In Seclin, forty years of local excavations shed light on 17 centuries of history and legends

In May, a pair of skeletons appeared at the foot of the Saint-Piat collegiate church.

One was that of a person who lived in late Roman times, in what was then northern Gaul.

The other was a Merovingian, possibly a contemporary of Clovis.

Both were discovered during a preventive excavation operation entrusted to one of the most modest public actors in archeology in France: the archaeological service of the town of Seclin, a town of 12,000 inhabitants in the south of the Lille area. .

"Our municipal structure was created in the 1980s, which makes Seclin the first municipality of less than 15,000 inhabitants to have a real service dedicated to the science of the past",

says proudly Guillaume Lassaunière, the archaeologist chief of the city.

With his college Jérôme Tellier, the researcher is one of the scientists invited to Amiens by the regional directorate of Cultural Affairs to animate on November 25 and 26 the “regional days…

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