Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Motte féodale
Boucé, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Motte féodale (cad. F 3) : inscription par arrêté du 10 juin 1975
- Protection dates
- 1975/06/10 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Cordey
- Commune
- Boucé
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.62880, -0.08008
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110750
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 4: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Motte du 10e ou 12e siècle, d'une circonférence à la base de 180 mètres, haute de 8 à 9 mètres au-dessus du fond du fossé, lui-même profond de 2, 80 mètres et large de 2 à 6 mètres.
English translation
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History
Motte of the 10th or 12th century, with a circumference at the base of 180 metres, rising 8 to 9 metres above the bottom of the ditch, itself 2.80 metres deep and 2 to 6 metres wide.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.