Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Grotte préhistorique de Nancy
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La grotte (cad. C 865, 868) : inscription par arrêté du 20 décembre 2005
- Protection dates
- 2005/12/20 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique, grotte ornée
- Main period of construction
- Paléolithique
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.93302, 1.07296
- Mérimée reference
- PA24000048
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 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La grotte date du Magdalénien moyen. Certaines parties pourraient être plus anciennes.
English translation
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History
The cave dates from the Middle Magdalenian. Some parts could be older.
Nearby in the register
- Grotte préhistorique du Bisongrotteunder 1 mi
- Grotte de Bernifalgrotte ornéeunder 1 mi
- Grottegrotte ornéeunder 1 mi
- Grotte dite Sous le Grand Lacgrotte ornéeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.