• Luguvalium (or Luguvalium Carvetiorum) was an ancient Roman city in northern Britain located within present-day Carlisle, Cumbria, and may have been the...
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    (Corbridge) on the River Tyne in the east (situated on Dere Street) and Luguvalium (Carlisle) (on the River Eden) in the west. The Stanegate ran through...
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    Isurium Brigantum Cantiacī Durovernum Cantiacorum Carvetīī (*Carwetīī) Luguvalium Catuvellaunī (*Catuwellaunī) Verulamium Corieltauvī (*Corieltauī) Ratae...
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    extensions were completed from York to Corbridge, and from Chester to Luguvalium (Carlisle) and Segontium (Caernarfon) as Roman rule was extended over...
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    governing body." The capital of the Carvetii is presumed to have been Luguvalium (Carlisle), the only walled town known in the region. Higham and Jones...
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    Yorkshire) – mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary and the Ravenna Cosmography Luguvalium (Carlisle, Cumbria) – probably a settlement of the Carvetii Coria (Corbridge...
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  • baedd 'wild boar' + coed 'forest, wood'). Carlisle, Cumbria: recorded as Luguvalium in the Roman period; the word caer 'fort' was added later. The Welsh form...
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    important river crossings: Corstopitum (Corbridge) on the River Tyne and Luguvalium (Carlisle) on the River Eden. The modern A69 and B6318 roads follow the...
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    the carbon-dating of the gateway timbers of the Roman fort at Carlisle (Luguvalium) suggest that they were felled in AD 72, during the governorship of Cerialis...
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    Motte and Bailey castle in Carlisle on the site of the old Roman fort of Luguvalium, dated by dendrochronology to 72AD, with the castle construction beginning...
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