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Allée Couverte d'Haye d'Ectot
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Submitted by | TheCaptain |
Added | Feb 10 2017 |
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Carl Ashcroft sends us this picture with the following description.
I have tried to find the allee couverte at La Haye d'Ectot but could not using the location on the map on your site which is just off the D130. I looked around the area for a whole morning. Unfortunately the Mairie is closed until January. However I did bump into a man out hunting who directed me to what he believed was the correct site in a different valley further north over the other side of the valley and closer to the spring at La Taille.. He said it was a large rock balanced on three smaller rocks.
I headed up in that direction and just happened to bump into the land owner who knew what I was talking about and said that there was indeed an allee couverte on his land where I have put the most northerly circle. He described it like the hunter did ie one large rock balanced on three smaller rocks. He said he had found it a few years back when an english lady came looking for the same thing.
I searched the area I was directed to and came across a linear feature at that location that to my untrained eyes appeared to be a large and regular field boundary marked on the map. There were some large rocks at one point that could be taken for an allee couverte but no large rock on three smaller ones that I could see. It seems to me just to be a long wall albeit with very large blocks. The large blocks looked fresh and not weathered at all. My search was hampered by the state of the area being completely overgrown. I will send photos later.
I have tried to find the allee couverte at La Haye d'Ectot but could not using the location on the map on your site which is just off the D130. I looked around the area for a whole morning. Unfortunately the Mairie is closed until January. However I did bump into a man out hunting who directed me to what he believed was the correct site in a different valley further north over the other side of the valley and closer to the spring at La Taille.. He said it was a large rock balanced on three smaller rocks.
I headed up in that direction and just happened to bump into the land owner who knew what I was talking about and said that there was indeed an allee couverte on his land where I have put the most northerly circle. He described it like the hunter did ie one large rock balanced on three smaller rocks. He said he had found it a few years back when an english lady came looking for the same thing.
I searched the area I was directed to and came across a linear feature at that location that to my untrained eyes appeared to be a large and regular field boundary marked on the map. There were some large rocks at one point that could be taken for an allee couverte but no large rock on three smaller ones that I could see. It seems to me just to be a long wall albeit with very large blocks. The large blocks looked fresh and not weathered at all. My search was hampered by the state of the area being completely overgrown. I will send photos later.
Posted Comments:
TheCaptain (2017-02-10)
Thanks Carl. Is this the remains of the Allée Couverte d'Haye d'Ectot ?
I have to say I am not totally convinced, I believe I have seen photographs of it looking much more ancient and less angular.
I have to say I am not totally convinced, I believe I have seen photographs of it looking much more ancient and less angular.
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