Cave aux Fées
The gallery grave Cave aux Fées ( German "fairy cave" ) in Brueil-en-Vexin in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in France was discovered in the middle of the 18th century and in 1870 and 1889 by Adrien de Mortillet, a son of Gabriel de Mortillet , excavated.
The semi- megalithic Neolithic complex, which is located on the flank of a hill northwest of Paris , once had the shape of a 14 m long, rectangular covered corridor. Only 17 supporting stones of the wall structure of the pilot and main chamber of large vertical remained thereof sandstone plates , the large surface area of drywall of limestone is added and a portion of the radially located plate, the residues of an angular core hole shows. The cap stones above the 2.25 m wide antechamber and the chamber, if they existed, have disappeared. The number of burials from which bones have been found is estimated at around 150. Other found objects included flint blades , bone beads , pierced animal teeth and various fragments of pottery . The slab floor was intact in part of the system.
Nearby is the gallery tomb of Guiry-en-Vexin .
- Cave aux Fées
Head side
Sidewall on the left
Gallery tomb Cave aux Fées
View towards the entrance and the valley
literature
- John Peek: Inventaire des mégalithes de France . 4: Region of Paris . Center national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, 1975, ISBN 2-222-01772-6 , ( Gallia préhistoire Supplément 1, 4).
- Christophe Sence: Balades en préhistoire. 16 monuments du IIIe millénaire avant notre ère à découvrir en Île-de-France .Éditions du Cardinal u. a., Paris a. a. 2001, ISBN 2-911461-34-7 .
Web links
- Allée sépulcrale de la Cave aux fées in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and sketch (French)
- Description and sketch (French)
Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 9 ″ N , 1 ° 48 ′ 52 ″ E