OFFEMONT
Territory of Belfort, France.
Remains of a large establishment from antiquity much of
it in the Forest of Arsot. The following have been discovered: 1) at the place called Le Martinet, the ruins of
a small fanum of native design, square with a cella
(4.2 m) and a surrounding gallery (9.3 m); 2) at La
Cornée, traces of a pottery workshop which produced
primarily glazed roller-decorated ceramics, but also some
original sigillata; 3) at Le Ballon, the still only partially
excavated ruins of a large villa which, judging from the
coin finds, was destroyed under Constantius II.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
F. Pajot, “Les ruines d'Offemont,”
Bulletin de la Société Belfortaine d'Emulation 27 (1908) 166-88; M. Rilliot, “Fouilles archéologiques à Offemont,”
Revue Archéologique de l'Est 20 (1968) 247-70.
L. LERAT