L’agglomération de Bliesbruck (Moselle) durant l’Antiquité tardive : entre ruptures et continuités

A diachronic multi-source approach to the study of a historical landscape in Central-Western Europe: the Blies Survey Project

“…In the late 1960s and 1980s, archaeological excavations were carried out at the villas of Grosswald and Heidenkopf (Flotté and Fuchs 2004, 721-27). The end of the eighties marks the beginning of the excavation in the Roman vicus of Bliesbruck (Schaub and Petit 1991;Petit 2000Petit , 2003Flotté and Fuchs 2004;Petit and Santoro 2016;Antonelli and Petit 2017) and in the nearby villa in Reinheim (Reinhard 2010;Sărăţeanu-Müller 2011;Stinsky 2016), which contributed to bring new attention to the theme of minor settlements (Petit, Mangin, and Brunella 1994). A summary of the archaeological research carried out in the micro-region of Bliesbruck-Reinheim is given by J.-P. Petit (2012).…”

“…The Blies Survey Project (BSP) aims to study a region located in the eastern part of the Moselle in France and in the southern part of the Saarland in Germany (Hérapel, Schwarzenacker, Saarbrücken and Sarre Union), within a 12 km radius of the minor settlement of Bliesbruck-Reinheim, at roughly half the distance to other minor settlements (Fig. 1) (Antonelli, Petit, Casolino 2022;Antonelli 2022).…”