Calcaria
Calcaria was a town in Roman Britannia. Today, it is known as Tadcaster, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The Romans founded the settlement and named it Calcaria from the Latin word for lime kilns, reflecting the importance of the area's Magnesian Limestone geology as a natural resource for quarrying. The nature of the settlement is uncertain.[1] It is possible that it started as an Imperial staging post with a mansio because of its location at a river crossing on the road from Danum (Doncaster) to Eburacum (York). Just to the north-west is the Roman fort at Newton Kyme (possibly Praesidium) dating from the 4th century. Mileages on the Antonine Itinerary suggest that Calcaria may have stood well west of Tadcaster.
Location
- Location map: 53°53’6"N, 1°15’47"W
References
- ↑ Historic England. "Monument No. 54930". PastScape. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=54930. Retrieved 16 March 2014
- Garlick, Tom (1971). Roman Yorkshire. Clapham: Dalesman Publishing.
- Arias, Gonzalo (1987). Grammar in the Antonine Itinerary. La Linea: Arias. https://www.academia.edu/42896907/Grammar_in_the_Antonine_Itinerary_a_challenge_to_British_archaeologists.
| Major towns of Roman Britain |
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Capitals: Londinium (London) • Eboracum (York) • Camulodunum (Colchester) |
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Caesaromagus (Chelmsford) • Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) • Corinium Dobunnorum (Cirencester) • Deva Victrix (Chester) • Durovernum Cantiacorum (Canterbury) • Durnovaria (Dorchester) • Glevum (Gloucester) • Isca Augusta (Caerleon) • Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter) • Isurium Brigantum (Aldborough) • Lactodurum (Towcester) • Lindum Colonia (Lincoln) • Luguualium (Carlisle) • Moridunum (Carmarthen) • Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester) • Petuaria (Brough) • Ratae Corieltauvorum (Leicester) • Venta Belgarum (Winchester) • Venta Silurum (Caerwent) • Verulamium (St Albans) • Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter) |
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Lost: Alchester (Wendlebury) • Bannaventa (Northamptonshire) • Cunetio (Wiltshire) • Venta Icenorum (Norfolk) |