Oppidum de Villeneuve-Saint-Germain

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The Oppidum de Villeneuve-Saint-Germain is a Gallic oppidum of a barred meander type founded by the people of Suessions. It is located in a loop of the Aisne three kilometers from the present city of Soissons, on the territory of the commune of Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (Aisne). The surface enclosed by the wall of enclosure that closes the meander is 70 to 100 hectares, according to fluctuations of the course of Aisne, of which at least 30 are occupied.

Although there is an earlier occupation of La Tène A, there is no continuity between La Tène A and the foundation of the oppidum at Tène D2. The opidum is mainly occupied in the second and third quarters of the 1st century BC, dating more precisely from the 80-70s B.C.E. until its abandonment in the 1940s, after the Gauls' War.

Jean Debord, the main archaeologist to have searched the place, first evokes a date slightly after the Gauls' War, approximately 50-17 B.C. According to him, the oppidum of Villeneuve-Saint-Germain succeeds the day after the Gauls' War at the Oppidum de Pommiers. This is a new review of the monetary material found on the oppidum of...