Construction of the terminal Antiquité (période gallo-romaine) (≈ 212)
Millionaire on the Bordeaux-Lyon track
Moyen Âge
Reuse as parish boundary
Reuse as parish boundary Moyen Âge (≈ 1125)
Medieval engravings added on the stone
1885
First scientific hypothesis
First scientific hypothesis 1885 (≈ 1885)
Léopold Limayrac identifies a Milestone
2015
Search and classification
Search and classification 2015 (≈ 2015)
Gallo-Roman confirmation and registration MH
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui Aujourd'hui (≈ 2025)
Position de référence.
Heritage classified
The Milestone of the Ramps Mill (Box C 561), as positioned yellow on the October 2014 GPS survey annexed to the Order: Registration by Order of September 24, 2015
Key figures
Léopold Limayrac - Local scholar
First to identify the terminal in 1885
Origin and history
The mileage of the Ramps mill, locally called La Pierre Carrée, is located 15 meters east of the remains of the Ramps windmill, on the former commune of Sainte-Alauzie (now integrated in Castelnau Montratier-Sainte Alauzie, in the Lot). It is on an ancient ridge road between Cahors and Moissac. As early as 1885, Léopold Limayrac proposed the hypothesis that it was a milestone of the Roman route joining Bordeaux in Lyon, a hypothesis confirmed in 2015 by archaeological surveys.
The excavations of 2015 revealed that this terminal, truncated in the Middle Ages, corresponds to the lower part of a Gallo-Roman Mile. His cubic base was buried in the head-to-be, and served as support for medieval or posterior engravings. This monument attests to the passage of a Roman road on the ridge of the white Quercy and constitutes the first known mile of the city of Cadurques (Gaulian people of the Cahors region).
Re-used at a later stage, the terminal was able to mark boundaries between parishes (Sainte-Alauzie, Castelnau-Montratier, Sauveterre) or dioceses (Cahors and Montauban). Classified as historical monuments by decree of 24 September 2015 under the references PA46000067 and IA46103011, it illustrates the superposition of ancient and medieval uses in the local heritage. His study is based on the work of the Departmental Archaeology Unit of the Lot (2015 report).
