Londinium

Assembled from 17 blocks · 2 evidence · 22 related

1. Story
2. A Roman foundation of c. 47-50 CE at the lowest bridgeable point of the Thames, burned in the Boudican revolt of c. 60/61 CE and rebuilt as the provincial capital of Britannia. Included as the empire's far northwestern limit case: a city with a forum, basilica, baths and a Latin-writing population of merchants and officials, connected by road to a port and by sea to the rest of the Mediterranean system.
3. Knowledge
4. The Roman Road Network
5. Londinium
6. Connections
7. The Roman Road Network
8. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
9. The Roman Legion
10. Via Appia
11. Londinium
12. Construction of the Via Appia begins
13. The empire reaches its greatest territorial extent
14. Digital mapping shows most of the Roman road network is unlocated
15. Evidence
16. The statutory heritage record documents the surviving fabric of the Wall - curtain, vallum, ditch, milecastles, turrets and forts - segment by segment, providing the archaeological basis for the Wall's course and construction phases rather than relying on literary description.
17. Roman roads were systematically marked with inscribed milestones recording distances and the emperor responsible for construction or repair. This epigraphic series is the primary dating and attribution evidence for the road network, and the principal proof that road-building was an imperial political act as much as an engineering one.