Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tumulus de la Haute Flotte
Saint-Cyr, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tumulus de la Haute Flotte (cad. B 51) : inscription par arrêté du 22 avril 1991
- Protection dates
- 1991/04/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- tumulus
- Main period of construction
- Préhistoire
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Lacheneau Nord
- Commune
- Saint-Cyr
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.72475, 0.47245
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105806
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 1714 map "Carte du Gouvernement d'Orleanois" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tumulus de 45 mètres de diamètre pour une hauteur conservée de 1, 50 mètre, situé en bordure de la voie romaine qui menait de Poitiers à Tours.
English translation
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History
Tumulus of 45 metres in diameter for a preserved height of 1.50 metres, located on the edge of the Roman road which ran from Poitiers to Tours.
Nearby in the register
- Menhir dit Pierre-Fittemenhirunder 1 mi
- Château du Fouchâteau2 mi
- Chapelle funéraire de la Madeleinechapelle funéraire2 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.