Luzech
L'Impernal de Luzech, which some believe to be Uxellodunum, was an oppidum of 8 to 10 ha, defended by a Gallic rampart with timber beams. It was a high place consecrated by a square temple of Celtic tradition. At the end of the Gallic period and in the 1st c. of the Empire, it enjoyed genuine commercial and metallurgical activity. Its abandonment seems to date to the beginning of the 2d c. A.D.
BIBLIOGRAPHYA. Viré, B.S.P.F. 10 (1913) 687-711 & figs. 1-16; 18 (1921) 82-83; 20 (1923) 56-76 & figs. 1-13; Les oppida du Quercy et le siège d'Uxellodunum (51 av. J.-C.) (1936) 22-26 & figs. 11-17; M. Labrousse in Gallia 9 (1951) 139-40; 12 (1954) 230; 15 (1957) 277; 17 (1959) 436-37 & figs. 34-35; 20 (1962) 592; 22 (1964) 462; R. Tardieu, “Fouilles de l'Impernal: Bâtiment VI, vestiges d'industrie métallurgique,” Bull. de la Soc. Et. du Lot 75 (1954) 203-15; id., “Fouilles de l'Impernal (suite),” ibid. 88 (1967) 85-95; H. Pélissié, De la Barbacane au Pont du Diable. Guide du touriste et de l'archéologue à Luzech (rev. ed. 1967) 81-120.
For the identification with Uxellodunum, cf. E. Albouy, Un point d'histoire gallo-romaine particulèrement controversé: Uxellodunum, essai d'identification (1958).
M. LABROUSSE