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    Chester (Caerleon Vawr)

    Chesterford (Iceanum)

    Chichester (Regnum)

    Cirencester (Corininum)

    Colchester (Camolodunum)

    Corstopitum

        The Wall of Hadrian

        The Wall of Antonine

    Dorchester (Dorsetshire) (Durnovaria)

    Dorchester (Oxfordshire) (Dorcinia)

    Dover (Dubris)

    Exeter (Caer Isca; Isca Damnoniorum)

    Gloucester (Glevum)

    Isle of Wight (Vectis)

    Kenchester (Magni)

    Lancaster (Castra ad Alaunam)

    Leicester (Ratae)

    Lincoln (Lindum Colonia, or Lindocolina)

    London (Augusta)

    Lympne (Lemanae)

    Maldon

    Manchester

    Portsmouth

    Reculver (Regulbium)

    Richborough (Rutupiae)

    Rochester (Durobrivae)

    Silchester (Calleva Atre-batum)

    St. Albans (Verulamium)

    Winchester (Venta Belgarum)

    Wroxeter (Uriconium, or Viroconium)

    York (Eboracum)

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

TABLE OF MAPS.

Roman Britain showing the chief Roman Roads

The Roman Wall

INTRODUCTION

HISTORICAL SKETCH.

The earliest notice of Britain is in Herodotus (B.C. 480-408); but he mentions the Tin Islands (Scilly Islands and Cornwall), only to confess his ignorance about them. More important is a passage in Aristotle (B.C. 384-322), who (writing a century later) is the earliest author who mentions the British Isles by name, as he does in the following passage: "Beyond the Pillars of Hercules (the Strait of Gibraltar) the ocean flows round the earth, and in it are two very large islands (Nesoi Britannikoi), called in British Albion and Ierne, lying beyond the Keltoi." The application of the name Britannia to denote the larger island, is due to Julius Cæsar