Saint-Acheul

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Coordinates: 50°11′29″N 2°09′52″E / 50.1913888889, 2.16444444444

Commune of Saint-Acheul

Location

Administration

Communauté de communes du Bernavillois

Mayor

M. Marc Bettefort
(2001-2008)

Statistics

Elevation

37 m–110 m
(avg. 55 m)

Land area^¹

3,04 km²

Population^²
(1999)

- Density

7/km²

Miscellaneous

INSEE/Postal code

80697/ 80370

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Saint-Acheul is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.

1 Geography
2 Population
3 History
4 See also
5 External links
6 Notes

[edit] Geography

Situated some 23 miles north of Amiens, on the junction of the D933 and D99e roads, only a few hundred yards from the border with the Pas-de-Calais

[edit] Population

Population Evolution
1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
33	50	45	43	34	22
Census count starting from 1962 : Population without double counting

[edit] History

Although a small commune, Saint-Acheul is well known to archaeologists, as it gives its name to the Acheulean industry of stone tool users in Europe, Africa and Asia. The earliest human activity in the area, from the Lower Palaeolithic, was some of the first early prehistoric evidence ever identified. In the middle of the 19th century, flint tools had been found by Dr. Jean-Paul Rigollot ^[1] Noted French archaeologists Jean Albert Gaudry and Gabriel de Mortillet also investigated the site, the latter coining the term Acheulean for the tools that were discovered. A schoolteacher, one Victor Cormont, discovered a new deposit in a quarry near Saint-Acheul^[2].
In the first century AD the Romans settled the area and a monastery was built in St Acheul during the Middle Ages. Saint Ulphia was a hermit here during the 8th century.