The National Fund for Preventive Archaeology provided funding for the dig, which is managed by the Upper Normandy Regional Archaeology Service.
The town of Evreux’s earliest human traces appear to date from the third quarter of the first century BC. Mediolanum Aulercorum was its Roman name, and it was the main town of the Aulerci Eburovices. It became significant during the Augustan time frame and in the first hundred years of our period it was furnished with a theater, showers, and estates with painted walls, and so forth.
The antique burial ground is on a slope side, outside the town, in this manner regarding the Law of the Twelve Tables then in force, along the street connecting Evreux and Chartres.
Definitely known during the nineteenth century due to a few unplanned revelations,., From the first to the fourth century AD, the site appears to have been used. Assessments and unearthings did from 2002 onwards have explained the error ordered advancement of the necropolis.
During the first century auxiliary incineration graves were transcendent,., despite the fact that some adult and perinatal inhumations have been discovered. From the second century Promotion
About forty burial crypts have been unearthed thus far. Two of them can be dated from the third hundred years by á´€ssociation with an earthenware jar normal for this period. Radiocarbon dating has been used on other subjects (14 C). The majority of people in this section of the cemetery are adults., infants and a few children under the age of 10 There is a lot of concentration among the graves, and the majority of them are grouped together without any sort of spatial organization. The departed were covered with their heads towards the North, the South, the East or the West.
A lot of adults were buried in a strange way: Several of them face downward, one with a twisted upper arm (right elbow behind left shoulder), another buried with severely bent lower arms, and so on.
The second remarkable component is the way that enormous bits of ponies were set in the majority of the graves. More often than not they were skulls or portions of vertebrae. In any case, one grave contained three ponies, practically complete, covered at the same time, one over the other. The most surprising store is that of a grown-up whose head is caught by two pony skulls. The horse bones were buried in the pit fills or in direct contact with the deceased.
Was it brought on by a war, an epidemic, or were they gifts of food? The following three hypotheses ought to be rejected: there is no hint of viciousness on the bones, they were not numerous graves connected with a fiasco, and in conclusion horsemeat wasn’t eaten in Roman times.
France seems to be the only country where this deliberate act of placing sections of horses in Gallo-Roman graves is done. If one imagines a distinct people being present, through its history, religion, or art? Was it an endurance of the love of the Gallic goddess Epona? Some answers may come from the continued excavation and subsequent research.
