Road station
Massava
Mesves
Massava lay at Mesves, where the river Masau joins the Loire. The proof came in 1865, when an inscription was found there: a dedication to the goddess Clutonda and to the villagers of Masava, recording a stretch of wall between arches. So Massava was a vicus, a village, probably belonging to Auxerre. A Frankish chronicle tells how Pippin crossed the Loire at Masua in his war against Waifar, and Merovingian coins name the place Massa vico.