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Caepionis Monu.

Caepionis Monu. (Turris Caepionis, Tower of Caepio) was a Roman tower-lighthouse at the Guadalquivir mouth, built by Quintus Servilius Caepio, ancestor of Chipiona Lighthouse, whose name it gave.

Caer Gai

Caer Gai is a Roman auxiliary fort in Gwynedd, Wales, set on a spur above the River Dee near Llyn Tegid, garrisoned from about AD 75-80 to 130.

Caer Gybi

Caer Gybi (Caergybi, Cybi's fort) is a small late Roman coastal fort at Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, with walls up to 4 m high and corner towers, later enclosing St Cybi's 6th-century church; a Cadw-scheduled monument.

Caer Llugwy

Caer Llugwy, also called Bryn y Gefeiliau, is a Roman auxiliary fort site near Capel Curig, Conwy, Wales, established about AD 90 on the Roman road between Caerhun and Tomen-y-Mur, later reduced in size, with annexe buildings, hypocaust pillars, and evidence of metalworking.

Caerleon Roman amphitheatre

Caerleon Roman amphitheatre, the oval arena of the legionary fortress of Isca in south Wales, built around AD 90, seating about 6,000 on a timber grandstand; excavated by the Wheelers in 1926-27, revised by George Boon in 1962, and linked to King Arthur's Round Table legend.

Caermote Roman fort

Caermote Roman fort: two superimposed turf-and-timber Roman auxiliary forts near Bothel, Cumberland, at the north end of Bassenthwaite lake; late 1st–early 2nd century AD, c. 500-strong garrison, no vicus.

Caerphilly Roman fort

Caerphilly Roman fort: a Roman auxiliary fort at Caerphilly, south Wales, midway between Cardiff and Gelligaer, discovered in 1963 under a Civil War redoubt near Caerphilly Castle; occupied c. AD 75 into the second century.

Caersws

Caersws, Powys, Wales: village at the Carno-Severn confluence hosting two Roman forts (Caersws I at Llwynybrain, Caersws II, 3.2 ha) and a 7-hectare vicus, hub of Roman roads in mid Wales.

Caino

Caino, ancient name of Chinon in Touraine, France: a Gallic oppidum and prosperous Gallo-Roman small town on the Vienne, walled in the 3rd century, mentioned by Gregory of Tours as Caino castrum.

Caister-on-Sea

Caister-on-Sea Roman Fort (NHER 8675): Saxon Shore fort in Norfolk, England, built about AD 200 for a Roman army and navy unit with a 500–1,000 man garrison, occupied to the late 4th century, excavated 1951–55 by Charles Green.

Calagorris

Calagorris (Calagurris, Calagorra): name of two Roman-era settlements, the mansio Calagorris Convenarum at Saint-Martory, France, on the Toulouse-Dax road, and Calagurris Iulia Nassica at Calahorra, Spain, Sertorius's ally destroyed by Pompey in 72 BC.

Calagum

Calagum (also Caliacum/Calacum), a Roman road station and three-road junction in Gallia Lugdunensis on the Tabula Peutingeriana, generally identified with Chailly-en-Brie (Seine-et-Marne), France, on the via Agrippa between Meaux and the Troyes road.

Calcaria Solarium

Calcaria Solarium: Roman road station in Gallia Narbonensis on the Tabula Peutingeriana and Antonine Itinerary between Massilia and Fossae Marianae, identified with Calas near Aix-en-Provence; name means lime kilns.

Caliphate City of Medina Azahara

Medina Azahara (Madinat al-Zahra, مدينة الزهراء) is a UNESCO World Heritage archaeological site near Córdoba, Spain: a 10th-century Umayyad palace city of Abd al-Rahman III, destroyed in the 1009-1010 civil war, only 10 percent excavated, inscribed in 2018.

Callis

Callis (plural calles), Latin for a cattle-made beaten track, source of Spanish calle; also an ancient road or coastal station at Sidi Nuah, Libya (Pleiades 373766, Barrington Atlas 38 C1).

Callow Hill Roman villa (United Kingdom)

Callow Hill Roman villa, a scheduled Romano-British corridor house villa near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, in a 138 by 216 m ditched enclosure beside Grim's Dyke, occupied from the late first to the fourth century AD.

Cambete

Cambete (Cambes, Cambate), Roman road station at modern Kembs, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, 12 miles north of Augusta Raurica; Rhine bridge, praetorium, Late Antique necropolis, named in Antonine Itinerary and Peutinger map.

Camino (site)

Camino (Pleiades 138261) is an ancient villa site in Gaul, cited as BAtlas 14 G4 Camino, identified tentatively with Camy, commune of Luzech (Lot, France), dated AD 300-640, distinct from Camino road or pilgrimage namesakes.

Camp-Ferrus

Camp-Ferrus (fanum de Camp-Ferrus) is a Gallo-Roman sanctuary at Loubers, Tarn, France, excavated 1968-1975 by abbé Marius Bessou: a 70 x 42 m walled enclosure with three fanum temples, a cloister-like gallery, and about 750 4th-century coins.

Campona

Campona was a Roman auxiliary fort and civilian settlement on the Danube frontier in Pannonia Inferior, at today's Nagytétény district of Budapest, Hungary, where Emperor Constantine I won a victory over the Sarmatians in 322 AD.

Can Blai

Can Blai (Can Pins), late-Imperial Roman castellum on Formentera, Balearic Islands; square fort about 40 m per side with five towers, built c. 300 AD, never finished, hardly occupied, declared Site of Cultural Interest 1994.

Can Llauder Roman Villa

Torre Llauder (Vil·la romana de Torre Llauder), Roman villa in Mataró, Catalonia, in the territory of Iluro; built under Augustus, with mosaics, baths and peristyles, peaking in the 3rd century AD and discovered in 1961.

Can Modolell

Can Modolell (Jaciment de Can Modolell) is a Roman rural sanctuary site in Cabrera de Mar, Barcelona, near ancient Iluro, known for Mithraic inscriptions including Kautes dedications and a debated supposed mithraeum, later a Sant Joan hermitage.

Can Sentromà (villa)

Can Sentromà (villa), Vil·la romana de Can Sentromà, a Roman agricultural villa under the masia of Can Sentromà in Tiana, Maresme, Barcelona; founded late 1st century BC, wine-producing, discovered 1934, BCIN-protected.

Canal of Xerxes

Canal of Xerxes: ship canal cut 483–480 BC across the Mount Athos isthmus in northern Greece, about 2 km long, letting the Persian fleet avoid Cape Athos; confirmed by 1991–2001 geophysical survey.

Candabia

Candabia (in candabia) was a Roman road station on the Via Egnatia in Illyria, near Qukës, Albania, attested on the Tabula Peutingeriana and Barrington Atlas 49 C2, occupied roughly 30 BC to AD 640.

Candalicae

Candalicae was a road station in Roman Noricum, in present-day Carinthia, Austria, listed in the Antonine Itinerary about 20 miles northwest of Virunum and linked with the region's iron mines.

Canniaco

Canniaco, ancient name of a Gallo-Roman villa identified (uncertainly) with Caniac-de-Causse, Lot, France; attested AD 300-640 in the Vita Sancti Desiderii; Barrington Atlas 14 G4; distinct from medieval charters' Canniaco elsewhere.

Canopus at Hadrian's Villa

Canopus at Hadrian's Villa (Canopo, Villa Adriana): Egyptianizing canal-pool and Serapeum grotto at Tivoli, completed 134–138 AD, a summer banqueting complex with Parian, Pentelic, and Dokymaean marble statuary.

Canteduc Roman Quarry

Canteduc Roman Quarry, a limestone quarry cut into the Rocher de Canteduc hill at Nîmes (ancient Nemausus), Gallia Narbonensis; it supplied stone for the Augustan city wall, amphitheater foundations, and Maison Carrée.