La Hougue Bie

The excavated in 1924 Dolmen La Hougue Bie, is on the Channel Island of Jersey between the ferry ports of Gorey and St Helier. He is one of the largest passage tombs in the UK and was, until the discovery of Les Fouaillages ( Guernsey ) as the oldest megalithic site of the archipelago.

The dolmen was 3100-2600 BC He is below a 14 m high stone hill. On it are the chapels of " Notre Dame de la Clarté " from the 12th century and the attached in 1520 " Jerusalem Chapel ".

The approximately eleven meters long corridor leads to the over three meters wide and nine meters long chamber which is partly 1,9 m high. Separated from the chamber by plate rows are the two side chambers and the head region, which continues in a coaxial niche. The plant is 22 m long and has about 20 bowls. The largest of its total of 70 megalithic components are some of the 16 slates.

The name " Hougue " (without bending ) is derived from the Norse " haugr " for hills. On the other hand, there is a legend, which probably has the beginnings of Christianization of the islands in the 6th century to the background. According to her, a "Lord of Hambye " is (the place Hambye in Normandy is home to a monastery ) a dragon killed ( the symbol for the pagan cult ) that the island had put in fear and terror. This gentleman said to have been slain by his servant ( a symbol of the religious clashes in this time ).