Dick Hague

Dick Hague

Important identity marker for the Hague territory, the Hague Dike is a land fortification, which stands between the municipalities of Digulleville and Beaumont-Hague for almost 2 kilometers, following an east-west axis.

Composed of a high embankment of earth, it is extended to the west by the Herquemoulin valley and to the west by the watercourse in Sabine, which is soil of the west tip of the Hague of the Continent.

This defensive fortification dated the final bronze I (around -1206 / -925), allowed a chiefdom to shelter behind this natural defense. These chiefdoms are often autonomous and the use of ramparts, allows them to establish their importance while protecting a very often very large territory, as is the case of the territory located at the back of the Hague Dike, which measures nearly 3,500 hectares. This type of building therefore served as a border, as a geographic marker of power but also and above all as a defensive system. It is a unique archaeological site on a national scale.