Concarneau
Gallo-Roman villa discovered in 1964 in the village of Le Questel near Concarneau. Built towards the middle of the 1st c. B.C., it was occupied up to the 4th c. A.D. Its general plan is of the gallery-facade type common in the western Roman empire.
The villa consists of a long main section divided into three longitudinal corridors; in the center of the middle one is a semicircular structure of undetermined purpose. This main section is flanked to the E by a lateral wing of which only a few traces remain; to the W is a second main building, better preserved and containing the baths. These consist of a caldarium and tepidarium heated by a hypocaust connected to the praefurnium (a small room with a well-built flagged floor, and two semicircular windows on its W side). The frigidarium, part of which is taken up by a bath, connects with another room, presumed to be a changing room (?). In the 4th c. three small rooms (of undetermined purpose) were added to the N part of the bath complex.
Other ancient remains 2 km E of Le Questel seem to be the remains of a monumental gateway rebuilt in the 4th c.
BIBLIOGRAPHYR. Sanquer, “L'établissement gallo-romain du Questel,” Annales de Bretagne 72, 1 (1965); 73, 1 (1966); “Les deux établissements gallo-romains du Questel et du Vuzit,” ibid. 74, 1 (1967).
M. PETIT