Puymirol during the Prehistoric age
Our country has been inhabited since time immemorial. The oldest known texts describe wooded hills. Many axes made of polished serpentine stones or rolled pebbles have been found on plateaux Boulet and Rat. Arrows, knives and axes made of shattered stones, polished stones, cut and polished flintstones have also been discovered all over the area and mostly up on hills. Bones of a reindeer and cervus magaceros have also been found on the path round the battlements of Puymirol.

Gauls lived in Puymirol
Cap Del Rat might have been the original location of Puymirol. Many fragments of stoneware potteries in brown sandstone (baked in the sun) or mat red sandstone (baked in an oven and unpainted), have been found there as well as in Mercadé, where used to stand the vanished town of Clairac or Cléracio (at the origin of the name of Saint-Pierre-de-Clairac). Those fragments come from small cups and large dishes, rough amphoras in which oil, wine and fishes were stored, as well as large jars used as barrels. Laspeyres, which used to be the port of Puymirol-sur-Garonne is named after a vanished cromlech.

Puymirol during the Merovingian era
After the battle of Vouille, the victors devastated the land of the rich country of Aquitaine and made off with the spoils. The only remains to testify of the presence of the Frankish barbarians on our land are their stone sarcophagi, in which earthenware cooking utensils and iron arms can sometimes be found. During the summer and winter of 1980, the Youth Club of Puymirol worked hard to uncover a Merovingian necropolis, at the place called Touron. They dug out 48 graves cut directly into the limestone sole. Some were empty, but most of them held well-preserved skeletons. Fibulas and buckle plates, glass pearl rings and necklaces were found in the graves. All the bones were sent to Bordeaux and indexed (age, sex,...). Mr. Desert, who ran the dig, has presented the results of this excavation campaign.







Romans had chosen Grande Castrum for its favourable location.