La Pouquelaye de Faldouet
The dolmen La Pouquelaye de Faldouet is a passage tomb according to English nomenclature . It is located in the parish of St. Martin on the Channel Island of Jersey . The megalithic complex was built between 4000 and 3250 BC. Built in BC. The dolmen with side chambers is exposed today. It used to be covered by a tumulus of earth and grass or a cairn of small stones.
description
A corridor about five meters long, consisting of 17 supporting stones, leads into a large, round chamber, open at the top, behind which there is a large oval end chamber made up of eight preserved supporting stones and covered with a single stone. The capstone weighs about 24 tons and comes from a rhyolite outcrop about 0.5 km to the north. Three small open side chambers and two small stone boxes lie on the walls of the open chamber. The stone boxes had cap stones. The central area of La Pouquelaye de Faldouet is surrounded by two dry stone walls and an incomplete ring of upright stones. There are two geometrically somewhat different megalithic sites on Jersey that have such areas (La Pouquelaye de Faldouet and La Hougue des Géonnais ); another was brought to England ( Le Mont de la Ville ). The ceilings of these large round areas could not have been covered with large stones. Your marginal orthostats are too small (low) to support capstones of the required size. A cantilever vault , as it was used in northern France in a timely and spatial manner, is rather unsuitable here. It is conceivable that the chambers had wooden roofs, but the excavations at La Hougue des Géonnais did not provide any evidence of this. The chambers of the monuments were possibly uncovered and, while in use, formed arenas that were open at the top . When the facility was no longer in use, it was overgrown.
Finds
La Pouquelaye de Faldouet was excavated in 1839, 1868 and 1910. Human bones from at least three adults and two children were found, one of which was a complete skeleton in a sitting position in one of the side chambers. Three complete bowls, two vase bases (on which two of the bowls stood), a small pigmented cup, flint tools , stone axes, hammers, and green stone and dolerite pendants were also found.
The dolmen is one of two facilities in Jersey that cater to the equinox .
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 ° 12 '11 " N , 2 ° 1' 37" W.