To the west of Nîmes, the fine lime deposit found in the Bois-des-Lens must have been mined at a very early date and exported onto various Roman sites in southern Gaul between Fréjus and Narbonne. Various archaeological investigations have been carried out on this site over the past years : excavations, drilling and especially a great deal of propecting usual in the case of ancient Roman quarries. This prospecting has now sufficiently advanced to draw up a preliminary inventory of thèse old mining quarries; out of 19 sites located, 15 of them hâve now been formally identified as dating from Antiquity. A first attemp at estimating the minimum volume of stones extracted from these sites in those days would be between 10 000 and 15 000 m3, whi...
Quarries of North-Aquitaine in the middle ages. The investigation was conducted in the North-Aquit...
La pierre, omniprésente dans la Gaule romaine, est paradoxalement peu étudiée et la plupart du temps...
The economy of the stone is a most interdisciplinary field of research which raises very diverse pro...
To the west of Nîmes, the fine lime deposit found in the Bois-des-Lens must have been mined at a ver...
The stone of the Bois des Lens is a white and fine-grained limestone extracted in opencast quarries,...
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...
International audienceThe Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument wh...
The recent studies on ancient Pyrenean marble quarries turned towards three directions : field work ...
International audienceOne of the main originalities of the sculpture and architecture of Roman Armor...
The Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument which carried the water ...
The study of ornaments made out of minerals has concerned a quite abundant material : some 35,000 ob...
J.-C. Bessac. — Data and hypothesis on the works in the quarries of the Estel near the Pont du Gard,...
International audienceThe study of ornaments made out of minerals has concerned a quite abundant mat...
One of the main originalities of the sculpture and architecture of Roman Armorica lies in the extens...
Quarries of North-Aquitaine in the middle ages. The investigation was conducted in the North-Aquit...
La pierre, omniprésente dans la Gaule romaine, est paradoxalement peu étudiée et la plupart du temps...
The economy of the stone is a most interdisciplinary field of research which raises very diverse pro...
To the west of Nîmes, the fine lime deposit found in the Bois-des-Lens must have been mined at a ver...
The stone of the Bois des Lens is a white and fine-grained limestone extracted in opencast quarries,...
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...
International audienceThe Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument wh...
The recent studies on ancient Pyrenean marble quarries turned towards three directions : field work ...
International audienceOne of the main originalities of the sculpture and architecture of Roman Armor...
The Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument which carried the water ...
The study of ornaments made out of minerals has concerned a quite abundant material : some 35,000 ob...
J.-C. Bessac. — Data and hypothesis on the works in the quarries of the Estel near the Pont du Gard,...
International audienceThe study of ornaments made out of minerals has concerned a quite abundant mat...
One of the main originalities of the sculpture and architecture of Roman Armorica lies in the extens...
Quarries of North-Aquitaine in the middle ages. The investigation was conducted in the North-Aquit...
La pierre, omniprésente dans la Gaule romaine, est paradoxalement peu étudiée et la plupart du temps...
The economy of the stone is a most interdisciplinary field of research which raises very diverse pro...