The numerous offerings discovered testify the importance of this sanctuary, a regional centre of pilgrimage a few kilometres from the antique town of Le Mans. Rich archaeological remains for the first century AD have been brought to light: many coins and fragments of Roman pottery, fibulae, knives, keys, as well as several offerings made of iron, including a remarkable military dagger. A gold ring incrusted with an intaglio (green semi-precious stone) is one of the exceptional objects discovered on the site. If no dedication to a god in particular has been revealed, the presence of ophthalmic "ex-votos” allows one to envisage the cult of a healer-god.
The richness of the findings, the complexity of the plans of the structures (in particular the vast round fanum of which only three or four comparable examples have been excavated in France) give the Inrap archaeologists unexplored perspectives of research concerning the domains of archaeology, history of art and of religions. This site will certainly mark the regional archaeology of the Pays-de-la-Loire for many years.
The richness of the findings, the complexity of the plans of the structures (in particular the vast round fanum of which only three or four comparable examples have been excavated in France) give the Inrap archaeologists unexplored perspectives of research concerning the domains of archaeology, history of art and of religions. This site will certainly mark the regional archaeology of the Pays-de-la-Loire for many years.
