i i by of the LESLIE discovery was made in the summer of 1958 in the ramparts of MontaubanBuzenol not far from Virton Belgium Attention was called to this by J van Octeghem sJ in Les Etudes ID: 94488
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i i by of the the Gauls: The Forerunner Combine Harvester LESLIE discovery was made in the summer of 1958, in the ramparts of Montauban-Buzenol, not far from Virton, Belgium. Attention was called to this by J. van Octeghem, sJ., in Les Etudes Classi- ques (Namur University, April 1959). The dis- covery was a large fragment of sculpture of the Gallo-Roman period on which was figured part o£ MATTHEWS first-hand representation of the Gaulish corn- harvester, first described by Pliny the Elder, and later by Palladius, and for long thought to be the kind of story brought back by returned soldiers from Gaul--the sort of story that would go down well with the people at home. As van Octeghem aptly remarks, in this part of Gaul our ancestors had nothing to learn from the Romans, rather the contrary ! The following are free translations from the BY THE GAULS 53 / v 0 c~ r~ m 0 ~2 6