Depuis trois ans, le site du Mont Castel fait l’objet de fouilles archéologiques programmées à la... more Depuis trois ans, le site du Mont Castel fait l’objet de fouilles archéologiques programmées à la fin de l’été. Cette année, c’est principalement l’occupation de la fin de l’indépendance gauloise qui a fait l’objet d’un travail de fond. Il est désormais possible de dresser dans ces grandes lignes les modalités d’occupation du site. Nous rappellerons toutefois, avant de présenter l’occupation de La Tène D2b, que le site est fortifié et occupé dès le Bronze final IIIa et fait l’objet durant le ..
Dans le courant de l’année 2010, un dépôt d’objets métalliques datés de la fin de l’âge du Bronze... more Dans le courant de l’année 2010, un dépôt d’objets métalliques datés de la fin de l’âge du Bronze final a été découvert au lieu-dit « la Chapelle des Roches » en la commune du Châtellier dans l’Orne. La parcelle concernée se situe au sein d’un environnement particulier, puisqu‘il s’agit d’un promontoire rocheux, formant un petit éperon dominant le cours de La Varenne d’une cinquantaine de mètres. La découverte se présentait sous la forme d’un regroupement de soixante-quinze objets contenus da..
International audienceA hoard consisting only of fragments from one or several flesh-hooks was fo... more International audienceA hoard consisting only of fragments from one or several flesh-hooks was found in 2012 in Normandy by a metaldetectorist. The fragments have made it possible to identify at least one object belonging to the class 3 defined byS. Needham and S. Bowman, and similar to the one found in Dunaverney, Ulster. The ornamental bird models arenot corvids or palmipeds, as on the Dunaverney example, but more likely wood pigeons. A Late Bronze Age III datehas been put forward for this hoard. This raises the question of the symbolic meaning of the various animal figurines,either birds or quadrupeds, decorating flesh-hooks and articulated roasting spits from the Late Atlantic Bronze Age asa possible ethnic or lineage identity marker.Un dépôt uniquement composé de fragments d’un ou de plusieurs crochets à viande a été trouvé clandestinement parun détectoriste en Normandie en 2012. Les fragments permettent d’identifier au moins un instrument de la classe 3définie par S. Needham e...
Deux dépôts métalliques du Bronze final atlantique 3 récent découverts à Belle-Île-en-Mer (Morbihan) : Calastrène à Bangor et Bordustard au Palais, 2018
Les dépôts métalliques de la fin de l'âge du Bronze dans le Morbihan : remarques sur quelques dépôts de l'horizon de l'épée du type en langue de carpe, 2018
Bordas F. et Marcigny C., 2019 – Un nouveau dépôt de l’horizon de Longueville découvert au Mont C... more Bordas F. et Marcigny C., 2019 – Un nouveau dépôt de l’horizon de Longueville découvert au Mont Castel à Commes (Calvados), Bulletin de l’APRAB, n° 17-2019, p. 164-170.
Depuis trois ans, le site du Mont Castel fait l’objet de fouilles archéologiques programmées à la... more Depuis trois ans, le site du Mont Castel fait l’objet de fouilles archéologiques programmées à la fin de l’été. Cette année, c’est principalement l’occupation de la fin de l’indépendance gauloise qui a fait l’objet d’un travail de fond. Il est désormais possible de dresser dans ces grandes lignes les modalités d’occupation du site. Nous rappellerons toutefois, avant de présenter l’occupation de La Tène D2b, que le site est fortifié et occupé dès le Bronze final IIIa et fait l’objet durant le ..
Dans le courant de l’année 2010, un dépôt d’objets métalliques datés de la fin de l’âge du Bronze... more Dans le courant de l’année 2010, un dépôt d’objets métalliques datés de la fin de l’âge du Bronze final a été découvert au lieu-dit « la Chapelle des Roches » en la commune du Châtellier dans l’Orne. La parcelle concernée se situe au sein d’un environnement particulier, puisqu‘il s’agit d’un promontoire rocheux, formant un petit éperon dominant le cours de La Varenne d’une cinquantaine de mètres. La découverte se présentait sous la forme d’un regroupement de soixante-quinze objets contenus da..
International audienceA hoard consisting only of fragments from one or several flesh-hooks was fo... more International audienceA hoard consisting only of fragments from one or several flesh-hooks was found in 2012 in Normandy by a metaldetectorist. The fragments have made it possible to identify at least one object belonging to the class 3 defined byS. Needham and S. Bowman, and similar to the one found in Dunaverney, Ulster. The ornamental bird models arenot corvids or palmipeds, as on the Dunaverney example, but more likely wood pigeons. A Late Bronze Age III datehas been put forward for this hoard. This raises the question of the symbolic meaning of the various animal figurines,either birds or quadrupeds, decorating flesh-hooks and articulated roasting spits from the Late Atlantic Bronze Age asa possible ethnic or lineage identity marker.Un dépôt uniquement composé de fragments d’un ou de plusieurs crochets à viande a été trouvé clandestinement parun détectoriste en Normandie en 2012. Les fragments permettent d’identifier au moins un instrument de la classe 3définie par S. Needham e...
Deux dépôts métalliques du Bronze final atlantique 3 récent découverts à Belle-Île-en-Mer (Morbihan) : Calastrène à Bangor et Bordustard au Palais, 2018
Les dépôts métalliques de la fin de l'âge du Bronze dans le Morbihan : remarques sur quelques dépôts de l'horizon de l'épée du type en langue de carpe, 2018
Bordas F. et Marcigny C., 2019 – Un nouveau dépôt de l’horizon de Longueville découvert au Mont C... more Bordas F. et Marcigny C., 2019 – Un nouveau dépôt de l’horizon de Longueville découvert au Mont Castel à Commes (Calvados), Bulletin de l’APRAB, n° 17-2019, p. 164-170.
Marcigny C., Gandois H., Bordas F., Melin M., Nordez M., 2019 – Premiers trésors normands, les dé... more Marcigny C., Gandois H., Bordas F., Melin M., Nordez M., 2019 – Premiers trésors normands, les dépôts d’objets de l’âge du Bronze (2300-800 av. JC.), MAHB/APRAB, éd. OREP, 22 p.
During the end of the Late Bronze Age (BFa 3 – 950-800 BC), non-funerary hoards are especially nu... more During the end of the Late Bronze Age (BFa 3 – 950-800 BC), non-funerary hoards are especially numerous in Atlantic Gaul. In this area, stretching from the Charente to Flanders, 255 hoards have been reported, yielding no less than 18,000 metallic elements. Despite significant progress in the understanding of this practice, the precise sequence of actions that led to the creation of hoards is still the subject of varied and contradictory hypotheses. Our objective has therefore been to gather and question this documentation in order to reconstruct the principal modalities of the constitution of atlantic hoards dating from BFa 3 and to contribute to the characterization of the techno-economic and cultural landscape of the Late Bronze Age. The elements that are debated concern above all the place and role of fragmentation and manipulation, the reality of acts of selection and exclusion, the duration of objects collection, the definitive or provisional character of hoards, as well as the integration of this practice into the economic systems of the Late Bronze Age.
Among the many intermediate questions raised by this subject, the most essential relate to the status of the metal at the time of its burial. Are the metallic remains immobilized for their exchange value, their use value or for their possible symbolic charge? Are these batches accumulated randomly according to the dynamics of production and circulation of the metal, or do they testify to phenomena of selection and manipulation that are sufficiently powerful and standardized to order the way in which the metal is immobilized? Do the different treatments perceptible on the objects (fragmentation, manipulation, selection of objects) intervene at the time and for the needs of the hoards or are they completely disconnected from them?
According to our observations, the hoards from BFa 3 can be considered as ensembles mostly constituted from elements whose use may have been eventualy premonetary. However, the assemblage of metal is not completely random. Typical compositions, corresponding to sufficiently marked cultural traits, have been identified. Variations from one area to another would be explained by the intermingling of several factors. Some depend on the structure of the groups practicing the deposits: the size of the communities involved, their social composition and the choices made regarding the quantity of metal immobilized. Others depend on the way in which the metal circulates: access to the metal, the intensity of exchanges and the number of economic agents involved, the existence or not of premonetary objects that are more favorably used than others. Still other variables refer to considerations relating to the intentionality of the hoards, but also to the symbolic systems impregnating the different cultural groups of the Late Bronze Age in varying ways. In this respect, we believe that an object that has lost its use value can, independently of its exchange value, retain a symbolic charge that can be mobilized within the framework of deposits (materializing an individual, a cultural group, a status, an idea, the life cycle of the metal), but also a historical or memorial value, especially when it comes to ancient objects. The concomitance of definitive fixed assets and others, provisional, is finally suggested, but will have to be, in the future, the object of numerous and precise contextual investigations.
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Among the many intermediate questions raised by this subject, the most essential relate to the status of the metal at the time of its burial. Are the metallic remains immobilized for their exchange value, their use value or for their possible symbolic charge? Are these batches accumulated randomly according to the dynamics of production and circulation of the metal, or do they testify to phenomena of selection and manipulation that are sufficiently powerful and standardized to order the way in which the metal is immobilized? Do the different treatments perceptible on the objects (fragmentation, manipulation, selection of objects) intervene at the time and for the needs of the hoards or are they completely disconnected from them?
According to our observations, the hoards from BFa 3 can be considered as ensembles mostly constituted from elements whose use may have been eventualy premonetary. However, the assemblage of metal is not completely random. Typical compositions, corresponding to sufficiently marked cultural traits, have been identified. Variations from one area to another would be explained by the intermingling of several factors. Some depend on the structure of the groups practicing the deposits: the size of the communities involved, their social composition and the choices made regarding the quantity of metal immobilized. Others depend on the way in which the metal circulates: access to the metal, the intensity of exchanges and the number of economic agents involved, the existence or not of premonetary objects that are more favorably used than others. Still other variables refer to considerations relating to the intentionality of the hoards, but also to the symbolic systems impregnating the different cultural groups of the Late Bronze Age in varying ways. In this respect, we believe that an object that has lost its use value can, independently of its exchange value, retain a symbolic charge that can be mobilized within the framework of deposits (materializing an individual, a cultural group, a status, an idea, the life cycle of the metal), but also a historical or memorial value, especially when it comes to ancient objects. The concomitance of definitive fixed assets and others, provisional, is finally suggested, but will have to be, in the future, the object of numerous and precise contextual investigations.