Colchester has the earliest best preserved and one of the longest Roman town walls in Britain.

Roman name for colchester. Colchester is first mentioned here in relation to Anglesey. Colchester was called Camulodunum which is a Romanisation of its Iron-Age name. What happened at Camulodunum deserves special mention as it was not simply a battle but a systematic slaughter of every Roman who lived there.

The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and misspellings of the Latin names. In 1867 James Edwin-COLE updated it. Late iron - age and roman colchester The Iron-Age Fortress Camulodunum was the Romanized form of the British name Camulodunon meaning fortress of Camulos the Celtic war-god.

They killed the people and burned the temple. Its construction began in the period AD 65 to 80 following the destruction of the town during the revolt by Queen Boudica against Roman rule. The Fortress -dunum of Camulos God of War.

It is a widely held belief that the name Colchester is derived from the Latin words Colonia referring to a type of Roman settlement with rights equivalent to those of Roman citizens one of which was believed to have been founded in the vicinity of Colchester and Castra meaning fortifications referring to the towns walls the oldest in Britain. The Roman town was extremely important in Roman Britain and many of its attributes have survived to the present day. At the pre-Roman coast of Colchester there wasnt something like a harbour.

The Fortress -dunum of Camulos God of War. The Fortress of Camulos God of War. The town was then named Camulodunum and this is known to be the Roman name for Colchester.

Colchester was called Camulodunum which is a Romanisation of its Iron-Age name. Why the Romans came to Britain is not quite certain. Its Celtic name was Camulodunon meaning the fortress of Camulos.