Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tumulus de Saint-Fiacre
Melrand, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Tumulus de Saint-Fiacre (cad. C 164) : classement par arrêté du 21 août 1972
- Protection dates
- 1972/08/21 : classé MH
- Type
- tumulus
- Main period of construction
- Age du bronze
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Er-Voucenne
- Commune
- Melrand
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.00030, -3.09566
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091440
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 1786 map "Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tumulus daté de 1500-1000 ac, mesurant 50m de diamètre sur 5m de haut. Fouillé en 1897 par Aveneau de la Grancière.
English translation
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History
Tumulus dated to 1500-1000 BC, measuring 50m in diameter by 5m in height. Excavated in 1897 by Aveneau de la Grancière.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle Saint-Fiacrechapelleunder 1 mi
- Puits de Kerhohpuitsunder 1 mi
- Chapelle de Locmaria et sa fontainechapelleunder 1 mi
- Calvaire sur socle et autelcalvaire monumental1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.