Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Sarcophage creusé dans un rocher à la Thomassière
Lonlay-l'Abbaye, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Le sarcophage (cad. AT 24) : classement par arrêté du 21 juillet 1933
- Protection dates
- 1933/07/21 : classé MH
- Type
- tombeau
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- la Thomassière
- Commune
- Lonlay-l'Abbaye
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.65334, -0.68867
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110840
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1706 map "L'Evesche du Mans (northwest sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Sépulture creusée dans un appointement granitique fixe, dépassant d'un mètre au-dessus du niveau du sol. Les parois internes sont taillées à angle très aigu, le fond étant moins large que le haut. La tête reposait dans une loge. La fermeture était autrefois assurée par un couvercle aujourd'hui disparu, portant une rainure qui s'encastrait dans une saillie. Au début du 20e siècle, les historiens y ont vu un sarcophage mérovingien.
English translation
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History
Burial cut into a fixed granite outcrop, protruding one metre above ground level. The internal walls are cut at a very acute angle, the bottom being narrower than the top. The head rested in a recess. The closure was formerly ensured by a cover now disappeared, bearing a groove which fitted into a projection. At the beginning of the 20th century, historians saw in it a Merovingian sarcophagus.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.