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Jérriais

Paysage Patholes

The Landscape Language project aimed to explore Jersey’s intangible heritage of Jèrriais - the Island’s traditional language. Through photography, this project highlighted some special parts of Island life.

Cultural history

Ice Age

Jersey is a special place for archaeologists to learn about the Ice Age because of the amount and type of artefacts that they have found in Jersey.

Landscape

La Cotte

La Cotte de St Brelade (La Cotte) is a key site in European prehistory, preserving one of the best records of Neanderthal behaviour from over a quarter of a million years ago in the Ice Age past.

Geology

Raised Beaches

There are many raised beaches around Jersey's coastline. These mark the level of past sea levels and are made up of pebbles, flints and sea bed chalk deposits.

Seascapes

Sea Levels & Climate Change

The world’s climate fluctuates as a result of changes in the sun’s activity affecting the polar ice caps, the dome-shaped sheets of ice found in Greenland and Antarctica.

Seascapes

Jersey Offshore Reefs

Jersey is surrounded by offshore reefs bursting with marine life, Les Pierres de Lecq to the north, Les Écréhous to the northeast and Les Minquiers to the south. Local fisherman enjoy fishing around these reefs which often prove dangerous to larger ships. There are over 400 shipwrecks around the Island.

Geology

Rozel Conglomerate

The Rozel Conglomerate Formation can be seen along the northeast of the Island and is made up of beds of pebbles which have been cemented together.

Geology

Jersey Granites

Jersey is famous for its granites, which have been favoured as a building material for thousands of years.

Geology

Jersey Shale Formation

The shales are the oldest rocks in the Island. You can see them in the west, across the centre and in the south of Jersey. They were formed by mud, silt and sand brought together on the sea floor about 600 million years ago. These sediments were transformed into rock by being pushed together, hardened and folded.

Geology

Minerals of Jersey

Minerals are made from elements like silicon, oxygen, aluminium, iron and other metals.