Excisum - site et musée archéologique d'Eysses
Musée de France
Ville ou Pays d'art et d'histoire
The Eysses Archaeological Museum traces, through the artifacts uncovered during excavations, the history of the town of Excisum, a Gallic settlement from the 3rd to the 1st century B.C., and later a secondary Gallo-Roman settlement from the 1st to the 4th century A.D.
Eysses, Roman city from the 1rst century, knew a strong economical prosperity in its early era, moreover as Rome chose it as a shelter for military camps.At the 5th century the Benedictin abbey of Saint-Gervais Saint-Protais is founded on the antique site of Excisum.
Under the will of the king of France and the abbott, the bastide of "Ville Neuve" is built on the banks of the river in the XIIIth century.
Three spaces, three themes allow the visitor to discover numerous archaeological pieces found on the site: ceramics, coins, statuettes and amphoras.
One room is dedicated to the Benedictin abbey of Eysses, to the creation of the Villeneuve sur Lot bastide and to life in the Middle ages.The gallery is about daily life in the city in centuries XIX and XX.
