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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) 392I.

M. GAUTHIER

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