At the end of the xiiith century, the workshops in the town Limoges (France, Limousin, Haute-Vienne), were specialized in the production of funeral monuments made of gilt and enamelled copper on a wooden core. Few of them have survived; only five, on the fifty checked by the Corpus des émaux méridionaux (UMR 8150 du CNRS), are preserved today. One of these enamelled effigies, those of the French knight Roger de Brosse (+ 1287) buried in the Cistercian abbey of Prébenoît (Creuse) in the Marche limousine, destroyed during the French Revolution, has been recently and partly rediscovered. Three enamelled fragments, with heraldic figures, preserved by chance from the destruction, have been detected in the public and private collections and identificated by the author as parts of the monument of Roger de Brosse. In the same time, between 1990 and 2000, an archaeological team, working in the church of Prébenoît has the opportunity to situated very precisely the tomb in the church's choir; during the excavations some tiny but very significant metallic fragments –made of gilt and enamelled copper– have been found.