Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Grotte préhistorique de la Cavaille
Couze-et-Saint-Front, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La grotte préhistorique (cad. B 707) : inscription par arrêté du 31 janvier 2007
- Protection dates
- 2007/01/31 : inscrit MH
- Type
- grotte ornée, site archéologique
- Main period of construction
- Paléolithique
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Couze-et-Saint-Front
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.81041, 0.71867
- Mérimée reference
- PA24000058
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
Grotte du Périgordien, ornée d'une dizaine de figures.
English translation
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History
Perigordian cave, decorated with about ten figures.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Gisement de la Gravettesite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
- Moulin de Larroquemoulin à papier1 mi
- Anciennes papeteriesusine de papeterie2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.