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Roman forts and military sites

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(A)Esica

Aesica (also Esica), the Roman fort at Great Chesters on Hadrian's Wall, Wall Mile 43, Northumberland; a 1.36 ha auxiliary fort built over Milecastle 43, completed AD 128-138, with a 6-mile aqueduct and an 1890s jewellery hoard.

Ad Teglanum

Ad Teglanum (Adteglanum), a road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Nola and Nuceria in Campania, near Palma Campania; emended to Ad Teglarium, 'at the tile works.'

Aedes Apollinis Palatini

Aedes Apollinis Palatini, the Temple of Apollo Palatinus, Augustus' marble temple on the southwest Palatine in Rome, vowed 36 BC, dedicated 9 October 28 BC, with Greek and Latin libraries and the Sibylline books.

Andetrium

Andetrium was a Delmati hillfort and Roman auxiliary fort at Gornji Muć, Dalmatia, 16 Roman miles from Salona; Bato entrenched there in 6-9 AD, and the Via Gabiniana from Salona ended at it.

Arcidava

Arcidava (Argidava, Arcidaba): ancient Dacian fortress and Roman road station at Vărădia, Banat, Romania, on the Lederata–Tibiscum road, with two Roman castra destroyed c. 117–118 AD.

Beliandrum

Beliandrum is a road station in the Roman province of Noricum, in present-day Austria, recorded on the Tabula Peutingeriana on the road toward Virunum; its exact site remains debated, with Feldkirchen a leading candidate.

Benia Guedah Ceder

Benia Guedah Ceder (Qasr El Benia, castellum de Guedah-Ceder) is a late Roman fortlet of the Limes Tripolitanus in Gabès Governorate, Tunisia: a 60 by 40 m ashlar enclosure guarding the Tebaga Gap, classified National Heritage in 1899.

Caballucome

Caballucome: a Roman road station in Lycaonia, Asia Minor, known only from the Tabula Peutingeriana, identified with Kulak Murat Han near Eğribayat, about 36 km north-northeast of Konya.

Capitolium Vetus

Capitolium Vetus, the Old Capitol, was an ancient Quirinal Hill shrine in Rome to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, older per Varro than the Capitoline temple; no remains survive, and its site near via Quattro Fontane is inferred from texts.

Caput Bubali

Caput Bubali, Latin for "ox's head", was a Roman road station and small fort recorded on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Azizis and Tibiscum, identified with a fortlet near Cornuțel in Romania, dated to 101 to 117.

Caput Tyrsi

Caput Tyrsi (Caput Thyrsi), a Roman-era road station at modern Buddusò, Sardinia, near the source of the Thyrsos river; listed in the Antonine Itinerary and Barrington Atlas 48 B2, distinct from the Black Sea station Trissa/Tirizis.

Casale dell’Infernaccio

Casale dell'Infernaccio is a locality in Magliana Vecchia, Rome, site of a Roman villa with baths found in 1976, with fish frescoes and a possible fishpond; also a Pleistocene conglomerate formation.

Crixia

Crixia, a Roman mansio in Liguria on the road from Aquae Statiellae to Vada Sabatia, listed in the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana and identified with Piana Crixia, Savona.

Danielsberg

Danielsberg, a cone-shaped hill near Kolbnitz in Carinthia's Mölltal, Austria, settled for about 6,000 years, holds a Neolithic cup-marked stone, a Roman Hercules temple inscription, and a 1127 Romanesque church.

Dascusa

Dascusa, a Roman fort on the Euphrates in Cappadocia, listed in the Antonine Itinerary 50 Roman miles from Melitene; founded under Claudius, it was among the earliest garrisons of Rome's Euphrates frontier.

Eulbach

Eulbach (Kastell Eulbach) is a small Roman numerus fort on the older Odenwald line of the Neckar-Odenwald-Limes near Michelstadt, Hesse, about 70 x 78 m, garrisoned until the frontier moved east around 159 AD, now within the Eulbacher Park.

Grimscar Roman tilery (United Kingdom)

Grimscar (Grimescar) Roman tilery, a scheduled monument near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire: a first/early second-century AD military tile and pottery works run by the Fourth Cohort of the Breuci, supplying Slack Roman fort.

Kynosoura (promontory)

Kynosoura (Κυνόσουρα, "dog's tail"), ancient promontory in Attica (modern Barbaro/Stomi near Marathon) and long eastern peninsula of Salamis; the latter framed the 480 BC Battle of Salamis, hosted a victory trophy, and shares its name with a Spartan village and Ursa Minor.

La Pièce du Fient

La Pièce du Fient: Gallo-Roman villa site at Richebourg (Yvelines), France, 12-13 ha, Gaulish farm from 60 BC, one of the earliest romanized villas, first French site with a Gaulish-period temple, first excavated ancient gardens, abandoned mid-3rd century.

Limé

Limé, an archaeological site in Aisne, France, at the lieu-dit Villa d'Ancy, with a Roman villa, Gallic farm, and cemetery; a Gallo-Roman cremation burial with a bronze-bound bucket and inscription was found there in 1887.

Middlewich Roman fort

Middlewich Roman fort (Salinae): auxiliary fort at Harbutt's Field, Cheshire, built around AD 70, about 110 by 125 m, garrisoned until about AD 130, then a civilian salt-working settlement; identified by 1993 geophysical survey, Scheduled Monument 1008460.

Milecastle 72 (Fauld Farm)

Milecastle 72 (Fauld Farm), also called Fauld Farm milecastle, is a buried Roman milecastle of Hadrian's Wall at Burgh by Sands, Cumbria (NY 3242 5903), located in 1960 by Bartle and excavated in 1989; turf-built on a cobble raft, rebuilt in stone in the later 2nd century.

Montefortini

Montefortini (Tumulo di Montefortini) is an Etruscan tumulus at Comeana, Carmignano, Tuscany: a 12-meter artificial hill with a 640-630 BC tholos tomb and a later rectangular chamber tomb, excavated from 1966 under Francesco Nicosia. Not the town of Montefortino in Le Marche.

Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex

The Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex is a large public building of the mid-third century BC at Gabii, an ancient Latin city about 20 km east of Rome.

Odeon of Philippopolis

The Odeon of Philippopolis is an ancient Roman odeon, a small covered theater, uncovered at the Ancient Forum of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, that also housed the city council.

Piperica

Piperica, also cataloged as Barrington Atlas 50 D2 Piperica and Pleiades place 491698, is an ancient fort site in present-day Bulgaria, dated 30 BC to AD 300, located near 41.42 N, 23.46 E.

Prima Porta

Prima Porta, a northern suburb of Rome on the Via Flaminia, is named for a Roman brick arch and known for the Villa of Livia (ad Gallinas Albas), where the Augustus of Prima Porta statue and the famous garden frescoes were found in 1863.

Regulbium

Regulbium (Reculver Roman Fort), a Saxon Shore fort at Reculver, Kent, built early 3rd century AD, 180 by 175 m, guarding the Wantsum Channel; garrisoned per the Notitia Dignitatum; half lost to coastal erosion.

Roman amphitheater at Marruvium

Roman amphitheater at Marruvium, San Benedetto dei Marsi, Abruzzo: early Augustan elliptical amphitheater discovered 21 October 1971, axes about 92 x 76 m, capacity conjectured at 30,000-35,000, restored in the 2nd-3rd centuries AD.

Roman aqueduct near Limonum

Roman aqueducts of Limonum (Lemonum), antique Poitiers, France: three gravity-fed lines from the Basse-Fontaine, Cimeau, and Fleury springs, built from the 1st century AD to feed baths and fountains; the Arches of Parigny survive.