MATISCO
(Macon) Saône-et-Loire, France.
Situated on the Saône 70 km N of Lyon, in the civitas
of the Aedui. Caesar (
BGall 7.90) mentions the oppidum
of Matisco, which has become better known through
recent excavations. In the Tène III Age the principal settlement was moved from the Ile Saint-Jean on the top
of a limestone bar on the right bank of the river, to the
middle of what is now the city. A rampart of the murus
gallicus type has been found there, with a ditch outside
it. Although, being on the Via Agrippa, the city in the
High Empire was the starting point of a road to Autun,
it seems to have had little importance, much less than
Cabillonum (Chalon-sur-Sabne). The principal find is the
necropolis. A castrum was built in the 4th c. A.D., for
which period the finds are more plentiful.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jeanton,
Le Mâconnais gallo-romain (3
vols. 1926, 1927, 1931); Bartéelemy, “L'oppidum de
Matisco,”
Rev. Arch. de l'Est 24 (1973) 307-18. See
also
Annales de l'Académie de Mâcon, passim.
C. ROLLEY
