8/33 Its earliest remains date from the earliest days of the Roman Empire (A.D. 2), when it was founded, like Autun, on a spot which had (as it seems) never been inhabited before.[105] Of this first beginning we possess vestiges which concern us here. Eight or nine years ago, when the modern town was provided with drainage, the engineers of the work and the Trier archaeologists, headed by the late Dr.Graven, combined to note the points where the drainage trenches cut through pieces of Roman roadway.[106] [105] Ademeit, _Siedelungsgeographie des Moselgebiets_, pp. 367, 431. 1904 (1:10,000); the plan has been often copied, as by Cramer, _Das roem. |