Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Grotte paléolithique de Cassegros
Trentels, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Site de la grotte (cad. D 190) : inscription par arrêté du 4 octobre 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/10/04 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique, grotte ornée
- Main period of construction
- Paléolithique supérieur
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Trentels
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.44262, 0.85868
- Mérimée reference
- PA47000021
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 1628 map "Potamographie de Garone et des Fleuves qui Rendent Dedans." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Grotte paléolithique (datant du solutréen supérieur et du magdalénien ancien) ornée de gravures d'animaux (cheval, bouquetin) et de peintures. C'est la seule grotte ornée du Lot-et-Garonne.
English translation
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History
Palaeolithic cave (dating from the upper Solutrean and early Magdalenian) decorated with animal engravings (horse, ibex) and paintings. It is the only decorated cave in Lot-et-Garonne.
Nearby in the register
- Château Les Roqueschâteauunder 1 mi
- Moulin de Lustracmoulin à farine2 mi
- Château de Lustracchâteau2 mi
- Château de Lavalchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.