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Types of Settlements
• Roman• Colonae
• Municipia
• London
• Romano-Celtic• Oppida Civitas Capitals
• Vici
• Market towns
Conveyed rights
Some self-government
Economy -Trade
Imports• Olive oil
• Fish sauce
• Fine pottery
• Wine
• Marble
Exports• Iron
• Lead, silver
• Wool
Economy – IndustryMostly 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
Ports London, Chichester, Colchester Dorchester, Exeter, Lincoln, Manchester
Other Canterbury, Cirencester,Gloucester, Leicester, Lincoln, Silchester, Verulamium(St. Albans), Winchester, Wroxeter, York
Civitas CapitalsAldborough 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
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).
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
• Probably largest in Empire until Basilica Ulpia of Trajan
• Largest north of the Alps: 492’ x 115’
Winchester Palace Construction
• 100-120 Ground raised with debris
• Building with bath
• Inscription indicates use by legionaries or veterans
• Deterioration in 3rd century
Wall Painting - Pigments
• Earth colors – ochre
• Soot, charcoal
• Minerals – cinnabar
• Mixtures – Egyptian blue
• Vegetable based - indigo