Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Grotte préhistorique de la Grèze
Marquay, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La grotte préhistorique (cad. AW 342) : inscription par arrêté du 9 octobre 2009
- Protection dates
- 2009/10/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- grotte ornée, site archéologique
- Main period of construction
- Paléolithique
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Marquay
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.94580, 1.09005
- Mérimée reference
- PA24000072
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 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La Grèze fut découverte très tôt. Dès 1914, le « profil tordu » du bison est utilisé comme référence par l'abbé Breuil dans sa classification.
English translation
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History
La Grèze was discovered very early. From 1914, the "twisted profile" of the bison was used as a reference by Abbé Breuil in his classification.
Nearby in the register
- Abri du Cap-Blanc à Lausselsite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
- Grotte du château de Comarquegrotte ornéeunder 1 mi
- Château de Commarquechâteauunder 1 mi
- Cabane en pierre sèchecabaneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.