International audienceOne of the main originalities of the sculpture and architecture of Roman Armorica lies in the extensive use of regional granites. For the time being, only a single ashlar quarry has been recognized in the area being studied: located at Locuon, Ploërdut (Morbihan), it widely supplied Vorgium/Carhaix, capital of the Osismi, with stone. The stone is a very light coloured granite, whitish and relatively soft ; two factors that may have determined its choice. It was quarried with vertical trenches cut with a special quarryman pick, called "escoude" in Southern France. The 27 km long route toward Vorgium used the Vannes-Carhaix road, in the immediate vicinity of which the quarry developed. Limited excavations that took place...
Quarry waste being used by craftsmen revealed the existence of ancient work faces, at the foot of wh...
This paper is an example of the help that can bring the petrographic study to the historical knowled...
Cette journée d’étude, intitulée a pour objectif de réunir des chercheurs en archéologie, archéométr...
International audienceOne of the main originalities of the sculpture and architecture of Roman Armor...
One of the main originalities of the sculpture and architecture of Roman Armorica lies in the extens...
International audienceWith the arrival of the Romans, a great number of ashlar quarries were soon ex...
With the arrival of the Romans, a great number of ashlar quarries were soon exploited in the Rhine a...
To the west of Nîmes, the fine lime deposit found in the Bois-des-Lens must have been mined at a ver...
National audienceAbout twelve quarries of micaschist, gneiss and pegmatitic granite were found in th...
The discovery of very numerous quarries in the Callot granite, on the island-shore in Morlaix bay, t...
The stone of the Bois des Lens is a white and fine-grained limestone extracted in opencast quarries,...
International audienceThe Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument wh...
Lttle is known about stone sculpture in roman Armorica and it is rarely refered to in synthesis book...
La pierre, omniprésente dans la Gaule romaine, est paradoxalement peu étudiée et la plupart du temps...
The Gallo-Roman quarry of Saint-Boil was found in 1971. Each stage of extraction is readable in this...
Quarry waste being used by craftsmen revealed the existence of ancient work faces, at the foot of wh...
This paper is an example of the help that can bring the petrographic study to the historical knowled...
Cette journée d’étude, intitulée a pour objectif de réunir des chercheurs en archéologie, archéométr...
International audienceOne of the main originalities of the sculpture and architecture of Roman Armor...
One of the main originalities of the sculpture and architecture of Roman Armorica lies in the extens...
International audienceWith the arrival of the Romans, a great number of ashlar quarries were soon ex...
With the arrival of the Romans, a great number of ashlar quarries were soon exploited in the Rhine a...
To the west of Nîmes, the fine lime deposit found in the Bois-des-Lens must have been mined at a ver...
National audienceAbout twelve quarries of micaschist, gneiss and pegmatitic granite were found in th...
The discovery of very numerous quarries in the Callot granite, on the island-shore in Morlaix bay, t...
The stone of the Bois des Lens is a white and fine-grained limestone extracted in opencast quarries,...
International audienceThe Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument wh...
Lttle is known about stone sculpture in roman Armorica and it is rarely refered to in synthesis book...
La pierre, omniprésente dans la Gaule romaine, est paradoxalement peu étudiée et la plupart du temps...
The Gallo-Roman quarry of Saint-Boil was found in 1971. Each stage of extraction is readable in this...
Quarry waste being used by craftsmen revealed the existence of ancient work faces, at the foot of wh...
This paper is an example of the help that can bring the petrographic study to the historical knowled...
Cette journée d’étude, intitulée a pour objectif de réunir des chercheurs en archéologie, archéométr...