Today’s Place du Marché has yielded up the remains of a food market installed around 50 A.D.
The building contained several shops placed on either side of a paved central courtyard, and a
small semi-circular recess probably embellished with a statue. It is one of the rare instances of a
Roman-built macellum north of the Alps.
This building supplied meat, poultry and fish; indeed, beef ribs and shoulder bones, found piled
in a heap in a corner of one of the shops testify to the activities of the Roman butcher and the
eating habits of the inhabitants of the Roman town.
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Apse of the covered market
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Butchered beef bones
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