page_title: Chambourg-sur-Indre
section_title: Antiquity
hierarchical_section_title: Chambourg-sur-Indre / History / Antiquity
caption_attribution_description: English: Roman Bridge of Isle Auger (Chambourg/Indre, France) Français&#160;: Le pont Romain de l'Isle Auger (Chambourg/Indre, France)
context_page_description: Chambourg-sur-Indre is a French commune the department of Indre-et-Loire in the region of Centre-Val de Loire.
  Perhaps already occupied in the Neolithic era, the site was colonized at the time of the Roman Empire; witnessed by many traces of an aqueduct, a Roman villa, a Roman road. Hosting a Viguerie and a medieval fief, Chambourg became a commune in 1789, following an exchange of hamlets hitherto undivided with its neighbor Chédigny. Flooding of the Indre, always to be feared in 2014, has not deterred people from settling permanently in Chambourg on the banks of the river.
  Formed as Chambourg-sur-Indre in 1920, the town is one of the few rural areas of Lochois that as not experienced population decline in the 20th century. In 2011, its population was 1,317. Over the last 30 years, agriculture in the community has refocused around large farms specializing in the cultivation of cereals, oil seeds and protein crops. In industry, since 1961, Chambourg-sur-Indre has welcomed a major French company in the field of traffic signs.
context_section_description: The Gallo-Roman site at Cornillé, on the left bank of the Indre 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) upstream of the town contains reticulated walls (opus reticulatum) that were still visible at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and a hypocaust (underfloor heating) and the remains of an aqueduct; in 2014 the only remaining portions of walls in basements. This site was perhaps that of a mansio (way station). On the right bank of the Indre, between Corbery (village of Loches) and Auger Island on Chambourg-sur-Indre, D25 follows almost exactly an ancient road which continued in antiquity to Azay-sur-Indre beyond the Thimée Island without leaving the right bank of the Indre. Coins bearing the image of the emperors Nero, who reigned from 54 to 68, and Septimius Severus (193-211) were discovered in the town, on the site of a domus There is a medieval bridge on Auger Island nicknamed "Roman bridge" on many documents (maps [Institut géographique national|National Geographic Institute (IGN)] ] for example) and on the signs.
caption: Pseudo-Roman Bridge at Auger Island.[Note 3]
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