For Y'all Data - Possible Gallic Village Discovered Inwards Saint-Flour

Prior to the construction of the Saint-Flour route bypass, a projection carried out past times the Cantal County Council, a squad from Inrap carried out an earthworks from Apr to June 2018 at a house called "La Cheyre", N of the short town of Roueyre, on the northern edge of the commune of Saint-Flour, at the asking of the State (Drac Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes).

Credit: Bertrand Houdusse, Inrap

Covering an expanse of only nether 2 ha, the earthworks stretches 400m inwards length on either side of the GR4 long hiking trail. It is located on the southern together with eastern slopes of a mound culminating at an height of 836m, giving ascent to steep slopes over the earthworks sectors. The principal object of the performance concerns the report of the remains of the halt of the Iron Age (2nd -Ist century BC) of a in all likelihood Gallic settlement unknown until now. This is the offset large-scale earthworks of Gallic remains inwards the Cantal department.

Few of the structures inwards the excavated areas relate straight to residential remains. On the other hand, the performance has brought to lite a certainly let on of developments, the scale together with multifariousness of which advise the likelihood of a modest settlement.

Thus, the southern zone of the earthworks shows the presence of a 60m long visible traffic axis, inwards the shape of a hollow track, the rail tread of which includes amphora shard fills.

Credit: Bertrand Houdusse, Inrap

In the immediate vicinity, a ready of structures related to H2O administration was discovered: at to the lowest degree 3 wells, a well, in all likelihood cisterns together with nested amphora pipes. Due to the clay subsoil together with the continuous presence of water, 2 of the excavated wells revealed, inwards a completely unexpected manner, the lower business office of their wooden casing preserved over to a greater extent than than 1m inwards height.

The presence of organic thing allowed sediment samples to hold upwards taken inwards fellowship to report the fossilized remains of seeds or pollens, together with to restore the found environs of the archaeological site. In addition, the conservation of the forest of the good casing volition allow an in-depth technical analysis of the construction method, equally good equally an ecological report based on these same elements.

In the minute earthworks zone, remains of kilns of diverse shapes together with dates (some of which tin hold upwards attributed to the early on Roman period) ship witness to the in all likelihood being of a pottery workshop on the site. In other structures, waste product related to atomic let on 26 metallurgy has too been discovered. All these elements, equally good equally the large quantity of amphorae discovered, underline the multifariousness of activities practised on the site at the halt of the Iron Age.

"All these clues volition allow us to empathize the urban condition of this Gallic trouble together with its relations amongst the Roman town at the human foot of the Saint-Flour plateau", said an Inrap spokeman.

Source: Inrap [July 22, 2018]


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