Article Dans Une Revue Gallia - Archéologie des Gaules Année : 2020

Aides à la navigation, pratique de la navigation et construction des paysages maritimes en Atlantique du Nord-Est. Quelques éléments de réflexion

Pascal Arnaud

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This article aims to lay the foundations for a study of different types of navigational aids (lighthouses and daymarks) and to put these into the context of navigation practices in the Atlantic sea: direct navigation, coastal navigation, navigation in estuaries and channels, daytime and night navigation. Studies focused mainly on lighthouses and, among these, on the most spectacular lighthouses. Lighthouses were not the more essential aid to navigation and even played a minor role. A certain type of beacon was used to guide ships from the open sea towards a known port, both at night and during the day. Their reach and their viewing angle are essential data, which are only now attracting interests. Such beacons may have been very small structures. Others were larger and marked dangers. The closer pilots go to the coast, the more the identifiable daymarks, arranged within a system, made it possible for them to determinate their location and to define their route within a theoretical space based on their mental construction of the landscape. The traces left by these daymarks, only a smallnumber of which were specifically designed to act as a navigation aid, are often very subtle and only specific, small-scale field surveys are likely to reveal navigational aid systems which are more the result of the pilot’s science than the intention of a planner.
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hal-04902196 , version 1 (20-01-2025)

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Pascal Arnaud. Aides à la navigation, pratique de la navigation et construction des paysages maritimes en Atlantique du Nord-Est. Quelques éléments de réflexion. Gallia - Archéologie des Gaules, 2020, 77 (1), pp.29-43. ⟨hal-04902196⟩
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