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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Grand Monceau
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man Island: Guernsey Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: St Peter Port  Nearest Village: Herm Island
Latitude: 49.477500N  Longitude: 2.4505W
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 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.
1 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
4

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Grand Monceau
Grand Monceau submitted by Runemage : With thanks to Cheryl Lee Latter for this image. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Burial Chamber (Dolmen) in Guernsey
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Grand Monceau
Grand Monceau submitted by karolus : Le Grand Monceau looking South East, with some of the strange structures on the Common in foreground (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grand Monceau
Grand Monceau submitted by Runemage : With thanks to Cheryl Lee Latter for this image. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grand Monceau
Grand Monceau submitted by Runemage (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Island of the dead? The buried Neolithic landscape of Herm by Andy B on Friday, 25 January 2013
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Trench B was opened at a chambered tomb located on the hill known as Grand Monceau. A sketch of the tomb had been made by F.C. Lukis in 1839, and in December 1840 the interior of the chamber was excavated by John W. Lukis. Several fallen orthostats were raised during this early examination, but finds were few, amounting only to fragments of vases and one ground stone tool.

In 2008 a trench measuring 5m x 1.5m was laid out at right angles to the long axis of the chamber, on its northern side. The aim was to investigate the mound which topography suggested surrounded the chamber and the associated buried land surface.

Read more on the excavations here
http://www.dur.ac.uk/herm.project/trenches/trench_b.html
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