UBIER-MONUMENT - MONUMENT TO UBIANS

The monument called Ubier, the "Monument des Ubii" (the local Germanic tribe), was discovered in 1965 when building a house on the site. The remains of the ramparts of the end of the century are always attached to the structure, which is almost a hundred years further. Originally, the monument was at least 12 m high. Its foundations were located in the ancient floodplain of the Rhine, 6 m lower than the level of the street in Roman times. Stability was assured by enrolling a grid of oak piles in the underlying gravel to form a base similar to cement. When the city walls were built at the end of the century, part of the tower was demolished and the rest integrated into the new rampart. The original purpose of the structure is discussed. This was probably part of an ancient Fortification of Oppidum Ubiorum at the entrance to the Rhine port.