Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Motte castrale
Bailleul, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Motte castrale (tertre et basse-cour) (cad. ZK 29) : inscription par arrêté du 27 septembre 1989
- Protection dates
- 1989/09/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- le Vieux Château
- Commune
- Bailleul
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.80208, -0.00383
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110974
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 1750 map "Composite 4: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La motte se compose d'un monticule ovalaire et d'une plate-forme peu élevée, de plan vaguement rectangulaire, pouvant être un vestige de basse-cour. Il s'agit d'un ancien "pagus" dont l'existence est attestée au 9e siècle.
English translation
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History
The motte consists of an oval mound and a slightly elevated platform, of vaguely rectangular plan, which may be a vestige of a bailey. It is an ancient "pagus" whose existence is attested in the 9th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.