Scardon

The Scardon , river of Picardy, is an affluent of the Somme (Right Bank). Although a low length, its course, of a remarkable stability in time, is of great interest by the prehistoric discoveries of Caours and the rich person inheritance of the town of Saint-Riquier.

Geography

Scardon runs out of Saint-Riquier to Abbeville through the Ponthieu. Its course is limited to 12,4 kilometers but its valley, directed north-eastern/south-western, continues upstream, without apparent flow, on ten kilometers. The river receives two small affluents with Abbeville: Drucat and Novion. Thanks to the latter, the Bassin pouring of Scardon extends on 206 km ² and gets for the river a flow of 1,4 m ³ /s with the discharge system

The valley of Scardon can reach 700 meters in its greater width (what can appear astonishing for a river of this size) and is crossed by imposing the Viaduc of the Autoroute has 16, built according to the technique of the concrete prestressed in 1997 and length of: 1022 meters.

History

In an area rich in prehistoric vestiges, a recent discovery, carried out with Caours in the valley of Scardon, could make it possible to better include/understand the destiny of the man of Néandertal or to still thicken the mystery of its disappearance. The presence of a site néandertalien of cutting of animals at the time of the period of the Eémien (: 130000 with: 115000 years before our era) proves, according to the specialists, that Néandertal had adapted perfectly to the moderate climate which reigned then on the region. That thus calls into question the theory according to which the disappearance of this formidable hunter would have been directly related to its impossibility to support the brutal climate changes which reigned then (alternation of glacial periods and periods of warming). The religious establishment knew its more brilliant period under the direction of the abbot Angilbert, adviser of Charlemagne, which did of them one of the great centers of studies of Christendom. In spite of its destruction by the Norman in 881, the radiation of the abbey persisted until the beginning of the 12th century when the latter was set fire to, in 1131, by a local lord, the Count of Saint-pol., Hugues III of Campdavaine. New confusions, at the 15th century and the 16th century, ruined it definitively

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