Chassey-the-Camp

Chassey-the-Camp is a common French, located in the department of Saône-et-Loire and the area Burgundy.

Geography

History

The village is famous for its site Archéologique of the Neolithic , located in height on a tabular plate.

This site gave its name to a culture of the Neolithic means, the Chasséen.

The culture chasséenne is associated with a remarkable Céramique whose geometrical decorations are engraved after cooking.

Discovered in 1865, the camp of Chassey was excavated of 1866 with 1880, of 1925 with 1927 and in 1953. More recently, an excavation of which the goal was to specify the Stratigraphie was carried out in 1969 by J. - P. Thévenot. The excavation related to a hundred m ² in the southernmost part of the camp, at the place where a defensive structure in arc of circle, “Redoute”, blocks the access to the plate since the south. This excavation was published in September 2005 by the Revue Archéologique of the East.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Saône-et-Loire

Chassey… elsewhere

The name of the commune is found in several places of France and elsewhere in the world.

Chassey-lès-Montbozon, in Haute-Saône;

Chassey-lès-Scey, in Haute-Saône also;

Chassey in Coast-in Or;

Chassey-Bowsprit in the Meuse.

External bonds

Chassey-the-Camp on the site of the National Geographical Institute
Chassey-the-Camp on the site of INSEE
Chassey-the-Camp on the site of Quid
Localization of Chassey-the-Camp on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Chassey-the-Camp on Mapquest

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