Allée couverte de Mauny

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The covered driveway of Mauny is a covered driveway located on the territory of the municipality of Mauny, in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy. It was discovered almost intact and delivered numerous and well preserved human fossil bones.

Description: Mauny's covered alley is the only one known in the Seine-Maritime. It was discovered in 1970 and searched between 1978 and 1980. This driveway was built at the edge of the Mauny forest, in a small valley that opens onto the Seine valley, in plot 196. The monument originally consisted of two rows of orthostats. The set drew an elongated rectangle about 7.50 m long and 1 m wide. At the time of the excavation, the northeast wall was fairly well preserved as orthostats were taken from the mass of the slope lands. Only one turned entirely inside the grave. Their total number today is seven. On the other side of the covered aisle, the excavation of the road that borders the monument led to the fall of most supports. Before the search, three of them were in place about 4 m long. Two have fallen so recently...