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Isorbrigantium (Aldborough) Yorkshire, England.
The Antonine Itinerary places it half way between Eboracum (York) and Cateractonium
(Catterick); it also appears in the Ravenna Cosmography. The Roman town covered
24 ha, one-sixth the size of Roman London.
There are traces of the town wall N of Aldborough Hall and a number
of buildings on the W side of the village street (entrance through Museum). The
wall is of friable local red sandstone, with bastions at the corners, and has
in part been built over an earlier ditch. The street plan is a simple cross, with
the forum probably at the intersection, the present village green. The name is
probably derived from Isira, which may have been the original name of the Ure
which runs N of the town. The buildings in the town are in poor condition. There
are some mosaic pavements, but the best one, showing Romulus and Remus with the
she-wolf, is in the Leeds City Museum.
G.F. Wilmot, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Feb 2006 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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