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Fortlets, camps and military sites

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*Camboglanna

Camboglanna (Amboglanna), Roman auxiliary fort at Castlesteads, Cumbria, on Hadrian's Wall; the only Wall fort detached from the Wall, about 350 m south; garrisoned by the fourth cohort of Gauls and later the second cohort of Tungrians; name disputed with Birdoswald (Banna).

Ad Aquas (Italy)

Ad Aquas, a Roman mansio with thermal baths on the Via Salaria near Asculum, Italy, identified with Santa Maria near Acquasanta Terme; attested on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Asclopiceno and Surpicano.

Cătunele

Cătunele, Gorj County, Romania: village on the Motru river with a 156 x 114 m Roman fort guarding the Drobeta road, 1982-1984 excavations, a medieval monastery site (Valea Mănăstirii), and a 3rd-century gold ring found in 2025.

Certiae

Certiae (Cersia, Certie, Certinae): Roman auxiliary fort and military vicus at Romita-Brusturi, Sălaj County, Romania, in Dacia Porolissensis on the Napoca-Porolissum road; garrisoned by cohors II Britannorum and cohors VI Thracum, with a tetrapylon at its principia.

Dorsten-Holsterhausen

Dorsten-Holsterhausen is a district of Dorsten, Germany, known for traces of up to ten Roman military camps from the campaigns around the turn of the era.

Gramrianae

Gramrianae (Gramrianis, Rappiana/Rampiana) was a Roman road station on the Via Militaris in Moesia Superior, about 12-13 miles north of Naissus near modern Aleksinac, Serbia; its exact site near Draževac remains unlocated.

Iablaniţa

Iablanița is a commune in Caraș-Severin county, Banat, Romania, near the Serbian border, known for the Roman-period stone quarry RAN 53032.02 near the Mehadia castrum and continuing quarrying today.

Lantonside

Lantonside: Roman fortlet in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, at the mouth of the River Nith (grid NY010662), about 40 by 35 m, identified from aerial photography, attributed to the Antonine occupation c. AD 139-165.

Les Fouilletières

Les Fouilletières is an ancient location in Roman Gaul documented in the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. It appears on Maps 14 and 18.

Luciacus

Luciacus: ancient place name in Gaul, Barrington Atlas Map 14 grid G3, tentatively identified with Dussac (Lanouaille), France; Late Roman period; also a second entry at 14 G1.

Milecastle 45 (Walltown)

Milecastle 45 (Walltown), grid ref NY67716657, was a gateway fortlet on Hadrian's Wall on Walltown Crags, Northumberland, surviving as earthworks with robber trenches, associated with turrets 45a and 45b.

Milecastle 64 (Drawdykes)

Milecastle 64 (Drawdykes) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall near Houghton, northeast of Carlisle in Cumbria. It was located and excavated in 1962, and survives only as buried remains.

Milecastle 68 (Boomby Gill)

Milecastle 68 (Boomby Gill) is a conjectured small fortified gateway on Hadrian's Wall in Beaumont parish, Cumbria, England. Its exact location is unconfirmed, despite investigations in 1969 and 1972.

Pèbre

Pèbre (villa antique de Pèbre) is a Roman and late antique villa at Vinon-sur-Verdon, Var, France, occupied 1st–5th centuries, famed for mosaics including a Martial-verse pavement now in Manosque town hall, rediscovered in 2020 and listed MH in 2022.

Roman amphitheater of Italica

Roman amphitheater of Italica (Anfiteatro de Itálica), Hadrianic amphitheatre at Santiponce, Seville, Spain; 153 x 132 m oval, arena 70.6 x 47.3 m, capacity about 25,000-35,000, among the empire's largest, in use to the 4th century.

Roman theater at Ferentinum

Roman theater at Ferentinum, in Ferentino, Lazio: Trajanic-Hadrianic (2nd century AD) hillside theater, 54 m cavea, about 3,000 spectators, discovered by Alfonso Bartoli; distinct from the theater of Ferento near Viterbo.

Varignano Vecchio

Varignano Vecchio (Villa del Varignano) is a Roman maritime-production villa at Le Grazie, Portovenere, Liguria, occupied from the late 2nd century BC to the 6th century AD, with Liguria's oldest oil mill, a 570,000-litre cistern, and an on-site museum.

Vindomora

Vindomora was a Roman auxiliary fort at Ebchester in County Durham, England, first built around AD 80 on Dere Street and occupied for over 300 years.

Zephyrion

Zephyrion (Greek Ζεφύριον, "west wind") names several ancient places: the Halikarnassos peninsula with Maussollos' palace and secret harbour, the harbor city under modern Mersin, and a Black Sea port.