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- The 5th century BC
Every commune in Champagne has at least one cemetery dating from the 5th century BC and thousands of graves were excavated during the 19th and early 20th centuries. At Acy-Romance, a grain store was destroyed by chalk extraction works 2 km south of “Le Terrage”. A few fragments of jars, including one with a painted decoration of curved lines, were found 1 km to the east. A settlement from that period has been identified at “La Noue Mauroy”, and 400 metres to the west lies a burial ground, with some one hundred graves arranged in rows, discovered during an aerial survey. At Thugny-Trugny, another burial ground has been recorded. At Tagnon, some ten kilometres south of Acy-Romance, a settlement comprising a number of grain stores has been excavated.