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<< Our Photo Pages >> Le Roc De Sers - Cave or Rock Shelter in France in Poitou:Charente (16)

Submitted by taupin on Friday, 09 March 2012  Page Views: 5927

Natural PlacesSite Name: Le Roc De Sers
Country: France Département: Poitou:Charente (16) Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Angouleme  Nearest Village: Sers
Latitude: 45.574850N  Longitude: 0.329280E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Le Roc De Sers
Le Roc De Sers submitted by taupin : Le Roc De Sers Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France (Vote or comment on this photo)
This site is more a rock-shelter than a cave, by a cliff looking facing South-East. It was the best possible direction for this périod of SOLUTREEN, 19000 or 18000 years BP at the end of Wurm Glaciation and it was the southern limits of the glaciers.

THIS SITE CAN BE VISITED ONLY WITH A PHONE CALL OR ON A HISTORIC MONUMENT OPEN-DAY.

HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS lived alongside this cliff maybe under animals skins shelters.

This place was studied by "Docteur Léon HENRI-MARTIN" between 1924 and 1927 (see "La QUINA" site). He had discovered there some famous engraved limestone blocks collapsed on the bottom of the cliff with lithic matérials: flint arrows, harpoon points and especially a basic tomb with three skeletons of "CHANCELADE TYPE".

The Professor said in his notes, he found a quartz crystal who have been imported and used for sculpt the limestone.

The engraved blocks are exposed on St GERMAIN EN LAYE muséum.
We find on them: bovines, horses, bear, and a bison with a boar head.

One of the bisons attack a human individual bringer of a javelin. Horses have the back legs broken.

It is a rare site because of the human représentation.

"The size of the animals correspond to the medium dog size" said the Professor.
Some discoveries come from MAGDALENIAN périod.

I visit this site two months ago during an archéological exposition and it is possible to see copies of the engraved blocks on the site. Maybe in the future some further activities can be offered.


Note: Pictures of the animal carvings from this ancient cliff shelter, only occasionally open to the public, sent in by Taupin
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Le Roc De Sers
Le Roc De Sers submitted by taupin : Le Roc De Sers Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France (Vote or comment on this photo)

Le Roc De Sers
Le Roc De Sers submitted by taupin : Le Roc De Sers Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France (Vote or comment on this photo)

Le Roc De Sers
Le Roc De Sers submitted by taupin : Le Roc De Sers Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France (Vote or comment on this photo)

Le Roc De Sers
Le Roc De Sers submitted by taupin : Le Roc De Sers Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Le Roc De Sers
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Le Roc De Sers
Le Roc De Sers submitted by durhamnature : Butting Ibexes in bas-relief, the right side animal about 50cm, from "Art of the Stone Age" via archive.org Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France

Le Roc De Sers
Le Roc De Sers submitted by taupin : Le Roc De Sers Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France

Le Roc De Sers
Le Roc De Sers submitted by taupin : Le Roc De Sers Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France

Le Roc De Sers
Le Roc De Sers submitted by taupin : Le Roc De Sers Site in Poitou:Charente (16) France

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