Les ouvrages hydrauliques souterrains de « Mazeran » et du « Garissou » (Béziers, 34) : des qanàts romains en Gaule Narbonnaise

• DOI: 10.3406/ran.2015.1912
• Publication Date: 2018-03-09T08:00:34Z
• Authors: Roland Haurillon; Laurent Bruxelles; Mona Court-Picon; Isabelle Figueiral; Vianney Forest; Olivier Ginouvez; Céline Pallier; Edwige Pons-Branchu; Pierre Rascalou; Christophe Tardy
• Keywords: [SHS.ARCHEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; Biterrois; [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; Roman hydraulic; 930; galerie souterraine; Antiquité; Hydraulique romaine; 6. Clean water; 004; underground gallery; [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; 900; qanàt ; Hydraulique romaine ; drainage ; captage ; galerie souterraine; captage; Occitanie; Hérault (34); France; [SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences; drainage ; catchment ; underground gallery ; qanàt ; Roman hydraulic; catchment; qanat; Antiquity; qanàt; drainage

In 2009, the excavation of a Roman shaft in northeast town Béziers (34) resulted an underground tunnel dug Miocene molasses. The whole reception perched water table and harvested percolation fine droplets contained sandstone aquifer. 2011, two new shafts were excavated few hundred meters further north. Again, archaeological work shows similar pattern operation. Already observed last century some publications Biterroises this operating technique groundwater wells gallery knows many similarities with structures identified pole larger scale throughout Mediterranean. These millennia-hydraulic systems are grouped under generic term «qanat » .