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Romano-British and temple
In 1828, remains of what may be an iron age shrine and to its west a later Romano-British temple were found just west of Lancing Ring.
It later became the site of a 4th century Romano-British temple.
In Romano-British worship, the local god Antenociticus, also recorded as " Anociticus " at the same temple site in Benwell, was possibly worshipped as source of inspiration and intercession in military affairs.
The Thistleton area has shown evidence of Romano-British occupation including a large temple precinct and a possible small market settlement.

Romano-British and was
Ambrosius Aurelianus, ; called Aurelius Ambrosius in the Historia Regum Britanniae and elsewhere, was a war leader of the Romano-British who won an important battle against the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century, according to Gildas.
However, this victory was not decisive: " Sometimes the Saxons and sometimes the citizens the Romano-British inhabitants were victorious.
Following the conquest of the native Britons, a distinctive Romano-British culture emerged under provincial government, which, despite steadily extended territorial control northwards, was never able to exert definite control over Caledonia.
During their dig they found the remains of a Benedictine chapel that was built in c. 1139 by monks from Glastonbury Abbey, a reliquary, graves and the remains of much earlier Romano-British chapels built of wood with dating evidence suggesting use by Christians before the reign of Constantine the Great.
Dating the body has proven problematic, but it is thought that Lindow Man was deposited into Lindow Moss, face down, some time between 2 BC and 119 AD, in either the Iron Age or Romano-British period.
Later work led by Edgar Kingsley Tratman ( 1899 – 1978 ) OBE DSc MD FSA explored the human occupation of the Rhinoceros hole, and showed that the fourth chamber of the great cave was a Romano-British cemetery.
The settlement that used Highdown as a burial ground, in the 5th century, has never been identified, but White speculates that there may have been some link between Patching and Highdown and Welch has suggested that a Romano-British community was based there and that they controlled a group of Saxon mercenaries.
Nuada's name is cognate with that of Nodens, a Romano-British deity associated with the sea and healing who was equated with the Roman Mars, and with Nudd, a Welsh mythological figure.
Arnemetia was a goddess in Romano-British religion.
In Romano-British religion, Cocidius was a deity worshipped in northern Britain.
Inscribed bas-relief of CoventinaCoventina was a Romano-British goddess of wells and springs.
Traditionally she is said to have been a daughter of the Romano-British ruler Octavius and the wife of Macsen or Magnus Clemens Maximus, Emperor in Britain, Gaul and Spain, who was killed in battle in 388.
I suppose I was quite interested in my stamp collection and Romano-British history.
There are many theories, but it is sometimes said that Ambrosius Aurelianus, the leader of the Romano-British forces, was the model for the former, and that Arthur's court of Camelot is an idealised Welsh and Cornish memory of pre-Saxon Romano-British civilisation.
Sheppard Frere wonders how Carausius was able to win support from the army when his command had been sea-based, and speculates that he had perhaps been involved in an unrecorded victory in Britain, connected with Diocletian's assumption of the title Britannicus Maximus in 285, and signs of destruction in Romano-British towns at this time.
At Wall, to the south of the city, there was a Romano-British village called Letocetum from the Brythonic for " grey wood ", from which the first half of the name Lichfield is derived.
There have been scattered Romano-British finds in Lichfield, and it is possible that a burial discovered beneath the cathedral in 1751 was Romano-British.
The villa is a 1, 700-year-old ' stately home ' and was discovered by accident in 1864 It is the remains of one of the largest Romano-British villas in England featuring several mosaics, two bathhouses, hypocausts ( underfloor heating ), a water-shrine and a latrine.
In about 556 Banbury was the scene of a battle between the local Anglo-Saxons of Cynric and Ceawlin, and the local Romano-British.
The Romano-British name for Rochester was Durobrivae, later Durobrivis c. 730 and Dorobrevis in 844.
There was a Romano-British village near the suburb of Holway, and Taunton was a place of considerable importance in Saxon times.

Romano-British and located
In 1979, a hoard of Romano-British metalwork, known as the Thetford treasure was located just outside of Thetford.
It has been hypothesised that the unlocated Romano-British town of Delgovicia is located at Wetwang.
Possibly surviving from the Romano-British era or perhaps representing the shires of the kingdom of Sussex, the Sussex rapes each had a headquarters in the developed south where the lord's hall, court, demesne lands, principal church and peasant holdings were located, whereas to the north there were smaller dependent settlements in the marsh, woodland and heath.
The village is located amongst many Neolithic, Roman and Saxon earthworks, notably Bokerley Dyke, a long defensive ditch which was dug by the Romano-British to keep out the Saxon invaders.
Some of the earliest residents of the village were the Romans, who built the Roman settlement of Bannaventa, a Romano-British fortified town on the eastern outskirts of the village located on the Roman road of Watling Street ( A5 London to Holyhead road ).

Romano-British and within
After surveying British prehistoric monuments in his teenage years ( commencing with the late Romano-British ' British Camp ' that lay within yards of his family home in Charlton ) in attempts to understand their geometry ( at 19 tackling Stonehenge ), Petrie travelled to Egypt early in 1880 to apply the same principles in a survey of the Great Pyramid at Giza, making him the first to properly investigate how they were constructed ( many theories had been advanced on this, and Petrie read them all, but none were based on first hand observation or logic ).
According to 9th century monk and chronicler Nennius, north Wales was now defenseless and subject to increasing raids by mauraders from Mann and Ireland, a situation which led Cunedda, his sons and their entourage, to migrate in the mid-5th century from Manaw Gododdin ( Lothian, in modern Scotland ) to settle and defend north Wales against the raiders and bring the region within Romano-British control.
A large Romano-British round barrow near the Strood contained the remains of a cremated adult in a glass urn, within a lead casket, now in the Castle Museum, Colchester.
The Mildenhall find was placed on show in its entirety in the British Museum as soon as the necessary registration and conservation work had been completed following its acquisition in 1946, and it has remained a permanent feature of the museum's Romano-British gallery ever since, with occasional loans of some pieces to special exhibitions both within the museum and elsewhere.
" Lambrick noted that similar features could be found within the stone circles of Mayburgh, Stenness and Balbirnie, suggesting that it was a possible original prehistoric feature, although accepted that it could equally be the result of refuse deposited in the Romano-British period or tree-planting holes.
The Romano-British retreated, constructing another defence, Combs Ditch, which also fell within a century.
In this period, Romano-British farmers settled within the ramparts of the hill fort.

Romano-British and oval
The oval shape of the churchyard suggests that a Romano-British burial ground may have first occupied this site.

Romano-British and seems
The name seems to have had a similar meaning to the later tribal name Hwicce ; both being related to the recognisable cult of a Romano-British goddess.
The invasion and settlement of the Weald by Saxons seems to have brought a complete end to the Romano-British iron industry.

Romano-British and have
Others have suggested a derivation from the Iron Age and Romano-British place name Camulodunum, one of the first capitals of Roman Britain and which would have significance in Romano-British culture.
Dumnonia is noteworthy for its many settlements that have survived from the Romano-British period, but also for its lack of a villa system.
* Possible date for the Battle of Mons Badonicus: Romano-British and Celts defeat an Anglo-Saxon army that may have been led by the bretwalda Aelle of Sussex or possibly Cerdic of Wessex ( approximate date ; suggested dates range from 490 to 517 ).
Historians ( such as William St. Clair-Baddeley in 1929 ) have concluded that the Saxons may have launched a surprise attack and seized the site at Hinton Hill because it commanded the Avon Valley and disrupted communications north and south between Bath and her neighbouring Romano-British towns of Gloucester and Cirencester.
The Romano-British form of this name, if it existed, might plausibly have been * Abeianos.
The Romano-British form of this Proto-Celtic theonym is likely to have been * Hectolanda ( cf.
The Romano-British form of this Proto-Celtic reconstruction would likely have been * Adsuglata ( cf.
The Romano-British form of this Proto-Celtic theonym is likely to have been * Oebla ( q. v.
The Romano-British form of this Proto-Celtic name is likely to have been * Aedumanda ( q. v.
All the same, Proto-Celtic had * alamo-‘ treasure, asset ’ and, if the alternation Alaunus ~ Alauna represents the Gaulish and Romano-British pronunciation of a derived adjective * alamo-n-o-( treasure-ADJ. SUFF-GEN -), it may have carried the sense of ‘ rich, opulent, fecund, etc .’
Proto-Celtic is reconstructed as having * werbā-' blister ' in its lexicon and the name may be a suffixed form of this lexeme meaning “ blistered one .” On the other hand, the root of the name may represent a Celtic reflex of the Proto-Indo-European root * wer-bhe-‘ bend, turn ,’ cognate with Modern English warp, followed by the durative suffix *- j-and the feminine suffix *- ā-and so might have meant “ she who is constantly bending and turning .” Another possibility is that the name is a compound of Romano-British reflexes of the Proto-Celtic elements ** Uφer-bej-ā-( upper-strike-F ) “ the upper striker .”
There have been a reasonable number of sites identified nearby associated with Romano-British industry.
Roman and Romano-British artefacts have been found primarily in Leinster, notably a fortified site on the promontory of Drumanagh, fifteen miles north of Dublin, and burials on the nearby island of Lambay, both close to where Túathal is supposed to have landed, and other sites associated with Túathal such as Tara and Clogher.
Roman coins, some converted to pendants, and Romano-British brooches have been found deposited as votive offerings at Newgrange.
Three Romano-British bishops, including Restitutus, metropolitan bishop of London, are known to have been present at the Council of Arles in 314.

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