Corseul

Corseul ( Breton: Kersaout ) is a municipality in the department of Côtes- d'Armor region of Brittany in northwestern France. In Roman times Corseul was an important place, from this period are some Roman ruins there. In the town hall there is a small archaeological museum.

The municipality is the source of the river Fremur.

History

In Celtic times was Corseul capital of the Celtic tribe of the Curiosoliten, of which the city name is derived. 10 BC the city was refounded as Civitas, the Roman name probably was Fanum Martis ( Latin for " Temple of Mars ").

Fanum Martis was in the Roman province of Lugdunensis and has long been an important Gallo- Roman city, ended up in the five Roman roads. The heyday Corseuls is to be set about in the second half of the 1st century AD. From the 4th century AD, the decline of the settlement, which eventually lost its central importance to Alet began. Presumably the Roman Corseul of raids of the barbarians in the year 406 AD, was set on fire and thereby completely destroyed. Perhaps these events are to be brought to the Rhine crossing of 406 in conjunction.

In Corseul a consecration inscription was dedicated to the goddess Đirona discovered (CIL 0013XIII, 03143 = AE 1999, 01071 Num ( ini ) August ( usti ) de (ae) / Dirona (s) Cani ( a) / Magusia lib ( erta ) / v ( otum ) s ( olvit ) l ( ibens ) m ( erito ) ). Many of the remains of Roman architecture were looted in the following centuries, only a few fragments collected in the garden of the town hall. From archaeological importance also is the Mars temple in skin - Bécherel near Corseul.

Demographics

Attractions

• The Château de Montafilan from the 12th century. It is mostly only a ruin, but some components can still be visited.
• Some ruins of the Roman period, including a temple of the god Mars in skin - Bécherel as well as excavations at Champ- Moulon.

Gallery

Town hall

Château de Montafilan

Mars temple in skin - Bécherel

Excavation Champ- Mulon