Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Dolmens des Cudières
Jouques, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chacun des deux dolmens (cad. B 1531) : inscription par arrêté du 25 mars 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/03/25 : inscrit MH
- Type
- dolmen, site archéologique
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique, Age du bronze
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Jouques
- Département
- Bouches-du-Rhône
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.63360, 5.68942
- Mérimée reference
- PA00135621
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 16: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Dolmen 1 fouillé en 1987-1988 : cette tombe a été utilisée pendant deux périodes : néolithique final - chalcolithique (vers 2375) , puis Bronze ancien (vers 1820) ; il s'agit d'une tombe collective où les restes de plus de cent individus ont été découverts. Dolmen 2 non encore fouillé.
English translation
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History
Dolmen 1 excavated in 1987-1988: this tomb was used during two periods: final Neolithic - Chalcolithic (around 2375), then Early Bronze Age (around 1820); this is a collective tomb where the remains of more than one hundred individuals were discovered. Dolmen 2 not yet excavated.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle Saint-Estèvechapelle2 mi
- Église Notre-Dame de la Roqueéglise2 mi
- Oratoire Notre-Dame de la Roqueoratoire3 mi
- Porte, attenant à la Tour de l'Horlogeporte de ville3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.