Modern View
In the last century, professional historians Thomas Hodgkin and later J.B. Bury have generally expressed their scepticism over this identification. Other chance finds scattered over the area of Pouan and its neighboring village Villette— including two small bronze vases, a cup, a gilt-bronze ewer, blades and horse-trappings— support the local perception that these fields are the Catalaunian fields of the decisive battle in 451, usually identified with Châlons-en-Champagne.
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