2023-11-14 17:15:00
The Walloon Heritage Agency will carry out preventive excavations at the beginning of next year (which precede the development of the new site). “We have already carried out surveys, explains Elise Delaunois, archaeologist at AWAP, and we will carry out targeted excavation campaigns in the places most at risk. Remains of walls linked to the Convent of the White Ladies were found on the side of the street which bears the name of the former nuns who occupied the convent. We see the church, the cloister etc. on old plans. We found more recent cellars, a possible underground access to the bunker, but this remains to be verified. Certain levels which have not been too disturbed by medieval or later constructions which might give rise to older remains, for example from the Roman era.
Archaeologists also hope to learn more regarding Motte-Lecomte, a place whose name the block where the construction site is located bears the name in old texts and on old maps. “It is an old site from the beginning of the Middle Ages. It is a little-known site but which can be sensitive in terms of heritage because we date back to a poorly documented period in Namur. We might have very old habitat linked to the history of the county of Namur”.
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