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Carrière d'extraction de matière première

Plancher-les-Mines, Haute-Saône, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Carrière (cad. A5 328) : inscription par arrêté du 14 octobre 1994
Protection dates
1994/10/14 : inscrit MH
Type
carrière, site archéologique
Main period of construction
Néolithique
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Lieu-dit
Marbranche
Commune
Plancher-les-Mines
Département
Haute-Saône
Region
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Country
France
Coordinates
47.75158, 6.75690
Mérimée reference
PA00132760

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1762 map "144 Luxeuil." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Mis au jour en 1989 lors d’une prospection, ces deux groupes de carrière ont permis l’exploitation d’une roche noire, l’aphanite (ou pélite-quartz) , utilisée pour la fabrication de haches en pierre polie. Datées du néolithique (exploitation étagée entre 4600 et 3700 avant Jésus-Christ) , ces carrières son remarquablement bien conservées et représentent un des rares sites européens d’exploitation de matière première en relief (front de taille visible).

English translation

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Discovered in 1989 during a survey, these two groups of quarries allowed the exploitation of a black stone, aphanite (or pelite-quartz), used for the manufacture of polished stone axes. Dated to the neolithic (exploitation spanning between 4600 and 3700 before Christ), these quarries are remarkably well preserved and represent one of the rare European sites of extraction of raw material in relief (visible quarry face).

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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