BORDEAUX - CHAPEAU-ROUGE 2003

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Location

City

Bordeaux

County

Gironde

Region

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Country

France

Ancient place

Burdigala
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdigala

Lat/Long/Alt

44.842 / -0.572 / 6.69 view

Location details

Centred on field

Information

12996

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/12996

Hoard name

BORDEAUX - CHAPEAU-ROUGE 2003

Alternative names

BURDIGALA

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

2003

Total number of coins

Summary

Funerary deposit near skeleton (viaticum): 40 coins: 7 antoniniani (radiates), 33 nummi: Valerian I and Gallienus - Constantine I (AD 310-313). Found together with two finger rings.

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Discovery method

Controlled archaeological investigation
Land Use

Built over
Finder(s)

Christophe Sireix and Kristell Chuniaud
Comment

During the rescue excavations for the building of the new underground station Chapeau-Rouge.
Closing reign (earliest)

Tetrarchy (RIC VI)
Terminal year (earliest)

310
Closing reign (latest)

Tetrarchy (RIC VI)
Terminal year (latest)

313
Opening year (earliest)

256
Opening year (latest)

256
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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Excellent
Findspot rating

Good

Date of excavation (from)

2002
Date of excavation (to)

2003
Site comment

In historical times, around 567 BC it was the settlement of a Celtic tribe, the Bituriges Vivisci, who named the town Burdigala, probably of Aquitanian origin. The name Bourde is still the name of a river south of the city. In 107 BC, the Battle of Burdigala was fought by the Romans who were defending the Allobroges, a Gallic tribe allied to Rome, and the Tigurini led by Divico. The Romans were defeated and their commander, the consul Lucius Cassius Longinus, was killed in the action. The city fell under Roman rule around 60 BC, its importance lying in the commerce of tin and lead towards Rome. Later it became capital of Roman Aquitaine, flourishing especially during the Severan dynasty (3rd century). In 276 it was sacked by the Vandals. Further ravage was brought by the same Vandals in 409, the Visigoths in 414 and the Franks in 498, beginning a period of obscurity for the city.
Associated features

A narrow rectangular space (110 x 17 m) delimited by the street and oriented perpendicular to the axis of the Garonne, less than 200 meters from the current banks of the river. This area of the ancient city, occupied since the 40s BC, was crossed by the cardo and decumanus maximus at the beginning of the 1st century AD. Several houses were built along these major axes before being abandoned at the end of the 3rd century AD. During this period was a castra built and then the transformation of the neighborhood into a funerary area. About sixty tombs were researched. Within this group, a homogenous group is distinguished, in particular because of wooden coffins and by the frequent presence of shoes or ceramics depots. Only grave 53 delivered coins. The buried individual, cut in two by the digging of a pit during Middle Ages, retains only his pelvis and his lower limbs; the viaticum was deposited near the right leg.
Recovery method

Excavation
Site class

Urban