BIBRACTE , an ancient Gaulish town, the modern Mont Beuvray, near. Autun in France. Here, on a hilltop 2500 ft. above sea-level, excavation has revealed a vast area of 330 acres, girt with a stone and
rampart 3 M. long, and containing the remains of dwelling-houses, a temple of Bibractis, and the workshops of iron and bronze workers and enamellers. It was the
removed the inhabitants to his new town Augustodfinum (Autun), to destroy the free native traditions. Another far more obscure town in Gaul, near Reims, also bore the name. See Eulliot, Fouilles de Beuvray; Dechelette, Oppidum de Bibracte; also references 5.v. AEDU1.
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