Chapter 4

THE ROMAN OCCUPATION

A.D. 85-211

§ A.--Pacification of Britain--Roman roads--London their centre--Authority for names--Watling Street--Ermine Street--Icknield Way ... _p_. 165

§ B.--Romano-British towns--Ancient lists--Method of identification--Dense rural population--Remains in Cam valley--Coins--Thimbles--Horseshoes ... _p_. 171

§ C.--Fortification of towns late--Chief Roman centres--London--York--Chester--Bath--Silchester--Remains there found--Romano-British handicrafts--Pottery--Basket-work--Mining--Rural life--Villas--Forests--Hunting-dogs--Husbandry--Britain under _Pax Romana ... p_. 178

§ D.--The unconquered North--Hadrian's Wall--Upper and Lower Britain--Romano-British coinage--Wall of Antoninus--Britain Pro-consular ... _p_. 193

§ E.--Commodus Britannicus--Ulpius Marcellus--Murder of Perennis--Era of military turbulence--Pertinax--Albinus--British army defeated at Lyons--Severus Emperor--Caledonian war--Severus overruns Highlands ... _p_. 198

§ F.--Severus completes Hadrian's Wall--"Mile Castles"--"Stations"--Garrison--The Vallum--Rival theories--Evidence--Remains--Coins--Altars--Mithraism--Inscription to Julia Domna--"Written Rock" on Gelt--Cilurnum aqueduct ... _p_. 203

§ G.--Death of Severus--Caracalla and Geta--Roman citizenship--Extension to veterans--_Tabulae honestae missionis_--Bestowed on all British provincials ... _p_. 212