Titre : Origins, development and evidence of cleaning of the limestone concretions during the use of the Gallo-Roman aqueduct of Divona-Cahors (Lot) 

Auteurs : Didier Rigal, Cees W. Passchier, Gül Sürmelihindi,  

Revue : Archaeology, Society and Environment 

Numéro : Issue 1 

Volume : 1 

Date : 2023/03/14 

DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2023.0944 

ISSN : 2752-4507 

Résumé : The archaeological excavations carried out on the aqueduct that supplied the Gallo-Roman city of Cahors (Divona) have discovered sections partially filled with carbonate deposits. These deposits present a laminated facies and variations in thickness along the way of the aqueduct. The recent study of a sequence of deposits 28 cm thick presented here demonstrates the ancient maintenance of the hydraulic structure by identifying anthropic traces of cleaning, sometimes followed by re-capping with hydraulic mortar, in the sedimentary sequences. 

Éditeur : ISTE OpenScience