article_snippet.sent: During the Middle Ages villagers took shelter there from marauding armies crisscrossing northern France.
article_snippet.sent: But unlike those sites, Naours is well back from the front lines.
article_snippet.sent: And Naours wasn't known to have been used as a shelter or hospital like other Western Front quarries.
article_snippet.sent: Naours is only a few miles from Vignacourt, a town used as a staging area for troops moving up to and back from the Somme battlefields some 25 miles to the east .
article_snippet.sent: Naours is only a few miles from Vignacourt, a town used as a staging area for troops moving up to and back from the Somme battlefields some 25 miles to the east.