Our next stop was the Oppidum d’Enserune, 20 minutes north of Narbonne. This 5th to 6th century BC site had an interesting walking tour and an equally comprehensive museum. Atop a hill south of Beziers, this site impressed upon us the important presence of cultures in this part of the world that were pre-Roman. Possibly the most unusual aspect of this site, are the radiating fields dating back to the 13th century, just north of the hill where the Oppidum was located. We also discovered that the ancient road, called the Via Domitia, running from Beaucaire to the Pyrenees, ran through this settlement and continues on more or less parallel to the autoroute close to where we get on the autoroute from Fraisse. We found the Oppidum minimally developed, compared to Glanum north of St. Remy, where we felt like we’d returned to Roman times.