Pyramide - Centre Culturel
Also known asCentre Culturel La Pyramide
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Overview
About this site
Overview
Pyramide - Centre Culturel is an other / unclassified in Romorantin-Lanthenay, France. It is also known as Centre Culturel La Pyramide. It lies at 47.3678° N, 1.7367° E.
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Pyramide - Centre Culturel
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The Atlas uses the heading "other" for stone monuments that fit none of its other types, and the same article serves for underground chambers that have no regional article. The records are varied. Many are ziggurats, Egyptian temples and pyramids, and Maya and Andean sites, which are treated in their own articles. What remains is a scatter of single sites in many countries whose descriptions do not allow a closer classification. The regional background, “Other prehistoric stone monuments”, is given below.
Dating
No date has been published for this site.
Setting
No other recorded monument lies within 10 km. The nearest is tumulus des Montanjons, 16.0 km to the west. In Romorantin-Lanthenay, France, 1 of the 1 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are tumulus des Montanjons (16.0 km west, megalithic mound); tumulus du Tertre (17.0 km west, megalithic mound); pierre levée de Boisy (20.3 km south, menhir); Pierre couverte de Bué (21.3 km south, dolmen).
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No heritage designation is recorded for the site.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Other prehistoric stone monuments
The Atlas uses the heading "other" for stone monuments that fit none of its other types, and the same article serves for underground chambers that have no regional article. The records are varied. Many are ziggurats, Egyptian temples and pyramids, and Maya and Andean sites, which are treated in their own articles. What remains is a scatter of single sites in many countries whose descriptions do not allow a closer classification.
Several of these are underground. A hypogeum is literally an "underground" temple or tomb, often with niches for cremated remains or loculi for buried remains. An early example is found at the Minoan Bronze Age site of Knossos on Crete, a beehive-shaped vault cut into soft rock. The Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni in Paola, Malta, is the oldest example of a prehistoric hypogeum, with its earliest phase dated to 3600 to 3300 BCE. It is a complex of underground chambers, halls and passages covering about 500 square metres on three levels, partly carved to imitate temple architecture and containing extensive prehistoric art.
A rock-cut tomb is cut into an existing rock formation, usually a cliff or sloping rock face, and was a common burial form for the wealthy in several parts of the world. Famous clusters are in Egypt, Iran, Lycia in Turkey, Petra in Jordan and Sicily. Phrygian rock-cut tombs such as the Midas monument date to about 700 BCE, and Etruscan ones to about 500 BCE.
The general rule for these records is that the type tells you how a monument was made, not who made it or when. Dating is taken from the source for each site where a source gives one, and otherwise left as a broad range.
When visiting, read the site's own description first, since the Atlas can offer only a general frame.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Megalith, Wikipedia: Hypogeum, Wikipedia: Rock-cut tomb, Wikipedia: Stele · CC BY-SA 4.0
Where it stands
France
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 47°22′04″ N, 1°44′12″ EFor a GPS or map app: 47.36775, 1.73668
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)tumulus des Montanjons5000–3000 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)tumulus du Tertre5000–3000 BCE
- Menhir (standing stone)pierre levée de Boisy2800–1800 BCE
Pierre couverte de Bué4000–3000 BCE
Menhirs of Tréfoux2800–1800 BCE- Menhir (standing stone)pierre-Frite de Grandmont2800–1800 BCE
- Dolmenpierre Levée4000–3000 BCE
dolmen de la Pierre-Folle4000–3000 BCE
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Sources
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
Credit
Text, licence and sources
Compiled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a regional background article based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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