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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.
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Londinium, also known as Roman London, was the capital of Roman Britain during most of the period of Roman rule. Most twenty-first century historians think that it was originally a settlement established shortly after the Claudian invasion of Britain, on the current site of the City of London around 47–50 AD, but some defend an older view that the city originated in a defensive enclosure ...
The Beau Street Hoard, found in Bath, Somerset, is the fifth-largest hoard ever found in Britain and the largest ever discovered in a British Roman town. It consists of an estimated 17,500 silver Roman coins dating from between 32 BC and 274 AD. [1] [2] The hoard was found on Beau Street about 150 metres (490 ft) from the town's Roman Baths ...
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Calleva Atrebatum. / 51.35722°N 1.08250°W / 51.35722; -1.08250. Calleva Atrebatum ("Calleva of the Atrebates ") was an Iron Age oppidum, the capital of the Atrebates tribe. It then became a walled town in the Roman province of Britannia, at a major crossroads of the roads of southern Britain. The modern village of Silchester in ...
Roman roads in Britannia. Cade's Road is a Roman Road in north-east England. [1] [2] It is named after John Cade of Durham, an 18th-century antiquarian who in 1785 proposed its existence and possible course from the Humber Estuary northwards to the River Tyne, a distance of about 100 miles (160 km). The road's Roman name is unknown.
The fire-sale, which lured international buyers as far as the Middle East, has helped to revamp the local economy with an influx of 20 million euros (around $21.8 million,) says Cacioppo.