Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
grotte de la Cabre
Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La grotte dite Grotte de la Cabre, tel qu'indiqué sur le plan annexé à l'arrêté (cad. G 107) : inscription par arrêté du 15 mai 2017
- Protection dates
- 2017/05/15:inscrit MH
- Type
- grotte ornée
- Main period of construction
- Paléolithique
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Commune
- Vallon-Pont-d'Arc
- Département
- Ardèche
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.36519, 4.43898
- Mérimée reference
- PA07000029
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1779 map "90 Viviers." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La grotte de la Cabre découverte en 2002 présente des peintures à l'ocre rouge disséminées en plusieurs secteurs, dont une tête et l'encolure d'un jeune cervidé ou capriné qui a valu à la grotte son appellation.
English translation
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History
The Cabre cave discovered in 2002 presents paintings in red ochre scattered across several sectors, including a head and the neck of a young cervid or caprine which gave the cave its name.
Nearby in the register
- Grotte du Colombiergrotte ornéeunder 1 mi
- grotte des Potiers de Gaudgrotte ornéeunder 1 mi
- Grotte d'Ebbou dite de Chamassite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
- grotte du Bouchongrotte ornée1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.