Un dispositif singulier de l'Antiquité Tardive à la chapelle Saint-Jean de Todon (Laudun L'ardoise, Gard, France)

  • Ardagna, Yann
  • Rigeade, Catherine
  • Forest, Vianney
  • Seguin, Maxime
  • Vidal, Laurent
Publication date
January 2023
Publisher
Presses universitaires de Provence

Abstract

International audienceFrom 2002 to 2012 an excavation was carried out around the chapel “Saint-Jean-de-Rousigue” (Laudun-l’Ardoise, Gard). This chapel was identified in the historical sources as the priory church of Saint-Jean-de-Todon. The chapel is located on a part of a vast limestone plateau dominating the river Rhone valley, which includes a protohistoric and Roman settlement known as “Camp de César”. A building, a grave and a singular secondary deposit, dated to late antiquity, were discovered to the south and north of the chapel. This archaeological structure shows a disposition of both human and faunal remains, with no equivalent in the regional archaeological literature. À set of four radiocrabon analyses have made it possible to r...

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