Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Motte castrale du Petit-Besle
Estouteville-Ecalles, Seine-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La motte castrale avec son fossé et le sol de la parcelle AK 37 sur laquelle elle est située : inscription par arrêté du 18 mai 2005
- Protection dates
- 2005/05/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- motte, site archéologique
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Estouteville-Ecalles
- Département
- Seine-Maritime
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.57867, 1.34054
- Mérimée reference
- PA76000073
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1759 map "24 Forges, Neufchatel." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Monticule de terre circulaire, entouré de fossés secs. La motte se rattachait probablement à la fortification dite Le Grand Besle datant des 11e et 12e siècles. Elle en constituait sans doute un poste avancé, à l'origine surmonté d'une construction de bois.
English translation
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History
Circular earthen mound, surrounded by dry ditches. The motte probably belonged to the fortification called Le Grand Besle dating from the 11th and 12th centuries. It probably constituted an advanced post thereof, originally surmounted by a timber construction.
Nearby in the register
- Fortification médiévale du Grand-Besleédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Anciennes hallesmarché couvertunder 1 mi
- Ancien presbytère de Sainte-Croixpresbytère1 mi
- Croix en pierre de l'ancien cimetièrecroix de cimetière3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.