Camp de Péran

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Camp de Péran, in Plédran (Côtes-d'Armor), is an elliptical fortified enclosure of about 1 hectare (160 m from north to south, 140 m from east to west), occupied successively in the Gallic period (Middle and Late La Tène), in the 10th century by a Viking garrison, and then in the 13th century. Excavations carried out since the 19th century — test pits by J. Geslin de Bourgogne (1846-1866), campaigns by the Amis du Camp de Péran (1983-1990) and then by Jean-Pierre Nicolardot (from 1991) — have uncovered weapons and military equipment (swords, spearheads), agricultural implements, metal tools, textiles and leather, as well as exceptional finds: a Viking cauldron made of riveted sheet iron and a silver penny (denier) struck at York between 905 and 925. Eight radiocarbon dates place the destruction of the site by fire in the first half of the 10th century, the blaze having vitrified the masonry rampart. Listed (classé) as a Monument historique since 1875, the site is open to visitors today; its archaeological finds are kept at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Saint-Brieuc and in the collections of the DRAC.