Pierres pouquelées de Vauville, Passage grave in La Hague, France

The allée couverte de Vauville is a Neolithic passage grave built on a hilltop in La Hague, in the Normandy region of France. It consists of upright stone slabs made mostly of siliceous sandstone forming a long, narrow gallery about 14.5 meters (roughly 47 feet) long, with an entrance on the southwest side and two cover stones made of granodiorite.

The allée couverte de Vauville was built around 4,500 years ago to serve as a collective burial site for a Neolithic community. In the early 19th century, locals removed several stones to build a bridge, causing serious damage to the structure before it was granted protected status as a classified historical monument in 1907.

The name Pouquelées probably comes from the Norman word pouque, meaning a pocket or niche, a term also found in place names in the Manche, Eure and Orne departments and on Jersey and Guernsey. The monument is a gallery grave, and no trace of the niches that may have given it this name survives. The site lies on a slope near Vauville, and about eight kilometres north is Le Jogard, also called Trou des Fées, the northernmost such structure in Normandy.

The site sits on a hilltop and is reached on foot, so sturdy footwear is a good idea as the ground can be uneven. Since the monument is in the open air, visiting in dry weather makes the walk and the visit more comfortable.

The two cover stones of the monument are made of granodiorite and were brought from a source roughly 3 kilometers away, while the side slabs are of local quartzite sandstone. This deliberate choice of two different rock types shows that the builders made a clear distinction between the materials they used for different parts of the structure.