A database of the Celtic personal names of Roman Britain CPNRB TS 9 p.

Roman name for britain. There were elaborations but well stick to the. The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and misspellings of the Latin names. Hadrians Wall also called the Roman Wall Picts Wall was a defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia begun in AD 122 in the reign of the emperor Hadrian.

The Roman road known as the Fosse Way linked the south-west with Lincoln having demarcated a temporary frontier in the late AD 40s when the Roman army paused before pushing further north and. It is also the site of Britains only known Roman Chariot Racing Track. For almost a century afterwards the kingdoms of Britain were kept quiet with.

As Roman power extended across England so did the road network. Paul Russell Alex Mullen. London was the new capital of the south with York the capital of the north.

This database collects all the personal names from Roman Britain which are thought to contain Celtic elements. Roman last names also known as a Congnomen were one of 3 parts of a Roman individuals name. Roman family name meaning golden or yellow-haired from Latin flavus yellow golden.

Horace AD c110-c180 Roman writer and jurist. Albion 65-8 BC Roman poet and satirist. AD 211 Britain is divided up into two separate provinces.

More often than not these last names Congnomen were descriptive referring to a character trait or physical descriptor of a person. Flavius was the family name of the 1st-century Roman emperors Vespasian Titus and Domitian. Moreover one of the principal authorities Ptolemy wrote in Greek so names that.