Jean Terrier

Aux confins de l’empire carolingien, les fouilles archéologiques de l’ancienne agglomération médiévale de Guran en Istrie (Croatie)

The article gives the final results of the eleven years long archaeological survey of the medieval settlement Guran and its surroundings. The fortified settlement was founded after the Carolingian occupation of Istria at the end of the 8th century, as well as the church of St Simeon, containing a privileged burial. In the large three nave basilica north of the settlement were found liturgical furnishings made by the “Master of the Bale capitals”, dated at the end of the 8th or the beginning of the 9th c., but the radio Carbone evidence suggests the church was built in the 11th. Another church, St Cecilia, was built on the edges of a roman villa in late antiquity, some 600 m to the north of the settlement. This church has been transformed at least five times before abandon at the end of the Middle Ages.

Les sites de l’église Sainte-Cécile et de l’agglomération médiévale de Guran en Istrie (Croatie) : neuvième campagne de fouilles archéologiques

The main results of the 2012 excavations campaign on the site of Guran in south Istria are presented. These concern the fortified early medieval settlement the origin of which is dated to the Carolingian period and which was abandoned in the late Middle Ages, and the church of St Cecilia situated some few hundred meters to the north of the settlement. The presented results of the excavations and the restoration of St Cecilia shed some light on the dating of at least two of six phases prior to the existing church. Main objectives of this international project are the analysis of the origin and the architectural development of the church erected on the site of a roman villa, as well as that of the settlement, combined with the study of territorial and ecclesiastic organisation of this part of Istria during late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Les sites de l'église Sainte-Cécile et de l'ancienne agglomération de Guran en Istrie (Croatie) : Dixième campagne de fouilles archéologiques

The main results of the 2011 excavations campaign on the site of Guran in south Istria are presented in this article. These concern the fortified early medieval settlement the origin of which is dated to the Carolingian period and which is abandoned in the late Middle Ages, and the church of St Cecilia situated some few hundred meters to the north of the settlement. The results of the excavations of St Cecilia were particularly rich, revealing at least six phases prior to the existing church. Main objectives of this international project are the analysis of the origin and the architectural development of the church erected on the site of a roman villa, as well as that of the settlement, combined with the study of the territorial and ecclesiastic organisation of this part of Istria during the late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.