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Grotte du Trou de la Chèvre

Bourdeilles, Dordogne, France

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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

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David 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).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

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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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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