06 SEPTEMBRE 2017 NEWS: Londres - Dijon - Triquet Island - Człuchów -
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ROYAUME UNI – 
Londres - The archeological exploration had already yielded shards of Roman pottery and coins, as well as uncovering part of a major Roman road leading from the City of London to Chichester. But six months into the dig on a Southwark building site, the council’s pre-construction archaelogists made a remarkable discovery: a 1,600-year-old stone sarcophagus — around which the bones of an adult and a small child were scattered. ‘We think it may have contained the body of a member of the nobility — the quality of the stone and the fact it was surrounded by chalk foundations indicates it may even have been part of a mausoleum,’ says Richard von Kalinowski-Meager, an archaeological consultant on the site.
https://www.metro.news/evidence-of-southwarks-coffin-culture/734934/
FRANCE – 
Dijon - L'Inrap mène, sur prescription de l’État (Drac Bourgogne-Franche-Comté), une campagne de fouilles archéologiques préventives à l'emplacement de l'ancien hôpital général. Ces recherches ont pour objectif de connaître le passé de ce faubourg du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle, au regard de l’évolution du système défensif, des aménagements successifs de l’hôpital et des rivières Ouche et Raines. Elles permettront également de mieux connaître les populations qui ont vécu et travaillé dans le faubourg. La 1ère phase, réalisée à l’automne 2016, a révélé une partie du faubourg Raines, situé à l’extérieur des fortifications aujourd’hui détruites. D’août à octobre 2017, la deuxième phase, qui a démarré lundi 21 août, va permettre aux archéologues de mettre au jour les vestiges de l’ancien hôpital. La zone actuellement fouillée semble ne pas avoir été occupée durant la période antique en raison de fréquentes inondations de l’Ouche et du Raines. Le quartier commence à être investi à partir du XIIe siècle, notamment avec la construction des premières fortifications puis la fondation de l’hôpital du Saint-Esprit en 1204. Ce dernier est construit sur une île située immédiatement à proximité du pont qui enjambe l’Ouche. Érigé à l’initiative du duc de Bourgogne, il a pour fonction première l’accueil des enfants abandonnés et des pèlerins. Deux autres institutions hospitalières le rejoignent au XVIIe siècle : l’hospice Sainte-Anne et l’hôpital Notre-Dame de la Charité. Dans les années 1680, suite à la réforme hospitalière, ces trois structures sont réunies sous le nom d’hôpital général. Le diagnostic archéologique mené en 2013 a permis d’identifier une partie de la salle des malades et « la cour des fous ». L’étude de l’hôpital de Dijon est très prometteuse car il témoigne de plus de 810 ans d’histoire hospitalière.
http://www.inrap.fr/archeologie-dijon-les-vestiges-de-l-ancien-hopital-general-13004
CANADA – 
Triquet Island - Four hundred (perhaps thousands) of years, generations of the Heiltsuk Nation — an indigenous group in British Columbia — have passed down the oral histories of where they came from. The Nation claims that its ancestors fled for survival to a coastal area in Canada that never froze during the Ice Age. A new excavation on Triquet Island on British Columbia’s Central Coast has now backed up that claim, according to local news outlet CBC. Archaeologist Alisha Gauvreau, a Ph.D student from the University of Victoria and a scholar with the research institute Hakai, led a team that excavated the site in late 2016. They discovered several artifacts from what appears to be an ancient village, including carved wooden tools and bits of charcoal, in a thin horizontal layer of soil, called paleosol. The team then sent the charcoal flakes to a lab for carbon dating, and found that the pieces date back approximately between 13,613 to 14,086 years ago. The artifacts are some of the oldest found in North America.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/ancient-canadian-village-older-than-pyramids-2017-9
POLOGNE – 
Człuchów - A hoard of coins has been discovered in Człuchów Castle in northern Poland, dating from the mid-17th century. A total of 18 coins were hidden in the fortress by its defenders, in a last-ditch attempt to save them from the Swedish army during an invasion. The treasure was discovered in a defensive gate tower. There were thought to have been more coins in the hoard originally, but they had been discovered and looted before by a worker in the late 19th or early 20th century. The coins had been hidden there during a siege on the castle in 1655-56. This was part of 'The Deluge', a sustained series of attacks by the Swedes on Poland and Lithuania in the mid-17th century. The coins included large orts with the insignia of Sigismund III Vasa, John Casimier and the Austrian archduke Leopold V. Orts were introduced in the 17th century for foreign trade, but decreased in value rapidly due to American ore flooding the market in the mid-18th century.
