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    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. Hougue...
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  • August 2011. "La Hougue Bie". Wondermondo. 2011-03-31. Retrieved 12 July 2012. "Heritage Asset - La Hougue Bie, La Route de la Hougue Bie". Retrieved 2022-01-08...
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    Jersey are listed below: La Hougue Bie La Pouquelaye de Faldouet Le Mont Ubé Le Couperon La Sergenté Les Mont de Grantez La Hougue des Géonnais Ville-ès-Nouaux...
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    attributed to the 18th-century French military officer Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne. It is a combination of two words of the Breton language:...
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    Templebryan Stone Circle Turoe Stone Uragh Stone Circle Jersey Jersey dolmens La Hougue Bie Malta Megalithic Temples (Borġ l-Imramma Borġ in-Nadur Buġibba Debdieba...
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    Perquages Specifics La Cotte de St Brelade Dolmens La Hougue Bie Mont Orgueil Grosnez Castle Elizabeth Castle Corn Riots Battle of Jersey La Corbière Lighthouse...
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    of habitation in the Palaeolithic period (La Cotte de St Brelade) and Neolithic dolmens, such as La Hougue Bie. Evidence of Bronze Age and early Iron Age...
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    Templebryan Stone Circle Turoe Stone Uragh Stone Circle Jersey Jersey dolmens La Hougue Bie Malta Megalithic Temples (Borġ l-Imramma Borġ in-Nadur Buġibba Debdieba...
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    of considerable size and sophistication, such as the burial mound at La Hougue Bie in Jersey or the statue menhirs of Guernsey. Hoards of Armorican coins...
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    spindle whorls, pottery, tools and animal bones have been excavated at La Hougue Bie (a ritual site used around 3500 BC). These finds indicate that Neolithic...
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    the parish is also home to Jersey's most noted archaeological site at La Hougue Bie, now a museum run by the Jersey Heritage Trust. A prehistoric artificial...
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  • Newgrange, one of Ireland's oldest buildings dating from c. 3100 BC La Hougue Bie, one of Jersey's oldest buildings dating from c. 3500 BC Timeline of...
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    400 dolmens. The word dolmen entered archaeology when Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne used it to describe megalithic tombs in his Origines gauloises...
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    1300-1800. San Gwann: Publishers Enterprises Group. ISBN 9990992495. Cilia La Corte, John. "Lost villages in Malta". Digital Genealogy. Retrieved 2023-10-27...
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    Templebryan Stone Circle Turoe Stone Uragh Stone Circle Jersey Jersey dolmens La Hougue Bie Malta Megalithic Temples (Borġ l-Imramma Borġ in-Nadur Buġibba Debdieba...
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  • haugr, meaning a mound or barrow. The most famous of these sites is La Hougue Bie, a 6,000-year-old neolithic site that sits inside a large mound; later...
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    Breton municipality of Carnac, but some to the east are within neighboring La Trinité-sur-Mer. The stones were erected at some stage during the Neolithic...
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    western shores of Europe during the sixth millennium BC pottery culture of La Almagra, Spain nearby, perhaps precedent from Africa. c. 4800 BC: Constructions...
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    2012. Retrieved 22 April 2007. "Transport du piédestal de la statue de Pierre le Grand". La Nature magazine, second semester 1882. (in French). Retrieved...
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  • display case at La Hougue Bie, Jersey in the archaeology museum there. Jersey Heritage Report mentioning return on Mummy artefacts to Hougue Bie Museum Display...
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    moderne et ses acculturations", Mégalithes de haute Bretagne, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, retrieved 2023-04-05 "Barnenez | Encyclopedia...
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    statue in Liberation Square An underground command bunker, built at La Hougue Bie in Jersey, now houses an exhibition commemorating the workers from across...
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    coat of arms of Jersey and the Island of Jersey on a background pattern of La Corbière lighthouse. On 1 June 2012, a £100 note was issued to commemorate...
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    meaning "hill", found in names like Les Hogues, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, and la Hougue-Bie (Jersey). Houlme, Hom(me) or -homme, from the Old Norse word...
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