LABASTIDE D'ARMAGNAC
Landes, France.
An Early Empire Gallo-Roman settlement, rebuilt in
the Late Empire and partly covered in modern times by
the Chapelle de Géou. The Late Empire villa covers an
area of more than 2 ha; in it were found a gallery
(2.85 x 15.3 m) with a mosaic floor (geometric design
of squares and eight-pointed stars) opening onto an
inner court, also a room with a hypocaust on low piers
with a mosaic floor in the same style.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dufourcet et al.,
Aquitaine Historique
et Monumentale I (1890) 338; J. Coupry, “Informations,”
Gallia 19, 2 (1961) 392
I.
M. GAUTHIER