Gazetteer – A to C

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Ad Pontem – near Thorpe, on the A46 Fosse Way just north of East Stoke, Ad Pontem was a small 1st century military garrison that later became a larger defended town. The name appears to refer to a bridge over the adjacent River Trent, although no trace of a bridge has been found.
Pages 16, 30, 64, 73, 74, 116, 124, 129-137, 139, 142, 148, 149, 154, 155, 168, 170, 171-174, 183, 184, 195, 196, 227

Aslockton – village in south Nottinghamshire where a large Iron Age settlement, apparently shaped as two linked ovals with an open space at the centre, was excavated in 1992.
Pages 22, 36

Babworth – village near Retford, in north Nottinghamshire, located in an ordered Romano-British agricultural landscape known as the brickwork-plan field system which has been identified by air photography and excavations of farmsteads.
Pages 45, 51, 97, 101, 250, 257

Balderton – village near Newark through which a Roman road, today called Sewstern Lane, from Ermine Street to the Fosse Way, appears to have run.
Page 143

Barnby Moor – area of north Nottinghamshire located in the brickwork-plan field system (see Babworth).
Page 45

Barton-in-Fabis – village in south Nottinghamshire where a Roman villa mosaic was found in the 19th century at nearby Glebe Farm. The villa remains were excavated in the 1930s and then in 1949.
Pages 49, 84, 100, 124, 180, 209, 210, 216, 218, 234-238

Bawtry – small town in South Yorkshire, just over the Nottinghamshire border, which sits on the River Idle. Evidence of a north-south Roman road was found here while another Roman road ran east to Lincoln via the River Trent at Segelocum (Littleborough). Scaftworth Roman fortlet is just outside the town.
Pages 8, 17, 28, 45, 94, 95, 104, 110, 158-160, 167, 168, 174, 175, 183, 200, 258

Belle Eau Park – near Bilsthorpe. Evidence of a Roman road, apparently stretching south east to the Roman fort at Osmanthorpe and then Ad Pontem, was seen here during excavations in 2002.
Page 173

Berridge Road – a street in Forest Fields, central Nottingham, where a hoard of 186 Roman coins was found in 1910.
Pages 254, 255

Besthorpe – area of east Nottinghamshire where two apparently connected Romano-British rural communities have been excavated. One is at Ferry Lane Farm; the other is at Mons Pool quarry. Excavations at the latter site are expected to be finished in 2012.
Pages 38, 39, 44, 46, 94, 96, 106, 164, 255

Bilsthorpe – see Belle Eau Park

Bingham – market town in the Vale of Belvoir where evidence of a villa was found when a school was being built in the 1960s. The villa seems to have had trade connections with the nearby Roman town of Margidunum.
Pages 62, 64, 65, 67, 124, 130, 149, 150, 209, 210

Blyth – village in north Nottinghamshire located in the brickwork-plan field system (see Babworth).
Pages 45, 174

Bradmore – village in south Nottinghamshire which seems to have been connected by a track to the site of a Roman villa at Flawford.
Page 241

Bridgford Street – road in East Bridgford, south Nottinghamshire, which appears to preserve the route of a Roman road from Margidunum to the River Trent.
Pages 148-150

Brough – see Crococolana

Broughton Lodge – traditional name of crossroads on the A46 Fosse Way in south Nottinghamshire, close to the site of Vernemetem.
Pages 127, 128

Broxtowe – northwestern area of Nottingham where a Roman fort was found in 1937 and then covered over the following year because a new housing estate was being built. Many items of jewellery and other artefacts were found there, but there is no sign of the fort today.
Pages 18, 30, 90, 96, 102, 112, 180, 183, 186-193, 194

Bunny – village in south Nottinghamshire were a Roman well was found in the 1940s.
Page 101

Burrow Fields – traditional name for the fields around Margidunum.
Page 12

Burrows Road – an old name for Bridgford Street, East Bridgford.
Page 149

Burrow Hill – old name given by William Stukeley for the area where Vernemetem was located.
Page 125

Burton Joyce – large village in south Nottinghamshire near to which an alleged Iron Hill defended site is located.
Pages 23, 24

Calverton – small former mining town in mid-Nottinghamshire where two temporary Roman military camps have been seen from the air and two large Roman coin hoards were found in 1959 and 1960.
Pages 17, 21, 22, 30, 84, 174, 183, 196, 197-199, 253, 254

Camp Hill – hill near Kirklington, east Nottinghamshire, across which a Roman road is believed to have run.
Pages 172, 195

Car Colston – village in south Nottinghamshire where a simple farmhouse-style villa was identified in the late 19th century.
Pages 62, 115, 124, 209, 210, 216, 242, 243

Carlton-on-Trent – village north of Newark which lies within a 15km-long corridor of Iron Age and Romano-British settlements along both sides of the Trent.
Page 38

Castle Hill – traditional name for the area on which Margidunum stands, perhaps recalling the Roman fortifications that could once be seen there.
Pages 12, 64

Caunton – east Nottinghamshire village near Southwell where a tribal ‘ToT’ ring was found.
Page 75

Chainbridge Lane, Lound – site north of Retford where evidence of a Romano-British farmstead was seen in 1985 during excavations.
Pages 46, 90, 100

Clayworth – village in north Nottinghamshire through which the Roman road from Segelocum to Bawtry runs.
Page 160

Clifton – southern suburb of Nottingham where Romano-British pottery and evidence of fields were found in 2007.
Page 48

Clumber Park – one of the Dukeries estates located in the brickwork-plan field system (see Babworth).
Page 45

Collingham – village in east Nottinghamshire near Besthorpe and home to the amateur archaeologist T.C. Smith Woolley, who excavated Crococolana in the early 20th century.
Pages 17, 38, 87, 116, 119, 137-139, 146, 152, 163, 183, 255

Colston Bassett – village where the first (and so far only) public presentation by the Highways Agency about its archaeological findings along the A46 Fosse Way was made in March 2010.
Page 62

Combs Farm – elevated farm near Farnsfield which has ancient fortifications that were excavated by Sherwood Archaeological Society in 1960-61.
Pages 23, 200

Costock – south Nottinghamshire village which may be on the route of an ancient, later Roman, track from Redhill to the Fosse Way.
Page 179

Cotgrave – south Nottinghamshire town close to the A46 Fosse Way.
Pages 110, 121

Crococolana – now called Brough, this Roman roadside town on the A46 Fosse Way is close to the Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire border and was excavated by T.C. Smith Woolley in the early 20th century. Its greatest treasure was a decorated part of a ceremonial Roman cavalry helmet.
Pages 16, 19, 40, 49, 116, 124, 129, 137-142, 159, 204

Cromwell – village near the A1 and the River Trent where the outline of a Roman villa have been seen from the air amid complex ancient agricultural markings.
Pages 22, 23, 38, 40, 143, 209, 210, 216, 217, 245-247

Crosshill Tumulus – feature near Broughton Lodge on the A46 Fosse Way that was excavated in 1947-48 by Dr F.M. Heichelheim.
Page 128