founded as a gallo-roman settlement in the 1st century bc under the name augustodurum, bayeux is the capital of the former territory of the baiocasses people of gaul, whose name appears in pliny's natural history (iv.107). evidence of earlier human occupation of the territory comes from fortified celtic camps, but there is no evidence of any major pre-existing celtic town before the organization of gaul in roman "civitates". any settlement was more likely confined to scattered druid huts along the banks of the aure and drome rivers or on mount phaunus where they worshiped. cemeteries have been found on the nearby mount phaunus indicating the area as a druid centre. titus sabinus, a lieutenant of julius caesar, subjected the bessin region to roman domination. the 5th-century "notitia provinciarum et civitatum galliae" mentions suevi that had been officially settled here ("laeti").