Forum de Vieux-la-Romaine

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The Gallo-Roman forum of Vieux-la-Romane is part of the archaeological site of the ancient Aregenua located about 11 km south of Caen. An emblematic place of a Roman city of Lyon Gaul, symptomatic of the process of Romanization at work with the concentration of administrative, judicial and religious functions, the forum reached its peak in the second century and especially in the early third century. The city declined from the crisis of the third century; It is hard hit by the invasions because it is not, like many others, provided with a protective enclosure.

The radical changes in the administrative organization of the Western Roman Empire at the beginning of the fifth century relegated the city, which lost its status as city capital to Bayeux. The site of the forum is the subject of early archaeological excavations, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century under the impulse of the very recent society of antique dealers of Normandy and the location of the forum is then debated. The excavations resume in Vieux and the location of the forum is only proven by new research at the end of the 20th and at the beginning of the 21st century, using new research techniques...