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Atelier de potier

Herbignac, Loire-Atlantique, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Atelier de potier, au village de Landieul (cad. YV 121, 122) : inscription par arrêté du 4 août 1986
Protection dates
1986/08/04 : inscrit MH
Type
usine de poterie
Main period of construction
18e siècle, 2e quart 20e siècle
Dates
1945
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Herbignac
Département
Loire-Atlantique
Region
Pays de la Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.44104, -2.35983
Mérimée reference
PA00108628

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1695 map "Carte de l'Evesche de Nantes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

L'ensemble du territoire de la commune d'Herbignac a été un centre important de production de poteries dont on fait remonter les origines à la période gallo-romaine. Il ne reste que peu de vestiges des nombreux ateliers, les fours à pots abandonnés et croulant sous les ronces. Une intervention de sauvetage archéologique menée au village de Landieul a permis de dégager un ensemble composé de deux fours à pots, construits en 1945.

English translation

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The whole territory of the commune of Herbignac was an important centre for pottery production whose origins are traced back to the Gallo-Roman period. Few remains survive of the numerous workshops, the abandoned pot-kilns crumbling under brambles. A rescue archaeological intervention carried out at the village of Landieul made it possible to unearth a complex composed of two pot-kilns, built in 1945.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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