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Carnuntum

Carnuntum, Roman legionary fortress and civilian city on the Danube between Petronell and Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Austria; capital of Pannonia Superior, seat of Septimius Severus's proclamation (193) and the 308 Emperors' Conference.

Carrow Hill Roman fort

Carrow Hill Roman fort, Monmouthshire, Wales (NPRN 423337): a small pre-Flavian auxiliary fort near Caerwent, discovered as cropmarks in the 2018 drought; first auxiliary fort plan in the Vale of Gwent, with double ditches and annexe.

Cas(s)inomagus

Cassinomagus (Cussinomagus), Gallo-Roman agglomeration at Chassenon, Charente, France, on the via Agrippa in Lémovices territory; famed for 12,500 m² early-2nd-century Roman baths, the Montélu temple, sacred wood, and a 15-hectare archaeological park.

Cassio

Cassio (Villa di Cassio) is the ruin of a large late-Republican Roman villa at Tivoli, Italy, traditionally attributed to Caesar's assassin Gaius Cassius Longinus, with three terraces, 1773-75 excavations, and finds in the Vatican Museums.

Castell Collen

Castell Collen is a Roman auxiliary fort near Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales, built in the AD 70s above the River Ithon and occupied until about AD 330.

Castra of Drobeta

Castra of Drobeta: Roman fort (123 x 137.50 m) at Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania, built 103-105 AD under Trajan to guard the northern end of Trajan's Bridge; phases Trajanic, Constantinian, Romano-Byzantine.

Cedonia

Cedonia (Cedoniae), a Roman fort and road station in Dacia on the Romula–Apulum road, attested in the Tabula Peutingeriana and Ravenna Cosmography, tentatively placed at Gușterița near Sibiu, Romania; distinct from the Italian town Lacedonia.

Celeusum

Celeusum (Tabula Peutingeriana: Celeuso) was a Roman cavalry fort at Pförring, Bavaria, on the Raetian Danube frontier; ORL 75, 3.9 ha, garrisoned by Ala I Flavia Singularium, named in an AD 141 building inscription.

Circus Flaminius

Circus Flaminius: open public space in Rome's southern Campus Martius, built by censor Gaius Flaminius Nepos in 221 BC; used for ludi plebeii, assemblies, markets, and triumphal staging, likely without permanent circus seating.

Clanville

Clanville (Hampshire) is a Romano-British villa site near Andover, excavated in 1897 by G. H. Engleheart; its 96 by 52 ft aisled basilican house, with mosaics, hypocausts, and window glass, was the chief building of its villa group.

Combustica

Combustica (Conbustica) was a Roman road station on the Ratiaria–Naissus road in Moesia superior, shown on the Tabula Peutingeriana and identified with the excavated military site near Kladorub, Bulgaria.

Contra Aquincum

Contra Aquincum was a Roman bridgehead fort on the Pest bank of the Danube in Budapest, built in the late 2nd century and rebuilt under Diocletian.

Cuttiae

Cuttiae (also Cottiae, Cutias), Roman mutatio at modern Cozzo, northern Italy, between Lomello and Vercelli; on the road Ticinum–Augusta Taurinorum, shown on the Tabula Peutingeriana, with a branch to Vercellae and a disputed municipal status.

Damecuta

Villa Damecuta, Roman imperial villa on the Anacapri promontory of Capri, one of twelve Tiberian villas; 80 m porticoed loggia with hemicycle belvedere, excavated by Maiuri 1937–1949, now studied by the University of Messina Damecuta Project.

Deneuvre

Deneuvre, Meurthe-et-Moselle: Gallo-Roman Leuque agglomeration on the Meurthe near Baccarat, home of the largest spring sanctuary of Hercules in Roman Gaul, with about a hundred stelae, found in 1974, museum since 2003.

Dilis

Dilis, ancient place name in Gallia on the coast between Massilia (Marseille) and Fossae Marianae; tentatively identified ("Dilis?") with Port des Laurons near the Roman villa of Semenes, Provence, France; Pleiades 148068.

Epoissum

Epoissum, also Eposium, was a Roman vicus or road station in Gallia Belgica on the Durocortorum to Augusta Treverorum road, 22 leugae from Vungo and 20 from Orolaunum, identified with modern Carignan, France.

Etruscan acropolis at Volaterrae

Etruscan acropolis at Volaterrae (Velathri): hilltop sanctuary of Volterra, Tuscany, in use 7th century BC to 3rd century AD, with Hellenistic temples A and B, cisterns, a fresco, and an Augustan Roman Cistern.

Flămînda

Flămînda (Flămânda, La Culă), a Roman auxiliary fort at Traian, Teleorman County, Romania: first fort of the Transalutanus limes on the Danube; wood-and-earth, 350×390 m, legio XIII Gemina stamp, excavated by Bogdan Cătăniciu.

Flavian Amphitheater at Puteoli

Flavian Amphitheater at Puteoli (Anfiteatro Flavio di Pozzuoli), Roman arena in Pozzuoli, Italy, built 1st century CE by the colony at its own expense; third largest in Italy after the Colosseum and Capua, 149x116 m, 40,000 seats, with an exceptionally preserved two-level hypogeum.

Fosse Way

Fosse Way: Roman road in Britain running from Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) to Lincoln (Lindum Colonia), established by 47 AD as a frontier service road, passing Leicester, Bath, and Cirencester.

Franks Roman villa

Franks Roman villa (Franks Hall Roman villa), Farningham, Kent: scheduled minor Romano-British villa on the River Darent, 29 m by 19.4 m with wings, hypocaust, occupied 1st-5th century AD, over Iron Age farmstead remains.

Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia

Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia is a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in Romania, inscribed in 2024, comprising 277 component parts of the Roman frontier (Dacian Limes).

Gallo-Roman amphitheater at Grannum

Gallo-Roman amphitheater at Grannum, the semi-amphitheater at Grand, Vosges, France: 148 m long, arena 50.8 x 34 m, capacity 16,000-17,000, serving the sanctuary town of Apollo Grannus in Gallia Belgica.

Gallo-Roman Amphitheater of Agen

The Gallo-Roman amphitheater of Agen is the remains of a Roman amphitheater in Agen, France, in the ancient city of Aginnum, capital of the Nitiobroges, identified by excavation in 1989.

Gallo-Roman amphitheater-theater of Gennes

Gallo-Roman amphitheater-theater of Gennes (théâtre-amphithéâtre de Mazerolles), a 2nd-century AD semi-amphitheater with stage at Les Chataigniers, Maine-et-Loire, France; about 5,000 seats, classified monument historique 1986, part of a water-sanctuary complex with nymphaeum and aqueduct.

Gallo-Roman theater at Alba Helviorum

Gallo-Roman theater at Alba Augusta Helviorum (Alba-la-Romaine, Ardèche), capital of the Helvii in Gallia Narbonensis: 50 m cavea enlarged to 73 m, ~3,000 seats, converted from Gallo-Roman to Roman type, restored and hosting shows.

Germanicum

Germanicum (Castra Germanicum), Roman ala fort at Kösching, Bavaria, on the Raetian Limes north of the Danube; founded spring AD 80, garrisoned by Ala I Flavia Gemelliana, abandoned around 242/243 after an Alemannic attack.

Glenlochar Roman Fort

Glenlochar Roman Fort, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland: cropmark remains of a Flavian fort rebuilt in the AD 140s, with annexe, Roman road, camps, and Bronze Age barrows by the River Dee crossing.

Haltwhistle Burn Roman Fortlet and Camp

Haltwhistle Burn Roman Fortlet and Camp: early 2nd-century Roman fortlet (c. AD 105) on the Stanegate road in Northumberland, guarding the burn crossing, with associated temporary camps, excavated 1907-8 by Gibson and Simpson, superseded by Hadrian's Wall.