Gallo-Roman Sanctuary at Bû

This site is located in a section of the Forêt domaniale de Dreux directly north of Bû.

The site name is given variously in the literature and online. Charles-Picard wrote in the 1960s that the ancient site was "désigné dans le cadastre sous le nom de pièce des fours à chaux" and was locally known as pièce de l'église. Writing a decade later, Kisch lists it under the rubric "Bû - Au Bois du Four à Chaux." Fauduet, writing in the 1980s, prefers the fuller descriptive title "Le sanctuaire Gallo-romain des Bois du Four à Chaux à Bû." The Barrington Atlas followed its standard practice of labeling sites whose ancient name is unknown simply with the name of nearest modern settlement or administrative district (i.e., "Bû").

The original excavations of the 1960s seem never to have been published (so Fauduet 1990, page 93, note 1), but new excavations in the 1980s resulted in an exhibition at the municipal museum in Dreux (catalogue: Fauduet 1984) and a trio of reports in the Bulletin de la Société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir (Fauduet 1988, 1988a, 1988b).