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17 - Geography, Environmental Studies and Archaeology
University of Edinburgh
Un complexe princier de l’Âge du Fer : le quartier artisanal de Port Sec sud à Bourges (Cher)
Final report on 12 ha excavation within a military establishment 2+km from the earlier core of Bourges. 261 features, dominantly semi-sunken workshops with secondary fills, were examined; ‘planning’ was not identifiable. Imports (1% of assemblage) included Attic red-figure, Massaliote and Etruscan amphorae, coral, amber; local slow-wheel-finished pot was present. Crafts in copper-alloy, iron, bone and textiles were extensively represented. This phase lasted three generations before rapid abandonment, finishing within Tene A1, but massively enlarging (to 200 ha?) the fifth- century-BC princely complex. Storage pits of Tene B-C suggest reversion to primary sector, despite associated human remains.
