Camborico (also rendered Camboricum) is a place-name from the Antonine Itinerary's Iter V, conventionally identified with the area around Lackford/Icklingham on the Lark, or — as the coordinates here suggest — with a roadside settlement near Wangford/Worlington on the Icknield Way in the Suffolk Breckland. It was active through the Roman period (1st–4th centuries AD), functioning as a small nodal settlement on the route between Combretovium (Coddenham) and Duroliponte (Cambridge).
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Its importance was primarily as a road station and local market on the Icknield Way corridor through the Breckland, a region of light soils with dense rural Romano-British occupation. The identification of Camborico itself remains contested, and it serves more as a toponymic anchor for the route than as a securely located urban centre.
There is no single excavated site definitively tied to the name; the candidate locations (Lackford, Icklingham, Worlington) have produced typical small-town and rural assemblages — pottery scatters, coin finds, cremation cemeteries, and at Icklingham evidence of a substantial settlement with possible Christian associations including lead tanks. Honestly, the specific place named in the Itinerary cannot be securely matched to any one of these on present evidence.
Camborico (also rendered Camboricum) is a place-name from the Antonine Itinerary's Iter V, conventionally identified with the area around Lackford/Icklingham on the Lark, or — as the coordinates here suggest — with a roadside settlement near Wangford/Worlington on the Icknield Way in the Suffolk Breckland. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
‘Camborico’? is classified as a Roman settlement — a civilian site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Icklingham (1.5 km), Mildenhall Roman site (13 km), Ixworth (14.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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