Pech Maho

There are observed three successive occupations, apparently discontinuous, presumably by a people called Elisycs[1] (Ἐλισύκοι ων-Greek) installed at the limit of Iberians, Celts and Ligures.

The almost total destruction of the oppidum occurred at the end of the third century BC and may be linked with the Second Punic War who opposed Rome and Carthage.

This period coincides with the establishment in the region of the Romans, who made Narbonne their prefecture since they will dominate Gallia Narbonensis.

When it was established it was located near the mouths of the Aude and Berre, the ford of the Heraclean Lane, which then allowed to join the Italy to Iberia.

It can be visited with a guide, beginning at the museum on the last Saturday of the month, off season, on Wednesday morning in July and August and on demand.

Views from the base of some houses in Pech Maho after update by the excavation work (2009)
Transcription of an inscription found in the excavations, Musée de Sigean .