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Contractuel Conseil général du Calvados et étudiant en master 2 à l'université de Paris 1.

The development works in Caen's south ring road enabled a partial excavation, concerning a rural late Iron Age Settlement, that was marked by three occupation phases, each of them corresponding to one quadrangular enclosure. The ditches of the second and third occupation phases surrounded two succesive settlements, that kept the same orientation and entrance. The third phase corresponds to an extension of the enclosed surface, beyond the former surrounding ditch, that was filled in at that rime. The occupation levels hâve been eroded away, but many structures hâve been nevertheless recorded, among them several buildings, pits and fumaces, and one large underground with two entrances, linked with the second occupation phase. Ceramics and other artefacts gathered, allow to date the second phase from the end of La Tène moyenne (C) or the beginning of La Tène finale (D), and the third phase from the end of that period.

Résumé L'apport principal de cette fouille réside dans la mise en évidence d'une occupation du Néolithique Moyen I (Cerny) qui a permis l'observation d'un four, type de structure encore inédit pour cette période. L'état de conservation général du gisement interdit hélas toute interprétation d'ordre fonctionnel ou ethnologique. Le mobilier recueilli renouvelle cependant le corpus céramique régional et confirme les données acquises dans le Bassin parisien et en Haute-Normandie sur la filiation V.S.G./Cerny-Videlles.