Discovery of a protohistoric and Gallo-Roman oppidum in Montsérié for school students, with a visit to a site of excavations on the site

Name: Discovery of a protohistoric and Gallo-Roman oppidum in Montsérié for school students, with a visit to a site of excavations on the site
Start: 2022-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Oppidum de Montsérié

A visit of the site is offered to school students, this campaign of excavations on the oppidum will allow them to understand the work of archaeologists with the opportunity to ask their questions.

Friday 16 September 2022, 14:00Passed

Conditions

Free. Visit the church at 2pm precisely. Duration of the visit: 3h. Recommended walking shoes. This event can be cancelled depending on weather conditions (free visit all year).

Registration

roge.jean.claude@gmail.com 06 83 57 90 76

©Mairie de Montsérié

A visit of the site is offered to school students, this campaign of excavations on the oppidum will allow them to understand the work of archaeologists with the opportunity to ask their questions.

The site visit is organized by the DRAC-SRA .
On the way back, it will be possible to visit the museum attached to the church, which is free of charge. It contains many objects discovered on the site, from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages, as well as the digital collection of known votive altars and various scattered objects, museums or private collections.

About the location

Oppidum de Montsérié

Le Bourg, 65150 Montsérié

Hautes-Pyrénées
Occitanie

Mount Ergé reminds us of the first peoples who settled in this country, as well as the presence of the Romans and their divinities, mixed with those of our primitive ancestors.
A secluded camp dominates the village with tumuli, funerary caves, primitive dwellings. The oppidum that dominates the village at an altitude of 750 m is no less than 2000 m in circumference. There were 5 dolmens, most of them in ruins or missing. Still visible, a funerary cavern under a small tumulus, the location of the village (bottom of Cabanes) naturally sheltered by a rocky bar, important earthrises bordering the oppidum as well as many ancient stone walls (ramparts). The presence of a place of worship or sanctuary lets us imagine the sacredness of the forest whose mystery hides the invisible presence of divinity. The most remarkable piece found on site is without a doubt a small mask made of bronze sheet, a real masterpiece, work carried out in repurposed. Its controversial dating dates from the 1st or 3r