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Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it pre-dated. [note 1] Archaeological excavations of the site show it was under Roman occupation from roughly 85 AD to 370 AD.
Roman site and museum. Devil's Causeway, Roman road to Berwick upon Tweed. Featherwood Roman Camps, on Dere Street between Chew Green and Bremenium. Habitancum, Roman fort at Risingham. Housesteads (Vercovicium) Hunnum, (also known as Onnum, and with the modern name of Haltonchesters), Roman fort north of Halton.
Segedunum was a Roman fort at modern-day Wallsend, North Tyneside in North East England. The fort lay at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall near the banks of the River Tyne. It was in use for approximately 300 years from around 122 AD to almost 400. Today Segedunum is the most thoroughly excavated fort along Hadrian's Wall, and is operated as ...
Coria was a fort and town 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Hadrian's Wall, in the Roman province of Britannia.It was strategically located on the junction of a major Roman north–south road (Dere Street) with the River Tyne and the Roman Stanegate road, which was also the first frontier line which ran east–west between Coria and Luguvalium (the modern Carlisle).
Traditional arrangement of the Roman provinces after Camden, [1] This is a list of cities in Great Britain during the period of Roman occupation from 43 AD to the 5th century. Roman cities were known as civitas in Latin. They were mostly fortified settlements where native tribal peoples lived, governed by the Roman officials.
The first known recorded mention of Eboracum by name is dated c. 95–104 AD, and is an address containing the genitive form of the settlement's name, Eburaci, on a wooden stylus tablet from the Roman fortress of Vindolanda in what is now the modern Northumberland. [1] During the Roman period, the name was written both Eboracum and Eburacum (in ...
Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain. It was sited southwest of the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England. The major ancient Roman route Watling Street passed through the city, but was realigned in medieval times to bring trade to St Albans. It was about a day's walk from London. A large portion of the Roman city remains ...
Hardknott Roman Fort is an archeological site, the remains of the Roman fort Mediobogdum, [1] located on the western side of the challenging Hardknott Pass in the English Lake District. The fort was built between 120 and 138 on a rocky spur, and was initially garrisoned by a detachment of the Cohors IV Delmatarum from the Dalmatian coast (in ...