Which town and moor in Yorkshire was known to the Romans as Olicana?
"Ilkley Moor Ilkley Moor is part of Rombalds Moor, the moorland between Ilkley and Keighley (pronounced Keethly) in West Yorkshire, England. The moor, which rises to 402 m (1,319 ft) above sea level, is well known as the inspiration for the Yorkshire ""county anthem"" ""On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at"" (dialect for 'on Ilkley Moor without a hat'). During the Carboniferous period (325 million years ago), Ilkley Moor was part of a sea level swampy area fed by meandering river channels coming from the north. The layers in the eroded bank faces of stream gullies in the area represent sea levels"
"Ilkley Roman Fort Ilkley Roman Fort is a Roman fort on the south bank of the River Wharfe, situated at the centre of where Ilkley, a Victorian spa town in West Yorkshire, England now stands. The traditional view is that ""Olicana"" is the fort at Ilkley, but the identification is not settled. Ptolemy mentions ""Olikana"" in his Geographia (c. 150), although Rivet and Smith give ""Olenacum"" as the proper form of the name, rejecting Ptolemy's ""Olikana"" as corrupt. The 1086 Domesday Book gives ""Ilecliue"" also variants ""Illecliue"", ""Illiclei"" and ""Illicleia"" for Ilkley. Modern scholarship has, however, suggested that the Roman"
"York York is a historic walled city in North Yorkshire, England. At the confluence of the River Ouse and Foss, it is the traditional county town of the historic county of Yorkshire. York Minster and a variety of cultural and sporting activities make it a popular tourist destination. The city was founded by the Romans as Eboracum in 71 AD. It became the capital of the Roman province of Britannia Inferior, and later of the kingdoms of Northumbria and Jórvík. In the Middle Ages, York grew as a major wool trading centre and became the capital of the northern ecclesiastical"
"History of Ilkley Ilkley is a town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, in the north of England. It has been inhabited since at least the Mesolithic period; was the site of a Roman fort, and much later an early example of a spa town. In more recent times it serves as a residential district within the travel to work areas of Bradford, Leeds and Keighley. According to the probably outdated history of the 19th century clergyman Robert Collyer, Ilkley takes its name from ""Llecan, the old British word for rock"", this, presumably, alluding to the craggy prominences of the"
"Calcaria Calcaria was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today, it is known as Tadcaster, located in the English county of North Yorkshire. The Romans founded the settlement and named it ""Calcaria"" from the Latin word for ""lime kilns"", reflecting the importance of the area's Magnesian Limestone geology as a natural resource for quarrying. The nature of the settlement is uncertain. It is possible that it started as an Imperial staging post with a mansio because of its location at a river crossing on the road from Danum (Doncaster) to Eburacum (York). Just to the north-west is"
"Elslack Elslack is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the border with Lancashire and 4 miles west of Skipton. Thornton in Craven is nearby. The Tempest Arms is a large pub in the village, sited by the A56, which is popular with locals from the surrounding area. Elslack Moor, above the village, is crossed by the Pennine Way, though this does not visit the village itself. A Roman fort lies at about north-west of Elslack. The fort may have been named Olenacum, or Ριγοδουνον, according to the analysis of Ptolemy's coordinates"
"Elslack Elslack is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the border with Lancashire and 4 miles west of Skipton. Thornton in Craven is nearby. The Tempest Arms is a large pub in the village, sited by the A56, which is popular with locals from the surrounding area. Elslack Moor, above the village, is crossed by the Pennine Way, though this does not visit the village itself. A Roman fort lies at about north-west of Elslack. The fort may have been named Olenacum, or Ριγοδουνον, according to the analysis of Ptolemy's coordinates"
"Othona Othona or Othonae was the name of an ancient Roman fort of the Saxon Shore at the location of the modern village Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex, England. The Old English name ""Ythanceaster"" for the locality derives from the Roman name. The fort of Othona is in a typical late 3rd century style, and was possibly constructed in during or shortly prior to the Carausian Revolt, making it contemporary with the forts at Dubris, Portus Lemanis and Gariannonum According to the ""Notitia Dignitatum"", which is the only contemporary document mentioning Othona, the fort was garrisoned by a ""numerus fortensium"" (""""numerus"" of"
"the Roman fort at Newton Kyme (possibly Praesidium) dating from the 4th century. Mileages on the Antonine Itinerary suggest that Calcaria may have lain well west of Tadcaster. Calcaria Calcaria was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today, it is known as Tadcaster, located in the English county of North Yorkshire. The Romans founded the settlement and named it ""Calcaria"" from the Latin word for ""lime kilns"", reflecting the importance of the area's Magnesian Limestone geology as a natural resource for quarrying. The nature of the settlement is uncertain. It is possible that it started as an"
"the Roman province. The meaning of the name ""Iceni"" is uncertain. In his 1658 treatise ""Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burials"", the English polymath Thomas Browne claims that the Iceni got their name from the Iken, the old name for the River Ouse, where the Iceni were said to have originated. Robert Henry (1771) refers to a suggested naming from the Brittonic word Ychen meaning oxen. Ychen is still used in modern Welsh. Icenian coins dating from the 1st century AD use the spelling ECEN: another article by D. F. Allen titled “The Coins of the Iceni,” discusses the difference between coins"
"History of Yorkshire Yorkshire is a historic county of England, centred on the county town of York. The region was first occupied after the retreat of the ice age around 8000 BC. During the first millennium AD it was occupied by Romans, Angles and Vikings. The name comes from ""Eborakon"" (c. 150) an old Brythonic name which probably derives from ""Efor"" or ""the place of the yew-trees."" Many Yorkshire dialect words and aspects of pronunciation derive from old Norse due to the Viking influence in this region. The name ""Yorkshire"", first appeared in writing in the ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" in 1065."
"the village of Beadlam are the remains of a Roman villa situated on the east bank of the river. They were uncovered and investigated in 1969 and date from the fourth century. River Riccal The River Riccal is a river of North Yorkshire, England, lying within the North Yorks Moors National Park. It is a tributary of the River Rye, which in turn is a tributary of the River Derwent. The name originates in the fourteenth century as ""Ricolvegraines"" means ""Rye Calf"", where ""Calf"" is a small island near a larger one. This describes the way the river, and those"
"curved swastika carving dating to the period have been found on rock outcrops, and archaeological remains of dwellings are found on Ilkley Moor. A druidical stone circle, the Twelve Apostles Stone Circle, was constructed 2,000 years ago. Serious interest in the rock art of Ilkley began after the publication in 1879 of the ""Prehistoric Rock Sculptures of Ilkley"" by Romilly Allen in the ""Journal of the British Archaeological Association"". The remains of a Roman fort occupy a site near the town centre. Some authorities believe it is Olicana, dating to 79 AD, but the identification is not settled. A number"
"after his death. Its route ran north and west as follows: Via Devana The Via Devana was a Roman Road in England that ran from Colchester in the south-east, through Cambridge in the interior, and on to Chester in the north-west. These were important Roman military centres and it is conjectured that the main reason the road was constructed was military rather than civilian. The Latin name for Chester is ""Deva"" and it was thus 'The Chester Road'. Colchester was ""Colonia Victricensis"", 'the City of Victory', and lays claim to be the oldest Roman city in Britain. The Via Devana"
"It currently corresponds to several counties and districts and is mostly contained within the Yorkshire and the Humber region. History of Yorkshire Yorkshire is a historic county of England, centred on the county town of York. The region was first occupied after the retreat of the ice age around 8000 BC. During the first millennium AD it was occupied by Romans, Angles and Vikings. The name comes from ""Eborakon"" (c. 150) an old Brythonic name which probably derives from ""Efor"" or ""the place of the yew-trees."" Many Yorkshire dialect words and aspects of pronunciation derive from old Norse due to"
"Venta Icenorum Venta Icenorum, located at modern-day Caistor St Edmund in the English county of Norfolk, was the civitas or capital of the Iceni tribe, who inhabited the flatlands and marshes of that county and are famous for having revolted against Roman rule under their queen Boudica (or Boadicea) in the winter of 61 AD. The town itself was probably laid out, and its first streets metalled, approximately in the first half of the second century. The town, which is mentioned in the ""Ravenna Cosmography"", and the ""Antonine Itinerary"", was a settlement near the village of Caistor St. Edmund, some"
"as a ""huge ruin"". Othona Othona or Othonae was the name of an ancient Roman fort of the Saxon Shore at the location of the modern village Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex, England. The Old English name ""Ythanceaster"" for the locality derives from the Roman name. The fort of Othona is in a typical late 3rd century style, and was possibly constructed in during or shortly prior to the Carausian Revolt, making it contemporary with the forts at Dubris, Portus Lemanis and Gariannonum According to the ""Notitia Dignitatum"", which is the only contemporary document mentioning Othona, the fort was garrisoned by a"
"capital of the Vescetani, in the north of Hispania Tarraconensis, on the road from Tarraco (modern Tarragona) and Ilerda (modern Lleida) to Caesaraugusta (modern Zaragoza). During Roman times, the city was known as Osca, and was a Roman colony under the rule of Quintus Sertorius, who made Osca his base. The city minted its own coinage and was the site of a prestigious school founded by Sertorius to educate young Iberians in Latin and Roman customs. After Sertorius, it is thought that it was renamed Ileoscan () by Strabo. It appears to have been situated on silver mines. Eighteenth-century Spanish"
"Iceni The Iceni or Eceni were a Brittonic tribe of eastern Britain during the Iron Age and early Roman era. Their territory included present-day Norfolk and parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, and bordered the area of the Corieltauvi to the west, and the Catuvellauni and Trinovantes to the south. In the Roman period, their capital was Venta Icenorum at modern-day Caistor St Edmund. Julius Caesar does not mention the Iceni in his account of his invasions of Britain in 55 and 54 BC, though they may be related to the Cenimagni, who Caesar notes as living north of the River"
"Slack Roman Fort Slack Roman Fort was a castellum near Outlane, to the west of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. Its site is a scheduled monument. The ruins of the fort which lay alongside the Pennine section of the Roman road from Deva Victrix (Chester) to Eboracum (York) are no longer visible. The fort may have been the Cambodunum mentioned as a station on this route in the Antonine Itinerary. Archaeological digs indicate the fort was constructed of turf and wood to defend the Roman road in the time of Agricola in 79. Outside the fort walls was a stone"
"Bolskan Bolskan was an iberian city located in the territory of the Vescetani (an iberian tribe) in NE Spain c65km North of the Ebro river and lies upon the site now occupied by the modern city of Huesca, in the Iberian Peninsula. The territory occupied by the Vescetani was destroyed by the Roman praetor Terentius Varro C., to 179BC, which saw the refoundation of this once Iberian city, with the new name of Osca. Bolskan is famous for its ancient mint, and amongst its abundant coins are an issue which includes an unidentified Bearded Male Hear facing right on the"
"role of the Fosse Way as a desired frontier line during the period as it links the Trent and the Severn. The Iceni, a tribe based in Norfolk who had not been conquered but allied themselves with the Romans voluntarily, objected to this plan and led neighbouring tribes in an uprising. Ostorius defeated them by storming a hill fort, possibly Stonea Camp in the Fens near March in Cambridgeshire, in a hard-fought battle. His son, Marcus Ostorius Scapula, won the ""corona civica"" for saving a Roman citizen's life during the fighting. The Iceni remained independent, and it is likely that"
"in Ilkley. The Manor House and neighbouring All Saints church are situated on the site of the Roman fort, which has been claimed to be named 'Verbeia' (not Olicana, as is generally thought). It was the Second Cohort of Lingones troops stationed here during the second century AD who inscribed the above-mentioned altar-stone. Anne Ross compares this image with one of a goddess found in Mavilly-Mandelot, France, portrayed with a similar pleated garment, holding two snakes in one hand, on an altar associated with aquatic cults. Ross fails to mention that this region of France is where the Lingones, a"
"""Orcas"", conceivably a reference to Orkney. Remarkably, the earliest written record of a formal connection between Rome and Scotland is the attendance of the ""King of Orkney"" who was one of eleven British kings who submitted to the Emperor Claudius at Colchester in AD 43 following the invasion of southern Britain three months earlier. The long distances and short period of time involved strongly suggest a prior connection between Rome and Orkney, although no evidence of this has been found and the contrast with later Caledonian resistance to Rome is striking. Pomponius Mela, the Roman geographer, recorded in his ""De"
"Eboracum Eboracum (Latin /ebo'rakum/, English or ) was a fort and city in the Roman province of Britannia. In its prime it was the largest town in northern Britain and a provincial capital. The site remained occupied after the decline of the Roman Empire and ultimately evolved into the present-day city York, occupying the same site in North Yorkshire, England. Two Roman emperors died in Eboracum: Septimius Severus in 211 AD, and Constantius Chlorus in 306 AD. The first known recorded mention of Eboracum by name is dated and is an address containing the genitive form of the settlement's name,"
"level approximately west of Bridlington on the North Sea coast. The village includes a large house 'Octon Manor'. Octon, East Riding of Yorkshire Octon is a hamlet, and shrunken medieval village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Octon is recorded in the 11th-century ""Domesday Book"" as ""Ocheton"". The village contained a chapel dedicated to St. Michael (noted in 1327). After around 1400 no records exist relating to the chapel, and the village is thought likely to have been depopulated as a result of the Black Death. By the 19th century the village was reduced to a small farming hamlet."
"est a Colchis conditum). Ptolemy (90–168) mentions the city as Greek ""Oulkinion"" (Ουλκίνιον). An alternative etymology for the name of the settlement connects it with the Albanian word ""ukas"" (""ujk"", ""ulk"") meaning wolf in English. The name, through Late (Vulgar) Roman, became Middle Latin Ulcinium, (), Slavic: ""Ulcinj"", or ""Ulqini"" and . Ulcinj is an ancient seaport. The wider area of Ulcinj has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, based on dating of Illyrian tombs (tumuli) found in the village of Zogaj, in the vicinity of Ulcinj. The town is believed to have been founded in the 5th century BC"
"a scheme of improvements on the A1 road have recorded thousands of additional artifacts from the Roman town. Cataractonium Cataractonium (Grid Ref:SE225992) was a fort and settlement in Roman Britain. The settlement evolved into Catterick, located in North Yorkshire, England. Cataractonium likely took its name form the Latin word ""cataracta"" (ultimately derived from Greek ""cataràcta"", καταρράκτης), meaning either ""waterfall"" or ""portcullis"". Some linguists have suggested that this was a misinterpretation of an original Brittonic placename meaning ""[place of] battle ramparts"". The name is attested as ""Cataractonium"" in two 2nd-century Vindolanda tablets. The British section of the 2nd-century Antonine Itinerary mentions"
"Obverse, and a Horseman carrying a spear and the name of the city in an Iberian inscription on the Reverse. The coins of Bolskan change from 37 BC when the city is refounded as Osca and include the Latin inscriptions OSCA on the Obverse and DOM. COS. ITER. IMP on the reverse, these are Denari in denomination. Both the coins of Bolskan and Osca are found within the Iberian coin collections of the British Museum Bolskan Bolskan was an iberian city located in the territory of the Vescetani (an iberian tribe) in NE Spain c65km North of the Ebro river"
"Diodorus Siculus lists 12 towns. Other sources mention the towns of ""Libissosa"" (perhaps Lezuza), ""Amtorgis"", ""Ilorci"", ""Helicen/Helike"" (perhaps Elche de la Sierra or Elche), ""Baecula/Bekor"" (Bailén, Jaén), ""Ilucia"", ""Nobila"" and ""Cusibi"". They are believed by some to have spoken an Iberian language, by others to have been Celtic language, akin to the Celtiberians, as the northern Oretani were also called Germani and Mantesani. The main archaeological sites in the oretanian area are Linares, La Carolina, Montiel, Valdepeñas, Almagro, Oreto and Zuqueca, and Cerro de las Cabezas. The Oretani remained independent until the late 3rd Century BC, when their powerful King"
"Roman Bath, York The Roman Bath is a public house in York, England, built above an ancient Roman bath house. The facility apparently served the military personnel of Eboracum (Roman York). It was located near Eboracum´s fortress, built to house a legion (about 5,000 men). Baths have been excavated in another part of York which are believed to have served the civilian population. The pub occupies a corner site within the walled city. York is one of 5 cities that have been designated as an 'Area of Archaeological Importance' (AAI) under Part 2 of the 1979 Ancient Monuments and Archaeological"
"name of a species of tree, so its name means ""of the yew trees."" The city of York, in northern England, at the time of the Roman Empire, was called ""Eboracum/Eburacum"", named after the ancient Celtic place name *""Eborakon"" (Place of Yew Trees), so the old name of York is etymologically related to the city of Évora. Alternative hypotheses are that the name is derived from ""oro"", ""aurum"", (gold) as the Romans had extensive gold mining in Portugal; or it may named after ivory workers, but these two hypotheses are much less likely than the first one, because the name"
"Woodchester Roman Villa Woodchester Roman Villa was situated at Woodchester near Stroud in the English county of Gloucestershire. It is one of many Roman villas discovered in Gloucestershire and was occupied between the early 2nd and late 4th centuries AD. There is now nothing visible of the villa above ground and the site is occupied by a later churchyard. The villa's most famous feature is the Orpheus mosaic, the second largest of its kind in Europe and one of the most intricate. It dates to c. AD 325 and was re-discovered by Gloucestershire-born antiquarian Samuel Lysons in 1793. It has"