Allée couverte by Lamsoul
The Allée couverte by Lamsoul is a gallery grave near Jemelle in Wallonia in Belgium . It is located at the foot of the southern slope of the Rubiémont, in the south of Jemelle, in a loop of the Rue du Congo, on the left bank of the Lomme , east of the city of Rochefort in the province of Namur .
The Allée couverte , named after the neighboring farm, was discovered and explored by W. Lassance in 1971. It was first explored by local enthusiasts in 1976 and 1977. Further excavations followed from 1995 to 1996 and 2005. Twelve stones have been preserved, only a few of which are in situ . The gallery, which was about 0.7 m deep, was buried by the inclination of the surroundings. The trench begins in the soft earth, but also continues in the slate. The sections of the longitudinal walls excavated in 2005 show the approximately 7.0 m long remains of a north-west-south-east oriented complex. Only traces of the original mound have been discovered. As no traces of the entrance or an antechamber have been found, it is difficult to pinpoint the monument. The excavators found some human bones, pieces of coarse pottery, but also some Gallo-Roman pieces.
literature
- Michel Toussant, Ivan Jardin: L'allée couverte de Lamsoul à Jemelle (Rochefort): Recherches 1995 . In: Quatrième Journée d'Archéologie Namuroise . Namur 1996.
- R. Borremans, W. Lassance: Recherches archéologiques sur la Céramique d'Andenne au Moyen Age 1956
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Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 42.7 " N , 5 ° 15 ′ 47.5" E