Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Camp du Catelier
Saint-Pierre-de-Varengeville, Seine-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Camp du Catelier (cad. C 67, 71) : inscription par arrêté du 26 décembre 1984
- Protection dates
- 1984/12/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- camp
- Main period of construction
- Antiquité
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Gargantua
- Commune
- Saint-Pierre-de-Varengeville
- Département
- Seine-Maritime
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.48847, 0.90355
- Mérimée reference
- PA00101043
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1842 map "75. Seine-Inferior. Rouen (Normandie)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce site de camp fortifié dominant la Seine, commande la presqu'île de Jumièges. Le rempart principal est élevé en terre, doublé d'un fossé et complété de remparts secondaires. Le site a été fouillé en 1939 par Wheeler.
English translation
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History
This site of a fortified camp dominating the Seine commands the Jumièges peninsula. The main rampart is raised in earth, doubled by a ditch and completed by secondary ramparts. The site was excavated in 1939 by Wheeler.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseéglise1 mi
- Château de Launaychâteau2 mi
- Propriété dite Le Manoir ou Le Monastèremanoir2 mi
- Château du Taillischâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.