Des traces archéologiques témoins de l’implantation d’un vignoble sur le finage de Cernay-lès-Reims et Saint-Léonard au Moyen Âge

Thanks to the numerous archaeological operations carried out in Cernay-lès-Reims and Saint-Léonard - on the south-eastern edge of the Reims urban area - several sites from protohistory to the contemporary period were discovered. Among them, the presence of a multitude of small trapezoidal pits could be observed, and that over a large part of the area that was the subject of the interventions. With their atypical shapes, these pits are the proof of a wine-growing activity at the edge of Cernay-lès-Reims around the 11th-13th centuries.