LUZECH
Lot, France.
L'Impernal de Luzech,
which some believe to be Uxellodunum, was an oppidum
of 8 to 10 ha, defended by a Gallic rampart with timber
beams. It was a high place consecrated by a square temple of Celtic tradition. At the end of the Gallic period
and in the 1st c. of the Empire, it enjoyed genuine commercial and metallurgical activity. Its abandonment seems
to date to the beginning of the 2d c. A.D.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. Viré,
B.S.P.F. 10 (1913) 687-711 &
figs. 1-16; 18 (1921) 82-83; 20 (1923) 56-76 & figs. 1-13;
Les oppida du Quercy et le siège d'Uxellodunum (
51 av.
J.-C.) (1936) 22-26 & figs. 11-17; M. Labrousse in
Gallia
9 (1951) 139-40; 12 (1954) 230; 15 (1957) 277; 17
(1959) 436-37 & figs. 34-35; 20 (1962) 592; 22 (1964)
462; R. Tardieu, “Fouilles de l'Impernal: Bâtiment VI,
vestiges d'industrie métallurgique,”
Bull. de la Soc. Et.
du Lot 75 (1954) 203-15; id., “Fouilles de l'Impernal
(suite),” ibid. 88 (1967) 85-95; H. Pélissié,
De la Barbacane au Pont du Diable. Guide du touriste et de
l'archéologue à Luzech (rev. ed. 1967) 81-120.
For the identification with Uxellodunum, cf. E.
Albouy,
Un point d'histoire gallo-romaine particulèrement controversé: Uxellodunum, essai d'identification
(1958).
M. LABROUSSE
