🏛️ Autricum-Durocasses
Gallo-Roman settlement remains in Eure, Normandy
📌 Fast Facts
- Located near Évreux in the Eure department of Normandy, northwestern France
- Dual-name settlement: Autricum (Gallo-Celtic) and Durocasses (tribal designation)
- Occupied from the Iron Age through the Roman period, with peak activity in the 1st–3rd centuries CE
- Remains consist of dispersed archaeological deposits rather than visible standing structures
Autricum-Durocasses was a significant Gallo-Roman settlement that served as a regional hub in Normandy during antiquity. The site represents the cultural and administrative transition from Iron Age Celtic settlement to Roman provincial integration. Little above-ground architecture survives, but subsurface deposits and scattered finds document a community that engaged in agriculture, craft production, and trade along routes connecting the Seine valley to coastal regions ...