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Learn about the history, structure, and services of the Better Business Bureau (BBB), a nonprofit organization that focuses on consumer protection and industry self-regulation. Find out how BBB rates businesses, handles complaints, and provides dispute resolution.
Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort and a self-governing village south of Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland. It is known for the Vindolanda tablets, the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain, and its archaeological excavations.
Roman artefacts from the site are on display in the Whitchurch Heritage Centre. [2] It is believed the present day Pepper Street had Roman origins. A common name in former Roman settlements it is a derivation of the Roman Via Piperatica, the street on which pepper and spices were sold. [3]
Calleva Atrebatum, also known as Silchester, was an Iron Age oppidum and a Roman town in Hampshire, England. It was the capital of the Atrebates tribe and a major crossroads of roads in southern Britain.
A comprehensive list of Roman sites in England, Scotland and Wales that are open to the public or have historical significance. Find out the names, locations and features of Roman cities, roads, forts, villas, bridges and temples.
A list of cities in Great Britain during the Roman occupation from 43 AD to the 5th century, with their modern, Brythonic and Roman names, tribes, historic counties and current status. Learn about the origins, locations and histories of these fortified settlements where native tribal peoples lived under Roman rule.
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).
The list of Roman hoards in Britain comprises significant archaeological hoards of coins, jewellery, precious and scrap metal objects and other valuable items discovered in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) that are associated with period of Romano-British culture when Southern Britain was under the control of the Roman Empire, from AD 43 until about 410, as well as the subsequent ...