A rare find in Île-de-France. Researchers have carried out excavations in the Old Country of Tremblay-en-France. And have discovered there nearly 1200 medieval burials.
This is December 2020 that archaeologists have made an incredible discovery: an entire necropolis dating from the Middle Ages.
Indeed, researchers commissioned by GPA (Grand Paris Aménagement) excavated, for ten months, a 5,3 hectare site near Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport.
These excavations revealed part of a village, But also a necropolis of 1200 burials. These date from the 6th-12th centuries, which corresponds to the Merovingian then Carolingian eras.
Aurélie Mayer, archaeo-anthropologist and operation manager, spoke to the site tremblay-en-france.fr:
“We have unearthed 1 primary graves. The deceased were still in place, whole, dressed and deposited in wooden boxes in large pits in the 000th century, in plaster containers thereafter, then shrouded in very narrow pits during the last phase of occupation.. We have also excavated over 200 reductions, which is human bones that have been moved and are no longer in the position they were buried in. Without these preventive excavations, the archaeological remains would have been doomed to destruction.«
now these 1200 graves (and the skeletons they contain) will be analyzed and studied for at least two years.
Moreover, these preventive searches preceded the construction of a stormwater retention basin. (The Aeroliansparis project is carried out with a view to harmonizing respect for the environment and economic activities, which you can discover here.)
Numerous preventive, mandatory searches have been carried out in the airport area, depending on the arrangements.
For more information, click here.
