🏛️ Site gallo-romain et mérovingien à Escolives-Sainte-Camille
Multi-period archaeological complex in northern Burgundy, France
📋 Fast Facts
- Location: Escolives-Sainte-Camille, Yonne department, 20 km southeast of Auxerre
- Period: Late Antiquity to Early Middle Ages (1st–7th centuries AD)
- Key features: Roman villa, Merovingian necropolis, early church
- Best preserved: Thermal baths with hypocaust, frigidarium, tepidarium, and caldarium
The Gallo-Roman and Merovingian site at Escolives-Sainte-Camille is a multi-phase archaeological complex spanning the transition from Roman to Early Medieval occupation in the Yonne valley. Excavations have revealed substantial structural remains from a substantial Roman villa complex dating to the 1st–4th centuries AD, followed by Merovingian burials and religious structures from the 6th–7th centuries. The site documents the continuity and transformation of settlement patterns across the ...