Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Dolmen de la Mérindole
Fontvieille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Dolmen (cad. CH 30) : inscription par arrêté du 5 septembre 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/09/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique, dolmen
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Commune
- Fontvieille
- Département
- Bouches-du-Rhône
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.69763, 4.74211
- Mérimée reference
- PA13000007
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 — GéoportailLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1603 map "Languedock." (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le dolmen appartient au groupe de monuments mégalithiques de Fontvieille comprenant dolmens, menhirs et quatre hypogées. Ensemble réalisé il y a environ 4500 ans.
English translation
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History
The dolmen belongs to the group of megalithic monuments of Fontvieille comprising dolmens, menhirs and four hypogea. Ensemble created approximately 4500 years ago.
Nearby in the register
- Vestiges romains de Caparonsite archéologique1 mi
- Dolmen dit du Mas d'Agarddolmen1 mi
- Aqueduc de Barbegal (restes)aqueduc2 mi
- Aqueduc de Barbegalaqueduc2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.