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  3. Île de France
  4. Val-d'oise
  5. 95590 Presles

  6. Covered drive from the Val White to Presles

 Covered drive from the Val White to Presles dans le Val-d'oise

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine Celtique
Allées couvertes
Val-doise

Covered drive from the Val White to Presles

    Le Blanc Val
    95590 Presles
Allée couverte du Blanc Val à Presles
Allée couverte du Blanc Val à Presles
Allée couverte du Blanc Val à Presles
Allée couverte du Blanc Val à Presles
Allée couverte du Blanc Val à Presles
Crédit photo : Astérixobélix, Bicaisse - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

Néolithique
Âge du Bronze
Âge du Fer
Antiquité
Haut Moyen Âge
Moyen Âge central
Bas Moyen Âge
Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
4100 av. J.-C.
4000 av. J.-C.
…
0
1900
2000
Néolithique
Construction period
1949
Site discovery
10 avril 1951
Historical Monument
mai 1956
Restoration of the driveway
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

The sepulchral megalithic gangway (C 51 to 53): by order of 10 April 1951

Key figures

M. Blanquaert - Discovery of the site Cultivator who alerted in 1949.
M. Laval - Mayor of Presles Search and classification in 1951.

Origin and history

The covered driveway of the Blanc-Val, located in Presles in Val-d Alerté, Mayor M. Laval undertook excavations and had the site classified in 1951. The building, vandalized several times, was restored in 1956.

Aisle, facing north-north-west/south-south-east, 6.50 m long, with a 5.30 m bedroom and an antechamber of 1.20 m. Its local limestone slabs, broken by ploughing, suggest an original height greater than 1.45 m. The entrance, pierced by a circular orifice, could result from a broken slab or a two-part construction.

The excavations revealed the bones of about 21 individuals (adults, a teenager and a child), dated Neolithic, as well as funeral furniture (haches, pearls, blades) attributed to the Seine-Oise-Marne culture. These remains, preserved at the Institute of Human Paleontology in Paris, illustrate the collective rites of the time.

The absence of cover tables suggests protection in wood or thatch. The site, typical of megalithic burials, provides insight into the Neolithic communities of Île-de-France, their beliefs and their social organization around the dead.

External links

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