A Gallo-Roman burial zone in the village of Rue-des-Vignes (Nord)

The village of the Rue-des-Vignes (Nord) has known a Gallo-Roman occupation whose spatial and chronological limits remain very ill known. The discover y of a second burial zone, after that of the sports centre (1976), adds a n ew geographical element to the Gallo-Roman settlement. In this newly-discov ered burial zone, six cremation and three burial sites could be made out. T hese remnants are situated within an original stratigraphical structure whi ch mingles graves and circulation levels. The totality of this site was pro bably occupied between the end of the first century and the end of the thir d.