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Primary History Worksheet: the Romans - Roads and Places Primary History Worksheet: The Romans - Roads and places You will need an atlas or map of modern Britain or your Roman resources to help with this task. Remember what you have found out about the names of Roman forts – they were called ‘castra’ and present day names often have ‘caster’ or ‘chester’ in them. 1. Mark your own town/city on the map. 2. What’s the nearest Roman town? Mark it on the map (you can use the present day name and also the Roman name). 3. Can you find any other Roman towns or forts? Mark them on the map. 4. The Romans built roads across Britain to move soldiers and supplies quickly. The famous Roman roads which our modern roads still follow much of the time were Watling Street, Ermine Street and Fosse Way. Here are the routes they took - can you find the towns and mark them on your map? You could colour each road in a different colour. The modern name is first and the Roman name is in brackets. Ermine Street – London (Londinium), Godmanchester (Durovigutum), Ancaster, Lincoln (Lindum), York (Eburacum) Watling Street – Dover (Portus Dubris), Rochester (Durobrivae), London (Londinium), St. Albans (Verulamium), Towcaster (Lactodurum), Mancetter (Mandvessedum), Wroxeter (Viroconium) and into Wales. Fosse Way – Exeter (Isca), Ilchester (Lindis), Bath (Aquae Sulis), Cirencester (Corinium), Leicester (Ratae), Lincoln (Lindum). Primary History bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory BBC©2009.
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