Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Dolmen 1 des Grouges
Saint-Ciers-sur-Bonnieure, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le dolmen (cad. ZC 103) : inscription par arrêté du 27 août 2012
- Protection dates
- 2012/08/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique, dolmen
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique moyen
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Ciers-sur-Bonnieure
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.87227, 0.23766
- Mérimée reference
- PA16000051
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 1777 map "69 Angouleme." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Il s'agit d'un monument orienté nord-sud, l'entrée actuelle se trouvant au nord-ouest. C'est un dolmen simple à chambre rectangulaire et de petite dimension. La table, simple dalle de calcaire local, repose sur trois orthostates qui sont des blocs bruts irréguliers. Le monument, recouvert de mousses et de lichens, a été fouillé et certaines pierres redressées dans leur position d'origine.
English translation
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History
This is a monument oriented north-south, the current entrance being to the north-west. It is a simple dolmen with a rectangular chamber of small dimensions. The capstone, a simple slab of local limestone, rests on three orthostats which are irregular rough blocks. The monument, covered with moss and lichens, has been excavated and certain stones have been set upright in their original position.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martialéglise1 mi
- Église Saint-Micheléglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Deniséglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Micheléglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.