Somme-Bionne

Somme-Bionne
Somme-Bionne
Location within Grand Est region  Somme-Bionne
Coordinates: 49°05′42″N 4°43′32″E / 49.095°N 4.7256°ECoordinates: 49°05′42″N 4°43′32″E / 49.095°N 4.7256°E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Marne
Arrondissement	Arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould
Canton	Canton of Sainte-Menehould
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de la Région de Sainte-Menehould
Government
• Mayor	Jean-François Jeny
Area^1	9.21 km^2 (3.56 sq mi)
Population (1999)^2	54
• Density	5.9/km^2 (15/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	51543 / 51800
Elevation	144–197 m (472–646 ft) (avg. 168 m or 551 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Somme-Bionne is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. An important Iron Age chariot burial of 450-300 BC was found in the vicinity of the village in the nineteenth century. The finds from the La Tène period grave came into the possession of the French collector Léon Morel, who sold it, along with his entire antiquities collection from the Champagne region of France, to the British Museum in 1901.^[1]

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See also

• Communes of the Marne department

References

1. British Museum Collection
2. British Museum Collection