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INDEX OF SITES VISIBLE SITES DOLMENS La Hougue Bie La Hougue Boëte La Hougue de Vinde La Hougue des Geonnais La Hougue des Grosnez La Hougue des Platons La Pouquelaye de Faldouet La Sergenté Le Dolmen du Couperon Le Dolmen du Mont Ubé Le Mont de la Ville Les Monts Grantez The Beauport Dolmen Ville-ès-Nouaux MENHIRS Cherry Farm Menhir La Dame Blanche La Greve D'Azette Menhir La Prevoté Menhir Les Côtils Farm Menhir Ponterson Lane Menhir The Broken Menhir The Great Menhir The Little Menhir The White Menhir MEGALITHIC REMAINS La Blanche Pierre La Moye II La Pierre de la Fêtelle La Pouclée La Table des Marthes La Tête de la Fief de la Houguette La Tête des Quennevais L'Avenue et Dolmen du Prés du Lumières Mont Felard Stones The Ossuary STONES Hautlieu Stone La Chêve Rue Stone La Dame Blanche La Moye Golf Course Standing Stone La Pierre aux Crabes La Pierre des Baissières La Rocco Stones La Rocque ès Jovaies La Rocque Stone La Route de la Hougue Bie Stones La Rue Laurens Stones La Rue Voisin Stone Les Landes Semi Circle of Stones Les Mielles Golf Course Stones Les Trois Rocques Parklands Stone Patier Lane Stone Portlet Common Stone South Hill Stone St Ouen's Manor Standing Stone St Saviour's Church Stones Surville Stones The Centre Stone OCCUPATION SITES Belcroute Bay Frémont Point Icho Tower La Cotte à la Chèvre La Cotte de St Brelade La Maître Île La Maîtresse Île La Motte La Moye I Le Câtel de Lecq Le Câtel de Rozel Le Pinacle Les Câtieaux Ile Agois Mont Orgueil Plémont Point POW Camp & Les Blanches Banques LOST & BURIED SITES DOLMENS Le Dicq Le Rouge Bouillon MENHIRS La Blanche Pierre La Blanche Pierre La Clos de La Sergenté Menhir La Rogodaine Menhir La Rue au Blancq Menhir Le Quésnil Menhir Mont Cochon Menhir St Brelade's Church Menhir STONES La Chasse Stone Meadow Bank MEGALITHIC REMAINS Almorah Chestnut Farm Barrow Forest Hill Stones La Hougue de Fôret La Hougue Le Bêqui La Hougue Mauger La Pouquelée des Pas Les Cinq Pierres Les Hougues de Millais Mont Patibulaire St Brelade's Bay Stones I St Brelade's Bay Stones II MISCELLANEOUS Miscellaneous Stones La Moye Golf Course Stones Peat Bed Exposure at Le Port Areas of Archaeolgical Potential Herm	La Hougue Bie Parish of Grouville   Type: Passage Grave Date: Neolithic (4000 - 3250BC) Description:  A 20.4m long passage chamber covered by a 12.2m high cairn and earth mound. The 9.7m long passage opens out into a main chamber that has three smaller side chambers giving the whole appearance a cruciform shape. The side chambers are divided from the main chamber by the use of large uprights. The end chamber is also slightly raised to form a sanctuary. This area featured a cist, a pit and 3 bétyles (miniature standing stones). Beyond the sanctuary is a further terminal cell that is formed with 3 large, flat uprights. At the equinox the sun shines right to the back of the terminal cell. First excavated in 1924/1925 by the Société Jersiaise when fragments of twenty vase supports were found along with the scattered remains of at least eight individuals and bits of pottery. The site had evidently been entered and ransacked at an earlier unknown date. The mound is crowned by two Medieval chapels. Location: At the junction of Princes Tower Road and La Route de la Hougue Bie. Lat / Long:      049º 12' 01"N / 002º 03' 50"W OS Grid Ref:     682504 Perry's Guide:   p 42 D3 View: Photographs of the Autumn 2004 equinox Archive Photographs Plans   La Hougue Bie From the north. (05/05/05)   La Hougue Bie The entrance to the dolmen. (04/11/07)   La Hougue Bie The main chamber looking towards the sanctuary and terminal cell. (04/11/07)   La Hougue Bie The northern side of the main chamber with the cupmarked face of stone 41 at center right. (04/11/07)   La Hougue Bie The northern side chamber. (04/11/07)   La Hougue Bie The southern side chamber. (04/11/07)   La Hougue Bie Cupmarked face of stone 41. (04/11/07)   La Hougue Bie Stone 34 with with bétyle at its base. (04/11/07)	Search this site   Timeline 0 BC 55 BC Iron Age 800 BC Bronze Age 2250 BC Chalcolithic Age 2850 BC Neolithic Age 4850 BC Mesolithic Age 10000 BC Palaeolithic Age 250000 BC