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ON the summit of a steep hill between the valley of the Bas Roches and that of the Dheune, overlooking the immense plain of the Saône and commanding a view of the Jura, the Alps, and the mountains of the Maconnais and the Morvan, and surrounded by numerous other camps, is the camp of Chassey, which occupies an area of about 800 yards in length by a breadth varying from about 100 to 200 yards. So commanding and important a spot was not only taken possession of by the Romans for a castellum and by the Gauls for an oppidum, but was also occupied in prehistoric times. Several collections of antiquities belonging to different periods have been formed upon the spot, but it was reserved for M. Perrault to make the interesting discovery which he has recorded in so simple yet so complete a manner in the pages now before us. A terrace, sheltered by rocks from the north and east winds and facing the morning sun, seemed to him well adapted for early habitations, while a depression in the ground in front proved, on examination, to contain the remains of a large hearth, or it might be termed kitchen, and here he instituted excavations.
Note sur un Foyer de l'Age de la Pierre polie découvert au Camp de Chassey en Septembre, 1869.
Par Ernest Perrault. 1870. 4to. Pp. 32, and 8 plates. (Chalon sur Saône, L. Landa. London: Williams and Norgate.)
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E., J. Note sur un Foyer de l'Age de la Pierre polie découvert au Camp de Chassey en Septembre, 1869. Nature 3, 224–225 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003224a0
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