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La Hougue Bie

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La Hougue Bie is a historic site, with museum, in the Jersey parish of Grouville. [1]

30 relations: Archaeology of the Channel Islands, BBC News, Brittany, Cathedral, Channel Islands, Church (building), Equinox, Grave goods, Grouville, Guernsey, Jèrriais, Jersey, Jersey dolmens, Jersey Heritage, Jersey Mummy, Jersey pound, Mark Patton (archaeologist), Mound, Neolithic, Norman language, Old Norse, Passage grave, Philippe d'Auvergne, Secret Intelligence Service, Société Jersiaise, Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Tumulus, Warwick Rodwell, Western Europe, World War II.

Archaeology of the Channel Islands

Archaeology is promoted in Jersey by the Société Jersiaise and by Jersey Heritage.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne; Breizh, pronounced or; Gallo: Bertaèyn, pronounced) is a cultural region in the northwest of France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church which contains the seat of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate.

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Channel Islands

The Channel Islands (Norman: Îles d'la Manche; French: Îles Anglo-Normandes or Îles de la Manche) are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy.

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Church (building)

A church building or church house, often simply called a church, is a building used for Christian religious activities, particularly for worship services.

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Equinox

An equinox is commonly regarded as the moment the plane (extended indefinitely in all directions) of Earth's equator passes through the center of the Sun, which occurs twice each year, around 20 March and 22-23 September.

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Grave goods

Grave goods, in archaeology and anthropology, are the items buried along with the body.

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Grouville

Grouville is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey in the Channel Islands.

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Guernsey

Guernsey is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.

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Jèrriais

Jèrriais is the form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, one of the Channel Islands off the coast of France.

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Jersey

Jersey (Jèrriais: Jèrri), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (Bailliage de Jersey; Jèrriais: Bailliage dé Jèrri), is a Crown dependency located near the coast of Normandy, France.

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Jersey dolmens

The dolmens of Jersey are neolithic sites, including dolmens, in Jersey.

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Jersey Heritage

Jersey Heritage is an independent trust in Jersey which is responsible for the island's major historic sites, museums, and public archives.

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Jersey Mummy

In 1835, John Gosset from Jersey, Channel Islands, took an expedition to Thebes, Egypt, and returned with various artifacts and a mummy (the Jersey Mummy).

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Jersey pound

The pound is the currency of Jersey.

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Mark Patton (archaeologist)

Mark Patton (born 7 January 1965 in Jersey) is a British archaeologist and novelist known for his work on the prehistory of the Channel Islands and North-Western France, particularly the archaeology of megaliths, as well as the prehistory of the Mediterranean islands, the theory of island biogeography and the history of European archaeology.

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Mound

A mound is a heaped pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Norman language

No description.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Passage grave

A simple passage tomb in Carrowmore near Sligo in Ireland A passage grave (sometimes hyphenated) or passage tomb consists of a narrow passage made of large stones and one or multiple burial chambers covered in earth or stone.

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Philippe d'Auvergne

Philippe d'Auvergne (13 November 1754 – 18 September 1816) was a British naval officer and the adopted son of Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne the sovereign Duke of Bouillon.

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Secret Intelligence Service

The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, is the foreign intelligence service of the government of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence (HUMINT) in support of the UK's national security.

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Société Jersiaise

The Société Jersiaise is a learned society in Jersey which was founded in 1873, in the manner of similar county societies in the United Kingdom and Sociétés Savantes in France for the purposes of.

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Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Britain and Ireland have a very varied toponymy due the different settlement patterns, political and linguistic histories.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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Warwick Rodwell

Warwick James Rodwell (born 24 October 1946) is an archaeologist, architectural historian and academic.

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Western Europe

Western Europe is the region comprising the western part of Europe.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hougue_Bie

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