The project concerns the archaeological and historical study of the above-ground medieval remains of the Frankish monastic site of Abu Gosh, a French enclave in Israel. It is intended to complement the study of the 12th-century church, carried out by the team in 2016 and 2018, and to contribute to fundamental research into architecture, implementation techniques and, more generally, the history of Frankish architecture in the medieval Near East. The study will be based in particular on a global survey using several modes of archaeological data acquisition and mapping as an extension of previous work, and on continued archival research.

While the two previous campaigns have enabled us to complete the main part of the study and survey of the church, what is missing is the study and survey of the remains of the medieval buildings located in its immediate periphery. However, this study and the associated 3D survey are essential to virtually extract, through digital surveying, the current monastic building created at the beginning of the 20th century, and to explain and clarify the link between the church and the monumental context of the monastery, whose relative and absolute chronology remains uncertain. The aim is to carry out a precise survey of the remains and define the chrono-typological characteristics of their construction.

The fieldwork campaign will be dedicated to a tacheometric, photogrammetric and archaeological-stratigraphic survey of all the elevations that are accessible today. As no intervention in the subsoil is planned, the operation will have no impact on buried elevations or archaeological levels.