Editing Roman sites in Great Britain

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[[File:Iter.Britanniarum.jpg|thumb|right|350px|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 in Britain|Roman roads]], and sites that have not been uncovered.

==England==
*[[Hadrian's Wall]], [[Northumberland]] and [[Cumbria]]
*The [[Vallum (Hadrian's Wall)|Vallum]] ditch and mounds adjoining [[Hadrian's Wall]]. It was mistakenly attributed to [[Gnaeus Julius Agricola|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]]===
*[[Stantonbury#Bancroft|Bancroft Park]], Milton Keynes. Romano-British villa
*[[Fenny Stratford#History|Magiovinium]], Fenny Stratford, [[Milton Keynes]]

===[[Cheshire]]===
*[[Deva Victrix]], Chester
*[[Chester Roman Amphitheatre]]
*[[Roman Middlewich]], King Street Roman Fort

===[[Cumbria]]===
*[[Galava|Ambleside Roman Fort]]
*[[Banna (Birdoswald)|Birdoswald Roman Fort]] (Banna). Part of [[Hadrian's Wall]]
*[[Hardknott Roman Fort]] (Mediobogdum), Eskdale
*[[Ravenglass Roman Bath House|Walls Castle (Roman Bath House)]], Ravenglass

===[[Derbyshire]]===
*[[Aquae Arnemetiae]] (Roman [[Buxton]])
*[[Ardotalia]] (Melandra Castle)
*[[Derventio Coritanorum]] (Roman [[Derby]])
*[[Doctor's Gate]] Roman road
*[[Lutudarum]] ([[Wirksworth]] or [[Carsington]])
*[[Navio Roman Fort|Navio]] ([[Brough-on-Noe]])
*[[The Street (Derbyshire)|The Street]] Roman road

===[[Devon]]===
*[[Isca Dumnoniorum]] (Roman [[Exeter]]). Parts of city wall still exist (overlaid with medieval construction)
*[[Moridunum (Axminster)|Moridunum]], Axminster
*[[Pomeroy Wood]]
*[[Woodbury Farm Roman Fort]], near Axminster

===[[Dorset]]===
*[[Durnovaria]], [[Dorchester, Dorset|Dorchester]]
*[[Town Walks, Dorchester]]
*[[Jordan Hill Roman Temple|Jordan Hill]], [[Romano-Celtic Temple]]
*[[Nunnery Mead]], [[Roman Villa]]
*[[Waddon Hill]], near Beaminster

===[[County Durham|Durham]]===
*[[Arbeia]] Roman Fort, [[South Shields]]
*[[Binchester Roman Fort]], (called Vinovia by the Romans), Roman fort north of [[Bishop Auckland]]
*[[Concangis]], [[Chester-le-Street]]
*[[Longovicium]], [[Lanchester, County Durham|Lanchester]], Roman fort with reservoirs, dams and aqueducts
*[[Piercebridge Roman Bridge]], next to [[Piercebridge Roman Fort]], Piercebridge
*[[Piercebridge Roman Fort]], Piercebridge
*[[Binchester Roman Fort|Vinovia]], (Binchester Roman Fort), Roman fort north of [[Bishop Auckland]]
*[[Vindomora]], Roman fort at [[Ebchester]]

===[[East Sussex]]===
*[[Anderitum|Pevensey Roman Fort]] (Anderitum), Pevensey

===[[Essex]]===
* Belgic oppidum (Roman [[Braintree, Essex|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]]===
*[[Chedworth Roman Villa]], near [[Cheltenham]]
*[[Corinium Dobunnorum]], [[Cirencester]]
*[[Great Witcombe Roman Villa]]
*[[Glevum]] (Roman [[Gloucester]]). ''Colonia Nervia Glevensium'', Roman walls
*[[Lydney Park]]. [[Romano-Celtic Temple]]
*[[Uley]]
*[[Woodchester Roman Villa]], Woodchester, near Stroud

===[[Greater Manchester]]===
*[[Mamucium]], [[Castlefield]] inner city conservation site, [[Manchester]]
*[[Coccium]], near [[Wigan]]
*[[Rigodunum]], Castleshaw

===[[Hampshire]]===
*[[Calleva Atrebatum]], Silchester
*[[Portus Adurni|Portchester Roman Fort]] (Portus Adurni), Portchester
*[[Rockbourne Roman Villa]], Fordingbridge
*[[Sparsholt Roman Villa]]
*[[Venta Belgarum]], Winchester

===[[Herefordshire]]===
*[[Ariconium]], Bury Hill, Weston under Penyard
*[[Blackwardine]]
*[[Leintwardine#Roman|Bravonium]], Leintwardine
*[[Buckton Roman Fort]], near Leintwardine
*[[Jay, Herefordshire|Jay Lane]], Leintwardine
*[[Magnae Dobunnorum]], Kenchester
*[[The Weir Garden]], River Wye

===[[Hertfordshire]]===
*[[Braughing Roman Town]] (Roman [[Braughing]])
*[[Gadebridge Park Roman Villa]]
*[[Verulamium]], near [[St Albans]]
*[[Welwyn Roman baths]] (part of Dicket Mead Villa)

===[[Isle of Wight]]===
*[[Brading Roman Villa]]
*[[Newport Roman Villa]]

===[[Kent]]===
*[[Crofton Roman Villa]], Orpington
*[[Dubris]] (Roman [[Dover]])
*[[Lullingstone Roman Villa]]
*[[Regulbium|Reculver Roman Fort]], Reculver
*[[Rutupiæ]] (Roman [[Richborough]])

===[[Leicestershire]]===
*[[High Cross, Leicestershire|High Cross]], meeting point of Roman roads
*[[Jewry Wall]], [[Leicester]]

===[[Lancashire]]===
*[[Bremetennacum]], [[Ribchester]]
*[[Lancaster Roman Fort]], possibly ''Galacum''
*[[Over Burrow Roman Fort]], possibly [[Ptolemy]]'s {{lang|grc|Καλαγον}}
*[[Burscough Roman fort]], [[Burscough]]

===[[Lincolnshire]]===

{{main|List of Roman Sites in Lincolnshire}}

*'''[[Lincoln, Lincolnshire|Lincoln]] (Lindum Colonia)''', important Roman Colonia and capital of the province of [[Flavia Caesariensis]]
*[[Bourne-Morton Canal]] (visible only as alignment and crop marks)
*[[Caistor]], Roman town and fort. 
*[[Car Dyke]]
*[[Foss Dyke]], Roman canal between Lincoln and the [[River Trent]]
*[[Horncastle, Lincolnshire|Horncastle]], Roman town and fort. Parts of the Roman walls remain.
*[[Newport Arch]], [[Lincoln, Lincolnshire|Lincoln]]
*[[Sleaford]], important Roman town.

===[[London]]===
*[[Londinium]] (modern [[London]])
*[[London Wall]], [[London]]
*[[Temple of Mithras, London|Temple of Mithras]]
*Amphitheatre at [[Guildhall, London]]

===[[Norfolk]]===
*[[Branodunum]]
*[[Burgh Castle Roman Site|Burgh Castle]]
*[[Caister Roman Site|Caister-on-Sea]]
*[[Caistor St. Edmund]]
*[[Gariannonum]]

===[[Northamptonshire]]===
*[[Bannaventa]], [[Norton, Northamptonshire]]
*[[Borough Hill Roman villa]], [[Daventry]]
*[[Lactodurum]], Towcester
*[[Piddington Roman Villa]]
*Whitehall Farm Roman villa excavated in [[Nether Heyford]], now re-buried

===[[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)|Coria]], Corbridge. 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]]
*[[Vercovicium|Housesteads]] (Vercovicium)
*[[Hunnum]], (also known as Onnum, and with the modern name of Haltonchesters), Roman fort north of [[Halton, Northumberland|Halton]]
*[[Lees Hall Roman Camp]] near Haltwhistle
*[[Magnis (Carvoran)|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]]===
*[[Eboracum]]
*[[Elslack]] fort, possibly Olenacum
*[[Isurium Brigantum]]

=== [[Nottinghamshire]] ===

*Ad Pontem ([[East Stoke, Nottinghamshire|East Stoke]])
*Crocolana ([[Brough, Nottinghamshire|Brough]])
*[[Margidunum]]
*Segelocum or Agelocum ([[Littleborough, Nottinghamshire|Littleborough]])
*Vernometum ([[Willoughby on the Wolds]])

=== [[Oxfordshire]] ===

*[[Alchester]]
*[[North Leigh Roman Villa]]

===[[Shropshire]]===
*[[Viroconium Cornoviorum]], [[Wroxeter]]

===[[Somerset]]===
*[[Aquae Sulis]] (Roman [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]])
*[[Burrington, Somerset|Burrington]]
*[[Charterhouse Roman Town]] and Mining Settlement
*[[Dolebury Warren]]
*[[Ham Hill SSSI, Somerset|Ham Hill]]
*[[Lindinis]] (Roman [[Ilchester]])
*[[Low Ham Roman Villa]]
*[[Pagans Hill Roman Temple|Pagans Hill]], [[Romano-Celtic Temple]]
*[[Roman Baths (Bath)|Roman Baths]], [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]

===[[South Yorkshire]]===
[[File:Templeborough Roman Fort visualised 3D flythrough - Rotherham.webm|thumb|300px|A reconstruction of Templeborough Roman Fort which covered an area of {{convert|5.5|acre|ha|order=flip}} when it was rebuilt in stone in the 2nd century.<ref>{{PastScape |mname=Templeborough Roman Fort |mnumber=316617 |accessdate= 20 June 2015}}</ref>]]
*[[Templeborough]]

===[[Staffordshire]]===
*[[Letocetum]], near Lichfield

===[[Sussex]]===
See East Sussex, West Sussex

===[[Tyne and Wear]]===
*[[Segedunum]] Roman Fort, Wallsend
*[[Arbeia]] Roman Fort, [[South Shields]]
*Extensive Roman collection in [[Great North Museum]], [[Newcastle upon Tyne]]

===[[Warwickshire]]===
*[[Lunt Fort]], near [[Coventry]]
*[[Tripontium]], near Rugby

===[[West Midlands (region)|West Midlands]]===
*[[Metchley Fort]], [[Birmingham]]

===[[West Sussex]]===
*[[Bignor Roman Villa]], Pulborough
*[[Fishbourne Roman Palace]], [[Fishbourne, West Sussex]]
*[[Noviomagus Reginorum]] (Roman [[Chichester]])

===[[West Yorkshire]]===
*[[Lagentium]], Castleford
*[[Slack, West Yorkshire|Slack]], Huddersfield
*[[Burgodunum]], Adel (Leeds)

===[[Wiltshire]]===
*[[Cunetio]], [[Mildenhall, Wiltshire|Mildenhall]]
*[[Littlecote Roman Villa]]

=== [[Worcestershire]] ===
*[[Overbury]]

==Scotland==
*[[Antonine Wall]]
*[[Auchendavy]]
*[[Bar Hill Fort]]
*[[Bothwellhaugh Roman Fort]], North Lanarkshire
*[[Castlehill Fort]]
*[[Croy Hill]]
*[[Inchtuthil]], Perth and Kinross
*[[Mumrills]]
*[[Oakwood Roman Fort and Camp]], near Selkirk, Scottish Borders
*[[Seabegs Wood]]
*[[Trimontium (Newstead)|Trimontium]], Newstead, Melrose, Scottish Borders
*[[Watling Lodge]]
*Roman Bath House, [[Bearsden]]
*[[Rough Castle Fort]], near [[Tamfourhill]]
*[[Cramond Roman Fort]] excavations
*[[Cawdor (Roman Fort)]], near Inverness
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==
*[[Abergavenny]] [[Roman fort]], [[Gobannium]]
*[[Alabum]] [[Llandovery]] Roman fort
*[[Blestium]] [[Monmouth]] Roman fort
*[[Caer Gybi (fort)|Caer Gybi]], [[Anglesey]] Roman fort
*[[Caerleon]], Newport, [[Monmouthshire]] Roman fortress and amphitheatre
*[[Caersws Roman Forts]], [[Powys]]
*[[Caerwent]], [[Monmouthshire]]. Roman town - the only one in Wales
*[[Cardiff Roman Fort]]
*[[Cold Knap]], Barry
*[[Cowbridge Roman Town]] probably Bovium
*[[Dolaucothi Gold Mines]], [[Carmarthenshire]]. Fort, settlement and museum.
*[[Gelligaer]] small Roman fort
*[[Gateholm]], [[Pembrokeshire]]
*[[Llan Ffestiniog]], [[Gwynedd]] fort & amphitheatre
*[[Luentinum]] Roman fort at [[Pumsaint]], [[Carmarthenshire]]
*[[Moridunum (Carmarthen)|Moridunum]], [[Carmarthen]]
*[[Nidum]], Neath, [[Glamorgan]]. Roman fort
*[[Penydarren]], [[Merthyr Tydfil]]. Roman fort
*[[Sarn Helen]] [[Roman road]]
*[[Segontium Roman Fort]], [[Caernarfon]]
*[[Usk]] [[Burrium]] early legionary base
*[[Y Gaer, Brecon]] cavalry base

==See also==
* [[List of Roman place names in Britain]]
* [[List of Latin place names in Britain]]
* [[Roman Britain]]
* [[Sub-Roman Britain]]
* [[Scotland during the Roman Empire|Roman Scotland]]
* [[Wales in the Roman era|Roman Wales]]
* [[Romano-Celtic Temple]]


{{Major towns of Roman Britain}}
{{Roman visitor sites in the UK}}

==References==
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