Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Grotte du Trou de la Chèvre
Bourdeilles, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Grotte, y compris le sol et le sous-sol archéologique du gisement (cad. B 851) : inscription par arrêté du 17 juin 1997
- Protection dates
- 1997/06/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique, grotte
- Main period of construction
- Paléolithique
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Font de la Prairie
- Commune
- Bourdeilles
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.32695, 0.58941
- Mérimée reference
- PA24000012
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 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Gisement partiellement fouillé de 1948 à 1955. Il renferme des vestiges du Moustérien, du Périgordien ancien et supérieur, de l'Aurignacien, aussi bien lithiques et fauniques qu'osseux.
English translation
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History
Deposit partially excavated from 1948 to 1955. It contains remains from the Mousterian, early and upper Périgordian, and Aurignacian periods, as well as lithic and faunal remains and bone.
Nearby in the register
- Site de la grotte préhistorique des Bernouxsite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
- Pont sur la Dronnepontunder 1 mi
- Maison du Sénéchalmaisonunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.