Millstones and mills workshop by INRAP archaeologists at Moulin Russon

Name: Taller de muelas y molinos por los arqueólogos del INRAP en el Moulin Russon
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Moulin Russon

The archaeologists of the National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research introduce you to the discovery of the geology of millstones, the history and archaeology of millstones and ...

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

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The archaeologists of the National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research introduce you to the geology of millstones, the history and archaeology of millstones and mills. With demountable and manipulable models, you will rebuild a Gallo-Roman hydraulic mill to better understand the archaeological restitution. Workshop only within the framework of the European Heritage Days.

About the location

Moulin Russon

Rue du Lavoir 77400 Bussy-Saint-Georges

Seine-et-Marne
Île-de-France

Built at the end of the XVIIth century, successively mill with water, industrial building, then particular(special) house of a doctor, the mill Russon was acquired(bought back) by the conurbation of Marne-et-Gondoire which entirely restored it. He joins the conservation area of the Brush and of Gondoire and he benefited from an environmental insertion revalorizing its park. He(It) is decorated with an ecological and pedagogic garden.