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Site archéologique de la grotte de Mayrière Supérieure

Bruniquel, Tarn-et-Garonne, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Parcelle C 137, pour le sol, le sous-sol et en conséquence, l'ensemble des cavités situées en-dessous de la dite parcelle : inscription par arrêté du 9 février 1993
Protection dates
1993/02/09 : inscrit MH
Type
site archéologique, grotte ornée
Main period of construction
Paléolithique
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Bruniquel
Département
Tarn-et-Garonne
Region
Occitanie
Country
France
Coordinates
44.04012, 1.68330
Mérimée reference
PA00125618

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Grotte paléolithique ornée de peintures (bisons).

English translation

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Palaeolithic grotto decorated with paintings (bison).

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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