Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Stèle christianisée dite Kroaz-Méan
Plougoulm, Finistère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Stèle christianisée dite Kroaz-Méan (cad. non cadastré ; domaine public) : inscription par arrêté du 5 mai 1972
- Protection dates
- 1972/05/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- monument
- Main period of construction
- Age du fer, Gallo-romain
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Kroas-Méan
- Commune
- Plougoulm
- Département
- Finistère
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.65266, -4.03983
- Mérimée reference
- PA00090246
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 3: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La stèle est un monolithe de section octogonale, orné de larges cannelures verticales. La croix qui le surmonte est légèrement pattée et a dû y être placée lors de l'établissement du christianisme dans le pays.
English translation
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History
The stele is a monolith of octagonal section, decorated with large vertical fluting. The cross which surmounts it is slightly splayed and must have been placed there when Christianity was established in the country.
Nearby in the register
- Moulin de Ramblouc'hmoulinunder 1 mi
- Cimetièrecimetièreunder 1 mi
- Manoir de Kermorusmanoir1 mi
- Ancien moulin de Kerlanmoulin à farine2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.