With the arrival of the Romans, a great number of ashlar quarries were soon exploited in the Rhine and Moselle valleys. Until now, comparatively few Roman quarries have been examined, some of them having remarkable graffiti and rock carvings. Numerous epigraphic documents are showing how soldiers were detailed to work in the quarries supplying stone for military and civilian sites in the provinces of the northeast border. The organization of the quarries was complex and adapted to the massive demand for stone material. The quarrying methods and techniques can be read from the marks they left and reflect the ability and knowledge of the quarrymen as well as the limits imposed by the physical context. The Romans exploited opencast as well as...
National audienceAbout twelve quarries of micaschist, gneiss and pegmatitic granite were found in th...
La pierre, omniprésente dans la Gaule romaine, est paradoxalement peu étudiée et la plupart du temps...
Quarries of North-Aquitaine in the middle ages. The investigation was conducted in the North-Aquit...
International audienceWith the arrival of the Romans, a great number of ashlar quarries were soon ex...
The excavation of a Gallo-Roman hamlet at La Croix Guillaume (Saint-Quirin, Moselle) revealed severa...
One of the main originalities of the sculpture and architecture of Roman Armorica lies in the extens...
Quarry waste being used by craftsmen revealed the existence of ancient work faces, at the foot of wh...
International audienceOne of the main originalities of the sculpture and architecture of Roman Armor...
International audienceThe excavation of a Gallo-Roman hamlet at La Croix Guillaume (Saint-Quirin, Mo...
The Gallo-Roman quarry of Saint-Boil was found in 1971. Each stage of extraction is readable in this...
The stone of the Bois des Lens is a white and fine-grained limestone extracted in opencast quarries,...
To the west of Nîmes, the fine lime deposit found in the Bois-des-Lens must have been mined at a ver...
Cette journée d’étude, intitulée a pour objectif de réunir des chercheurs en archéologie, archéométr...
International audienceThe Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument wh...
The Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument which carried the water ...
National audienceAbout twelve quarries of micaschist, gneiss and pegmatitic granite were found in th...
La pierre, omniprésente dans la Gaule romaine, est paradoxalement peu étudiée et la plupart du temps...
Quarries of North-Aquitaine in the middle ages. The investigation was conducted in the North-Aquit...
International audienceWith the arrival of the Romans, a great number of ashlar quarries were soon ex...
The excavation of a Gallo-Roman hamlet at La Croix Guillaume (Saint-Quirin, Moselle) revealed severa...
One of the main originalities of the sculpture and architecture of Roman Armorica lies in the extens...
Quarry waste being used by craftsmen revealed the existence of ancient work faces, at the foot of wh...
International audienceOne of the main originalities of the sculpture and architecture of Roman Armor...
International audienceThe excavation of a Gallo-Roman hamlet at La Croix Guillaume (Saint-Quirin, Mo...
The Gallo-Roman quarry of Saint-Boil was found in 1971. Each stage of extraction is readable in this...
The stone of the Bois des Lens is a white and fine-grained limestone extracted in opencast quarries,...
To the west of Nîmes, the fine lime deposit found in the Bois-des-Lens must have been mined at a ver...
Cette journée d’étude, intitulée a pour objectif de réunir des chercheurs en archéologie, archéométr...
International audienceThe Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument wh...
The Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument which carried the water ...
National audienceAbout twelve quarries of micaschist, gneiss and pegmatitic granite were found in th...
La pierre, omniprésente dans la Gaule romaine, est paradoxalement peu étudiée et la plupart du temps...
Quarries of North-Aquitaine in the middle ages. The investigation was conducted in the North-Aquit...