Allée funéraire de Cabeil

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Cabeil's Funeral Alley, also known as Allée covered in Choisy, is located in the commune of Pompiey in the French department of Lot-et-Garonne. The building has been classified as historic monuments since 1969.

Description of the site: The driveway is oriented on a north-west/south-east axis. It is a long driveway, of the girondin type, 17 m long with widths ranging from 0.90 m to 1.30 m. It is bounded by fifteen and thirteen orthostats respectively on both sides of the central corridor. The bedside slab is missing. The ground was covered with a slab of large stones. Since 1990, protective work has led to the sinking of a concrete slab inside the building. The tumulus is completely undone. Marc Desvignes mentions having located a second ruined funeral driveway nearby.

Archeological furniture: In 1885 Faugère-Dubourg and Morlan-Descude began excavations and discovered a large number of human bones, a large blade of flint, a large seashell and ceramic teasses including a fragment of campaniform vase. These objects, long preserved in the collections of the Castle of Nerac, seem...