🏛️ Vestiges gallo-romains à Pierre-Buffière
Gallo-Roman villa ruins in rural Limousin, 1st–4th centuries AD
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- Location: Pierre-Buffière, Limousin region, France
- Period: 1st–4th centuries AD
- Type: Elite residential villa complex
- Occupation span: Approximately 300 years of continuous habitation and modification
Vestiges gallo-romains à Pierre-Buffière is an archaeological site in the Limousin region of France that preserves the structural remains of a high-status Roman villa occupied from the 1st or 2nd century AD through the 4th century AD. The site documents how elite provincial families organized their domestic estates during the height of Roman rule in Gaul, with visible foundations, walls, and evidence of interior planning still evident on the landscape. As of 2026, the site remains accessible to ...