Collection · 12 places · 1 tidal

Ancient Jersey

Dolmens, menhirs and passage graves — the island's first builders, six thousand years ago.

Long before castles, Jersey's people were building in stone. Between about 4000 and 2500 BC they raised the dolmens and passage graves that still stand across the island — chambers of granite slabs, once buried under mounds, where the dead were laid with pottery and polished axes. La Hougue Bie is the greatest of them, its passage still aligned to the equinox sunrise; Faldouet and Mont Ubé are open to the sky; the Broken Menhir and La Dame Blanche stand alone in the fields.

Older still is Le Pinacle, a rock stack on the north-west coast that people came to for four thousand years, from the first farmers to the Romans. And on Green Island, cut off at high tide, cist graves lie in the turf above the beach.

Collect every one to earn the Ancient Jersey card.

1 tidal stop on this trail — Green Island (La Motte). On foot they are only reachable around low water. Read the tidal guide and check live tide times (gov.je) before you set out.