Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Site archéologique du dolmen de Cazarède
Viala-du-Tarn, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Parcelle D 36 : inscription par arrêté du 13 août 1997
- Protection dates
- 1997/08/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique, dolmen
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Viala-du-Tarn
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.07678, 2.83512
- Mérimée reference
- PA12000010
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 1752 map "Languedoc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Dolmen simple composé de deux orthostates et d'une dalle de couverture creusée de 67 cupules d'époque préhistorique. Le tumulus est partiellement conservé au nord et sans doute aussi dans sa partie sud. Ce dolmen est représentatif des monuments mégalithiques des hautes terres du Massif Central.
English translation
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History
Simple dolmen composed of two orthostats and a capstone hollowed with 67 cup marks of prehistoric date. The tumulus is partially preserved to the north and doubtless also in its southern part. This dolmen is representative of the megalithic monuments of the highlands of the Massif Central.
Nearby in the register
- Église paroissiale Saint-Victoréglise2 mi
- Maison du 13e siècle, à l'entrée du village du Miniermaison2 mi
- Dolmen du Puechdolmen3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.