Le site paléochrétien Notre-Dame de la Place à Bordeaux : nouveaux acquis chronologiques
Abstract: In 1983, during a rescue excavation, a semi-circular apse has been discovered under the church Notre-Dame de la Place close to the medieval cathedral of Bordeaux. The context of the discovery and numerous historical and archaeological indicia led archaeologists to identify these remains as...
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| author | Petra Urbanova Pierre Regaldo-Saint Blancard Pierre Guibert Philippe Lanos Gwenaël Herve Philippe Dufresne Armel Bouvier |
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| description | Abstract: In 1983, during a rescue excavation, a semi-circular apse has been discovered under the church Notre-Dame de la Place close to the medieval cathedral of Bordeaux. The context of the discovery and numerous historical and archaeological indicia led archaeologists to identify these remains as the Saint-Mary church. On the bases of the poem written by the Latin poet and hymnographer Venantius Fortunatus, the historian Aliette de Maillé suggested in 1959 a hypothesis that the church had been constructed during the episcopate of Léonce II between 549 and 567. Even if it is clear that the city centre of Bordeaux was strongly affected by paleochristianism, certain uncertainties, concerning in particular a chronology of these remains, persisted. The goal of our study was first to carry out a critical analyses of existing historical and archaeological data and second to perform physical dating of construction materials through thermoluminescence, optically stimulated luminescence and archaeomagnetism. The synthesis of the sixteen newly-acquired dates was obtained by using Bayesian chronological modelling. The results indicate that the most probable date for the construction of the apse is situated between the second half of the 4th and the first half of the 5th century AD. This new chronology which is more ancient than initially believed, atypical architectural features of the construction and numerous uncertainties pinpointed in the historical interpretation lead us to reconsider these archaeological remains, that are—since 40 years—believed to represent the most ancient attested and preserved church of Bordeaux. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ca0de8b37e474f6fa6a03b63852680eb2025-08-20T02:32:38ZfraOpenEditionArchéologie Médiévale0153-93372608-42282022-12-015274510.4000/archeomed.53619Le site paléochrétien Notre-Dame de la Place à Bordeaux : nouveaux acquis chronologiquesPetra UrbanovaPierre Regaldo-Saint BlancardPierre GuibertPhilippe LanosGwenaël HervePhilippe DufresneArmel BouvierAbstract: In 1983, during a rescue excavation, a semi-circular apse has been discovered under the church Notre-Dame de la Place close to the medieval cathedral of Bordeaux. The context of the discovery and numerous historical and archaeological indicia led archaeologists to identify these remains as the Saint-Mary church. On the bases of the poem written by the Latin poet and hymnographer Venantius Fortunatus, the historian Aliette de Maillé suggested in 1959 a hypothesis that the church had been constructed during the episcopate of Léonce II between 549 and 567. Even if it is clear that the city centre of Bordeaux was strongly affected by paleochristianism, certain uncertainties, concerning in particular a chronology of these remains, persisted. The goal of our study was first to carry out a critical analyses of existing historical and archaeological data and second to perform physical dating of construction materials through thermoluminescence, optically stimulated luminescence and archaeomagnetism. The synthesis of the sixteen newly-acquired dates was obtained by using Bayesian chronological modelling. The results indicate that the most probable date for the construction of the apse is situated between the second half of the 4th and the first half of the 5th century AD. This new chronology which is more ancient than initially believed, atypical architectural features of the construction and numerous uncertainties pinpointed in the historical interpretation lead us to reconsider these archaeological remains, that are—since 40 years—believed to represent the most ancient attested and preserved church of Bordeaux.https://journals.openedition.org/archeomed/53619Venantius Fortunatuschurchapsisdatingbuilding mortarbrick |
| spellingShingle | Petra Urbanova Pierre Regaldo-Saint Blancard Pierre Guibert Philippe Lanos Gwenaël Herve Philippe Dufresne Armel Bouvier Le site paléochrétien Notre-Dame de la Place à Bordeaux : nouveaux acquis chronologiques Archéologie Médiévale Venantius Fortunatus church apsis dating building mortar brick |
| title | Le site paléochrétien Notre-Dame de la Place à Bordeaux : nouveaux acquis chronologiques |
| title_full | Le site paléochrétien Notre-Dame de la Place à Bordeaux : nouveaux acquis chronologiques |
| title_fullStr | Le site paléochrétien Notre-Dame de la Place à Bordeaux : nouveaux acquis chronologiques |
| title_full_unstemmed | Le site paléochrétien Notre-Dame de la Place à Bordeaux : nouveaux acquis chronologiques |
| title_short | Le site paléochrétien Notre-Dame de la Place à Bordeaux : nouveaux acquis chronologiques |
| title_sort | le site paleochretien notre dame de la place a bordeaux nouveaux acquis chronologiques |
| topic | Venantius Fortunatus church apsis dating building mortar brick |
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