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Saint Germain Castle, Embass-en-Bugey (Ain). Campaign 2013 Le château de Saint-Germain, Embass-en-Bugey (Ain). Campaign 2013: Planned archaeological excavation report

Abstract

Of the castles in the department of Ain, the Castle of Saint-Germain in Ambéri-en-Bugey occupies a special place. This is not only a major place in the history of the delphino-yard conflict, having played an important role during the 18th and 14th centuries wars, but also probably a heightening of the height of the Middle Ages. A number of excavation campaigns in the 1970s revealed a chapel and humations attributed to the sixth to seventh centuries as a result of archaeological furniture. This last point, based on long-standing archaeological data, still needs to be broadly substantiated, but it makes Saint-Germain a place with particularly rich archaeological potential, capable of providing information on the genesis of a medieval castrum on the location of an early fortified habitat. In the context of the initiatives to safeguard and develop the Castle of Saint-Germain, carried out by the Amis du Vieux Saint-Germain Association and its Castle, great attention must be paid to archaeological research designed to document the various phases of occupation of the site. A first year of planned search was therefore devoted to carrying out a summary inventory of the site’s conservation, including the main elements of interpretation on the topography and organisation of the château. The buildings on the upper courtyard attack front have been the subject of a building study designed to characterise the chronology and organisation of the buildings around the master tower. In addition, ground polls covered stratigraphy in the vicinity of this major building of the château.

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