La trajectoire d’un établissement de haut rang du second âge du Fer à la fin de l’Antiquité : les “Cinquante Arpents” à Tremblay-en-France (Seine-Saint-Denis)

Abstract

The “Cinquante Arpentsʺsettlement at Tremblay-en-France (Seine-Saint-Denis) was founded at the turn of the 4th and 3rd c. BC on the north-eastern edge of the city of Parisii. Its occupation was continuous until the end of the 3rd century AD, followed by a brief settlement in the last third of the 4th century. Despite it being heavily eroded, a wealth of data on finds and features represent seven well-characterised occupation phases, grouped into four main phases: Middle and Late Tène, the Early Roman Empire, the second half of the 3rd century and the end of the 4th century. For most of its long history, the site was home to an elite whose prosperity was based on the exchange of agricultural produce and through the control of the surrounding farmland. Its social position and the legibility of its interpretative models make it a benchmark site in the Plaine de France.

Keywords

• La Tène
• Antiquity
• aristocratic settlement
• domain
• centralisation/redistribution of agricultural produce