The Middle Ages

The photograph reveals a Gallo-Roman villa to one side of a large, isolated farm in the modern Picardy countryside. Cottenchy (Somme).

A Gallo-Roman theater: the only surviving monument from the town of Juliobona. Lillebonne (Seine-Maritime).

Among the great palaces from the Early Middle Ages, only the location is visible of this one at Quierzy (Aisne). It was occasionally used as a royal residence between 686 and 892.

The razed abbey at Arrouaise, near Transloy (Pas-de-Calais).

The leveled remains of an enigmatic medieval structure at Flesselles (Somme).

The raking light highlights a circular earth levee around a feudal mound. Fressenneville (Somme).