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Cornebarrieu is a Gallo-roman place !!

Preventive Archaeology

This recent discipline is an integral part of archaeology. Preventive archaeology is essential when the development of a site may alter or destroy valuable archaeological deposits. Developers integrate archaeology into their project making possible the discovery, excavation, study and, occasionally, scheduled protection of uncovered remains.

Preventive archaeology constitutes 90% of all French archaeological activity. There are more than 2000 interventions per year and 252,000 working archaeological days. In 2004, this required a budget close to 120 million euros.

In France, each year nearly 60,000 hectares -20m2 every second- are seriously disturbed or destroyed by construction work. On average only 12% of this area is subject to even the most cursory archaeological evaluation.

Original : see INRAP website.

Context of discovery

The most ancient build was about 30 years AD (Tiberius Julius Caesar, born Tiberius Claudius Nero (November 16, 42 BC – March 16 AD 37), was the second Roman Emperor. He ruled from 14 to 37 AD.

During a preventive archaeology action in my city "Cornebarrieu" (South West of France), INRAP has discovered an Antic site.

'QVADRATVS' was the most important person in this "Gallo-Roman Villa", he was an Amphora maker.

His Villa was build in three sections :

• The first one (see Bat 1, northern part) was dedicated to make and sell Amphoras.

• The second section (see Bat 2 & 4, western part) was the 'living part of the Villa'. This part should be the most biggest one but previews preventive archaeology actions did not permits to find the whole part of this section.

• The third and last section (see Bat 3, easthern part) was the place dedicated to the animals as sheaps...

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