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	DVROBRIVAE CATVVELLORVM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Roman name for the settlement at Water Newton occurs first in the Antonine Itinerary of the late-second century, where, in Iter V, "the route from Londinium to Luguvalium on the Wall", the town Durobrivas is listed 35 miles from Duroliponte (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) and 30 miles from Causennis (Ancaster, Lincolnshire).
		There is an extra-mural vicus-like area along the road to the south-west, and a tributary of the Nene snakes between the defended town and the fort situated to the north-west.
		Durobrivae lay at the extreme northern border of the Catuvellaunian canton, and, as the centre of the flourishing Castor pottery industries, was one of the richest towns in Roman Britain.
	www.roman-britain.org /places/durobrivae_catuvellorum.htm (1301 words)

	Water Newton
		Durobrivae was probably established soon after the Roman invasion.
		Durobrivae gradually developed into a large town, occupied throughout the Roman period and noted for its pottery industry and, to a lesser extent, some iron working.
		It is likely that pottery was exported from the Nene Valley far and wide but much may have moved by water rather than by road, the Nene, connecting with the Carr Dyke, leading to Lincoln.
	www.biffvernon.freeserve.co.uk /water_newton.htm (2537 words)

	DVROBRIVAE CANTIACORVM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Situated at the lowest bridgeable point of the river Medway, which here cuts through the chalk of the North Downs before flowing into the Thames Estuary, Durobriovae was one of only two walled towns in the territory of the Cantiaci, the other being the cantonal capital Durovernum Cantiacorum.
		The name Durobrivae means 'the walled town of bridges', implying the possibility of there being several bridges over the river Medway in either the Roman or Celtic periods.
		In 1850, the location of at least one Roman bridge was suggested by tentative evidence lying just north of the later medieval bridge, and on the same line as the bridge contructed in 1856.
	www.roman-britain.org /places/durobrivae_cantiacorum.htm (582 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - The Roman Invasion - An AAR
		Return to Durobrivae immediately, and tell Fabius that he has full military authority to deal with these invaders as he sees fit, short of crossing the river Duro into their territory and taking their lands.
		Apparently Fabius had done much to win the support of the remaining Cantii population in that city, because before he marched his legion out through the city gates, the local leaders came to him and informed him that they had enlisted three units of volunteer fanatics to assist in the defense of their homes.
		The closest cavalry cohort made it into the battle just as the last unit of Trinobantes javelinmen was routing, just in time to chase down all of the enemy soldiers who were trying to run away, and cut them down before they even made it back to their camp.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/printthread.php?t=41321&pp=25 (10623 words)

	Durobrivae
		The Roman word Durobrivae can be translated as meaning The Fort By The Bridge.
		The Roman Auxilliary Fort, 1,000 ft from the South Bank of the River Nene, was discovered by Crawford in 1930 and confirmed from the air 8 years later.
		The town of Durobrivae was famed for its pottery, the so called "Castor Ware" which has been found throughout Europe, with the earliest Christian silver ever found coming from this area.
	www.chesterton.moonfruit.com /durobrivae (122 words)

	Medway Council - Local history: Roman Medway 43 - 410
		Kent was split into two halves: that in the west was governed from Rochester, Medway’s first walled town.
		When the legions were finally withdrawn at the start of the fifth century, Britain entered an obscure period of change as Germanic settlers from northern Europe migrated to southern and eastern Britain, and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were born.
		Durobrivae; or, Roman Rochester by Edwin Harris, 1909.
	www.medway.gov.uk /index/leisure/localhistory/timeline/17891.htm (307 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - View Single Post - The Roman Invasion - An AAR
		As soon as his army had healed, and secured fresh recruits to replace the casualties, he would move against the second and last city of the Cantii, Durobrivae, just to the northwest of Durovern.
		In fact, their nation had ceased to exist, as it was now annexed into the Roman province of Southern Brittania in its entirety.
		After the battle, while the victorious soldiers were running wild through the streets of Durobrivae, the remnants of the cavalry force began to make their way back to the Roman camp.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showpost.php?p=718017&postcount=5 (1301 words)

	Roman Britain: 1828, The Durobrivae of Antoninus . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Durobrivae of Antoninus Identified and Illustrated in a Series of Plates, Exhibiting the Excavated Remains of that Roman Station, in the Vicinity of Castor, Northamptonshire.
		A comprehensive pictorial reproduction of the buildings and artifacts found at the excavation of a Roman settlement in Northamptonshire, including mosaics, inscriptions, frescoes, baths, furnaces, kilns, coin-minting tools, pottery tools, and various other objects, including several maps of the site.
		The Notre Dame copy has the ex libris of Lt. Gen.
	www.rarebooks.nd.edu /exhibits/fructus/roman/1828artis.html (77 words)

	:: Flag Fen - Gladiators :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The award winning UK based Britannia will be returning to Flag Fen on the Spring Bank Holiday to perform their thrilling interpretation of gladiatorial games as they would have been staged in Britain around 1,800 years ago!
		However, the crowds will be vital to help the Peterborough team show their strength on their own soil, so Flag Fen staff are hoping visitors will turn up in their droves to cheer on the home team.
		Both Male Gladiators and Gladiator Girls will be showing their skills at Flag Fen and visitors have the chance to cheer for the gold home team of Durobrivae (Peterborough) or for the red outsiders team from Londinium (London).
	www.flagfen.com /events/gladiators.htm (371 words)

	Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology \| Miscellaneous articles: Crocolana — the Nottinghamshire Brough (2)
		Plate 1, figs 6 to 8 are true Romano-British Ware.
		Almost certainly manufactured at or near Castor (Durobrivae) in Northants.
		Specimens almost identical with figs.6 and 7 are given in Artis’s “Durobrivae” plates xlix.
	www.nottshistory.org.uk /articles/tts/tts1906/crocolana2.htm (281 words)

	Historic Kent - Medway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The River Medway has been of vital importance in the establishment and maintenance, through history's ups and downs, of Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham, known as the Medway Towns.
		The Roman's recognised the river's strategic value and built the early Rochester, Durobrivae or 'stronghold by the bridge'.
		The Norman's built both castle and cathedral, the Knights Templar passed through on their way to the Crusades and in the 13th century Temple Manor in Strood was their lodging house.
	www.historic-kent.co.uk /med.htm (348 words)

	Roman Lincs
		Just north of Durobrivae, across the river Nene, in whose bed the remains of a wooden bridge have been found, the Roman road forks.
		Both roads met the Ermine Street, coming from Ancaster, on Bracebridge Heath, just south of Lincoln.
		Ermine Street, the left fork from Durobrivae, is followed more closely by the Great North Road, passed Stamford, Stretton and Colsterworth, from where it leaves the A1 to head for Lincoln via Ancaster, leaving Grantham a little to the west.
	www.biffvernon.freeserve.co.uk /roman_lincs.htm (972 words)

	Positively Peterborough - 2000 years of history
		Its 3,000-year-old Flag Fen bronze age settlement is one of Europe's most important archaeological sites from that era.
		Around 43 AD the Romans established a fortress which grew into a substantial fortified town known as Durobrivae and became a major industrial centre for the production of pottery.
		In Saxon times Peterborough - then known as Medehampstede - was chosen by Paeda, King of Mercia, as the site for a monastery in 654 AD.
	www.positivelypeterborough.org /Business_history.asp (367 words)

	Welcome to Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery
		The Fen Causeway crossed the fens, providing a direct link between the East Anglian coast and the Midlands.
		An important town Durobrivae (meaning "fortress bridge") grew up around Ermine Street, a few miles upstream from the present city.
		A special site at Castor has been interpreted as the palatial residence of a Roman dignitary – perhaps someone involved with the administration of Durobrivae, the pottery industry, or the imperial estate in the fens.
	www.peterboroughheritage.org.uk /museum/roman.html (254 words)

	Cup from the Water Newton treasure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This cup is part of a hoard of silver vessels and plaques which forms the earliest group of Christian liturgical silver yet found in the Roman Empire.
		It was discovered in a recently ploughed field at Water Newton, Cambridgeshire, the Roman town of Durobrivae, in February 1975.
		The hoard was much damaged by the plough.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ1476 (310 words)

	Welcome to Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The great pottery industries of the Nene Valley were abandoned, the palace at Castor and many villas in the surrounding countryside were left to fall down or robbed for their stone.
		Even the town of Durobrivae was not maintained and gradually was forgotten.
		Anglo-Saxon settlements, consisting of small clusters of timber houses, have been found at Woodston, Orton Longueville and Maxey.
	www.peterboroughheritage.org.uk /museum/anglo-saxon.html (265 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Durobrivae
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		Starting life as a Roman fort where Ermine Street crossed the River Nene, Durobrivae developed into an important Roman town just outside present-day Peterborough.
		It acted as a market place for the salt trade from the Fens in the east and for the ironworks and potteries in the uplands to the west.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0752433377 (145 words)

	The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Life of John Clare, by Frederick Martin
		Durobrivae, which station must have been of great importance, judging
		thoroughfare being formed by the old Roman road from Durobrivae to the
		of the vast ruins of Durobrivae were discovered: temples and arches
	worldebooklibrary.com /eBooks/Gutenberg/etext05/7jclr10.htm (9917 words)

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