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Le mobilier archéologique de l’habitat du Hallstatt final à Écuelles « Charmoy » (Seine-et-Marne)
2005
The Ecuelles Charmoy site is one of the first Late Hallstatt settlements to be discovered on the edge of the plateau that dominates the Seine-Yonne confluence. In use for only a short period at the end of the 5th and during the first half of the 4th century BC, the site includes postholed buildings, storage pits and other structures in an organized domestic space. The pottery, especially the painted ware, is particularly abundant in the storage pits and constitutes a reference of local ware and its production. Also the traces of metalworking found on the site, be it the reduction of iron or the crafting of moulded bronze jewellery, renews our knowledge of the function and vocation of such a…
Le mobilier métallique du sanctuaire protohistorique de Meaux La Bauve et L’Arpent Videron : un faciès atypique ?
2017
International audience; In the area of gallo-roman sanctuary of La Bauve in Meaux, almost 200 weapons fragment from the early La Tène period have been found.Swords, spears and shield elements are underrepresented. However, scabbards are particularly numerous. Only few elements give some informationabout the chronology. They point out the La Tène B2 period, which explain the difference between Meaux and La Villeneuve-au-Châtelot.“Miniatures” swords are also worth note. The question is: are they just functional object or symbolic one?
La Tene human burial and animal deposit at Varennes-sur-Seine (Seine-et-Marne)
2002
An adolescent was buried at the bottom of a large irregular shaped pit The body that had been lain on one side, legs tucked under, was in the centre of a ring of stones and was covered by a deposit of a dog and four horses of which two were foals and two were young adults. A thick layer of sand and a second deposit of three horses and a dog covered this first deposit. The adolescent skull had been broken and perforated which adds to the distinctiveness of this burial. Most of the horses had been skinned and the tendons had been removed. Also the four legs of one of the horses in the top deposit had been removed. With no datable finds the radiocarbon analysis gives a date corresponding to th…