Exposed section of the Roman foundations which lie underneath the medieval city walls
Venta Belgarum, or Venta Bulgarum, was a town in the Roman province of Britannia Superior, the civitas capital of the local tribe, the Belgae, and which later became the city of Winchester.
VentaBelgarum, or Venta Bulgarum, was a town in the Roman province of Britannia Superior, the civitas capital of the local tribe, the Belgae, and which...
Hampshire County Council. Winchester developed from the Roman town of VentaBelgarum, which in turn developed from an Iron Age oppidum. Winchester was one...
(Portchester) and Clausentum (Southampton). The civitas capital was at VentaBelgarum (Winchester), which was built on top of an Iron Age oppidum (this was...
Hampshire's recorded history dates to Roman Britain, when its chief town was VentaBelgarum (now Winchester). The county was recorded in Domesday Book as divided...
recorded the town as Venta Silurum to distinguish it from the other tribal markets in Britain such as VentaBelgarum and Venta Icenorum.[citation needed]...
early medieval British kingdom which had its center in the Roman city VentaBelgarum (now Winchester, Hampshire) and the historic lands of the Belgae tribe...
throughout the history of Hampshire, as in the Roman city of VentaBelgarum (Latinised as Venta), the post-Roman kingdom of Y Went, and the modern name of...
Portchester Rockbourne Roman Villa, Fordingbridge Sparsholt Roman Villa VentaBelgarum, Winchester Ariconium, Bury Hill, Weston under Penyard Blackwardine...
Eastleigh lies on the old Roman road, built in A.D.79 between Winchester (VentaBelgarum) and Bitterne (Clausentum). Roman remains discovered in the Eastleigh...
settlement of southern Britain, in what was then the settlement of VentaBelgarum. The area surrounding Winchester had been populated throughout the Iron...
region roughly corresponding to modern Hampshire with its capital at VentaBelgarum (modern Winchester). At first glance, the only similarity between the...
Atrebatum) C Towcester (Lactodurum) Whitchurch (Mediolanum) C Winchester (VentaBelgarum) C Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum) C York (Eboracum) C The druids...
branched off Margary route 42 – the road from Calleva Atrebatum to VentaBelgarum (Winchester) – immediately outside the town's South Gate; this theory...
linked Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) in the north with Winchester (VentaBelgarum) to the south. These cross-cutting highways, along with the good agricultural...
Modern Winchester was VentaBelgarum, the Win- element deriving from Venta in a similar way to the names Caerwent and Gwent from Venta Silurum in south Wales...
little relation to the Roman names (e.g. Chester - 'Deva', Winchester - 'VentaBelgarum' etc.). Many English places derive part of their name from the river...
Mosonmagyaróvár Hungary 70 AD Clausentum Southampton United Kingdom 70 AD VentaBelgarum Winchester United Kingdom 70 AD Calleva Atrebatum Silchester United...
(61 m) wide. On top of this they built a fort to protect the city of VentaBelgarum. This site was chosen by William the Conqueror as the site of one of...
Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester); one of the Belgae with its capital at VentaBelgarum (Winchester); and one of the Reg(i)ni, with a capital at Noviomagus...
Venta Silurum seems to mean "Market town of the Silures" (cf. VentaBelgarum and Venta Icenorum). This is confirmed by inscriptions on the "Civitas Silurum"...
city traces its history to the Roman Era, developing from the town of VentaBelgarum. It saw historic significance from its reconstruction under Alfred the...
west of Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester) and 10 miles (16 km) from VentaBelgarum (Winchester). In about 1770, John Speed claimed that Clausentum was...
Britain at a place called Venta. This is usually taken to be VentaBelgarum (Winchester), but it has been argued that Venta Icenorum (Caistor by Norwich)...
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