Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Grotte ornée dite du Pigeonnier
Domme, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Grotte ornée dite du Pigeonnier (cad. A 383, 386, 429) : classement par arrêté du 27 juin 1983
- Protection dates
- 1983/06/27 : classé MH
- Type
- grotte ornée
- Main period of construction
- Paléolithique supérieur
- Ownership
- propriété privée, propriété d'un établissement public
- Lieu-dit
- Roc-de-Saint-Front
- Commune
- Domme
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.81163, 1.23077
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082517
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1785 map "35 Sarlat." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Plusieurs gravures représentent un petit mammouth, une frise de bovidés et d'équidés et un cheval.
English translation
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History
Several engravings depict a small mammoth, a frieze of bovids and equids, and a horse.
Nearby in the register
- Gisement et abri de Combe-Grenalsite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
- Dolmen de Giverzacdolmenunder 1 mi
- Château et parc de Caudonchâteauunder 1 mi
- Grotte préhistorique dite Grotte de la Martinegrotte ornéeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.