Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Dolmen de la Pierre Luteau
Ruan, Loiret, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Dolmen de la Pierre Luteau, avec sa parcelle cadastrale (cad. ZD 30) : inscription par arrêté du 27 mai 1987
- Protection dates
- 1987/05/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- dolmen
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Montant
- Commune
- Ruan
- Département
- Loiret
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.12104, 1.91169
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098997
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 LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1782 map "8 Orleans." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Un des mégalithes des plus rares connus dans la Beauce orléanaise. Il s'agit de la dernière grande sépulture mégalithique en place dans ce secteur. Outre son intérêt archéologique, c'est un témoin des traditions populaires par les nombreuses légendes qui s'y rattachent.
English translation
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History
One of the rarest megaliths known in the Orléanais Beauce. It is the last great megalithic burial in place in this sector. Beyond its archaeological interest, it is a witness to popular traditions through the numerous legends attached to it.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.