MONS-ET-MONTEILS
(Vié-Cioutat) Cantons of Vézenobres and Alès, Gard, France.
Important
pre-Roman and Roman oppidum on an eminence that
dominates from the N the valley of the Droude, a tributary of the Gardon. The settlement, which occupies
almost 3 ha at the edge of a plateau, is surrounded by
a dry stone wall. The site has yielded numerous finds in
the past, and has been systematically explored since
1966. It was occupied from the end of the 6th c. to the
end of the 4th c. B.C., and again, after being abandoned
for a long time, from the end of the 2d c. B.C. to the
middle of the 2d c. A.D. The architectural remains so
far uncovered are unpretentious, but several dwellings
and streets of the Gallo-Roman town have already been
identified. The finds are for the most part preserved at
the museum at Alès.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Carte archéalogique de la Gaule romaine, fasc. VIII, Gard (1941) 194-95, no. 314; “Informations,”
Gallia 12 (1954) 424; 27 (1969) 405; 29 (1971) 393; B. Dedet,
Cahiers ligures de préhistoire et d'archéologie 17 (1968) 178-97
MPI; id.
RAN (1973) 1-71
MPI.
G. BARRUOL
