Sorry, I haven’t yet told you all of me.
Yes, I am an unapologetic Celtophile, and that has a very simple explanation:
I have Celtic roots that trace back to the Mediomatrici, the Gaulish people of the region around Metz, stretching from the Saar to the Meurthe rivers.
Yes, I am an unapologetic Celtophile, and that has a very simple explanation:
I have Celtic roots that trace back to the Mediomatrici, the Gaulish people of the region around Metz, stretching from the Saar to the Meurthe rivers.
January 5, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Sorry, I haven’t yet told you all of me.
Yes, I am an unapologetic Celtophile, and that has a very simple explanation:
I have Celtic roots that trace back to the Mediomatrici, the Gaulish people of the region around Metz, stretching from the Saar to the Meurthe rivers.
Yes, I am an unapologetic Celtophile, and that has a very simple explanation:
I have Celtic roots that trace back to the Mediomatrici, the Gaulish people of the region around Metz, stretching from the Saar to the Meurthe rivers.
2025年11月27日
#考古学のおやつ 1/1
フランス、グラン・テスト地域圏（Grand Est） ムーズ県（Meuse）スノン（Senon）で、ラ・テーヌ文化C2/D1期～ローマ時代初期・紀元前2世紀中ごろ～紀元後1世紀初頭ののメディオマトリキ族（Mediomatrici）の集落。
ローマ時代初めの石灰岩の砕石跡10基。1世紀末の石造りの建物や道路。後期古代・3世紀後半～4世紀前半の、大型土器に納めた貨幣の埋蔵3基。
[Inrap]
www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
#考古学のおやつ 1/1
フランス、グラン・テスト地域圏（Grand Est） ムーズ県（Meuse）スノン（Senon）で、ラ・テーヌ文化C2/D1期～ローマ時代初期・紀元前2世紀中ごろ～紀元後1世紀初頭ののメディオマトリキ族（Mediomatrici）の集落。
ローマ時代初めの石灰岩の砕石跡10基。1世紀末の石造りの建物や道路。後期古代・3世紀後半～4世紀前半の、大型土器に納めた貨幣の埋蔵3基。
[Inrap]
www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
Actualité | Un quartier d’habitation de l’agglomération antique de Senon (Meuse)
Dans le cadre de travaux d’extension d’une maison d’habitation, la fouille d’une parcelle de 1 500 m² a permis à l’Inrap d’explorer une importante portion d’un quartier peu connu de Senon, une des pri...
www.inrap.fr
January 4, 2026 at 11:11 AM
2025年11月27日
#考古学のおやつ 1/1
フランス、グラン・テスト地域圏（Grand Est） ムーズ県（Meuse）スノン（Senon）で、ラ・テーヌ文化C2/D1期～ローマ時代初期・紀元前2世紀中ごろ～紀元後1世紀初頭ののメディオマトリキ族（Mediomatrici）の集落。
ローマ時代初めの石灰岩の砕石跡10基。1世紀末の石造りの建物や道路。後期古代・3世紀後半～4世紀前半の、大型土器に納めた貨幣の埋蔵3基。
[Inrap]
www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
#考古学のおやつ 1/1
フランス、グラン・テスト地域圏（Grand Est） ムーズ県（Meuse）スノン（Senon）で、ラ・テーヌ文化C2/D1期～ローマ時代初期・紀元前2世紀中ごろ～紀元後1世紀初頭ののメディオマトリキ族（Mediomatrici）の集落。
ローマ時代初めの石灰岩の砕石跡10基。1世紀末の石造りの建物や道路。後期古代・3世紀後半～4世紀前半の、大型土器に納めた貨幣の埋蔵3基。
[Inrap]
www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
40,000 #Roman - era #coins discovered in #French village. The town was important to the #Celtic #Mediomatrici tribe before it was conquered by Julius Caesar. #Senon #France
Link for more info and one more photo: www.popsci.com/science/roma...
Link for more info and one more photo: www.popsci.com/science/roma...
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
40,000 #Roman - era #coins discovered in #French village. The town was important to the #Celtic #Mediomatrici tribe before it was conquered by Julius Caesar. #Senon #France
Link for more info and one more photo: www.popsci.com/science/roma...
Link for more info and one more photo: www.popsci.com/science/roma...
Enigmatic Late Antique Coin Hoards Discovered in One of the Gallic Cities of the Mediomatrici
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/e...
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/e...
Enigmatic Late Antique Coin Hoards Discovered in One of the Gallic Cities of the Mediomatrici
A preventive archaeological intervention, carried out in connection with the expansion of a private residence in the town of Senon (Lorraine, northeastern France), has unearthed exceptionally well-pre...
www.labrujulaverde.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Enigmatic Late Antique Coin Hoards Discovered in One of the Gallic Cities of the Mediomatrici
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/e...
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/e...
Enigmatic Late Antique Coin Hoards Discovered in One of the Gallic Cities of the Mediomatrici www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/e...
Enigmatic Late Antique Coin Hoards Discovered in One of the Gallic Cities of the Mediomatrici
A preventive archaeological intervention, carried out in connection with the expansion of a private residence in the town of Senon (Lorraine, northeastern France), has unearthed exceptionally well-pre...
www.labrujulaverde.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Enigmatic Late Antique Coin Hoards Discovered in One of the Gallic Cities of the Mediomatrici www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/e...
Migration is a normal state of affairs across all times and places (wiki says the mediomatrici were gauls)
A Roman gravestone on display at the Roman Baths in Bath:
'To Rusonia Aventina, a tribeswoman of the Mediomatrici, aged 58, she lies here. Lucius Ulpius Sestius, her heir, had this set up'.
#TombTuesday #EpigraphyTuesday
'To Rusonia Aventina, a tribeswoman of the Mediomatrici, aged 58, she lies here. Lucius Ulpius Sestius, her heir, had this set up'.
#TombTuesday #EpigraphyTuesday
May 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Migration is a normal state of affairs across all times and places (wiki says the mediomatrici were gauls)
A Roman gravestone on display at the Roman Baths in Bath:
'To Rusonia Aventina, a tribeswoman of the Mediomatrici, aged 58, she lies here. Lucius Ulpius Sestius, her heir, had this set up'.
#TombTuesday #EpigraphyTuesday
'To Rusonia Aventina, a tribeswoman of the Mediomatrici, aged 58, she lies here. Lucius Ulpius Sestius, her heir, had this set up'.
#TombTuesday #EpigraphyTuesday
May 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
A Roman gravestone on display at the Roman Baths in Bath:
'To Rusonia Aventina, a tribeswoman of the Mediomatrici, aged 58, she lies here. Lucius Ulpius Sestius, her heir, had this set up'.
#TombTuesday #EpigraphyTuesday
'To Rusonia Aventina, a tribeswoman of the Mediomatrici, aged 58, she lies here. Lucius Ulpius Sestius, her heir, had this set up'.
#TombTuesday #EpigraphyTuesday
Stopping at the reconstructed Roman road near Ottweiler, Saarland, and thinking how the area must have looked when it was settled by the Celtic Mediomatrici 2000 years ago. You can still follow the via‘s arrow-straight course from Strassburg to Trier (it is a footpath now) 🏛️
October 8, 2023 at 12:42 PM
Stopping at the reconstructed Roman road near Ottweiler, Saarland, and thinking how the area must have looked when it was settled by the Celtic Mediomatrici 2000 years ago. You can still follow the via‘s arrow-straight course from Strassburg to Trier (it is a footpath now) 🏛️