Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Grotte du Vallonet
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- La parcelle AL 6, lieudit Lascasa, sur laquelle s'ouvre la grotte, en totalité : classement par arrêté du 28 avril 2004
- Protection dates
- 2004/04/28 : classé MH
- Type
- site archéologique, grotte ornée
- Main period of construction
- Paléolithique supérieur
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Lieu-dit
- Lascasa
- Commune
- Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
- Département
- Alpes-Maritimes
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.76412, 7.46999
- Mérimée reference
- PA00080821
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1690 map "Il Corso del Fiume Rodano" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cavité d'origine karstique présentant plusieurs départs de diverticules contenant des remplissages continentaux. La grotte est un important gisement pour la connaissance de la faune épi-villafranchienne (900.000 ans) et l'industrie lithique qui lui est associée.
English translation
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History
Cavity of karstic origin presenting several departures of diverticula containing continental infills. The cave is an important deposit for knowledge of the epi-Villafranchian fauna (900,000 years) and the lithic industry associated with it.
Nearby in the register
- Tombeau romaintombeauunder 1 mi
- Site corbuséen du Cap Martinstation de villégiatureunder 1 mi
- Villa E 1027 d'Eileen Graymaisonunder 1 mi
- Château des Grimaldichâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.