<< Image Pages >> Tumulus de Vierville - Chambered Tomb in France in Normandie:Manche (50)
Submitted by TheCaptain on Sunday, 19 December 2004 Page Views: 6936
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tumulus de Vierville Alternative Name: Dolmen de Vierville, Tumulus de la ButteCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 12.639 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Normandie:Manche (50) Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Carentan Nearest Village: Vierville
Latitude: 49.359100N Longitude: 1.2484W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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TheCaptain visited on 19th Nov 2004 - their rating: Access: 1 Try as I might, early in the morning on the way to my sisters from the ferry, by driving up and down every lane and farm track around the village, I couldn’t find any sign of this, despite it being highlighted as a tourist place on the IGN maps. I asked a chap passing on his way to work on a bike if he knew anything of it with no luck, and also an old couple herding cows from one field to another, who said they had lived there all their lives but had also never heard of it. They seemed very intrigued as to what an Englishman was doing in their village asking for a monument and pointing at something on a map. It must have made their day, but it didn’t help me in any way.
After taking a last guess and driving half a mile up a muddy track to the top of a nearby hill, and walking round all the woodland on the top, all I could find was a couple of interested donkeys. An hour had now gone by, and it was time to get on. Not much of a tourist attraction ! Further investigation using more detailed local maps showed the tumulus positioned right opposite the road junction by the church. If accurate, this meant that the tumulus was either in the garden of a large house, or in a nearby farmyard.
Passing near by the site on the way back to the ferry, I stopped off for another look round, this time knowing where to look. There was absolutely no sign of anything to be seen in any farmyards unless it has been covered with either a barn or a dungheap. This left the only place for it to be as in the walled in garden of the large house pictured, which had absolutely no places to look through. I could find nobody around to ask, and didn’t want to just go and call at a perhaps random private house, so had to give up again. It wouldn’t surprise me if it is positioned somewhere under the trees to be seen in the walled garden.
Once home, lots of painstaking research on the internet has revealed nothing more than that it is on private land. Its gotta be in that walled garden. Or is it ?
The tumulus consisted of four juxtaposed monuments, a central circular cairn containing a chamber opening to the outside via an entrance corridor. Two further structures of unknown function, symmetrically positioned at the north and the south named by the archaeologist as antennas, and an extension of the cairn in southern antenna containing a second chamber.
However, it is difficult to find and said to be on private land, which I believe is out of all sight within a large walled garden.
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