Les Fouaillages
Les Fouaillages Dolmen · L'Ancresse Dolmen Field
Early Neolithic·Guernsey Early Neolithic·🇬🇬 L'Ancresse, Vale, Guernsey, Channel Islands, Guernsey
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About Les Fouaillages
One of Europe's oldest megalithic monuments, a passage grave in a field by L'Ancresse Road, Guernsey, built c.4500 BCE (c.6000 years old). The mound with cists and passage shows early Neolithic construction, predating many British tombs. Its early date makes it key for the arrival of farming and megalithic ideas from the Continent via the Channel Islands.
Why it mattersOne of Europe's oldest megalithic monuments, a passage grave in a field by L'Ancresse Road, Guernsey, built c.4500 BCE (c.6000 years old). The mound with cists and passage shows early Neolithic construction, predating ma
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Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Earliest Channel Islands farming arrival
Theories
- 01Oldest European megalith chronology
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 4500 BCE
- Period
- Early Neolithic
- Culture
- Guernsey Early Neolithic
- Purpose
- Early passage grave with cists
- Excavation
- Excavated
c. 4500 BCE
Initial construction
c. 1450 CE
Abandonment
On the ground
Structures & features
49.4985° N · 2.5430° W · 10 m · 2 mapped features
Early passage and cists
passageStone passage and cists under low mound, earliest phase 4500 BCE
49.4985° N · 2.5430° WOuter mound
cairn moundLow earthen mound 12 m diameter over cists
49.4985° N · 2.5430° W
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