Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Hypogée gallo-romain
Louin, Deux-Sèvres, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Hypogée gallo-romain : classement par arrêté du 28 octobre 1916
- Protection dates
- 1916/10/28 : classé MH
- Type
- site archéologique
- Main period of construction
- Bas-Empire, Gallo-romain, 4e siècle, 5e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Commune
- Louin
- Département
- Deux-Sèvres
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.79906, -0.16527
- Mérimée reference
- PA00101249
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1579 map "(28) Andegavensium." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Hypogée découvert en mars 1898 et pouvant remonter à la fin du 4e siècle. Le caveau était surmonté de restes de substruction. Le plus grand sarcophage, en marbre, est doublé d'un cercueil de plomb qui contenait la dépouille d'un homme. Un second sarcophage, en calcaire, également doublé de plomb, contenait les restes d'un enfant. Les restes de l'édifice qui surmonte la salle mortuaire, affectent la forme d'un hexagone alternant, de deux en deux de ses côtés, une salle rectangulaire et une salle demi-circulaire. Une porte fermait l'hypogée.
English translation
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History
Hypogeum discovered in March 1898 and possibly dating to the end of the 4th century. The vault was topped with remains of substructure. The largest sarcophagus, in marble, was lined with a lead coffin which contained the remains of a man. A second sarcophagus, in limestone, also lined with lead, contained the remains of a child. The remains of the building which surmounts the mortuary chamber are in the form of a hexagon alternating, on two of its sides by two, a rectangular room and a semi-circular room. A door closed the hypogeum.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.