A monumental grave, hundreds of objects… 5,000 years of historical past below the freeway in Clermont-Ferrand – Muricas News

The Bargoin museum in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) affords an unprecedented step again. Entitled “Le temps de la Méridienne”, an exhibition brings collectively on three flooring a few of the archaeological discoveries made through the preventive excavations as a part of the widening works of the A75, to the south and east of Clermont-Ferrand, between 2018 and 2020. The basement, dug by the APRR (Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhône), and the Inrap (Nationwide Institute for Preventive Archaeological Analysis), has revealed some unsuspected treasures thus far, together with by essentially the most eminent specialists.

“4 websites have been excavated over about fifteen kilometers and the decision is remaining. For us, a few of the discoveries are completely sudden,” admits Marie Bèche-Wittmann, deputy director of the Bargoin museum and curator of the exhibition. Beginning with the exhumation of an alignment of huge menhirs found on the location of Douleix, in Veyre-Monton (Puy-de-Dôme) and dated between – 4,700 and – 4,400. Amongst them is a feminine Neolithic stele.

“That is the primary time within the area that we've found the sort of alignment just like these of Carnac in Brittany. These menhirs in all probability marked the passage of a go, or bordered a path. We don’t actually know,” says Marie Bèche-Wittmann.

One other distinctive discovery, about fifty human our bodies together with a monumental burial relationship from the Center Bronze Age and the burials of younger kids from the Early Bronze Age. The exhibition additionally provides satisfaction of place to unearthed objects with the presentation of some 300 of them. The chronological journey is an invite to dive into the day by day lifetime of the inhabitants of Auvergne 5 millennia in the past.