in Normandy in France , is a gallery grave . It was discovered in 1880 by Comte Gaspard de Contades, who recognized the tangled stone in the bushes as a megalithic complex and excavated it in 1881. Since 1967 the grave has been classified as a Monument historique .

location

Near the hamlets of Mauny and Bertinière, west of the village of La Sauvagère, is “Le Champ du Bas”, in which a mound of earth was overgrown with boulders of blackberries and gorse (plot 90).

description

The gallery grave rises to the east, where the burial chamber is at the end. The bearing and cap stones are made of Silurian quartz sandstone blocks . The length of the gallery is 14.7 m, its irregular width about 1.45 m. The height is between 1.10 and 1.25 m. Nine stones make up the roof.

Finds

During the excavation in 1881, human bones were discovered in the western chamber, a polished stone, two worked silices and black pottery with beads. In the gallery lay a skull fragment, presumably carried away by a scavenger, and burned bones.

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A bronze ax was found in front of the entrance in 1850 . The finds that would have been used for dating have disappeared and so the site of the Western European Bronze Age from 2000 to 500 BC Assigned.

Nearby

The gallery tomb is one of the few structures of this type in Normandy . Two others from the same period are a few kilometers away. In the south, in the Andaines forest , lies the Dolmen de la Gione (the fairy Gione) and in the north of the Foret du Mont d'Here (near Echauffour ) lies one of the facilities named Pierre Levée .

literature

  • Léon Coutil : Les Allées couvertes de la Maisonnette et de la Bertinière, commune de la Sauvagère (Orne). In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française. Vol. 15, No. 1, 1918, pp. 139-148, doi : 10.3406 / ex . 1918.11882 .

Web links

Commons : Allée couverte de la Bertinière  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the immeubles classés parmi les monuments historiques. Au cours de l'année 1967. Bulletin Monumental 126/1, 1968, 124. www.persee.fr/doc/bulmo_0007-473x_1968_num_126_1_4906.
  2. ↑ after Coutil (Léon Coutil, Les Allées couvertes de la Maisonnette et de la Bertinière, commune de la Sauvagère (Orne). Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française vol. 15, no. 1, 1918, p. 139) made of granite
  3. ^ Léon Coutil, Les Allées couvertes de la Maisonnette et de la Bertinière, commune de la Sauvagère (Orne). Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 15/1, 1918, p. 141.
  4. ↑ on the plan of Coutil only 4 capstones can be seen (Léon Coutil, Les Allées couvertes de la Maisonnette et de la Bertinière, commune de la Sauvagère (Orne). Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 15/1, 1918, fig. 2 ; P. 142).
  5. ^ Léon Coutil, Les Allées couvertes de la Maisonnette et de la Bertinière, commune de la Sauvagère (Orne). Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 15/1, 1918, p. 144.
  6. ^ Léon Coutil, Les Allées couvertes de la Maisonnette et de la Bertinière, commune de la Sauvagère (Orne). Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 15/1, 1918, p. 145.

Coordinates: 48 ° 37 ′ 31.2 ″  N , 0 ° 26 ′ 10.1 ″  W.