Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Site archéologique du dolmen 3 de Saint-Martin-du-Larzac
Millau, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Parcelle K 124 : inscription par arrêté du 26 mai 1998
- Protection dates
- 1998/05/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique, dolmen
- Main period of construction
- Age du bronze ancien, Age du bronze moyen, Age du bronze final
- Later work
- Age du fer, Haut Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Millau
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.07710, 3.16890
- Mérimée reference
- PA12000015
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 1752 map "Languedoc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Il s'agit d'un monument essentiellement assigné à une fonction sépulcrale depuis son édification initiale. La partie la plus ancienne date du Bronze ancien/moyen (chambre dolménique limitée par trois montants latéraux et une dalle de chevet supportant une table). Recomposition radicale à partir du Bronze final II : plate-forme au pourtour elliptique englobant le dolmen, table recouverte de lauzes, stèle dressée à l'extrémité orientale. A partir du premier Age du Fer, structure empierrée organisée au-delà de la première plate-forme. Un cimetière, composé de tombes individuelles en lauzes, se développe au Haut Moyen Age.
English translation
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History
This is a monument essentially assigned to a sepulchral function from its initial building. The oldest part dates from the Early/Middle Bronze Age (dolmenic chamber limited by three lateral uprights and a chevet slab supporting a table). Radical recomposition from Late Bronze II: platform with elliptical perimeter encompassing the dolmen, table covered with slabs, stele erected at the eastern extremity. From the first Iron Age, stone-built structure organized beyond the first platform. A cemetery, composed of individual tombs in slabs, develops in the High Middle Ages.