Aux marges de l’ancienne agglomération antique du Camp de César : Saint-Jean-de-Todon alias Saint-Jean-de-Rousigue (Laudun-L’Ardoise, Gard)

摘要

Since 2002, the church of the Clunisian rural prieuré of Saint-Jean-de-Todon is the subject of programmed excavations. This religious building on a calcareous plateau overlooking the Rhone valley constitutes the most recent occupation of a Gallic then Roman town named the Camp of Caesar. It includes a nave closed by an apse and is 24,8 m long by 8 m wide. Ten excavation campaigns showed that the existing construction was built in several successive stages and possesses a complex history which may plunge its roots in the Vth or VIIth centuries and ends in the modern period. A cemetery in use between the second half of the IXth century and the end of the XIIIth century (twelve radiocarbon datings) extends to the South and West of the building. In recent years, exhaustive excavation became a priority because of its links with the various building phases and the exceptional preservation of tomb signalizations. The estimated total is about 200 graves and for the moment 141 anthropomorphic coffers and 141 secondary deposits have been studied.