Archéosite d'Aubechies-Belœil

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The Archeosite of Aubechies-Belœil (French: Archéosite et Musée d'Aubechies-Belœil) is an archaeological park and Gallo-Roman museum in the Belgian Aubechies (Beloeil) in the province of Hainaut. Replicas were built on the site from prehistoric and protohistoric houses, from the Neolithic period (5000 BC), the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and the Gallo-Roman period until the second century AD. The museum was founded in 1983 by volunteers.

The prehistoric reconstructions include, next to the houses, a silex quarry, grain lofts, pottery workshop, bronze workshop and a blacksmith. From the Gallo-Roman period a villa, a temple (a fanum based on the excavations in Blicquy) and a necropolis (based on graves from the museums of Aarlen, Trier and Strasbourg) were reconstructed. In 2007, a rebuilt Gallo-Roman inland waterway ship was launched.

Since 2013, the park has a museum (Espace Léonce Demarez) dedicated to antiquity religion in northern Gaul; finds (coins, figurines, mask,...) are also exhibited from the archaeological site (fanum) of Blicquy. In 2020, a mask from the museum...