The town steadily grew throughout the reign of the Romans.

Roman name for leicester. Roman occupation of Ratae the name for Iron Age Leicester appears to have begun immediately following the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43. It was a capital of the Corieltavi people who controlled the surrounding territory and much of the East Midlands. Probably less to do with road-building techniques than with the suggestion that the Way followed a one-time defensive ditch running along the western border of Roman-controlled England.

The curse is a remarkable discovery and at a stroke dramatically increases the number of personal names known from Roman Leicester. Ratae is a Celtic word meaning ramparts the. This coincided with Rataes appointment as the Civitas capital for the.

Cank Street is named after the Cank a well which once existed there. In Roman times Leicester was known as Ratae Corieltavorum. Stories from the road at the edge of the world.

Free delivery from Roman Originals on affordable womens clothing and designer ladies fashion such as. Leicester was now known as Ratae Coritanorum. The placename was noted in the Anglo-Saxon Records of 942 as Ligora Ceaster and in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ledecestre the origin being from the Old English pre 7th Century tribal name Ligore which means dwellers on the river Legra with Ceaster a Roman fort from the Latin Castra legionary camp.

You can almost lay a ruler along the diagonal that the Fosse Way describes and although its course now sometimes dwindles you can. Leicester Middle English earlier Ligraceaster Ligera ceaster early 10c Roman Town of the People Called Ligore a tribal name perhaps dwellers by the River Ligor For second element see Chester. Cascolus ravitis was derived from castrum stronghold and colus dwelling in alluding to the Old English source for the surname Attenborough and from a combination of Ratae - the Roman name for Leicester - vita life and commeatis messenger.

Their name lives on in the street name. So far we have the soldier Marcus Ulpius Novantico from a military discharge certificate of AD106 Verecunda and Lucius from a graffito on a piece of pottery and Primus who inscribed his name on a tile he had made. From evening wear to day wear casual to formal we have a style and size to suit you.