De l’étable au pressoir : essai d’interprétation des dépendances agricoles gallo-romaines du site des Jacquins ouest à Neulise dans la Loire (42)

Abstract

The results of the excavation carried out at the site of Jacquins West in Neulise, in the Loire county, allowed us to fill a persistent archaeological gap in that town. The remains combine to reveal a continuous occupation of the site from the Augustan period to the end of the IIIrd cent.-beginning of the IVth cent. AD. Two rural settlements succeed one another between the Ist and the IIIrd cent., prior to the implementation of a parcel boundary. Changes in the land’s status of the parcel are clearly evidenced three to four times. The first phase corresponds to the settlement and evolution of a large traditional Gallic building, enclosed in palisades and plantation trees. The second phase is materialized by the remains of a large masonry construction, equipped with a craft workshop complex that could be identified as a winery outhouse with a wine press. The last phase corresponds to the implementation of a parcel ditch, supplemented by a second ditch of similar orientation in a second phase. These ditches only border plantation pits observed along the limits of the parcel. The site is then abandoned until the Modern period when a series of vineyard plantations and associated drains are evidenced.

Keywords

• rural settlement
• scheepfold
• cowshed
• post hole
• palisade
• press