Ad Pontem
Ad Pontem was a Roman city in Britain near the present-day village of Thorpe, south of Newark-on-Trent . The place was on Fosse Way , on the road from Ratae Corieltavorum ( Leicester ) to Lindum Colonia ( Lincoln ). The name of the place is recorded in the Antonini Itinerary and indicates that there was a bridge over the Trent , which was located to the west of the settlement.
The remains of the ancient settlement are not built over today. With the help of aerial photographs and a few excavations one can get a certain idea of the character of the place. There was a previous Celtic settlement. The first Roman remains come from a military camp from the Claudian - Neronian times. In Flavian times the camp was abandoned and a civil settlement made of wooden buildings was built along the street where the camp was located. This settlement received a city wall in the second century. The remains of a stone building were found, some of which had wall paintings. Maybe it was a mansio . The settlement was inhabited until the 4th century.
literature
- Barry C. Burnham, John Wacher: The Small Towns of Roman Britain . Berkeley and Los Angeles 1990, ISBN 0-520-07303-7 , pp. 272-76
- JS Wacher: Ad Pontem . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 42.2 " N , 0 ° 52 ′ 8.5" W.