Plancaille earth stable
The earth stable of Plancaille ( French le Souterrain de Plancaille ) discovered in 1993 is a medieval earth stable from the 13th century. It is located in a hillside in Revel in the Haute-Garonne in the region Occitan in southern France .
The approximately 14.0 m long basement , carved out of the reddish-white sandstone subsoil, runs straight, only to bend at about 45 ° shortly before the eastern end. The western end could not be determined because of a fall. Here is a composition of four plates, 60 cm above ground level, on which charcoal and artefacts were found. The floor is 2.5 m below the vertical entrance, which is also the original.
Finds
About 50 shards of gray and black medieval pottery, money, handles of various pots, an iron ax, a knife with a sheath and a nail were found. The animal bones come from pigs.
literature
- Dorothée Kleinmann: The medieval basement in France. In: Journal of Archeology of the Middle Ages. Cologne 7.1979, pp. 143-165. ISSN 0340-0824
- Adrien Blanchet: Les souterrains-refuges de la France In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 1920-3 pp. 119–120
- Jean-Paul Calvet: Revel (Haute-Garonne). Souterrain de Plancaille In: Archéologie médiévale Année 1994 24 pp. 404-405
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Coordinates: 43 ° 25 ′ 50.1 ″ N , 1 ° 58 ′ 7.5 ″ E