PUYS-DE-VOINGT
(Les) Communes of Voingt and
Giat, Puy-de-Dôme, France.
A Gallo-Roman
locality extended over ca. 28 ha on the S slope of a
hill (altitude 821 m) divided between two communes.
Excavations have been carried out on the site on various occasions since the 18th c. Since 1934 excavations
have systematically investigated the following: (1) a
district of dwellings, some modest, built of light materials (some may go back to the Gallic period), othersmore substantial, built of stone; (2) artisans'
workshops (smithy, glass factory); (3) at the top of
the hill, a temple of Celtic type, open to the NE, under whose cella were the remains of an older building
made of light materials; (4) two cemeteries E of the
built-up area. The coins range from the last Gallic
issues to Maximus. The pottery serics begins with
some samples of Campanian ware and ends with terra
sigillata decorated with hatchings impressed with a
cog-wheel. The artifacts collected are at Giat in M.
Charbonneau's house.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. Tardieu,
La Villa gallo-romaine de
Beauclair (1882); G. Charbonneau, “Les Ruines gallo-romaines des Puys-de-Voingt,” & “Nouvelles fouilles
aux Puys-de-Voingt,”
Gallia 15 (1957) 117-28; 19
(1961) 226-31.
P. FOURNIER
