La Hougue Bie
Coordinates | 49°12′02″N 2°03′50″W / 49.2006°N 2.0638°W |
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Public transit access | Bus route 13[1] |
Nearest car park | On site (no charge) |
Website | www |
La Hougue Bie is a historic site, with museum, in the Jersey parish of Grouville. La Hougue Bie is depicted on the 2010 issue Jersey 1 pound note.
Toponymy
Hougue is a
Passage grave
The site consists of an 18.6 metre long passage chamber covered by a 12.2 metre high
La Hougue Bie is a
Chapels and Prince's Tower
Atop the mound are two medieval chapels, one from the 12th Century and the other from the 16th Century. This building complex has been altered a great deal through its history – including being engulfed for a period by the Prince’s Tower. Construction of this tower was started in 1792 by Philippe d'Auvergne, who justified the work by erecting a signal station on the tower as the hub of an island-wide communication system. The building was demolished in 1924.[11]
Second World War
During the
Museum
The site, which is managed by Jersey Heritage, also houses the island's brand new archeology exhibit about the Grouville Hoard – Unearthing Le Câtillon II – the world's largest Celtic coin hoard. You can explore what might have led people to bury a hoard of 70,000 coins and jewellery in Jersey 2,000 years ago.[12]
See also
- Archaeology of the Channel Islands
- Jersey Dolmens
- Tumulus
References
- ^ wave. "Liberty Bus -". www.libertybus.je. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ^ "haugr - Wiktionary". en.wiktionary.org. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ "Old Norse Words in the Norman Dialect". viking.no. 21 June 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ISBN 0-901897-17-5
- ^ Percival, Jeremy. "La Hougue Bie". www.prehistoricjersey.net. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ^ "Arches - Resource Report".
- ^ Le Conte, David (2008). Orientations of Channel Islands Megalithic Tombs - Further observations, La Société Guernesiaise Report and Transactions, Vol XXVI, Part III, pp414-417
- ISBN 0415067294.
- ISBN 0415304032.
- ^ Hundreds expected at burial site BBC News, (19 March 2005).
- ^ "The Prince's Tower – La Tour d'Auvergne" (PDF). Retrieved 17 August 2020.
- ^ "Le Câtillon II". 5 March 2021.
Further reading
- Nash, G.H. 1997. Experiencing Space and Symmetry: The Use, Destruction and Abandonment of La Hougue Bie Neolithic Passage Grave, Jersey in G.H. Nash (ed.) Semiotics and Landscape: The Archaeology of Mind. Oxford: BAR International Series 661. 105–118.
- Nash, G.H. 1998. Fourth interim report on the facade area of La Hougue Bie Passage Grave, Jersey. Société Jersiaise Journal. Vol. 27. pt. 2. 317–330.
- Nash, G.H. 1999. Fifth interim report on the facade and entrance areas of La Hougue Bie Passage Grave, Jersey. Société Jersiaise Journal. Vol. 28, pt. 3. 491–509.
- The Archaeology of the Channel Islands. Vol. 2: The Bailiwick of Jersey by Jacquetta Hawkes (1939)
- The Prehistoric Foundations of Europe to the Mycenean Age, 1940, C. F. C. Hawkes
- The Archaeology and Early History of the Channel Islands, Heather Sebire, 2005.
- Dolmens of Jersey: A Guide, James Hibbs (1988).
- A Guide to The Dolmens of Jersey, Peter Hunt, Société Jersiaise, 1998.
- La Hougue Bie, Jersey – A Study of the Neolithic Tomb, Medieval Chapel and Prince's Tower, Including an Account of the 1991–94 Excavations., ISBN 978-0-901897-29-9.
- The Channel Islands, An Archaeological Guide, David Johnston, 1981
- The Archaeology of the Channel Islands, Peter Johnston, 1986