Thaims - Saint-Pierre

Where the parish church of Thaims is now, was a Roman villa during earlier times. A part of the Roman ruin got integrated into an early merovingian church, of which again parts were "reused", when this church was erected within the 11th century. It got altered a couple of times.

The carvings found in "Saint-Pierre" differ clearly in style. Some of them may date back to the merovingian structure, some of them are late Romanesque and may been added within the 13th century.

This capital - is probably one of the older ones. Merovingian? It is hard to see. There is four legged animal (lamb?) with a human head (long ears?), a cross over the back. The creature faces the onlooker and holds head (or bag). All just roughly "scratched" into the stone.