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copyright | write us | mirrors Recent archaeological excavations
made in Tintignac (municipality of Naves, department of Corrèze,
Limousin) by Christophe Maniquet, from INRAP (Institut national
de recherches archéologiques preventives), are briefly reported
in Pour La Science, #327 (January 2005).Several broken artefacts
have been found in a square worshipping pit in Tintignac. The
site, located on the territory of the Lemovices tribe, is dated
Ist century BC; in De Bello gallicum, Julius Caesar reports the
use of such pits; their desecration was a cause of capital
punishment, which explains why the Tintignac pit was preserved
in the later Gallo-Roman ages. A Gallic coin, shown in
Larousse's Histoire de France Illustrée (Volume 1, Naissance
d'une nation), depicts the Eduan chief Dumnorix, holding in one
hand a carnyx and a boar-shaped insignia and in the other hand a
human head. Astérix bo