Site archéologique de Brion

It lies 3 km east of the town of Saint-Germain-d?Esteuil, on a limestone plateau stretching from south to north. The oval-shaped site overlooks a vast marshy area, the Reysson marsh, which was partly polderized in the 18th century. The ruins, which stretch from south (theater) to north (temple), following the shape of the plateau, are those of a small Gallo-Roman settlement covering around 10 hectares. It developed between the mid 1st and early 3rd centuries AD, succeeding an Iron Age settlement whose remains have been unearthed not far from the temple. This settlement is probably that of Noviomagus, which along with Bordeaux (Burdigala) was one of the two cities of the Bituriges Vivisques (the city of which Bordeaux was the capital), according to the geographer Ptolemy, who lived in the 2nd century AD.