visit of the cellar to the sarcophagi

Name: visit of the cellar to the sarcophagi
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:30:00+02:00
Location: TROGLODYTES ET SARCOPHAGES

free visit of the site with a paper guide + video

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

3€

didier chabot

free visit of the site with a paper guide + video presenting the closed areas to the public

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Visite libre

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About the location

TROGLODYTES ET SARCOPHAGES

1, rue de la Croix Mordret 49400 Doué-la-Fontaine

Maine-et-Loire
Pays de la Loire

Troglodyte Site: at the beginning of the Middle Ages, thousands of sarcophagi are going to be extracted in underground careers(quarries) transformed progressively into a large strengthened refuge. The archaeologists found all their trade secrets. Career(Quarry) opened from VI s. for the extraction of tanks and lids of sarcophagi; become then underground passage-refuge, then housing environment with chapel (XIIIs). Partly underground, partly air career(quarry), more than a hectare. dug(accentuated) in benches of limestone coskittles (faluns of Anjou); the clear galleries as well as the detailed areas of extraction allowed the reconstruction of the operating chaine of extraction; it is possible to see on the spot tanks in the course of extraction and the working zones of caviers (works of M Michel cousin from 1989 till 1995 in planned excavations). Currently this type(chap) of careers(quarries) is unique(only) in the region.