Hague-Dick

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The Hague-Dick (or Hague-Dike ) is a defensive wall made of earth, the formation of which dates back to the Bronze Age . It lies in the French department of Manche in Normandy , fortified the area of La Hague at its narrowest point between the bay of Vauville and the bay of Quervièreand had the purpose of making access to the Cape de la Hague more difficult and behind it to form a defensive bastion. The wall does not run along the entire defense line, but merges into two small valleys on its west and east sides, which also had strong defensive potential. At Herqueville these are the valley of the Herquemoulin brook and at Éculleville the valley of the Sabine . The wall itself is limited to the plateau and has a length of about 2700 meters. Today it is of different heights and overgrown with trees and hedges and thus the bocage-Landscape adapted. The camp area created by this fortification now includes eight communities and two natural harbors.

Toponymy

Hague is derived from the Scandinavian hagi (cf. German enclosure ). Dick is derived from a Germanic word.

archeology

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The history of the creation of the Hague-Dick is quite complex. But it could be traced on the basis of excavations:

Between 1951 and 1953, H. Arbman, M. de Bouärd and T. de Ramskou investigated six layer structures. The charcoal from the sites allows a date between 900 and 800 BC. Thanks to new samples in the years 1983–1984 and 2004, the dating could be confirmed. In addition, fragments and flint finds showed that the Hague-Dick actually dates back to the Bronze Age. The wall built in the Bronze Age was probably enlarged and reinforced by the Vikings in the 9th century. Dwellings from the 13th and 14th centuries along the Hague-Dick have also been discovered at the sites.

On May 10, 1988, the Hague-Dick was added to the list of historic monuments ( Monument historique ).

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literature

  • François de Beaurepaire: Les noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de la Manche. Éditions Picard, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-7084-0299-4 , pp. 130-131.
  • Michel de Boüard: Le Hague-Dike. In: Cahiers archéologiques. Fin de l'Antiquité et Moyen Âge. Vol. 8, 1956, ISSN  0068-4945 , pp. 117-145.
  • Charles de Gerville : Recherches sur le Hague-Dike et les premiers établissements militaires des Normands sur nos côtes. In: Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie. Vol. 6, 1833, ZDB -ID 2141321-6 , pp. 193-245.
  • Le Hague-Dike. In: L'Ami de l'école. Bulletin de la Société des amis de l'école laïque de la circonscription de Cherbourg. No. 1, January 1927 to No. 9, December 1928.
  • Cyril Marcigny : Retour au “Hague Dike”: historiographie et nouvelles analyzes. In: Annuaire des cinq départements de la Normandie. 166, 2009, ISSN  0755-2475 , pp. 97-110.
  • Heiko Steuer :  Hague-Dike. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 13, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-016315-2 , p. 355. {online} .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le Hague-Dick website Wikimanche (French).
  2. ↑ Etymologie of dike website English etymology (English).
  3. ^ Le Hague-Dike website of the municipality of Digulleville (French).
  4. ↑ Cyril Marcigny, “Le Hague-Dike”, La Hague dans tous ses états , OREP, 2010, pp. 107-109.
  5. ↑ Hague Dick in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

Commons : Hague-Dick  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 16 "  N , 1 ° 50 ′ 37"  W.