Series: Documents d'Archéologie Française

The workshop itself has still to be located, but excavations around the Roman baths yielded hundreds of figurines and casts, together with the originals from which the moulds were made. Venus, female busts, and birds were the commonest types, followed by dogs, bulls, horses, thornpullers, and sitting or standing figures. The complete absence of mother-goddess figures is noted. Specialist studies of the casts, dendrochronology, terra sigillata, lamps, amphorae, coins, metalwork, and a small faunal sample, are provided.

Excavation on the island of Tatihou off Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue on the east coast of the Cotentin peninsula in lower Normandy, France, revealed three phases of occupation at the end of the Early Bronze Age and during the Middle Bronze Age with ditch systems, post-built structures, ovens or kilns, pits and mortuary enclosures. The pottery and flint showed parallels of unprecedented quality with material from England as well as from northern France and Brittany. Environmental evidence provided only a few snapshots of the occupation. In French; includes an English summary.

Includes: E Zadora-Rio (pp 11-13), La prospection archéologique et l'évolution de la notion de site [Archaeological prospection and the growth of the idea of a site]; P Fasham (19-28), Approches de la prospection systématique [Systematic prospection (deciding when to walk in lines or by grids)]; P Everson (29-35), Occupation du sol au Moyen Age et à  l'époque moderne dans le nord du Lincolnshire (Grande-Bretagne) [Medieval and later settlement in N Lincs (earthwork plans to common scales)]; D Hall (39-45), Recherches dans les plaines tourbeuses des Fenlands dans l'est de l'Angleterre [Research in the Fenland peats (sample areas of 1000ha and over; 200ha per day surveyed and recorded)]; A Hesse (85-6), Pour une contribution possible des méthodes géophysiques à  la découverte des sites [The potential contribution of geophysical methods to site discovery (mechanical and automated recording, thermal prospection from the air, etc)]; F Verhaeghe (101-7), La prospection 'sensu lato': quelques expériences en Flandres (Belgique) [Prospection sensu lato: some Flemish work (two projects, one on medieval settlement, the other on post-Roman landscape and settlement use; importance of regressive methods drawing all written and archaeological sources together to produce true landscape archaeology)]; P Gouletquer (147-53), Prospection archéologique et organisation de l'espace [Archaeological survey and spatial organization (haphazard fieldwalking no longer enough: total survey to carefully formulated research designs)]; A Fleming (161-8), Les délimitations territoriales de l'Age du Bronze dans la region de Dartmoor (Grande-Bretagne) [Territorial boundaries of the Bronze Age on Dartmoor (defines communities covering 20-70km2 each)].

Major survey of the industry, with 30 contributions on general studies (eg potters' accounts, socio-professional analysis, databank experiences) and on the four major production areas of S, Central, and E Gaul plus Upper Germany. Includes index of potters' names.

Statistical study of a homogeneous flint assemblage has thrown light on the site's raw material resource management system.

Systematic study of the products of several potters' workshops, all well dated. Over 900 lamps are included, and it is shown that existing lamps were often used to make moulds, resulting in 'forgeries' of well-known potters' work. Catalogues of lamps, of decorations, and of signatures and marks are provided.

A study of the tombs, set against their Iron Age background, shows a remarkable continuity from the Iron Age to the 9th century AD; the rite was cremation, as in La Tène burials, and a few select gravegoods were deposited with a monument of some sort above ground. Only the technology of the gravegoods distinguishes a Roman period tomb from a Gaulish one, and throughout the dead had to be given due attention and offerings. Armorica remained a cultural backwater for much of the Roman period, but a marked change (brought about by troubles to the east?) in 4th century saw increased richness of tombs, though the lower classes kept on their old ways. If Germans and Britons were arriving in later 4th century, the extent of their influence on funerary customs is not clear.