Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vestiges du fanum gallo-romain
Marcé-sur-Esves, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fanum gallo-romain (vestiges) (cad. A 13) : inscription par arrêté du 8 mars 1938
- Protection dates
- 1938/03/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique, temple antique
- Main period of construction
- Gallo-romain
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- la Pierre
- Commune
- Marcé-sur-Esves
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.04634, 0.65527
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097862
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Vestiges d'un fanum gallo-romain constitué par un cône de maçonnerie formée d'assises régulières de moellons, unis par un mortier très dur de sable de falunière. Il est possible qu'un parement appareillait primitivement ce blocage, mais toute trace en a disparu. Soit à la suite de fouilles, soit par effondrement des substructions, le bloc s'est incliné du côté méridional. Au début du 20e siècle, un second bloc était visible à proximité, représentant la partie supérieure de l'édifice, mais il a été morcelé et a disparu.
English translation
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History
Remains of a Gallo-Roman fanum consisting of a cone of masonry formed by regular courses of rubble stone, joined by very hard mortar of shell-sand. It is possible that ashlar facing originally faced this rubble, but all trace of it has disappeared. Either as a result of excavations or by collapse of the substructures, the mass has tilted towards the south. At the beginning of the 20th century, a second mass was visible nearby, representing the upper part of the building, but it was broken up and has disappeared.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martinéglise1 mi
- Château de La Louèrechâteau1 mi
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.