Bilan des connaissances et nouvelles perspectives sur les suburbia de Metz/ Divodurum durant l’Antiquité tardive, . Bordeaux, 10 juin 2022

Indoor floors from Gien (8th-10th c. AD). Buildings materials, use of space and formation processes

International audience; The refurbishing of the National museum of hunting at Gien (France) offers the opportunity to uncover the early castral occupation (8th-10th c. AD). High status habitats have been explored by archaeological and geoarchaeological methods, including micromorphology. The very well preservation of indoor floors allows to get data on building materials and the use of space, such as domestic housing, craft working and cereal processing.

Le château de Gien (Loiret)

Behind the Loire Valley castles clichés: the archaeological reality of the medieval castle of Gien (France)

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Early Middle Ages Houses of Gien (France) from the Inside: Geoarchaeology and Archaeobotany of 9th–11th c. Floors

International audience; At Gien (France), indoor floors from early Middle Ages occupation (8th–10th c. AD) are very well preserved, providing a new reference for archaeological investigation in northern France. This site is located on an outcrop, 20 m above the Loire valley, where a 15th c. castle stands now. The medieval occupation combines high-status houses with crafting and agricultural areas. They constitute a new urban nucleus, which grew 2 km east from an ancient Roman settlement. During the rescue excavation, four buildings of different status were sampled and studied using an integrated approach, combining stratigraphy, micromorphology, chemical, macro-remain and phytolith analyses…

Connecting Gien Castle to its Landscape: Faunal, Environmental and Buildings Analyses (Loiret, France)

International audience; Gien castle is a listed monument of French architectural heritage. Today it houses the National Museum of Hunting and its collection. Organised visits to the site have traditionally lacked any clear mention of the castle’s historical background. Recently, however, archaeological excavations and building analysis in 2011–2015 produced a wealth of new knowledge about the castle’s medieval origins and history, and about its relationship to its landscape. During the ninth and tenth centuries and then in the fifteenth century the castle occupied a strategically exceptional position reflecting the connection with its environment, notably the strong connection between the c…