Jersey, Channel Islands, England, British Isles

Archaeologia Volume 8 Section XXXV. Description of a Druidical Monument [La Hogue Bie [Map]] in the Island of Jersey; in a Letter from the Right Honourable Henry Seymour. Conway [aged 63], Governor of Jersey, to the Earl of Leicester, P. S. A. Read March 8, 1787.

Archaeologia Volume 8 Section XXXIV. Description of the Druid Temple [La Hogue Bie [Map]] lately discovered on the top of the Hill near St. Hillary in Jersey. Communicated by Mr. Molseworth. Read January 11, 1787.

La Moye aka Quesnel Menhir [Map] was a menhir, 12 or 16ft high, the tallest of Jersey. It was destroyed between 1870 and 1878.

On 6th October 1534 Anthony Ughtred [aged 56] died at Jersey. He was buried at Mont Orgueil Chapel, Jersey.

Le Mont Ubé [Map] was discovered in 1848 by workmen quarrying for stone. The passge leads into bottle shaped chamber that used to have four internal compartments each blocked with low stone slabs. The capstones were taken as well as all but one of the internal compartments. Within the passage stand three stones that may also have had a low sill at some time. These were later used to block of the passage so it could be used as a pigsty. Finds recovered from the workmens spoil heaps included 10 or 12 pots, a Jersey bowl, vase supports, flint and stone tools, stone axes, polished stone pendants and a grape cup (unique to the Channel Islands). Burnt and unburnt human remains were noted in the cists.

Quarterly Journal of Science 1870 I. The cromlech of Mont Ubé [Map], although devoid of its capstones, is still most instructive, being remarkable for the regularity of its form, which exhibits the original plan of the (Celtic?) architects, perhaps more perfectly than any other cromlech in the Channel Islands. This cromlech is more fully imbedded in the soil than the denuded remains of the Pocquelaye and Le Couperon, which may tend to its ultimate preservation. It consists of a large western chamber elongated towards the orientated narrowed passage, and is divided into several chambers. Two of the upright stone pillars which separate the cists have been worked into somewhat obelisk-like forms, perhaps to adapt them for the reception of an imposed capstone. It is much to be regretted that several important stones have been removed from this cromlech.

Around 1509 Margaret Carteret was born to Helier Carteret [aged 22] at Samarès St Clement Jersey. She married her first cousin Helier Carteret and had issue.

In 1609 Margaret Carteret died at Samarès St Clement Jersey.

Ville-ès-Nouaux is a gallery tomb, 5.8 meters long, with a south facing entrance, and a dolmen surrounded by a stone circle. Inside, ceramic vessels were found, including goblets and bowls, as well as an archery plate

Around 4000BC. La Pouquelaye de Faldouet [Map] is a Neolithic passage grave that leads onto a unique double chamber covered by a 24 ton cpastone.

The primary chamber is open and is surrounded by a series of small stone cists (boxes), while the end chamber is capped by a massive 24-ton stone. Originally, the entire site was encircled by a low mound, with two drystone walls and a ring of upright stones. Within the cists, archaeologists discovered human remains. The chamber yielded an array of artifacts, including pottery vessels, polished stone axes, and stone pendants.

Quarterly Journal of Science 1870 I. The most important of the Jersey cromlechs is undoubtedly that one named the "Pocquelaye [Map]," near Gorey Harbour, Jersey; the only visible portion twenty years ago was the largest capstone, the sustaining props and other stones being entirely hidden beneath the remains of the tumulus. About the year 1848 excavations were made by Mr. Fauvel, and it was then discovered that this large stone formed the covering of a chamber of nine side blocks arranged in a horse-shoe form, whilst this chamber was again divided by partition-stones forming a smaller kist, a separate grave as it were, within a tomb. Further excavations were made, and five or six more chambers were discovered to the eastward of the first-mentioned. One chamber alone on the north side had a capstone in situ; this capstone was thrown down by the treasure- seeking proprietor, but is now restored as nearly as possible to its original position. Other blocks of stone were also thrown down at the same time, but have been replaced; great doubt unfortunately must always attach to any attempted restorations of such structures. Remains were found, but unfortunately no proper records of their position in the catacomb exist, whilst the pottery, relics, and stone implements associated with the human skeletons were sold to the British Museum, where they now are.

The narrow eastern gallery is well exhibited in this example, as also the remains of a double circular stone wall not dissimilar to that at L'Ancresse [Map], but if anything of a larger diameter. Four upright stones now standing between these stone walls may have formed a portion of a peristalith, but unhappily there is a want of trustworthy evidence as to their really being in situ, as the walls and remains generally have been meddled with to such an extent that it is well-nigh impossible to separate the modern restoration from the original design.

Le Couperon [Map]. An 8m long, capstoned chamber surrounded by a ring of eighteen curb stones. Originally covered by a long mound what remains today is largely the work of restorers. When first excavated in 1868 the capstones had fallen into the chamber. These stones, including a porthole stone were lifted and placed as capstones. In 1919 the Société Jersiaise removed the porthole stone which had been incorrectly placed as a capstone and moved it to its current position at the eastern end of the chamber. Finds included a few flint flakes and pottery fragments.

Quarterly Journal of Science 1870 I. The Couperon Cromlech [Map] in the same parish as above (St. Martin's) was formerly a gem in its way, being a small stone (Jersey conglomerate) structure of two parallel walls covered with cap-stones, with an oval peristalith surrounding it. Sad to relate, only two capstones were actually in situ, and the other stones scattered; still worse, however, these stones have been rearranged, and the remains cooked up to form a modern restoration of a pre- historic sepulchre. One of the present capstones (the fifth) is manifestly part of an upright which formed half of a partition, as exactly similar hand-worked stones are found forming partitions (to allow of entrance) in the covered allées of Brittany, and have been specially noticed by Mr. Lukis.