Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Enceinte circulaire de la Couillardière
Rânes, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Enceinte, à l'exception de son fossé en partie comblé (cad. ZR 58) : inscription par arrêté du 6 septembre 1994
- Protection dates
- 1994/09/06 : inscrit MH partiellement
- Type
- site archéologique, édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- la Couillardière
- Commune
- Rânes
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.63236, -0.18736
- Mérimée reference
- PA00132902
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 1706 map "L'Evesche du Mans (northwest sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Enceinte circulaire médiévale des 11e-12e siècles mesurant 19 mètres de diamètre, présentant une basse-cour ovale limitée par un fossé sec précédé d'un talus au sud.
English translation
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History
Circular medieval enclosure of the 11th-12th centuries measuring 19 metres in diameter, presenting an oval lower courtyard bounded by a dry ditch preceded by a bank to the south.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteau1 mi
- Chapelle funéraire des Bergheschapelle funéraire1 mi
- Manoirmanoir2 mi
- Manoir dit Le Désertmanoir2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.