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Villas at Castelporziano
Villas at Castelporziano: Roman maritime villas of the Laurentine Shore south of Ostia, within Italy's Castelporziano Presidential Estate. Imperial and aristocratic seaside villas, the Vicus Augustanus service town, Pliny the Younger's Laurentinum, and Tor Paterno.
ville d’Auxerre
ville d'Auxerre: Pleiades gazetteer entry for a Gallo-Roman villa site 3 km south of Auxerre on the Yonne, about 1.6 hectares with baths, linked to Autessiodurum and excavated extensively in 2025.
Vindovala
Vindovala, also spelled Vindobala, is the Roman name of Rudchester fort, the fourth fort on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England; a 1.8 ha auxiliary fort garrisoned by Cohors I Frisiavonum, distinct from Vindobona (Vienna).
Vivisco
Vivisco, also Viviscus or Vibisco, the Roman vicus at modern Vevey on Lake Geneva, listed on the Tabula Peutingeriana and Antonine Itinerary, with a forum excavated at Sainte-Claire.
Volcanal
The Volcanal was the cult-center of the Roman god Vulcan at the north-west corner of the Roman Forum, traditionally founded by the Sabine king Titus Tatius.
Waddon Hill
Waddon Hill in Stoke Abbott, Dorset, England, is the site of a mid first-century Roman fort, one of the few known from the conquest of Durotrigian territory.
Walton Castle
Walton Castle, Felixstowe, Suffolk: a late 3rd-century Roman Saxon Shore fort, later Hugh Bigod's castle and a candidate for Bede's Dommoc, lost to sea erosion by the 18th century; distinct from the Clevedon folly and Camboglanna.
Waverton Temporary Camp
Waverton Temporary Camp: Roman marching camp in Waverton, Cheshire, found as a crop mark in 1994, c.1.2 ha, on the Whitchurch-Chester route east of the River Dee; scheduled monument 1014115.
Yeavering Bell
Yeavering Bell: twin-peaked Cheviot hill in Northumberland, 355m OD, site of the county's largest Iron Age hillfort, 5.6ha, 125 roundhouse platforms; below it lies Ad Gefrin, Edwin's 7th-century palace.
Zereia/Zeira
Zereia/Zeira: otherwise unknown fortress in Chalcidice, besieged and razed by Philip II of Macedon in 349 BC at the start of his campaign against Olynthus; location unidentified.
Zugmantel
Zugmantel (Kastell Zugmantel) is a Roman auxiliary fort and vicus on the Upper German Limes in the Taunus, Hesse. Founded about 90 AD, garrisoned by Cohors I Treverorum equitata, enlarged to 2.1 ha by 233 AD, destroyed around 259/60 AD.