Gallery tomb of Guiry-en-Vexin

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Access with a soul hole

The gallery grave of Guiry-en-Vexin (Allée couverte de Bois-Couturier) dates from the late Seine-Oise-Marne culture around 2000 BC. (A radiocarbon sample gave a date of 2028 ± 135 BC cal (calPal)).

It is one of the few gallery graves in which a closure has been proven.

Research history

The megalithic grave , discovered by a farmer in 1915 and excavated in the following years, was restored in 1973; it has been recognized as a monument historique since 1958 .

location

The gallery grave is located on a 132 m high elevation in the forest of Morval in the Flur Bois Couturier in the Val-d'Oise department , about 55 km northwest of Paris near the border between Île-de-France and Normandy .

construction

The chamber, built mainly from small limestone slabs as a dry stone wall, about 1.3 m high and rounded at the back, is about 8 m long and 2 m wide. It contained the remains of about 200 people. There were 39 ceramic shards lined with shell grit and 58 flint artifacts, including three cross cutters. The only access is a so-called soul hole in the large front panel. The worked stone weighing 158 kg that closed the hole is kept in the Musée archéologique du Val d'Oise in Guiry-en-Vexin. The rear part of the burial chamber is rounded.

One of the chamber's bearing stones is decorated with sculpted breasts and a necklace, a representation that also occurs in several other gallery graves.

See also

literature

  • Observations on l'allée couverte du Bois Couturier à Guiry-en-Vexin (Val d'Oise). Gallia Prehistoire 18/2 , 1975, 423 - 451 Persée
  • Simone Arnette: Lallée couverte de la Bellée (Oise) et le vase qui ya été découvert. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France. Volume 57, No. 3/4, 1960, ISSN  0037-9514 , pp. 233-240, doi: 10.3406 / ex . 1960.3461 .

Web links

Commons : Gallery Tomb of Guiry-en-Vexin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gif-sur- Yvette 3329, 3640 ± 100, Degros Jacqueline, Tarrête Jacques, Étude archéologique. Gallia préhistoire 18/2, 1975, 432,
  2. ↑ Allée sépulcrale couverte néolithique dite du Bois Couturier, Guiry-en-Vexin in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ↑ not clear where this information comes from, not confirmed by Girard C. II Étude anthropologique. In: Gallia préhistoire, tome 18, fascicule 2, 1975. pp. 433–439; doi: https://doi.org/10.3406/galip.1975.1499https://www.persee.fr/doc/galip_0016-4127_1975_num_18_2_1499
  4. ↑ Degros Jacqueline, Tarrête Jacques, Archaeological Étude. Gallia préhistoire 18/2, 1975, 428, doi: https://doi.org/10.3406/galip.1975.1498https://www.persee.fr/doc/galip_0016-4127_1975_num_18_2_1498
  5. ^ Simone Arnette, John D. Peek: The Guiry Cork-stone. In: Antiquity. Volume 39, No. 156, 1965, ISSN  0003-598X , pp. 291-294, Fig. 1, doi: 10.1017 / S0003598X00039673 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 3.7 "  N , 1 ° 50 ′ 38.9"  E