Colombieres-sur-Orb

Colombièrs-Le-Haut

The castle.
Composed of several successive states (from a native sanctuary of the 1st century preceding our era until the end of the 4th century) it yielded a very large number of religious objects (always deposited in the village): fragments tutelary statue, coins, glassware, common ceramics, Graufesenque ceramics, dishes and goblets with white engobe type "drinkers of Vichy", fragments of amphora with colored coating, beads, lamps and many votive figurines including the potter's signature arverne Nattus is attested (NATTI ARVE M ref. Nattus Arvernus. Among the latter, there are animals (doves, roosters, hens, cats, dogs, horses, bulls) and female statuettes (notably a Mater, several Venuses and an Epona on horseback) modeled by coroplaty. The Gallo-Roman period is also attested by the presence of a rural settlement on the Pech d'en Calle, at the tenement of Sainte-Colombe, opposite the small chapel, another at Roussas, and by one so-called Roman road leading from the oppidum of Saucani to the hamlet of La Fage (municipality of Rosis).

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