Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Motte castrale du Roc'h
Arzano, Finistère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Totalité de la motte castrale et parcelle ZH 27 (sol, sous-sol et élévations) sur laquelle elle est établie : inscription par arrêté du 17 octobre 1995
- Protection dates
- 1995/10/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique
- Main period of construction
- Milieu du Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Roc'h
- Commune
- Arzano
- Département
- Finistère
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.89539, -3.40813
- Mérimée reference
- PA00135355
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1708 map "Le Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La motte est établie sur un promontoire rocheux dominant la vallée du Scorff. Le relief naturel a été remanié par des matériaux provenant du creusement du fossé et par des apports de terre. De forme tronconique, elle est haute d'une quinzaine de mètres et présente des flancs abrupts. La plate-forme sommitale, comportant un muret de pierres, est envahie par les broussailles. Un fossé sec entoure la base de la motte du côté ouest. Un enclos est accolé au sud du tertre.
English translation
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History
The motte is established on a rocky promontory dominating the valley of the Scorff. The natural relief has been modified by materials from the excavation of the ditch and by earth deposits. Of truncated conical form, it is approximately fifteen metres high and presents steep flanks. The summit platform, comprising a stone wall, is overgrown with brushwood. A dry ditch surrounds the base of the motte on the west side. An enclosure is adjoined to the south of the mound.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.