Le Pinacle

The story

A rock spire on the cliffs of Les Landes, and one of the longest-used sites in the Channel Islands: Jersey Heritage records intermittent activity from the early Neolithic to the medieval period. The outcrop itself was quarried in the early Neolithic to make stone axes. Later phases left Beaker pottery, a copper axe and two Bronze Age spearheads, one of them in the outer bank of the earthworks and possibly placed there deliberately. Earthworks were thrown across the land bridge below the rock in the Chalcolithic, and a second bank was added in the Bronze Age. At the foot of the rock stands a Roman building, thought to be a temple, and the only Roman building found on Jersey.