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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.
Map from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. A partial list of Roman place names in Great Britain. [ 1] This list includes only names documented from Roman times. For a more complete list including later Latin names, see List of Latin place names in Britain . The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and misspellings of the Latin names.
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.
The Vindolanda tablets are made from birch, alder and oak that grew locally, in contrast to stylus tablets, another type of writing tablet used in Roman Britain, which were imported and made from non-native wood. The tablets are 0.25–3 mm (0.01–0.12 in) thick with a typical size being 20 cm × 8 cm (8 in × 3 in) (the size of a modern ...
By this time the Roman defences were in poor repair, and the Danes demolished all the towers save the Multangular Tower and restored the walls. The majority of the remaining walls, which encircle the whole of the medieval city, date from the 13th – 14th century. [10]
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Mediolanum (Whitchurch) Coordinates: 52.967°N 2.681°W. Mediolanum was a fort and small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Whitchurch, located in the English county of Shropshire .
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