Allée couverte from Vauville
The Allée couverte of Vauville (also called Pierres Pouquelées de Vauville) is located in the north-west of the village of Vauville and the Cotentin peninsula in the Manche department in Normandy in France .
The word pouquelé perhaps comes from the Norman pouque and denotes a pocket or niche, including those made of megaliths in dolmen with side chambers . The term occurs in the departments of Manche, Eure and Orne (Dolmen de la Pierre Couplée in La Ferté-Frênel), as well as on Jersey ( La Pouquelaye de Faldouet ) and Guernsey .
The north-west-south-east oriented gallery grave lies on the slope and is somewhat disturbed . It is about 14.5 m long, inside about 1.25 m and outside 2.4 m wide, with an inner height of 1.2 m. There are remains of the chamber, of which nine pairs of bearing stones and two cap stones have survived, but have fallen over, especially in the middle of the complex. There are no signs of a hill or curb ring and of the niches that give it its name. The entrance seems to have been to the side in the southwest.
The gallery was excavated but not published by the Cherbourg Academic Society in 1755 . In the early 19th century, the locals removed stones to build a bridge. The sub-prefecture of Valognes stopped the operation and had the blocks brought back. Many disappeared anyway in 1833. The facility was placed under protection in 1907.
About eight kilometers to the north is the heavily disturbed Le Jogard or Trou des Fées as the northernmost of Normandy.
literature
- Vincent Carpentier, Emmanuel Ghesquiére, Cyril Marcigny: Archéologie en Normandie . Edition Quest-France, Rennes 2007, ISBN 978-2-7373-4164-9 , ( Collection Histoire ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Allée couverte dite des Pierres Pouquelées in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '59.4 " N , 1 ° 51' 15.1" W.