Le Creux ès Faïes
The Dolmen Le Creux ès Faïes (also Le Creux es Faies, German "fairy cave" ) is located on a headland northeast of L'Erée Bay on the Channel Island of Guernsey . According to French nomenclature, the dolmen is a V-shaped dolmen, according to the English classification an Entrance Grave . The megalithic complex was built between 3250 and 2250 BC. Built in BC. Comparable in shape are the Dolmen du Mont Ubé on Jersey and Le Trépied and La Varde on Guernsey.
description
The accessible chamber near the Neolithic settlement on L'Erée Bay, excavated between 2006 and 2010, not far from the tidal island Lihou , which can be reached on foot at low tide , is nine meters long and two meters high. Two capstones cover the chamber. The completely preserved hill measures ten meters at its widest point and a row of columnar kerbstones with intermediate masonry has been preserved on the northern edge . There is an information board at the entrance.
Finds
Excavations in 1840 yielded arrowheads from flint , prehistoric pottery, and human and animal bones.
folklore
Le Creux ès Faïes is known in Guernsey folklore as one of the gateways to fairyland. Folklore has it that the fairies leave the tomb every Friday evening to meet and celebrate with the witches of the megalithic complex of Le Trépied in Le Catioroc, and every full moon they dance on Mont Saint until dawn.
See also
literature
- Heather Sebire: The Archeology and Early History of the Channel Islands . 2005; ISBN 0-7524-3449-7 .
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '24 " N , 2 ° 39' 21" W.