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Re: Allée Couverte de la Forte-Terre by neolithique02 on Wednesday, 17 August 2011

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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