The curse is a remarkable discovery and at a stroke dramatically increases the number of personal names known from Roman Leicester.

Roman name for leicester. From evening wear to day wear casual to formal we have a style and size to suit you. By the early 2nd century the Iron Age town was reorganised and a new rectangular street grid with gravelled roads was laid out. Free delivery from Roman Originals on affordable womens clothing and designer ladies fashion such as.

The name Fosse derives from the Latin fossa meaning ditch. 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. 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.

The Romans in Leicester The Romans knew Leicester as Ratae a Latinised Celtic word meaning ramparts Marcus Ulpius Novantico a Roman solider from Leicester fought during the Emperor Trajans Dacian Wars CE 101-106 Archaeologists have excavated about 11 of Roman Leicester. The placename is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles of 942 as Ligora Ceaster and in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ledecestre the derivation being from the Old English pre 7th Century tribal name Ligore. The wall is over 30 feet high and the foundation walls of the bathhouse can be seen at the foot of the wall.

Immediately beside the Wall is a museum of Leicester area archaeology. Jewry Wall Leicester The Jewry Wall is a section of wall from a Roman bathhouse standing in the middle of modern Leicester a few blocks from the cathedral. It was a capital of the Corieltavi people who controlled the surrounding territory and much of the East Midlands.

Franciscan friars were called grey friars because of the color of their costumes. Roman Originals 0121 636 0701. Stories from the road at the edge of the world.

Cank Street is named after the Cank a well which once existed there. Ratae is a Celtic word meaning ramparts the. Geographer Ptolemy writing in the second century AD mentions Ratae and Lindum Lincoln as being the two leading towns of the East Midlands native Corieltauvi tribe.