Roman sites in Great Britain

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.

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

England

Buckinghamshire

Cheshire

Cumbria

Derbyshire

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

  • Calleva Atrebatum, Silchester
  • Portchester Roman Fort (Portus Adurni), Portchester
  • Rockbourne Roman Villa, Fordingbridge
  • Sparsholt Roman Villa
  • Venta Belgarum, Winchester

Herefordshire

  • Ariconium, Bury Hill, Weston under Penyard
  • Blackwardine
  • Bravonium, Leintwardine
  • Buckton Roman Fort, near Leintwardine
  • 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

Leicestershire

Lancashire

  • Bremetennacum, Ribchester
  • Lancaster Roman Fort, possibly Galacum
  • Over Burrow Roman Fort, possibly Ptolemy's Καλαγον
  • Burscough Roman fort, Burscough

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
  • Featherwood Roman Camps, on Dere Street between Chew Green and Bremenium
  • Habitancum, Roman fort at Risingham
  • Housesteads (Vercovicium)
  • Hunnum, (also known as Onnum, and with the modern name of Haltonchesters), Roman fort north of Halton
  • Lees Hall Roman Camp near Haltwhistle
  • 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

Oxfordshire

  • Alchester
  • North Leigh Roman Villa

Shropshire

Somerset

South Yorkshire

  • Templeborough

Staffordshire

Sussex

See East Sussex, West Sussex

Tyne and Wear

Warwickshire

West Midlands

West Sussex

West Yorkshire

  • Lagentium, Castleford
  • Slack, Huddersfield
  • Burgodunum, Adel (Leeds)

Wiltshire

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, 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

See also


References

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