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L’habitat et la nécropole du Haut Moyen Âge du lieu-dit Le Moulin Vaquet à Honguemarre-Guenouville (Eure) : un « village prénormand » du plateau du R…
2010
Sur le plateau du Roumois, le lieu-dit Moulin Vaquet à Honguemare-Guenouville (Eure) était occupé entre le VIIe et le Xe siècle par un village, habitat rural polarisé autour d’une nécropole probablement dominée par une église de bois. La fouille de ce site par la MADE sur 8 600m2 complète celle de l’INRAP à quelques centaines de mètres. Between the 7th and 10th centuries, the “Moulin Vaquet"site, near Honguemare-Guenouville (Eure) on the Roumois Plateau, was occupied by a village – a rural settlement built around a necropolis, likely dominated by a wooden church. The 8,600m2 excavation of the site run by MADE (the Eure archaeological mission) complements the INRAP excavations a few hundred …
An antique lead coffin discovered in Évreux (Eure): a multidisciplinary study
2013
The Roman cemetery of le Clos au Duc in Évreux (Eure) lasted from the 1st to the 4th c. AD. The most common funerary practice in the 1st c. AD was cremation. From the beginning of the 2nd c. AD this rapidly gave place to inhumation burials. By the end of the 3rd c. lead coffins could be found in burials, but it remained a minority practice reserved for an elite. The 2010 excavation in Évreux allowed the recovery of an example of these. It was incomplete, but the good preservation of its remains made a multidisciplinary study possible. Apart from the bones of a young woman, the lead coffin contained coins, textile, fur, calcite (CaCO3) and insects. These results make it possible to retrace t…