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A Twisted Sword of 2,100 Years Discovered Near Tours Would Reveal a Gallic Ritual Gesture Before Abandoning a Farm

To leave their farm, the Gauls did not make simple boxes. In Metray, north of Tours (Indre-et-Loire), a preventive search has just confirmed this. The Inrap has discovered a rural establishment of the Second Iron Age. Archaeologists attribute it to the period of La Tene D1, between 150 and 80 B.C.E. Two singular objects illuminate ritual gestures of abandonment. The site is already one of the best equipped of the area, according to the Inrap. Th…
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To leave their farm, the Gauls did not make simple boxes. In Metray, north of Tours (Indre-et-Loire), a preventive search has just confirmed this. The Inrap has discovered a rural establishment of the Second Iron Age. Archaeologists attribute it to the period of La Tene D1, between 150 and 80 B.C.E. Two singular objects illuminate ritual gestures of abandonment. The site is already one of the best equipped of the area, according to the Inrap. Th…

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Science-et-vie.com broke the news on Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
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