Les gisements Cerny d'Hébécrevon "le village de l'Hôtel Torquet" et "La Couesnerie" (Manche)

Abstract

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.

A well-preserved Michelsberg Culture domed oven from Kortrijk, Belgium

“…leaning inward) burnt loam walls, but also fragments of a collapsed dome (Ghesquière et al . 1999: 532). Stone floors seem to be absent in the ovens from northern France; only the example at Crécy-sur-Serre, close to the Belgian border, has a floor of limestone and sandstone pieces inside the combustion chamber (Naze 2011: 397).…”

“…Ten litres of sediment from the oven at Hébécrevon yielded 423 (fragments of) charred seeds, the majority of which were cereal grains (Ghesquière et al . 1999: 540). At Kortrijk, the bottom layer of the stokehole pit also yielded cereal grains, but their connection with the oven's function is less clear.…”

“…The discovery of a well-preserved single-chamber domed oven at Kortrijk represents a rare find from the Neolithic period in Western Europe, with only a few parallels known in northern France (Lepaumier & Morzadec 1998; Marcigny & Ghesquière 1998; Ghesquière et al 1999; Dron et al 2002; Hérard 2007; Hauzeur 2008; Samzun & Warmé 2008; Hinguant 2010; Coulon & Dupont 2011; Naze 2011). According to the terminology of Dron et al (2003) and Gascó (2003), they are classified as ‘fours à fosse d'accès’ .…”

“…A similar stratigraphy has been recorded for a Cerny Culture ( c. 4600–4250/4000 cal BC) oven at Hébécrevon (Normandy, France), within which several fragments of an oven dome were discovered collapsed onto the combustion chamber floor (Ghesquière et al . 1999: 532). It is impossible to reconstruct definitively the form of the Kortrijk oven's superstructure, as the wall survives to only a limited height and the dome has collapsed.…”

“…4800–4000 cal BC) (Marcigny & Ghesquière 1998; Ghesquière et al . 1999; Dron et al . 2002, 2003; Hauzeur 2008; Samzun & Warmé 2008; Coulon & Dupont 2011; Naze 2011).…”