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La Pouquelaye de Faldouët P 04
Built around 6,000 years ago, the
dolmen at La Pouquelaye de Faldouët
consists of a 5 metre long passage
leading into an unusual double
chamber. At the entrance you will
notice the remains of two dry stone
walls and a ring of upright stones that
were constructed around the dolmen.
Jersey’s maritime
landscape
Walk along the entrance passage and
enter the spacious circular main
chamber. It is unlikely that this was ever
roofed because of its size and it is easy
to imagine prehistoric people gathering
here to worship and perform rituals.
La Hougue Bie N 04
The 6,000-year-old burial site at
La Hougue Bie is considered one of
the largest and best preserved Neolithic
passage graves in Europe. It stands under
an impressive mound that is 12 metres
high and 54 metres in diameter.
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The chapel of Notre Dame de la Clarté
on the summit of the mound was
built in the 12th century, possibly
replacing an older wooden structure.
Jersey’s Maritime Landscape
Listen to fishy tales and delve into Jersey’s maritime
past. Audio tour and map
In the 1990s, the original entrance
to the passage was exposed during
new excavations of the mound.
This allowed confirmation of theories
that the entrance of the tomb was
aligned with sunrise on the equinox.
Now twice a year, at the spring and
autumn equinoxes, the first rays of
sun penetrate to the very back of
the tomb. So, as well as being a
site of great spiritual significance,
La Hougue Bie acted as a giant sundial
that guided Neolithic people as to
when to plant and harvest their crops.
For early farmers, fertility and the
annual regeneration of living things
were crucial to their survival.
Jersey’s Military Landscape
Hear the spymaster’s tale about Jersey’s military history.
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Elizabeth Castle
An entertaining tale about the castle and its
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Mont Orgueil Castle
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For the earliest inhabitants of the Island, certain places
had a special significance and these were often marked
by erecting dolmens or standing stones to highlight the
spiritual nature of the place. This guide and accompanying
audio tour looks at the Island’s spiritual heritage. Many of
the places on this tour are owned by La Société Jersiaise
and most are free to access.
Le Mont Ubé M 05
This impressive monument consists of
a passage, 5 metres in length, leading
into an oval chamber. Walk through
the entrance passage and notice the
sheer scale of the stone blocks from
which the dolmen is constructed.
Considerable skill, determination and
teamwork would have been required
to haul the blocks of stone up the hill
and erect them in position.
southern part of the enclosed area.
This is a late Neolithic gallery grave
and was built around 5,000 years ago.
Two parallel walls of stone slabs were
erected to create a rectangular
chamber and these were covered with
capstones, seven of which are still in
place. The line of smaller stones to the
north is all that remains of a wall that
may have formed the edge of a mound
that once covered the monument.
To one side of the main chamber you
will notice two large granite uprights.
These are all that remain of the five
original uprights that formed four
small compartments at the western
end of the chamber. Each of the
compartments was closed at the front
by a low slab.
La Sergenté F 05
This passage grave was built around
6,500 years ago during the Neolithic
period and is possibly the earliest
dolmen in the Island. The word‘dolmen’is
Breton in origin and means‘stone table’.
Ville-ès-Nouaux K 04
In 1923, St Andrew’s Church was built
on a site adjacent to a Neolithic dolmen
and an Iron Age cremation urnfield.
The earliest structure on this site is
the long rectangular chamber in the
The Neolithic people that built this
dolmen were the first to make a
significant mark on the landscape.
They cleared woodland to grow
crops and graze their animals, and
they also built these impressive stone
monuments. The dolmens that have
survived to the present day are only a
fraction of the original number found
in the Island. Many were destroyed by
later generations who used the stones for
building. Place names like ‘Hougue’(which
means ‘mound’) and ‘Pouquelaye’(or
‘pouclée’), a Jersey word meaning ‘stone(s)
of the fairies’, sometimes indicate the site
of monuments that have been lost.
Les Blanches Banques G 04
Menhirs are single upright stones
that are found over much of western
Europe and are particularly common
in Brittany. They are usually assumed
to be ritual in purpose but we can only
guess at what they symbolised.
The Great Menhir G 04
The most southerly of the three
menhirs to be found on the dunes at
Les Blanches Banques is The Great
Menhir, which was re-erected in 1922
and stands just over 2 metres in height.
The Ossuary G 04
A rectangular grave excavated in 1923
found to contain the disarticulated
remains of about 20 people.
Les Monts Grantez G 02
The passage grave at Les Monts
Grantez dates back to Neolithic times
(between 4000 and 3250 BC). First
discovered in 1839, it was excavated
in 1912 by La Société Jersiaise.
The main chamber is oval in shape
and is now open to the air. The
capstones were lost from this area
before the site was excavated. The
skeletons of six adults and a child were
discovered here. They were all in a
crouched position, lying on their sides
and accompanied by quantities of
limpet shells, the teeth and bones of
cattle, deer, horse, pig and goat and
small piles of brightly coloured pebbles.
The Little Menhir G 04
This is the central of the three stones,
standing 2.3 metres high (it’s bigger
than The Great Menhir), and was
completely buried by sand before its
excavation in 1921.
Another further skeleton of an adult
was found in a seated position in a
niche at the end of the entrance
passage, propped up against the wall
and kept in place by a heap of stones.
The Broken Menhir G 04
The most northerly stone is known
as The Broken Menhir. As the name
suggests, the stone was broken when
first discovered, the top half lying flat
on the sand while the bottom half
stood in its original position.
Le Pinacle F 01
The site of Le Pinacle is visually
spectacular and takes its name from
a massive stack of granite which rises
out of the sea to dominate the
surrounding landscape. This is a
remarkable place that shows evidence
of occupation and ritual activity
by Jersey’s first farmers in the early
Neolithic period (around 4,800 BC)
through to the Bronze Age and
continuing to the Roman period.
Large quantities of pottery, animal
bone and stone tools have been
discovered during excavations here.
Among the tools found were a
number of unfinished stone axes
which suggests that this may have
been an axe production centre.
Examples of axes made from rock from
this site have been found in Guernsey,
Alderney and Sark.
Le Dolmen du Couperon P 02
The 8 metre long gallery grave at
Le Couperon was built around
5,000 years ago. Originally, the tomb
was covered by a long mound.
This has been removed but much
of the peristalith, or surrounding
wall of stones, has survived to form a
rectangular enclosure for the tomb.
When the site was first excavated in
1868 the capstones were found to
have fallen into the chamber. These
were lifted up and replaced as
capstones, the dividing porthole
stone along with them. In 1919 it was
removed as a capstone and placed
in its current position, but originally it
would have stood half way along the
gallery to divide the space in two.
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Seymour Tower
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