Four centuries of Roman occupation — from the invasion of 43 AD to the withdrawal of 410 AD — left a network of towns, roads, and monuments across Britain that archaeology continues to reveal.
39 Roman settlements · coloniae, civitas capitals, forts and towns
Each page covers the settlement's Roman history, the roads that connected it, and links to research the area with Aubrey.
The Roman province of Britannia was created after the Claudian invasion of 43 AD. At its height it contained dozens of towns, hundreds of villa estates, thousands of miles of road, and a military frontier stretching from the Solway Firth to the Tyne. The four great coloniae — Colchester, Lincoln, Gloucester, and York — were the province's highest-status towns, founded for retired legionary veterans and governed by elected magistrates.
Aubrey draws on Roman road data and Historic England's scheduled monument database to include Roman context in every relevant location report, placing your chosen land within the evidence for Roman activity in the surrounding landscape.
Pick any location and Aubrey pulls together 15 strands of its history, each drawn from the record:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Search and browse every Roman site in Britain — villas, forts, settlements, temples, bath houses and more — each with its own dedicated page drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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