Les tumulus protohistoriques de Combe Bossue à Villard-de-Lans (Isère, France)

The mounds of Combe Bossue were discovered in 2014 during the fortuitous discovery of an assembly of seven bronze bracelets attributable to Hallstatt D1. A first intervention in 2015 followed by a second the following year made it possible to unearth an unprecedented protohistoric burial ensemble on the Vercors plateau. Two contiguous burial mounds were erected before the 6th century BC and probably served as a receptacle for as many burials whose soil acidity did not allow conservation. The rare regional comparisons concerning the architecture of these tumuli make it possible to propose a chronological attribution centered on the Bronze A and / or B. Subsequently a burial, probably feminine, was deposited on the eastern border of the two tumuli. In spite of its very poor state of preservation, the metal assemblage associated with the burial make it possible to associate it with the series of abundant adornment of female burials, characteristic of the Hallstatt D1-D2.