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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 Coupe Megaliths 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 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 STONES La Chasse Stone Meadow Bank St Catherine's Megalith MISCELLANEOUS Miscellaneous Stones La Moye Golf Course Stones Peat Bed Exposure at Le Port Areas of Archaeolgical Potential OTHER ISLANDS Guernsey Herm	The Ossuary Parish of St Brelade   Type: Unclassified Date: Chalcolithic Description:  A cist constructed of five blocks originally below a low mound with a diameter of 9m. The chamber 1.8m x 7.6m x 0.9m contained the remains of at least twenty individuals though none were articulated. It is believed that the chamber was used to deposit the bones of the dead after the flesh had rotted away (known as scarnification). Pottery and flint scrapers were also found during the excavation in 1922. Location: Les Blanches Banques. Lat / Long:      049º 11' 53.5"N / 002º 13' 01.0"W OS Grid Ref:     571500 Perry's Guide:   p 35 H4 View: Archive Photographs Plan   The Ossuary From the west. (07/05/04)   The Ossuary From the south. (07/05/04)	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