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Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and EarlierSite Name: Les VarinesCountry: Channel Islands and Isle of Man
NOTE: This site is 1.599 km away from the location you searched for.
Island: Jersey Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: St Helier Nearest Village: St Saviours
Latitude: 49.187220N Longitude: 2.08407W
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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Evidence of Magdalenian (Palaeolithic) art was uncovered here in the form of ten fragments of engraved fine-grained flat stones (plaquettes) recovered during different seasons of field excavations between 2014 and 2018.
Magdalenian artefacts were initially discovered as a ploughzone scatter in 2000. Excavations uncovered a discreet series of head deposits, rich in lithic artefacts. Below this lay an apparent land surface revealing a complex spatial arrangement of hearths, granite paving, imported stones and artefactual material. All plaquettes have been deposited with Jersey Museum.
Read More: Artists on the edge of the world: An integrated approach to the study of Magdalenian engraved stone plaquettes from Jersey
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0236875
More explanation and articles in the comments below.
Note: Earliest art in the British Isles discovered on Jersey (first announced in 2020 but wanted to add)
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