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Gallo-Roman city on the Châtelet hill overlooking the valley of the Marne between Fontaines and Bayard, and at the intersection of two Roman roads. One of these followed the Maine valley while the other, from Naix (Nasium), led W. The city, ca. 20 ha in area, replaced a Celtic oppidum (foundations of huts, pottery, fibulas, bracelets, statuettes, and coins), which in turn had succeeded a Neolithic settlement (about 100 axes of flint, quartz, and jadeite, arrowheads, knives, cutters, and scraping tools).
The site has yielded a number of finds since the 18th c., but has never been systematically explored until the recent excavation of a suburban quarter. In the section originally investigated, which today is covered with vegetation, a network of roads and squares was uncovered, a temple, some baths, many houses (most of them with cisterns and stone roofs), and part of an inhumation necropolis. A number of reliefs and sculptures and some architectural fragments have been found, a considerable quantity of pottery (especially terra sigillata—Centre, Alsace, Argonne), as well as arms, fibulas, jewelry, glassware, bronze and silver grave gifts, tesserae of bone and ivory, and over 10,000 coins, including several hundred gold pieces. The Gallo-Roman settlement apparently developed uninterruptedly from the 1st to the 5th c. A.D. (Princeton Enciclopedia of Classical Sites - Gourzon)
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