Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Site archéologique des ruines gallo-romaines du Souquet
Castelnau-Montratier, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Parcelles E 590, F 3 et F 948 : inscription par arrêté du 29 février 2000
- Protection dates
- 2000/02/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique, villa antique
- Main period of construction
- Gallo-romain
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Castelnau-Montratier
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.27095, 1.29557
- Mérimée reference
- PA46000019
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 1742 map "Languedoc, occidentale." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Qualifié tour à tour de grande villa romaine à la fin du 19e siècle, puis de sanctuaire des eaux dans les années 1960, ce complexe monumental est l'un des rares ensembles de bâtiments antiques connus du Quercy. Le plan montre des constructions d'une qualité exceptionnelle sur une superficie de près d'un demi-hectare.
English translation
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History
Described successively as a great Roman villa at the end of the 19th century, then as a water sanctuary in the 1960s, this monumental complex is one of the rare known sets of ancient buildings in Quercy. The plan shows buildings of exceptional quality over an area of nearly half a hectare.
Nearby in the register
- Borne milliaire du moulin de Rampsborne2 mi
- Château de Rampschâteau2 mi
- Hôtel de villehôtel de ville3 mi
- Motte castrale dite Truque de Maurélisfortification3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.