Allée couverte du Trou aux Anglais

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Scheme of entrances - The chamber separation of Trou aux Anglais corresponds to the gray-tinted parts of the illustration above left

The Allée couverte du Trou aux Anglais ( German  "Loch der Engländer" ) is a gallery grave that originally stood near Aubergenville in the Yvelines department in France and was moved to the open-air site of the Museum of Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1901 due to the threat of destruction . The reconstruction was not carried out precisely because a wall plate was used as a cover.

The Trou aux Anglais gallery grave in the open space of the Museum of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Scheme of a gallery grave

The megalithic complex is 10.3 m long and 1.8 m wide. a plate between the antechamber and the chamber divides the gallery. The passage forms an oval arch. There are three rock carvings on the partition plate . They represent a vessel, a polished ax and a complete ax. Incisions in the chamber depict the goddess with the special feature that the head is also depicted. Another engraving is said to depict a man pulling a plow.

The separation of the chambers between two slabs of rock with an acute-angled space is a peculiarity in France, but is common in Sweden.

Human remains, tools and weapons were discovered during the excavations. This inventory disappeared during the Second World War .

literature

  • Perrier du Carne: Sculptures et gravures du dolmen du Trou-aux-Anglais. In: Bulletins de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris , 1894, Volume 5, No. 5, pp. 347-351 ( doi : 10.3406 / bmsap.1894.5520 ).

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Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '53.4 "  N , 2 ° 5' 43.9"  E