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<< Text Pages >> Allée Couverte de la Forte-Terre - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Picardie:Aisne (02)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 08 September 2010  Page Views: 2584

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Allée Couverte de la Forte-Terre
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 7.892 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Picardie:Aisne (02) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Soissons  Nearest Village: Serches
Latitude: 49.339000N  Longitude: 3.451000E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
Destroyed Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Allée Couverte de la Forte-Terre was a burial chamber found in the community of Serches, Departement of Aisne, Region of Picardie.

From neolithique02.
The Neolithic burial was discovered by Louis Ferté (my great grandfather !) back in 1880. It was described by Octave Vauville in 1892 as "an allée Couverte, half buried in the ground, made of flat stones set vertically and supporting four flat stones."

The chamber was "4 meters long, 1.80 meters wide and 1.20 meters in height", containing 20 skeletons, and a "superb flint axe fitted into a wooden sheath deer pierced with a hole for receiving the handle" and a "beautiful vase" containing "a barbed arrowhead flint".

The chamber has been destroyed and nothing is visible today.
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Re: Allée Couverte de la Forte-Terre by neolithique02 on Wednesday, 17 August 2011
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The Neolithic burial was discovered by Louis Ferté (my great grandfather !) back in 1880. It is described by Octave Vauville in 1892 as "a covered walkway, half buried in the ground, made of flat stones set vertically and supporting four flat stones."
The chamber "was 4 meters long, 1.80 meters wide and 1.20 meters deep," containing 20 skeletons, and a "superb flint ax fitted into a wooden sheath deer pierced with a hole for receiving the handle "and a" beautiful vase "containing" a barbed arrowhead flint. "
The chamber has been destroyed and nothing is visible today.

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