Mediolanum Aulercorum

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The site of Mediolanum Aulercorum, an ancient city of the present-day Evreux during Gallo-Roman antiquity, was founded in the late 1st century BC. The ancient complex is located south of the city centre of the municipality of Ebroic. The urban structures of the Gallo-Roman Ebroic city develop near the banks of Iton, a tributary of the left bank of the Eure River.

The Mediolanum located in Evreux is notably evidenced by an inscription found during archaeological investigations and attributed at the beginning of the 2nd century AD. This epigraphic object, written in Latin and engraved on a stone lintel, evokes the ancient Ebroician city as the capital of the Aulerques Eburovices during the ancient period. It thus succeeds the other regional urban complex Gisacum (the present-day city of the Old-Evreux) and whose seat is at the age of iron.

Located in the margins of the Gallo-Roman city, at the so-called "Clos au Duc", a necropolis unfolds within a vast perimeter and whose precise boundaries have not yet been clearly defined. This Gallo-Roman cemetery, set up at the beginning of the first century AD, knows...