Medieval potters' workshops unearthed in France's Sevrey
7/23/2018 11:00:00 PM
Inrap is currently conducting a preventive archaeological excavation in the heart of the municipality of Sevrey, on request of the State (DRAC Burgundy-Franche-Comté). Carried out as part of a private development, this project is now arousing the interest of the scientific community and considerably enriching knowledge of Sevrey's past.
The archaeological heritage of Sevrey is of great wealth: previous excavations have shown that since the end of Antiquity, many potters have settled here and their products have spread over a large south-eastern quarter of Gaul. This commune is ideally located near a clay deposit, the Saône and the Ferté forest. In the 1970s, archaeological research and surveys led to several research publications on Severtine production. In the 2000s, two preventive excavations made it possible to document several kilns and to distinguish two ceramic types, the so-called "bistre" orange pottery, produced between the 6th and 7th centuries and a greyish pottery produced between the 9th and 11th centuries.
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