Les Mesnuls
LES MESNULS Dept. Seine-et-Oise, France.
La Millière is a wooded site in the commune of Les Mesnuls in the canton of Rambouillet, on the edge of the state forest, the Forêt de Rambouillet. Its name may be a reminder that a milestone stood here in ancient times which has now disappeared. Excavations carried out here since 1965 have uncovered a villa with a galleried facade forming a rectangle 30 x 25 m.
The base of the walls is still covered with frescoes showing life-size people with birds, flowers, and plants. The building may be dated from the 2d c. and the first half of the 3d c.
BIBLIOGRAPHYM. Fleury, “Informations arch.,” Gallia (1967).
J.-M. DESBORDES