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Tintagel
(81 words)
[German version] A headland on the northern coast of Cornwall, for a long time connected with King Arthur and his court. Limited settlement in the late Roman period was followed by more intensive settlement from the late 5th cent. AD onwards with many imports from the eastern Mediterranean, particularly amphorae and fine pottery. At that time T. was evidently the residence of the kings of the Dumnonii. Todd, Malcolm (Exeter) Bibliography C. Thomas, The Book of T.: Arthur and Archaeology, 1993.
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Orcades
(137 words)
[German version] (Ὀρκάδες/
Orkádes, Latin
Orcades). The archipelago of Orkney (today c. 70 islands, of which 24 are inhabited) off the north coast of Scotland probably first came to the attention of the ancients through Pytheas (late 4th cent. BC). According to ancient authors, there were between 30 (Mela 3,54; Ptol. 2,3,31) and 40 (Plin. HN 4,103) only sparsely inhabited islands. The fleet of Iulius [II 3] Agricola (Tac. Agr. 10) reconnoitred the O. in AD 83/4. Some of the O. were known to Ptolemy (…
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Segontiaci
(35 words)
[German version] Celtic tribe, probably in the southeast of Britain, which surrendered to Caesar in 54 BC (Caes. Gall. 5,21). Todd, Malcolm (Exeter) Bibliography A. L. F. Rivet, C. Smith, The Place-Names of Roman Britain, 1979, 453 f.
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Dumnonii
(122 words)
[German version] The D. lived in south-west Britannia. Their name may be derived from a pre-Roman divinity
Dumnonos. During the Iron Age the D. were widely dispersed, without centres or
oppida. After the Roman c…
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Isca Silurum
(154 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: | Legio | Limes | Limes | Britannia Roman legionary camp set up
c. AD 74 in Britannia, modern Caerleon (South Wales). The
legio II Augusta was stationed there [1; 2]. In about AD 100 the fortifications were renewed in stone, followed by the internal buildings. An amphitheatre has been excavated outside the walls of the camp and likewise wharf co…
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Lindum
(376 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: | Coloniae | Britannia (modern Lincoln in central England; cf. etymology
L. +
colonia). Town in a strategically important position where the river Witham cuts through the Lincoln Edge. Around a swampy pond in the valley floor (
lindus, Celtic ‘pond’) there was a late Iron Age settlement [1]. A legionary camp formed the core of the Roman
colonia on the hills in the north. Founded in about AD 60, this fortress was kept by the
legio IX Hispana until around AD 71 and then by the
legio II Adiutrix until
c. AD 85. With 7.2 acres this fortr…
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Lactodurum
(65 words)
[German version] Present-day Towcester, Northamptonshire; It. Ant. 2; 6. Late Iron Age settlement; from the mid 1st cent. AD a Roman army station. The town was protected in the 2nd cent. by the construction of a rampart and ditch; stone fortifications were added in the 3rd cent. Todd, Malcolm (Exeter) Bibliography A. L. F. Rivet, C. Smith, The Place-Names of Roman Britain, 1979, 382f.
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Verulamium
(212 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Theatre | Christianity | Britannia | Britannia City above the south bank of the River Ver at modern Saint Albans to the northwest of Londinium (modern London), settlement centre since the 1st cent. BC of the Catuvellauni [1]. The settlement expanded into the valley, where after AD 43 the Romans built a fort [2]. A
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Britannia
(1,099 words)
[German version] A. Name Originally the island was known as Albion (Avien. Ora maritima 108f. probably goes back to Pytheas,
c. 325 BC). In the oldest Greek sources, B. appears as Βρεταννικαὶ νῆσοι (
Bretannikaì nêsoi) and the inhabitants as Βρεττανοί (
Brettanoí, Str. 2,1,18; 2,5,12). In Latin authors the form
B. is common from the 1s…
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South Cadbury
(53 words)
[German version] Iron Age hill fort in Somerset, used for a short time in the middle of the 1st century AD by the Roman army. Resettled and fortified in the late 5th century. Ceramics were imported from the Mediterranean, other goods from Gaul. Todd, Malcolm (Exeter) Bibliography L. Alcock, Cadbury Castle, 1995.
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Vinovia
(131 words)
[German version] (Οὐιννοούιον/
Ouinnooúion). A Roman fort in Binchester on the important Roman road from Eboracum (modern York) to Hadrian's Wall (Ptol. 2,3,16; [1. 1036]; Limes II), where it crossed the Vedra (modern Wea…
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Deva
(180 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: | Legio | Limes | Limes | Britannia Modern Chester. Legionary camp, originally set up for the
legio II Adiutrix in
c. AD 75 [1] as a wooden/earthen fort, with baths (stone); water pipes of lead date the completion to AD 79. The
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Londinium
(806 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Caesar | Christianity | | Commerce | Limes | Rome | Rome | Britannia (modern London). The Roman city of L. - the name possibly contains the Celtic personal name Londinos - lay, probably without pre-Roman precursors, at the most suitable crossing point of the Tamesis (Thames), which drew the attention of the Romans at the time of the invasion in AD 43. The early settlement was on hills on both sides of the swampy valley of the Walbrook that flows from the nor…
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Ictis
(127 words)
[English version] Bei Ebbe mit dem Festland verbundene brit. Insel, auf der nach Diod. 5…
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Ratae
(164 words)
[English version] Dieser Ort ist auf folgenden Karten verzeichnet: Straßen Röm. Kastell in Britannia, vor 50 n. Chr. an der Stelle einer eisenzeitlichen Siedlung am h. Soar errichtet und ca. 20 J. gehalten. Darüber und über dem Kastell-
vicus entwickelte sich der Kernbereich einer blühenden Stadt (Itin. Anton. 477,4; Ptol. 2,3,20…
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