The excavation area covered a maintenance workshop for these trains. The excavation revealed the method of construction of this workshop, whose foundations (pillars connected by arches) were more than 2.50 m deep. Four large pits for machine maintenance were also observed.
The work carried out in the field was coupled with research in the municipal and departmental archives, which made it possible to discover numerous documents relating to the departmental trams and the Porte Neuve station.
Despite the fact that these remains are relatively recent, their existence has already been partly forgotten by many Dijon residents. Their temporary resurrection through excavation, a video report or an exhibition interests the inhabitants of the district concerned about the history of their city.
In Dijon (Côte-d’Or), the Voisin company wanted to build a set of housing and shops at the corner of rue de Colmar, rue de Gray and boulevard de Verdun, on a 10,000 m2 plot. An archaeological diagnostic operation carried out in December 2017 brought to light the remains of a powerfully founded building. The presence next to it, more than 2.50 m deep, of pits filled with earthenware biscuits led the operation manager to put forward the hypothesis of a building linked to the former Montmuzard earthenware factory, located at 150 meters away only.
An excavation has been prescribed by the regional archeology service of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté on an area of 2,700 …
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