The village of Camabert, the home of Camambert Cheese
The Montormel Memorial which is dedicated those soldiers who fell in the battle of the Falaise Gap which was faught across the plain behind the memorial in 1944 following the successful Normandy Landings.
The Norman Keep in Chambois, a town in the heart of the Falaise Gap battlefield
We visited Argentan to take in the market
We had a great time strolling around the stalls and buying supplies to take back to our cottage.
And we finished up with a coffee
We visited the site of a pre Roman settlement not far from Argentan near the village of Bierre.
Access was via a delightful footpath which passed this water trough and through the trees.
It's not long before the banks of the earthwork looms up before you
The site of an excavated dwelling
A partial reconstruction of the walls that once stood near the main entrance
On top of the wall
two more views of the wall and of a tower that once stood here
The site was refortified during the medieval period and the tower dates from that period
The site was abandoned in favour of the site of the modern village
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