Roman sites in Great Britain

Main Roman cities and roads in Roman Britain, according to the "Antonine Itinerary"

There are many Roman sites in Great Britain that are open to the public. There are also many sites that do not require special access, including Roman roads, and sites that have not been uncovered.

England

• The Vallum adjoining Hadrian's Wall. It was mistakenly attributed to Agricola before the late 19th century, but in fact was the work of Hadrian.
• Dere Street, Roman road
• Ermine Street, Roman road
• Fosse Way, Roman road
• Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland and Cumbria
• Stanegate, Roman road that pre-dates Hadrian's Wall
• Watling Street, Roman road

Buckinghamshire

• Bancroft Park, Milton Keynes. Romano-British villa
• Magiovinium, Fenny Stratford, Milton Keynes

Cheshire

• Deva Victrix, Chester
• Chester Roman Amphitheatre
• Roman Middlewich, King Street Roman Fort

Cumbria

• Ambleside Roman Fort
• Birdoswald Roman Fort (Banna). Part of Hadrian's Wall
• Hardknott Roman Fort (Mediobogdum), Eskdale
• Walls Castle (Roman Bath House), Ravenglass

Derbyshire

• Ardotalia (Melandra Castle)
• Brough-on-Noe
• Melandra Castle

Devon

• Isca Dumnoniorum (Roman Exeter). Parts of city wall still exist (overlaid with medieval construction)
• Moridunum, Axminster
• Pomeroy Wood
• Woodbury Farm Roman Fort, near Axminster

Dorset

• Durnovaria, Dorchester
• Jordan Hill, Romano-Celtic Temple
• Waddon Hill, near Beaminster

Durham

• Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields
• Binchester Roman Fort, (called Vinovia by the Romans), Roman fort north of Bishop Auckland
• Concangis, Chester-Le-Street
• Longovicium, Lanchester, Roman fort with reservoirs, dams and aqueducts
• Piercebridge Roman Bridge, next to Piercebridge Roman Fort, Piercebridge
• Piercebridge Roman Fort, Piercebridge
• Vinovia, (Binchester Roman Fort), Roman fort north of Bishop Auckland
• Vindomora, Roman fort at Ebchester

East Sussex

• Pevensey Roman Fort (Anderitum), Pevensey

Essex

• Camulodunum (Roman Colchester). Oldest Roman wall in Britain, best-preserved Roman gateway in Britain, remains of two Roman theatres, oldest Roman church in UK and Castle museum

Gloucestershire

• Chedworth Roman Villa, near Cheltenham
• Corinium Dobunnorum, Cirencester
• Great Witcombe Roman Villa
• Glevum (Roman Gloucester). Colonia Nervia Glevensium, Roman walls
• Lydney Park. Romano-Celtic Temple
• Uley
• Woodchester Roman Villa, Woodchester, near Stroud

Greater Manchester

• Mamucium, Castlefield inner city conservation site, Manchester
• Coccium, near Wigan

Hampshire

• Calleva Atrebatum, Silchester
• Portchester Roman Fort (Portus Adurni), Portchester
• Rockbourne Roman Villa, Fordingbridge
• Sparsholt Roman Villa
• Venta Belgarum, Winchester

Herefordshire

• Ariconium, Bury Hill, Weston under Penyard
• Blackwardine
• Bravonium, Leintwardine
• Jay Lane, Leintwardine
• Magnae Dobunnorum, Kenchester
• The Weir Garden, River Wye

Hertfordshire

• Gadebridge Park Roman Villa
• Verulamium, near St Albans
• Welwyn Roman baths (part of Dicket Mead Villa)

Isle of Wight

• Brading Roman Villa
• Newport Roman Villa

Kent

• Crofton Roman Villa, Orpington
• Dubris (Roman Dover)
• Lullingstone Roman Villa
• Reculver Roman Fort, Reculver
• Rutupiæ (Roman Richborough)

Leicestershire

• High Cross, meeting point of Roman roads
• Jewry Wall, Leicester

Lancashire

• Bremetennacum, Ribchester

Lincolnshire

Main article: List of Roman Sites in Lincolnshire

• Lincoln (Lindum Colonia), important Roman Colonia and capital of the province of Flavia Caesariensis
• Bourne-Morton Canal (visible only as alignment and crop marks)
• Caistor, Roman town and fort.
• Car Dyke
• Foss Dyke, Roman canal between Lincoln and the River Trent
• Horncastle, Roman town and fort. Parts of the Roman walls remain.
• Newport Arch, Lincoln
• Sleaford, important Roman town.

London

• Londinium (modern London)
• London Wall, London
• Temple of Mithras

Norfolk

• Burgh Castle
• Caister-on-Sea
• Caistor St. Edmund
• Gariannonum

Northamptonshire

• Borough Hill Roman villa, Daventry
• Lactodurum, Towcester
• Piddington Roman Villa
• Whitehall Farm Roman villa excavated in Nether Heyford, now re-buried

Northumberland

• Aesica, Roman fort, north of Haltwhistle
• Bremenium, High Rochester
• Carrawburgh, Mithraeum temple by Hadrian's Wall
• Chesters Bridge, Roman bridge abutment by Chesters Roman Fort (Cilurnum), Northumberland
• Chew Green, Roman Camps in the Cheviots
• Cilurnum, Northumberland
• Coria, Corbridge. Roman site and museum
• Devil's Causeway, Roman road to Berwick upon Tweed
• Habitancum, Roman fort at Risingham
• Housesteads (Vercovicium)
• Hunnum, (also known as Onnum, and with the modern name of Haltonchesters), Roman fort north of Halton
• Magnis (Carvoran Roman Fort)
• Roman Army Museum north of Haltwhistle at Carvoran
• Vercovicium, (or Housesteads Roman Fort) was an auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall
• Vindolanda, a fort pre-dating Hadrian's Wall nearby, with exceptional Roman finds in its museum
• Vindobala, Roman fort at Rudchester
• Whitley Castle, also known as Epiacum, a Roman fort at the southern edge of Northumberland with remarkable earthen ramparts

North Yorkshire

• Eboracum
• Isurium Brigantum

Oxfordshire

• Alchester
• North Leigh Roman Villa

Shropshire

• Viroconium Cornoviorum, Wroxeter

Somerset

• Aquae Sulis (Roman Bath)
• Burrington
• Charterhouse Roman Town and Mining Settlement
• Dolebury Warren
• Ham Hill
• Lindinis (Roman Ilchester)
• Low Ham Roman Villa
• Pagans Hill, Romano-Celtic Temple
• Roman Baths, Bath

South Yorkshire

A reconstruction of Templeborough Roman Fort which covered an area of 2.2 hectares (5.5 acres) when it was rebuilt in stone in the 2nd century.

• Templeborough

Staffordshire

• Letocetum, near Lichfield

Sussex

See East Sussex, West Sussex

Tyne and Wear

• Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend
• Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields
• Extensive Roman collection in Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne

Warwickshire

• Lunt Fort, near Coventry
• Tripontium, near Rugby

West Sussex

• Bignor Roman Villa, Pulborough
• Fishbourne Roman Palace, Fishbourne, West Sussex
• Noviomagus Reginorum (Roman Chichester)

West Yorkshire

• Lagentium, Castleford

Wiltshire

• Cunetio, Mildenhall
• Littlecote Roman Villa

Worcestershire

• Overbury

Scotland

• Antonine Wall
• Inchtuthil, Perth and Kinross
• Trimontium, Newstead, Melrose, Scottish Borders
• Roman Bath House, Bearsden
• Rough Castle Fort, near Tamfourhill
• Cramond Roman Fort excavations
• Cawdor (Roman Fort), near Inverness

Inveresk Mithreum, by Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/mithras-in-scotland-a-mithraeum-at-inveresk-east-lothian/544B6233F7F06415EE049C60A827C3C0

Wales

• Abergavenny Roman fort, Gobannium
• Alabum Llandovery Roman fort
• Blestium Monmouth Roman fort
• Caer Gybi, Anglesey Roman fort
• Caerleon, Newport, Monmouthshire Roman fortress and amphitheatre
• Caersws Roman Forts, Powys
• Caerwent, Monmouthshire. Roman town - the only one in Wales
• Cardiff Roman Fort
• Cold Knap, Barry
• Cowbridge Roman Town probably Bovium
• Dolaucothi Gold Mines, Carmarthenshire. Fort, settlement and museum.
• Gelligaer small Roman fort
• Gateholm, Pembrokeshire
• Llan Ffestiniog, Gwynedd fort & amphitheatre
• Luentinum Roman fort at Pumsaint, Carmarthenshire
• Moridunum, Carmarthen
• Nidum, Neath, Glamorgan. Roman fort
• Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil. Roman fort
• Sarn Helen Roman road
• Segontium Roman Fort, Caernarfon
• Usk Burrium early legionary base
• Y Gaer, Brecon cavalry base

See also

• List of Roman place names in Britain
• List of Latin place names in Britain
• Roman Britain
• Sub-Roman Britain
• Roman Scotland
• Roman Wales
• Romano-Celtic Temple
• Roman sites in Britain KMZ file