Les résultats d'une intervention archéologique de sauvetage sur une zone palatiale carolingienne
Martine Petitjean
Excavations at the Marché-aux-Herbes or "Hallettes" Compiègne in Department of Oise were carried out between 1991-1993. They took place North-West part Palatial Complex Compiègne, on its periphery. In early Middle Ages, settlement is characterized by a succession dwellings, for which stone has been largely used, and protected very large dry ditches. Potsherds glass pieces marble, as well coins, specific remnants bones such those crane, swan, sturgeon "smoothed painted" ceramics, bear witness to daily life. course XIIth century, crucial period history organization space changes. It be correlated with granting surrounding areas Carolingian Palace Saint-Corneille clergy. Then, beginning XIIIth these was appropriated middle class. A rivalry possession territories clergy, class King, arose. resulted creation square (where excavations place) surrounded blocks houses disappear 1945.
Revue archéologique de Picardie