Uxellodunum
Uxellodunum was an ancient settlement ( oppidum ) of the Celtic Kadurker people in Gaul .
Uxellodunum was the last Gallic settlement that existed in the summer of 51 BC. Was besieged and captured by Gaius Iulius Caesar in the Gallic War . For this purpose, Caesar had the water diverted from a nearby spring.
The location of Uxellodunum was controversial for a long time: some researchers located the place at Capdenac or Luzech . After renewed excavations in 2001 in the north of the Quercy , the ancient site is certain to have been discovered: it is now identified with the Puy d'Issolud , a rocky hill above the Dordogne valley near the present-day communities of Vayrac and Saint -Denis-lès-Martel in the Lot department - a place known to archaeologists since the 19th century. Settlement remains from the Celtic to the Roman to the Merovingian period have been found here.
literature
- Michel Labrousse: Uxellodunum (Saint-Denis-lès-Martel and Vayrac) Lot, France . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
- Marcel Le Glay : Uxellodunum 1. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Sp. 1084.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aulus Hirtius , De bello Gallico 8, 32-44 .
- ↑ Birgit Kahler: Caesar's decisive battle against the Gauls took place in southwest France. In: Image of Science. Konradin Medien GmbH, July 21, 2011, accessed on May 2, 2001 .
Coordinates: 44 ° 57 ' N , 1 ° 42' E