New type of Monument unearthed in France.

[Jasin]

A really weird and never before seen type of monument has been unearthed in France.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/an ... 154c&ei=13

[Frances]

It reminds me of the souterrains or earth houses you find in the north east of Scotland, just north of Dundee. I visited the Carlungie eart house a number of years ago when I was in Scotland. It was a bit bizarre - it's the only historic site I have visited where you have to walk along a pathway through a potato field to get to it.

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/vi ... rth-house/

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/vi ... rth-house/

[Jasin]

Looks primordial, but I guess the built upon those stone structures so their dwellings were above and below ground level?

[Frances]

Looks primordial, but I guess the built upon those stone structures so their dwellings were above and below ground level?

I don't know about the site in France but the general consensus on the Scottish examples is that they were originally below the ground but the top half of them has long since vanished. Some of them were associated with groups of above ground dwellings.

[Jasin]

Yep Frances. Was referring to those Scottish ones in your links.
Reckon Scotland has a lot of that stuff to see.

[Frances]

The most striking example is Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands. I never went any further north than Inverness though, so I never got to see it.

[Jasin]

How nice it would have been to live there. Wonder what the 'perishable' upper levels would have looked like? Surely a neolithic fishing village where the fishing would have been really productive in those waters.
My guess is that the lowering of their habitations is to be clear of wind drafts maybe?

[Jasin]

Ahhh. Simon Whistler tells me - it's just 'buried' that way.

[tllwd]

A really weird and never before seen type of monument has been unearthed in France.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/an ... 154c&ei=13

It looks like remains of Aboriginal stone-walled fish traps in the Gulf of Carpentaria, sort of.

[Jasin]

Chances are that the people (and Age) that produced the earlier migrations to Australia were also knocking about in Europe. I wouldn't be the least surprised.