Historical place profile
Liverdun
Excavations in and around Liverdun carried out in the 1960s revealed evidence for "fairly dense" habitation from prehistoric to Merovingian times. Notable archaeological features included a Gallo-Roman villa (destroyed in the third century A.D.) at the locality known as Rupt-Chaudron and a Merovingian necropolis of more than 1,000 tombs dating to the ninth century A.D.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:789604416
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:789604416
- Place type
- cemetery, settlement, settlement-modern, villa
- Coordinates
- 48.749495, 6.063003
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Excavations in and around Liverdun carried out in the 1960s revealed evidence for "fairly dense" habitation from prehistoric to Merovingian times. Notable archaeological features included a Gallo-Roman villa (destroyed in the third century A.D.) at the locality known as Rupt-Chaudron and a Merovingian necropolis of more than 1,000 tombs dating to the ninth century A.D.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Pleiades
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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