Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Site archéologique du Grand Devois (ou Devès) de Figaret
Castries, Hérault, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le site archéologique en totalité (cad. D1 108, 129 ; AK 55, 56) : inscription par arrêté du 20 décembre 1991
- Protection dates
- 1991/12/20 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique
- Main period of construction
- Préhistoire, Néolithique récent
- Later work
- 17e siècle, 18e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- l'Arboussier Ouest
- Commune
- Castries
- Département
- Hérault
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.71310, 3.93829
- Mérimée reference
- PA34000090
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1603 map "Languedock." (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le groupe patrimonial occupe une surface de 7,5 ha environ sur le replat supérieur de la colline ; il comprend 9 entités archéologiques distinctes qui appartiennent à deux périodes principales de l'occupation humaine des milieux arides de la garrigue : 1/ néolithique final et chalcolithique (entre 2500 et 1500 ans avant notre ère) et 2/ époque moderne et contemporaine (entre les 17e et 19e siècles).
English translation
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History
The heritage complex occupies an area of approximately 7.5 hectares on the upper level of the hill; it comprises 9 distinct archaeological entities which belong to two main periods of human occupation of the arid scrubland environments: 1/ late Neolithic and Chalcolithic (between 2500 and 1500 years before our era) and 2/ early modern and contemporary period (between the 17th and 19th centuries).
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Michelégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Martialéglise2 mi
- Ancien châteauchâteau2 mi
- Ancien châteauchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.