Abstract
The following pages contain a brief review of the discoveries made by French archaeologists during the difficult years of the German occupation of France.Caesar's Gallic campaigns have inspired several important pieces of work in the field. New excavations have been undertaken at Gergovia on the ‘large’ and the ‘small’ camps as well as on the line of the double ditch joining them. These control excavations have made it possible to demonstrate the correctness of statements made by Colonel Stoffel, who had been commissioned by Napoleon III to discover traces of field-works undertaken in Caesar's campaigns. Excavations begun in the large camp at Le Bois-Des-Côtes, on the plateau of Nointel, near Clermont-de-l'Oise (Oise), were interrupted by the war. The discoveries have furnished evidence on ramparts, entrenchments, siege-works, and strategic roads, contemporary with the conquest.
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