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Durobrivae
was a
Roman
fortified garrison town located at
Water Newton
in the
English
county of
Cambridgeshire
, where
Ermine Street
crossed the
River Nene
. More generally, it was in the territory of the
Corieltauvi
in a region of
villas
and commercial potteries. The name is a Latinisation of
Celtic
(or more accurately
Brythonic
) *
Durobr?w?s
, meaning essentially "fort (by the) bridges".
[1]
During the
Iron Age
Britain was divided into distinct tribal areas. The area lay between the
Catuvellauni
to the south and the Corieltauvi to the north, with the
Iceni
to the east. The origin of Durobrivae is said to have been as a
vicus
attached to a "pre-
Flavian
"
fort
, established about half a kilometre to the east of modern Water Newton, between the
Claudian
invasion of 43 AD, and the beginning of the reign of
Vespasian
in 69 AD.
[2]
Its first historical mention is in the
Antonine Itinerary
of the late 2nd century.
[3]
Archaeology of the Roman period shows that Durobrivae was then the production centre for a fine tableware known as
Nene Valley Colour Coated Ware
, from the 2nd century to the 4th.
[2]
In
Anglo-Saxon
times, local settlement came to centre on
Medeshamstede
, now known as
Peterborough
.
See also
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References
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- ^
Celtic Names and Roman Places.
JSTOR. Retrieved 24 July 2008.
- ^
a
b
Water Newton Huntingdonshire Draft Report.
Archived
9 June 2011 at the
Wayback Machine
Cambridgeshire County Council. Retrieved 24 July 2008.
- ^
Parthey, Gustav and Pinder, Moritz (eds.)
Itinerarivm Antonini Avgvsti et Hierosolymitanum: ex libris manu scriptis
Iter Britanniarvm (Iter V: Item a Londinio Luguvalio ad vallum mpm clvi
sic
) Friederich Nicolaus, Berlin, 1848. See also Reynolds, Thomas
Iter Britanniarum or that part of the itinerary of Antoninus which relates to Britain with a new comment
J. Burges, Cambridge, 1799
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