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The Fens or Fenlands in eastern England is a area of former marshland of low lying land supporting a rich ecology and numerous species. Most of the fens were drained centuries ago, resulting in a flat, dry, low-lying agricultural region supported by a system of drainage channels and man-made rivers (dykes and drains) and automated pumping ...
Map of the Roman Empire in 125 during the reign of emperor Hadrian. The borders of the Roman Empire, which fluctuated throughout the empire's history, were realised as a combination of military roads and linked forts, natural frontiers (most notably the Rhine and Danube rivers) and man-made fortifications which separated the lands of the empire from the countries beyond.
Within the fens, dense vegetation grew in the fresh water forming peat deposits, which built up over some 6,000 years. [3] During the Roman occupation, some embankments were erected to protect agricultural land from inundation by rivers and sea water, but when they left in 406, the Fens became a wilderness of marshes and flooding again. [4]
In c.120 AD the Roman emperor Hadrian visited Britain and the sections dating from this period may be associated with his plan to settle the Fens. [6] [4] The exception is in the south-east of the Fens where the landscape was manually strip mined for coprolite, a source of phosphate used to enrich agricultural soils.
Roman encroachment after Prasutagus' death led his wife Boudica to launch a major revolt from 60–61. Boudica's uprising seriously endangered Roman rule in Britain and resulted in the burning of Londinium and other cities. The Romans finally crushed the rebellion, and the Iceni were increasingly incorporated into the Roman province. [1] [2]
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 ...
The Kingdom of the East Angles (Old English: Ēastengla Rīċe; Latin: Regnum Orientalium Anglorum), informally known as the Kingdom of East Anglia, was a small independent kingdom of the Angles during the Anglo-Saxon period comprising what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens, [1] the area still known as East Anglia.
Roman Empire 125 AD near its maximum extent Northern Frontiers in 337 AD showing the reconquests of Constantine the Great Roman Empire with dioceses in 400 AD. The Roman frontier stretched for more than 5,000 kilometres (3,100 mi) from the Atlantic coast of northern Britain, through Europe to the Black Sea, and from there to the Red Sea and across North Africa to the Atlantic coast.