Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Abri de la Chaire à Calvin
Mouthiers-sur-Boëme, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Abri de la Chaire à Calvin (cad. D 138) : classement par arrêté du 11 août 1986
- Protection dates
- 1986/08/11 : classé MH
- Type
- abri
- Main period of construction
- Paléolithique
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Lieu-dit
- la Rochandry
- Commune
- Mouthiers-sur-Boëme
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.55529, 0.11601
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104435
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 1777 map "69 Angouleme." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La cavité creusée par la Boëme se présente sous la forme d'un exèdre. La dernière occupation significative date du Magdalénien (frise d'équidés et de bovidés sculptée).
English translation
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History
The cavity hollowed out by the Boëme presents itself in the form of an exedra. The last significant occupation dates from the Magdalenian (frieze of equids and bovids carved).
Nearby in the register
- Château de la Rochandrychâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Hilaireégliseunder 1 mi
- Logis de Forgemanoirunder 1 mi
- Croix de carrefourcroix de cheminunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.