Village in the department of Ain, Burgundy, eastern France, 14 miles NNE of Bourg-en-Bresse, where the Calendar of Coligny was found in 1897. The bronze plates of the calendar are some of the most extensive writings we have in any Continental Celtic language, and provide important evidence in understanding the early Celtic perception of time. See CALENDAR.
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