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    Calleva Atrebatum ("Calleva of the Atrebates") was an Iron Age oppidum, the capital of the Atrebates tribe. It then became a walled town in the Roman...
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  • Hampshire Football Association. The club's name of Calleva comes from the nearby Roman Town of Calleva Atrebatum, based just outside Silchester. They play in...
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    the Portway) is an ancient road in southern England, which ran from Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, in modern-day Hampshire) in a south-westerly direction...
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    Highway was a Roman road in Britain connecting Londinium (London) to Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) via Pontes (Staines). The road was the principal route...
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    that his body would not be identified. Archaeology suggests that Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) was the site of his defeat or the area surrounding the...
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  • Atrebatum can refer to the following places: Calleva Atrebatum, modern Silchester Atrebatum, ancient Roman name of Arras, in northern France This disambiguation...
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    industries, a gallery of artefacts discovered during the excavations of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester Roman Town), a copy of the Bayeux Tapestry, finds relating...
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    dating from the first or second century CE, uncovered in 1866 at Calleva Atrebatum in Silchester, Hampshire, England. It was purchased in 1980 by Reading...
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    Silchester is most notable for the archaeological site and Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum, an Iron Age and later Atrebates Celtic settlement first occupied...
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    northern lands of the neighbouring Atrebates tribe and their capital, Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester), probably fell to him around AD 25. It is likely that...
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    and may also have reigned over the northern Atrebatic kingdom at Calleva Atrebatum, today called Silchester. He was recognised as rex by Rome and appears...
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  • created in the late 1st c. BC: one of the Atrebates, with a capital in Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester); one of the Belgae with its capital at Venta Belgarum...
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    ancient Romans. Lodwick's pioneering archaeobotanical studies at Calleva Atrebatum demonstrated the import and consumption of celery, coriander and olive...
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    The Roman road from Silchester to Bath connected Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) with Aquae Sulis (Bath) via Spinae (Speen), Cunetio (near Marlborough)...
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    made from melted down denarii. The coins of Eppillus, issued around Calleva Atrebatum around the same time, appear to have derived design elements from...
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    Tribe Capital Atrebatēs Calleva Atrebatum Brigantēs/Brigantī Isurium Brigantum Cantiacī Durovernum Cantiacorum Carvetīī (*Carwetīī) Luguvalium Catuvellaunī...
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    imports appear in considerable quantities at Tincomarus's capital of Calleva Atrebatum, today known as Silchester, and it is likely that the Atrebatic king...
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    Silchester Ogham stone is a pillar stone discovered at the Roman town on Calleva Atrebatum in Silchester, Hampshire during excavations in 1893. Thus far it remains...
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    (Regulbium) London – Chichester (Noviomagus), a port London – Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum). At Silchester, this route split into 3 major branches: Silchester – Portchester...
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    more mundane use might be as a simple fire engine. One was found at Calleva Atrebatum (Roman Silchester) in England, and another is on display at the British...
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    or alternatively it possible that one of the mints was located at Calleva Atrebatum. Tincommius's gold staters weighed around 5.3g while his gold quarter...
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  • (Chichester) in the south of the kingdom, while Tincomarus ruled from Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) in the north. Eppillus became ruler of the whole territory...
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    situated on the Roman road between Corinium Dobunnorum (Cirencester) and Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester). In many ways Durocornovium was a typical small Roman...
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    Camulodunum (Colchester). The Atrebates tribe whose capital was at Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) had friendly trade and diplomatic links with Rome and...
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    eventide he came to an old baron’s place. Sir Thomas Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur Michael Fulford, City of the Dead: the Roman Town of Calleva Atrebatum v t e...
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  • Thames, or as an intersection on the Roman road connecting London with Calleva Atrebatum near Silchester. The first evidence for Reading as a settlement dates...
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    The street was the Devil's Highway, the Roman road from London to Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) which forms the northern parish boundary. Some older...
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    that his body would not be identified. Archaeology suggests that Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) was the site of his defeat. A group of Roman troops,...
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    himself as king of the Atrebates in Britain, and was issuing coins from Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester). It is possible that Commius and his followers founded...
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  • 117; and the discovery of a wingless Roman eagle in excavations at Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester). The Museum of Reading, which now houses the Silchester...
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