Dolmen du Mont Ubé
The Dolmen du Mont Ubé (UTL 677475) on the Channel Island of Jersey is a V-shaped dolmen according to French nomenclature , and a passage tomb according to the English classification . It is located 100 m east of the Rue du la Blinerie in "Le Cótil du Mont Ubé" in St. Clement . The megalithic complex was built between 3250 and 2250 BC. Built in BC. The Passage Tomb is exposed today. Formerly it was covered by a tumulus of earth and grass or a cairn made of small stones.
The Passage Tomb was discovered in 1848 by workers looking for stone material. The corridor, about five meters long and between 1.15 and 1.8 m wide, leads (comparable to the Dolmen Mané Rutual in Brittany) into a widening trapezoidal chamber, at the end about three meters wide and 7.3 m long, containing the remains (1.5 or 1.8 m high) of the niche-like subdivision. The capstones, as well as the no longer detectable curb stones of the hill, parts of the fixtures and the hill itself, were removed. There are three stones in the corridor that may have belonged to a locking device. This has recently been used to turn the facility into a pig pen.
The finds, some improperly recovered by the stone hunters, contained ten or twelve pots, a Jersey bowl, flint and stone tools, stone axes, polished stone pendants and a cup (unique to the Channel Islands). Burned and unburned human remains were found in the side niches.
See also
literature
- Heather Sebire: The Archeology and Early History of the Channel Islands . 2005; ISBN 0-7524-3449-7 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 10 '26.4 " N , 2 ° 4' 22.8" W.