Cheppe

Cheppe is a common French, located in the department of the Marne and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

History

The place known as " Camp of Attila" and the neighborhoods would be, according to certain researchers, the place of the Bataille of the fields Catalauniques which take place in 451. This vast protohistoric enclosure known as " Camp of Attila" , date of the 2nd century before J.C. It is a vestige of a then occupied Gallic oppidum by the Romans and located on the edges of the Noblette. The form elliptic with fortifications with ditches is surrounded by ground ramparts, tops of approximately seven meters, or the vegetation, took for a long time again its rights and surrounds the camp of a thick barrier of trees, creating a peaceful place and world cup. The Roman way passer by has proximity, and the immense plain leave has to think that it is the good place. However this camp, was not identified like " camp of Attila" , that as from the 18th century. Napoleon III fascinated by the history made there launch excavations, but without result. Another series of new excavations (at the end of the 19th century) will make it possible to put at the day of ceramics, the collars out of bronze and various wrought iron parts (preserved at the museum of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer).

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Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Marne

External bonds

Cheppe on the site of the national geographical Institute
Cheppe on the site of INSEE
Cheppe on the site of Quid
Localization of Cheppe on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane of Cheppe on Mapquest

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