Titled «Saint-Quentin La Motte Croix au Bailly (Somme): a protohistoric and ancient rural establishment», this brochure presents the results of the excavations carried out on the edge of a silty plateau forming the northern slope of the Bresle valley, near the Roman city of Briga, at «Gros Jacques».
The most significant remains are those from the end of the Middle-Late Tène (2nd and 1st century BC) and their evolution until the beginning of the 3rd century AD.
The main occupation is a rural settlement of La Tène middle-Tène final (II e -I er century BC) of square plan. The heart of the Gallic occupation seems to be the fossoyé establishment of square plan of 25 m of side located in the west center of the plot.
Rectangular enclosures are to the south and north, enclosing small buildings (attics?) and ponds, while to the east, is a space probably more traditional, where stands a sauna oven.
The proximity of a traffic axis has probably allowed to develop rich trade with the neighboring Gallo-Roman city of Briga. If it is possible to evoke a specific (aristocratic?) status of this Gallic farm, its abandonment and the mutation of the occupation towards a more developed craft activity seem to demonstrate the impact of Romanisation on Gallic society.
The numbers composing the collection «Archéologie des Hauts-de-France» are available in the «Information resources» section of the DRAC website in PDF version and on simple written request to the documentation centre of the Drac Hauts-de-France, Site d'Amiens - regional archaeological service - 5 rue Henri Daussy 80000 Amiens.
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