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Roman sites in Great Britain

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Main Roman cities and roads in Roman Britain, according to the "Antonine Itinerary"

There are many Roman sites in Great Britain that are open to the public. There are also many sites that do not require special access, including Roman roads, and sites that have not been uncovered.

England

  • Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland and Cumbria
  • The Vallum ditch and mounds adjoining Hadrian's Wall. It was mistakenly attributed to Agricola before the late 19th century, but in fact was the work of Hadrian.
  • Batham Gate, Roman road
  • Dere Street, Roman road
  • Ermine Street, Roman road
  • Fosse Way, Roman road
  • Icknield Street, Roman Road
  • Stane Street (Chichester), Roman road
  • Stane Street (Colchester), Roman road
  • Stanegate, Roman road that pre-dates Hadrian's Wall
  • Watling Street, Roman road

Buckinghamshire

Cheshire

Cumbria

Derbyshire

  • Aquae Arnemetiae (Roman Buxton)
  • Ardotalia (Melandra Castle)
  • Derventio Coritanorum (Roman Derby)
  • Doctor's Gate Roman road
  • Lutudarum (Wirksworth or Carsington)
  • Navio (Brough-on-Noe)
  • The Street Roman road

Devon

  • Isca Dumnoniorum (Roman Exeter). Parts of city wall still exist (overlaid with medieval construction)
  • Moridunum, Axminster
  • Pomeroy Wood
  • Woodbury Farm Roman Fort, near Axminster

Dorset

Durham

East Sussex

Essex

  • Belgic oppidum (Roman Braintree)
  • Caesaromagus (Roman Chelmsford). A Roman fort was built in AD 60, and a civilian town grew up around it. The town was given the name of Caesaromagus (the market place of Caesar), although the reason for it being given the great honour of bearing the Imperial prefix is now unclear – possibly as a failed 'planned town' provincial capital to replace Londinium or Camulodunum.
  • Camulodunum (Roman Colchester). Oldest Roman wall in Britain, best-preserved Roman gateway in Britain, remains of two Roman theatres, oldest Roman church in UK and Castle museum
  • Great Dunmow
  • Heybridge, Maldon (Anglo-Saxon: Tidwalditun)
  • Othona (Roman Bradwell-on-Sea)

Gloucestershire

Greater Manchester

Hampshire

Herefordshire

  • Ariconium, Bury Hill, Weston under Penyard
  • Blackwardine
  • Bravonium, Leintwardine
  • Jay Lane, Leintwardine
  • Magnae Dobunnorum, Kenchester
  • The Weir Garden, River Wye

Hertfordshire

Isle of Wight

Kent

Leicestershire

Lancashire

Lincolnshire

London

Norfolk

Northamptonshire

Northumberland

  • Aesica, Roman fort, north of Haltwhistle
  • Bremenium, High Rochester
  • Carrawburgh, Mithraeum temple by Hadrian's Wall
  • Chesters Bridge, Roman bridge abutment by Chesters Roman Fort (Cilurnum), Northumberland
  • Chew Green, Roman Camps in the Cheviots
  • Cilurnum, Northumberland
  • Coria, Corbridge. Roman site and museum
  • Devil's Causeway, Roman road to Berwick upon Tweed
  • Habitancum, Roman fort at Risingham
  • Housesteads (Vercovicium)
  • Hunnum, (also known as Onnum, and with the modern name of Haltonchesters), Roman fort north of Halton
  • Magnis (Carvoran Roman Fort)
  • Roman Army Museum north of Haltwhistle at Carvoran
  • Vercovicium, (or Housesteads Roman Fort) was an auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall
  • Vindolanda, a fort on the Stanegate Roman road pre-dating Hadrian's Wall nearby, with exceptional Roman finds in its museum
  • Vindobala, Roman fort at Rudchester
  • Whitley Castle, also known as Epiacum, a Roman fort at the southern edge of Northumberland on the Maiden Way Roman road, with remarkable earthen ramparts

North Yorkshire

Nottinghamshire

  • Ad Pontem (East Stoke)
  • Crocolana (Brough)
  • Margidunum
  • Segelocum or Agelocum (Littleborough)
  • Vernometum (Willoughby on the Wolds)

Oxfordshire

  • Alchester
  • North Leigh Roman Villa

Shropshire

Somerset

South Yorkshire

Staffordshire

Sussex

See East Sussex, West Sussex

Tyne and Wear

Warwickshire

West Midlands

West Sussex

West Yorkshire

Wiltshire

Worcestershire

Scotland

Inveresk Mithreum, by Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/mithras-in-scotland-a-mithraeum-at-inveresk-east-lothian/544B6233F7F06415EE049C60A827C3C0

Wales

See also

References

  1. ^ Historic England. "Templeborough Roman Fort (316617)". PastScape. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
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