Allée couverte de la petite Roche
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The gallery grave Allée couverte de la petite Roche (also called Pierre aux Druides) is located in the forest "Bois de la Grosse Roche", near the hamlet of Le Cátillon, south of Rocheville on the Cotentin peninsula in the Manche department in Normandy in France .
The east-west oriented gallery grave, the entrance to which is in the east, is about 19.0 m long and consists of about 35 preserved stones, five of which are ceiling tiles. Almost all of the stones are no longer in situ . Originally the gallery should have consisted of 30 bearing stones and nine cap stones. There are stones in the surrounding forest that are likely parts of the gallery tomb.
Although no excavation has taken place, a polished was in the 1870s near ax of flint found. The length was about 25.0 cm and the width at the cutting edge 7.5 cm. It is in the Cherbourg Museum .
The gallery tomb has been classified as a monument historique since 1906 .
Nearby are the "Table des Fées de Rocheville" (also Allée couverte du Câtillon) and the Allée couverte de la Forge .
literature
- Vincent Carpentier, Emmanuel Ghesquiére, Cyril Marcigny: Archéologie en Normandie . Edition Quest-France, Rennes 2007, ISBN 978-2-7373-4164-9 , ( Collection Histoire ).
Web links
- Description French Pictures and sketch
- Basic plan sketch
- Description, photos, location (English)
- Description French Pictures and sketch
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '36.9 " N , 1 ° 35' 36.7" W.