Durobrivae (Water Newton)
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Durobrivae (meaning fortress-bridge) was a Roman fortified garrison town located at Water Newton in the English county of Cambridgeshire, where Ermine Street crossed the River Nene. More generally, it was in the territory of the Corieltauvi in a region of villas and commercial potteries.
During the Iron Age Britain was divided into distinct tribal areas. The area lay between the Catuvellauni to the south and the Corieltauvi to the north, with the Iceni to the east. The settlement was established around AD 43 and it was first mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary of the late second century.[1] It was subsequently supplanted by Peterborough as the local urban centre.
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- ^ Parthey, Gustav and Pinder, Moritz (eds.) Itinerarivm Antonini Avgvsti et Hierosolymitanum: ex libris manu scriptis Iter Britanniarvm (Iter V: Item a Londinio Luguvalio ad vallum mpm clvi sic) Friederich Nicolaus, Berlin, 1848. See also Reynolds, Thomas Iter Britanniarum or that part of the itinerary of Antoninus which relates to Britain with a new comment J. Burges, Cambridge, 1799
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- Peterborough Museum
- The Antonine Itinerary British Section (Route 5: Likewise from London to Carlisle on the wall four-hundred and forty-three thousand paces thus written)
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