Vestiges des fortifications romaines

English translation

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History

This is a site composed of two Roman forts from Late Antiquity: the fort of the Cluse on the right bank of the Rome river, the "castle of the Moors" on the left bank and the gate of the Cluses on the domitian way. The fort of the Cluse is a razed construction with terraces installed in the 18th century. Buttresses are visible at the level of the east curtain wall. Large blocks of sandstone are also found, reused stones from the trophy of Pompey of Panissars. The site bears medieval and modern fill. The fort is constructed in blocks of regular schist covered by a lime mortar. The second fort comprises three square towers. The western curtain wall is very well preserved with the wall-walk, partly in concrete, and a postern. To the south, is found a still higher tower named "the Keep". At the level of the south curtain walls, is situated a kind of small building, watchpost, in the direction of the way. This site was the subject of soundings revealing vestiges of ceramics and militaria, straddling the end of the 4th century and the beginning of the 5th century AD. Lower down, is found the gate of the Cluses, in fact a gate-tower planted on the way. The clausurae, the military fortresses, are known from the end of the Roman empire in the West, around the year 400. The Cluses was considered as the frontier point between ancient Gaul and ancient Hispania.