Agedincum

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Agedincum is the Latinized name of a Gallo-Roman city that later became the city of Sens in the Yonne department.

Before the arrival of the Romans: Before the Roman conquest, the region was inhabited by a Gallic people, the Senons of which Brennus was the leader in the fourth century BC (conquest of Rome in -389). The agglomeration, open, dates back at least to the 2nd century BC and even to the 3rd century BC. It is located north of the confluence of the Yonne with the Vanne, near a ford or bridge over the Yonne and at the crossing of two traffic lanes: one, north/south, connects the Saône valley with the Seine basin; the other, west/east, connects the Loire Valley and Champagne. It is called Agiedic by the Gauls. From this time there are a few polished stone knives and others unpolished, necklaces, bracelets and bronze rings found in graves, some coins of the ancient Senoese kings, some Celtic menhirs, pottery tesses... The tombs of Saint-Martin-du-Tertre (1.6 km northwest of the Sens Bridge) delivered some ashes, flint axes and iron pins fairly well preserved (rare for iron...