Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Grotte préhistorique de la Sudrie
Villac, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La grotte (cad. D 240, 245) : inscription par arrêté du 20 décembre 2005
- Protection dates
- 2005/12/20 : inscrit MH
- Type
- grotte ornée, site archéologique
- Main period of construction
- Paléolithique
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Villac
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.17832, 1.25752
- Mérimée reference
- PA24000050
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 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La grotte date du Périgordien et est ornée de gravures.
English translation
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History
The grotto dates from the Perigordian period and is decorated with engravings.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Waastégliseunder 1 mi
- Domaine Le Noyerdemeure1 mi
- Château de Melletchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.