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Le monastère Saint-Pierre d’Osor (île de Cres) : neuvième campagne d’études archéologiques

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During the 2014 campaign exhaustive excavations of the early medieval mausoleum and monastic tombs situated between the mausoleum and the bell tower south of the abbey church of St Peter in Osor were completed. The results of the excavation of the interior of the reduced church revealed several floor levels that are contemporary to the Romanesque basilica, as well as the foundations of the Romanesque chancel screen situated in front of the north apse, and the presence of many burials. Some of them can be identified as privileged tombs, due to their position and their contents. Several floor levels corresponding to the phases anterior to the Romanesque church were also discovered, although it is impossible to associate them to a particular chronological sequence of the monument at this stage. A new test pit opened in the south cloister wing allowed us to define the dimensions of the cloister. Conservation and restoration of the structures that were discovered south of the church begun after the completion ...