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  • Abstract: „Through the major narrative sources available for the Gaul area of the vith and viith centuries (Grégoire de Tours, Frédégaire and his followers), the purpose of this paper is first to show in which way rivers and forests contribute to the geographical location of the events reported. The rivers appear essentially as obvious landmarks. Streams and rivers are real obstacles for the progression of armies in campaign. For princes who seek to master the territories of their regnum, the places where land routes cross rivers have a truly strategic importance. However, the rivers are not really considered as territorial limits.“

  • Abstract: „Made of a building surrounded by two concentric walls, the fortified complex of Jublains in Mayenne has long been interpreted as a granary of the annone. The excavations carried out by R. Rebuffat on the site have allowed to identify the various stages of its construction and alterations. They notably allowed to date its outer wall to the years 290 AD. The sounding we carried out in April 2001 did not yield any key as to providing a date for the Central Building, which still wavers between the first third and the end of the IIIrd century. In spite of the singularity of its plan in H, which has no archaeological documented parallel, the fortified granary of Jublains was not only a local collection centre, but it must have been part of a larger scope. On may think indeed that it was aimed at playing a part in the defensive organization of the coasts of northern Gaul against the piracy of the Chauques and Saxons who launch their first raids as early as the end of the IInd century and resume them in the last quarter of the IIIrd with a particular intensity. If we accept the later chronological assumption, Carausius might possibly have contributed to the defensive reinforcement of the Central Building. The importance given to the transport of food supplies within the defensive organization set up in the same period on the British coasts, is a strong invitation for us to integrate the fortified granary of Jublains in the system of border protection of Northern Gaul, just like the Brittenburg granary, built in the Rhine mouth at the beginning of the IIIrd century and surrounded also with two concentric walls.“

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