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This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2016) This is a list of all known Roman sites within the county of Lincolnshire. Settlements Name Roman Name Type Location Coordinates Dates Notes Image Alkborough Aquis Fortified Settlement Alkborough Ancaster ? Fortified Settlement Ancaster Brant Broughton Briga Settlement Brant Broughton Broughton Praetorium Broughton ...
Lindum Colonia was the Roman settlement which is now the City of Lincoln in Lincolnshire.It was founded as a Roman Legionary Fortress during the reign of the Emperor Nero (58–68 AD) or possibly later. [1]
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4 Roman Britain - 43 to 410. 5 Early Middle Ages - 410 to 1066. ... This is a list of all of the notable historic sites in the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire, England.
Lincolnshire was covered by ice in the Anglian and Wolstonian glacial stages and the eastern parts of the county were glaciated during the Devensian. [2] Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers migrated to Britain at least 800,000 years ago, but evidence of early settlement in the Midlands is sparse, probably due to the ice disrupting remains.
48 AD – The Romans conquer Lincolnshire, with little resistance from the Celtic inhabitants, and build a fort, which later becomes the site of a town. [1] ca.60 AD – Second fort built for Legio IX Hispana. 71–77 AD – Garrisoned by Legio II Adiutrix. After ca.86 – Becomes Lindum Colonia, a settlement for retired soldiers.
Lindum Colonia was the Roman name of the settlement which is now the City of Lincoln in Lincolnshire. (Lindum Colonia was shortened in Old English to Lindocolina and then Lincylene.) [1] Lindum was a Latinised form of a native Brittonic name which has been reconstructed as *Lindon (lit. ' pool ' or ' lake '; cf. modern Welsh llyn). [2]
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.