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<< Image Pages >> Tumulus de Vierville - Chambered Tomb in France in Normandie:Manche (50)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Sunday, 19 December 2004  Page Views: 6918

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tumulus de Vierville Alternative Name: Dolmen de Vierville, Tumulus de la Butte
Country: France Département: Normandie:Manche (50) Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Carentan  Nearest Village: Vierville
Latitude: 49.359100N  Longitude: 1.2484W
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
no data 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.
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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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 ?

Tumulus de Vierville
Tumulus de Vierville submitted by thecaptain : Tumulus de la Butte, Vierville, Manche. Despite much research, and two visits to this site, I could find no traces of this supposedly wonderful monument, marked on many maps as a notable attraction. My research leads me to believe it is somewhere within this walled garden. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chambered Tumulus in the village of Vierville in La Manche, Normandy. Said to be an exceptional tumulus dating from the middle Neolithic, and with many finds of bones weapons and bronze medals, it was thoroughly excavated in 1975.

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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Tumulus de Vierville
Tumulus de Vierville submitted by thecaptain : Plan of the Tumulus de Vierville, as shown on the sign at Colombiers-sur-Seulles (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Tumulus de la Butte by TheCaptain on Friday, 14 January 2005
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Tumulus de la Butte, Vierville, Manche, N 49.359, W 001.246
Attempted visits Friday, 19 November 2004 and Tuesday 23 November 2004.

Said to be an exceptional tumulus dating from the middle Neolithic, and with many finds of bones weapons and bronze medals, it was thoroughly excavated in 1975. 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.

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 ?
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