Mausolées et caveaux dans le Centre-Ouest de la France durant l'Antiquité tarvide et le haut Moyen Âge

In the Centre-West of France, archaeological researches on burial spaces dating from the Late Antiquity or the early Middle Ages need to be actualized. A rapid overview of the sites in Poitou and Charente shows a certain diversity of structures and configurations: some attests a long proximity between sanctuaries (pagan or Christian) and tombs (monumental or not), some a link with villae. Private vaults are still built until the Carolingian period, but the nature of the buildings upon needs often to be precised: mausoleum or simple enclosure. All of these data invite to revisit the relationship between these buildings and the first churches, in particular the Carolingian and early Romanesque Crypts. Some examples, as Civaux, Mornac-sur-Seudre and Chadenac are more detailed here.