Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Menhir
Davayat, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Menhir (cad. A 1186) : classement par liste de 1889
- Protection dates
- 1889 : classé MH
- Type
- menhir
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Montaudoux
- Commune
- Davayat
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.94670, 3.10910
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092112
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 LibrariesTexas A&M University LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1776 map "52 Clermont." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Menhir haut de 4, 80 mètres, d'une circonférence à la base de 4, 70 mètres, et d'un poids approximatif de dix tonnes. Selon la légende, les baillis de la baronnie de Vaux-en-Limagne et du marquisat de Combronde tenaient leurs assises et rendaient la justice au pied du monument.
English translation
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History
Menhir 4.80 metres high, with a circumference at the base of 4.70 metres, and an approximate weight of ten tonnes. According to legend, the bailiffs of the barony of Vaux-en-Limagne and the marquisate of Combronde held their court sessions and dispensed justice at the foot of the monument.
Nearby in the register
- Maison de La Treillemaisonunder 1 mi
- Château de Davayatchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Genès-le-Comteéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.