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The Peak District, located in central England in the United Kingdom, is the site of several Roman settlements, forts, roads and Romano-British farms. List Settlements Roman towns recorded in the Ravenna Cosmography's list of all known places in the world in about 700 AD. Name Location Notes Photo Aquae Arnametiae Buxton The settlement was based around its natural warm springs. The Roman ...
Roman site and museum; Devil's Causeway, Roman road to Berwick upon Tweed; Featherwood Roman Camps, on Dere Street between Chew Green and Bremenium; Habitancum, Roman fort at Risingham; Housesteads (Vercovicium) Hunnum, (also known as Onnum, and with the modern name of Haltonchesters), Roman fort north of Halton; Lees Hall Roman Camp near ...
The period of Roman rule left a variety of scheduled monuments, including the remains of settlements at Heronbridge and Wilderspool, and parts of Chester city walls. Definite or possible Roman military camps have been revealed by aerial photography showing cropmarks and parchmarks .
Ten sites date from the Roman period, including four villas. There are four early Christian sites from early medieval times. The 101 sites from the medieval post-Norman period include castles and hidden castle mounds, remote dwellings, grand abbeys, holy wells, stones and churches. Finally the modern period has a 39 sites, including a very wide ...
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These protected sites date from the Neolithic period in some cases and include barrows, a medieval hospital, ancient Roman sites, castle ruins, Iron Age forts, bridges and Anglo-Saxon crosses. [2] In the United Kingdom, the scheduling of monuments was first initiated to ensure the preservation of "nationally important" archaeological sites or ...
Ancient trackways in England (27 P) Anglo-Saxon sites in England (4 C, 40 P) ... Roman sites in England (24 C, 16 P) Ruins in England (47 C, 1 P)
It lists cities established and built by the ancient Romans to have begun as a colony, often for the settlement of citizens or veterans of the legions. Many Roman colonies in antiquity rose to become important commercial and cultural centers, transportation hubs and capitals of global empires.