Books, Prehistory, Iron Age Tribes

Stane Street to Chichester is a 91km Roman Road from Noviomagus Reginorum [Map] aka Chichester to London crossing the land of the Atrebates in use by 70AD. Its route took it from London Bridge [Map] along Newington Causeway [Map] past Merton Priory, Surrey [Map] to Ewell [Map], through Sutton, Surrey [Map], past the boundary of Nonsuch Palace [Map] to Thirty Acre Barn, Surrey [Map], then near to Juniper Hall Field Centre, Surrey [Map] near Mickleham, then crossing the River Mole near to Burford Bridge [Map] southwards to Dorking, Surrey [Map] (although the route here is vague) to North Holmwood, Surrey [Map], Ockley, Surrey [Map], Rowhook, Surrey [Map] after which it crossed the River Arun at Alfodean Bridge, Surrey [Map] where some of the timber piles on which the bridge was built are still present in the river bed. Thereafter the road travels broadly straight to Billingshurst [Map], Pulborough [Map] where it crosses the River Arun again, then passing the Roman Villa at Bignor [Map] before entering the East Gate [Map] at Noviomagus Reginorum aka Chichester.

20BC. Verlamion, Hertfordshire [Map] was an Iron Age settlement of the Catuvellauni.

Braughing, Hertfordshire [Map] was a small Roman Town at the junction of Ermine Street and Stane Street to Colchester. There was a planned street grid where thatched timber buildings, which lasted until about AD 60, were constructed. Not long afterwards substantial masonry structures were also constructed, including an L-shaped building with bath suite which was still in use in the 4th century. Coins of Tasciovanus (c. 20BC - AD10) are known from the site [2] identifying an associated with the Catuvellauni. The final Roman coin evidence from the site is associated with Arcadius (AD383 - 408).

Corieltauvi settlement.

The capital of the Corieltauvi was Ratae Corieltauvorum aka Leicester, Leicestershire [Map].

Around 70AD. Lindum Colonia aka Lincoln, Lincolnshire [Map] was founded as a Roman Legionary Fortress during the reign of the Emperor Nero. Evidence from Roman tombstones suggests that Lincoln was first garrisoned by the Ninth Legion Hispana which was subseuqntly replaced by the Second Legion Adiutrix, which then went on to Deva [Map] in 77-78 AD. The primary evidence that modern Lincoln was referred to as Lindum comes from Ptolemy's Geography, which was compiled in about 150 AD, where Lindum is referred to as a polis or town within the tribal area of the Corieltauvi.

Durobrivae was a Roman fortified garrison town at Water Newton [Map] where Ermine Street crossed the River Nene in the territory of the Corieltauvi.

Around 500BC. Hod Hill [Map] is an Iron Age Hill Fort in Dorset that was occupied by the Durotriges. Radiocarbon analysis suggests a date of 500 BC for the main rampart.

In the Roman period, Ilchester, Somerset [Map] was named Lindinis and was the site of a fort and then a town on the Fosse Way. It eventually served as one of two regional capitals for the Durotriges tribe.

Venta Icenorum was the capital of the Iceni tribe, located at modern-day Caistor St Edmund [Map] in Norfolk.