La Roque St. Christophe reconstructed - Roque Saint Christophe (Peyzac-le-Moustier/FR)
La Roque St. Christophe reconstructed.
Photo: Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Nikon D90) / #replica #model - #RoqueSaintChristophe #abri / #Architecture at #LaRoqueStChristophe #RoqueSaintChristophe in #PeyzacleMoustier, #Dordogne - #France
A nice model how La Roque St. Christophe looked like at a unknown time before expulsion of all inhabitants and the complete destruction of the structures and the fortifications by the Catholic French King Henry III. Like always, it's hard to find his reason to order this. Maybe because it's somewhere under a catholic carpet among many other religious events..
Note: this model was very dusty, faded colors and a low light location. It would be nice to see a much better presentation.
Photo August 2013, La Roque Saint-Christophe (Abri) (Settlements, Neolithic period 55000BP- destruction 1588) after 57013 years in time.
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Roque Saint Christophe - La Roque Saint-Christophe (one of the 147 exceptional prehistoric UNESCO sites since 1979) is a large limestone rock with rock dwellings (abris sous-roche in French) along the river Vézère near Peyzac-le-Moustier in the Dordogne region. The cliff is one kilometer long and towers over the road below and the river Vézère at about a hundred meters. The rock has five terraces that were created on the one hand by the erosion of the river water 60 million years ago and on the other hand by the action of frost on the limestone during the ice ages of the Quaternary era.
The earliest dating is the Moustérien period, the caves, dating from the Middle Paleolithic era, were first inhabited as a shelter in the Neolithic period. There are traces that people already lived here 55,000 years ago and a skeleton of a Neanderthal of about 40,000 years old has been discovered. People also lived there in the Iron Age, remains such as tools and an engraving of a Madonna from the Gallo-Roman era from the first century AD. In 976 it became a fortress to protect against the Normans. During the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) the fortress served as a fortress against the English. In the sixteenth century, the city and the fortress were occupied by the Protestant Huguenots. Finally in 1588, the Catholic French King Henry III ordered expulsion and the complete destruction of the structures and the fortifications.
Nowadays, reconstructions show what life must have been like in the fortress, such as the medieval construction site, forge, drum winch (a kind of winch), quarry, armory and a kitchen from the year 1000 of the fortress.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_Saint-Christophe.
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La Roque St. Christophe reconstructed - Roque Saint Christophe (Peyzac-le-Moustier/FR)
La Roque St. Christophe reconstructed.
Photo: Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Nikon D90) / #replica #model - #RoqueSaintChristophe #abri / #Architecture at #LaRoqueStChristophe #RoqueSaintChristophe in #PeyzacleMoustier, #Dordogne - #France
A nice model how La Roque St. Christophe looked like at a unknown time before expulsion of all inhabitants and the complete destruction of the structures and the fortifications by the Catholic French King Henry III. Like always, it's hard to find his reason to order this. Maybe because it's somewhere under a catholic carpet among many other religious events..
Note: this model was very dusty, faded colors and a low light location. It would be nice to see a much better presentation.
Photo August 2013, La Roque Saint-Christophe (Abri) (Settlements, Neolithic period 55000BP- destruction 1588) after 57013 years in time.
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Roque Saint Christophe - La Roque Saint-Christophe (one of the 147 exceptional prehistoric UNESCO sites since 1979) is a large limestone rock with rock dwellings (abris sous-roche in French) along the river Vézère near Peyzac-le-Moustier in the Dordogne region. The cliff is one kilometer long and towers over the road below and the river Vézère at about a hundred meters. The rock has five terraces that were created on the one hand by the erosion of the river water 60 million years ago and on the other hand by the action of frost on the limestone during the ice ages of the Quaternary era.
The earliest dating is the Moustérien period, the caves, dating from the Middle Paleolithic era, were first inhabited as a shelter in the Neolithic period. There are traces that people already lived here 55,000 years ago and a skeleton of a Neanderthal of about 40,000 years old has been discovered. People also lived there in the Iron Age, remains such as tools and an engraving of a Madonna from the Gallo-Roman era from the first century AD. In 976 it became a fortress to protect against the Normans. During the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) the fortress served as a fortress against the English. In the sixteenth century, the city and the fortress were occupied by the Protestant Huguenots. Finally in 1588, the Catholic French King Henry III ordered expulsion and the complete destruction of the structures and the fortifications.
Nowadays, reconstructions show what life must have been like in the fortress, such as the medieval construction site, forge, drum winch (a kind of winch), quarry, armory and a kitchen from the year 1000 of the fortress.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_Saint-Christophe.
Published at - Flickr