Mont Ubé Dolmen
Dolmen du Mont Ubé · Mont Ubé Passage Grave
Middle Neolithic·Jersey Passage Grave·🇯🇪 St Clement, Jersey, Channel Islands, Jersey
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About Mont Ubé Dolmen
Passage grave on Mont Ubé hill at St Clement, Jersey, built c.4000–3500 BCE. The chamber with passage is set within a mound now partly quarried; surviving orthostats show a rectangular chamber. One of Jersey's six surviving passage graves, it sits above the St Clement's Bay coastal plain linking upland and lowland tomb distribution.
Why it mattersPassage grave on Mont Ubé hill at St Clement, Jersey, built c.4000–3500 BCE. The chamber with passage is set within a mound now partly quarried; surviving orthostats show a rectangular chamber. One of Jersey's six surviv
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Quarrying damage extent
Theories
- 01Hilltop versus lowland siting
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. 4000–3500 BCE
- Period
- Middle Neolithic
- Culture
- Jersey Passage Grave
- Purpose
- Passage grave on hilltop
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c. 4000–3500 BCE
Initial construction
c. 1246 CE
Rediscovery
On the ground
Structures & features
49.1797° N · 2.0972° W · 35 m · 2 mapped features
Hilltop chamber
chamberRectangular chamber with passage, orthostats surviving on Mont Ubé
49.1797° N · 2.0972° WDamaged mound
cairn moundRemains of mound partly quarried on hilltop
49.1797° N · 2.0972° W
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