The Amphithéâtre Gallo-Romain at Saint-André-sur-Cailly, in the hamlet of Bout Levé, is a small rural amphitheatre in the territory of the Veliocasses, north-east of Rotomagus (Rouen). Like most amphitheatres in Gallia Lugdunensis, it most likely dates to the 1st–2nd centuries AD and would have served a rural sanctuary or vicus rather than a major civitas capital.
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The site reflects the well-documented pattern in northern Gaul of "amphithéâtres ruraux" linked to cult centres, where periodic festivals combined religious observance with spectacle for a dispersed agricultural population. Its position in the hinterland of Rouen suggests it served the wider rural community of the Pays de Bray–Caux fringe rather than an urban audience.
The Amphithéâtre Gallo-Romain at Saint-André-sur-Cailly, in the hamlet of Bout Levé, is a small rural amphitheatre in the territory of the Veliocasses, north-east of Rotomagus (Rouen). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a amphitheatre site from the Roman period in Britain.
Amphithéâtre Gallo-Romain is classified as a Roman amphitheatre — a civilian site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
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