Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Motte castrale de Kergorlay
Motreff, Finistère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Motte castrale, ainsi que le terrain (sol et sous-sol) sur lequel elle est située (cad. C 647) : inscription par arrêté du 30 septembre 1997
- Protection dates
- 1997/09/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique
- Main period of construction
- Milieu du Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Kergorlay
- Commune
- Motreff
- Département
- Finistère
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.20459, -3.53551
- Mérimée reference
- PA29000016
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 3: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La motte d'Ar C'hastel domine le hameau de Kergorlay. En tronc de cône, elle subsiste encore sur une hauteur d'environ 10 m. Son diamètre de base avoisine 50 m et sa plate-forme sommitale, entièrement dégagée, mesure environ 20 m de diamètre. On peut y relever des traces de construction en pierres sèches. La motte est entièrement ceinturée d'un fossé sec de 5 m de large au fond et profond de 2, 50 m à 3 m.
English translation
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History
The motte of Ar C'hastel dominates the hamlet of Kergorlay. Truncated cone-shaped, it still survives to a height of approximately 10 m. Its base diameter is approximately 50 m and its summit platform, completely cleared, measures approximately 20 m in diameter. Traces of dry stone construction can be found there. The motte is entirely surrounded by a dry ditch 5 m wide at the bottom and 2.50 m to 3 m deep.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.