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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Allée Couverte de la Forte-TerreCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 6.03 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:
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 |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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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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