yr 11

1. The City in Roman Britain

2. Types of Settlements
• Roman
• Colonae
• Municipia
• London
• Romano-Celtic
• Oppida Civitas Capitals
• Vici
• Market towns
Conveyed rights
Some self-
government

3. Tombstone of Julia Velva, York

4. Economy -Trade
Imports
• Olive oil
• Fish sauce
• Fine pottery
• Wine
• Marble
Exports
• Iron
• Lead, silver
• Wool

5. Economy – Industry
Mostly in Country or Small Towns
• Weaving – Winchester,
Caistor-by-Norwich, Great
Chesterford
• Mosaics – Cirencester,
Chesterton, Dorchester,
Brough-on-Humber
• Pewter – Camerton,
Nettleton Shrub
• Smiths -widespread
• Pottery – New Forest, Oxford
areas; Poole

6. Comparative City Sizes

7. Size - Population
1. London 50-60,000
2. Cirencester
3. Verulamium (St. Albans) ~10,000
4. Wroxeter

8. Ports London, Chichester,
Colchester Dorchester, Exeter,
Lincoln, Manchester
Other Canterbury, Cirencester,
Gloucester, Leicester, Lincoln,
Silchester, Verulamium(St.
Albans), Winchester, Wroxeter,
York

9. Civitas Capitals
Aldborough Brigantes
Brough on Humber Parisi Vicus
Caerhun Deceangi Vicus to Civitas
Caerwent Silures
Caistor St. Edmonds Iceni
Canterbury Cantiaci Oppidum to Civitas
Carmathen Demetae Vicus to Civitas
Chichester Regnenses
Cirencester Dobunii Vicus to Civitas
Dorchester Durotriges
Exeter Dumnonii Fortress to Civitas
Leicester Coritani Vexillation fortress to
Civitas
Silchester Atrebates Oppidum to Civitas
Widford/Chelmsford Trinovantes
Winchester Belgae
Wroxeter Cornovii

10. Caerwent-Civitas Capital

11. Lincoln-Fortress

12. Lincoln-Colonia

13. Lincoln-Forum

14. Lincoln-Vicinity

15. York

16. Eboracorum (York)

17. Roman York ~400 CE

18. Roman Walls - extant

19. Multangular Tower
Roman
Medieval

20. Ivory Bangle Lady

21. Reconstruction

22. Jewelry from Burial
High quality blue glassware from
Cologne, Germany

23. Bone openwork mount Blue glass necklace
‘Soror ave vivas in deo’
‘Hail sister, may you live
in God’

24. Chester Walls

25. Wroxeter

26. Wroxeter
extent from
geophysical survey

28. Central Area

30. Forum
To the Emperor Caesar
Trajanus Hadrianus Augustus, son of
the deified Trajanus Parthicus,
grandson of the deified Nerva,
Pontifex Maximus, holding a
tribunican power for the fourteenth
time, consul for the third time,
father of the Country, the
community of the Cornovii (erected
this building).

32. Basilica - Interior

33. Basilica

34. “Old Works – Remains of Basilica

38. Baths – Interior – Hot Room

39. London 200 CE

40. Roman London

41. Roman Wall

42. London – Water supply -
Wallbrook

43. Water Supply - Wells

44. Water Hoist

45. Basilica and Forum
• Early construction destroyed by Boudica
• 70 CE
• 90 CE New construction while old area still in use
• 555’ x 545’ – largest in Britain

47. • Probably largest in Empire until Basilica Ulpia of Trajan
• Largest north of the Alps: 492’ x 115’

48. Port

49. Southwark - Warehouse

50. Pottery Imports

51. Glass Working - Sites

52. Window glass- Basinghall St. find

53. A London Town House

54. A London Town House

55. A London Town House

56. Leadenhall Street
Bacchus

57. Bank of
England
3rd Century

58. London-Aldgate
Ox
Sheep/Goat
Pig
London
Ox
Sheep/Goat
Pig
Diet-London

59. Diet-Colchester
Pre-Roman
Ox
Sheep/Goat
Pig
Roman
Ox
Sheep/Goat
Pig

60. Winchester Palace Baths

61. Winchester Palace Construction
• 100-120 Ground raised with debris
• Building with bath
• Inscription indicates use by legionaries or veterans
• Deterioration in 3rd century

62. Fresco – Winchester Palace Baths

64. Villa Negroni, Rome

65. Winchester Palace Baths – Severan Period

66. Wall Painting - Pigments
• Earth colors – ochre
• Soot, charcoal
• Minerals – cinnabar
• Mixtures – Egyptian blue
• Vegetable based - indigo

67. London Amphitheatre

69. Shape