. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . A Roman TESsEi,r,ATED Pavement DISCOVERED IN I,EADENHAI,I, STREET, I,ONDON (Winchester), Corinium Dobunorum (Cirencester), Calebaor Calleva Atrebatum {KaXijovaArpe^aTuov of Ptolemy, now 1 Marcianus Heracleota, writing some time about the commencementof the fifth century , has left us a somewhat full account of informs us that it contained fifty-nine celebrated towns. ClaudiusPtolemy, writing early in the second century , gives I,ondinium, Ebur-acum, Caturactonium, and the Winged Camp as the four chief towns inBritain in h
. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . A Roman TESsEi,r,ATED Pavement DISCOVERED IN I,EADENHAI,I, STREET, I,ONDON (Winchester), Corinium Dobunorum (Cirencester), Calebaor Calleva Atrebatum {KaXijovaArpe^aTuov of Ptolemy, now 1 Marcianus Heracleota, writing some time about the commencementof the fifth century , has left us a somewhat full account of informs us that it contained fifty-nine celebrated towns. ClaudiusPtolemy, writing early in the second century , gives I,ondinium, Ebur-acum, Caturactonium, and the Winged Camp as the four chief towns inBritain in his day. Gildas, himself a native of Strathclyde, who penned hisTearful Discourse concerning the Ruin of Britain in the first half of the sixthcentury , tells us that Britain is famous for eight-and-twenty cities and56. Pi,ATE VII. Example of Scdi,pture of Romano-British Period 56 THE ROMAN OCCUPATION Silcliester), Durovernum Cantiacorum, and Venta Cenomumor Icenorum. Here we have, among others, the capitalsof the Belgic, Atrebatic, and Icenic tribes. We find coloniesat I^indum (I/incoln), Manulodulum or Camulodunum (Col-chester), and Glevum (Gloucester). Virolanium or Veru-lamium (St Albans) was certainly a municipium, as wasprobably I^ondinium.^ Britain is thus seen to have containeda considerable number of towns; at the same time it wouldappear to have been by no means thickly populated, whiletown-dwellers were not improbably few compared with thefarmers and tillers of the soil. The remains of many of the places mentioned by Ravennashave now almost disappeared. The sites of a few of the oldRoman cities and stations, however, are slowly being uncoveredby excavators. Of these perhaps Silchester, Chester, Caerwent,Wroxeter, the Wall, and the Scottish and Welsh frontier poststell us most of Roman life
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