La Brèche (necropolis)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S. Loseby Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S. Loseby Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 15, 2022 08:35 PM
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History
A large necropolis excavated under rescue conditions in the 20th century. Grave goods indicated a long period of use, stretching from as early as the third century CE to as late as the sixteenth. The site is located in the French commune of Laudun-l'Ardoise, near the confluences of the Tave, Céze, and Rhône rivers.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148022
44.113195, 4.693504
- Representative Locations:
- Approximate imagery location of necropolis (AD 300 - AD 1453)
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catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 15 D1 La Brèche
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: La Brèche
S. Loseby, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'La Brèche (necropolis): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148022> [accessed: 31 January 2023]
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