Lindinis
Lindinis or Lendiniae was a small town in the
county of Somerset in the United Kingdom
.
Name
The name "Lindinis" appears in the 7th-century
The inscriptions seem to imply that the town was a separate Latinization of the Brittonic for "swampy lake".
History
Prehistoric
There were two large
hillforts in the region of Lindinis at Ham Hill and Cadbury. There was also a small settlement to the south of the site of the later Roman town
.
Roman
A timber-walled
vicus) of around 30 acres (120,000 m2).[3] The post was abandoned in the late 1st century, after which a street grid was set up with timber domestic dwellings and workshops, as well as outer roadside industrial suburbs. There is evidence of iron, glass, and bone working and pottery production, as well as agricultural plots within the town. In the late 2nd century, the central area was surrounded by a defensive bank and ditch with stone gateways. Stone walls were erected in the mid-4th century. It became the only walled town in the territory of the Durotriges other than Durnovaria.[1] By this time, the town seems to have largely consisted of private homes of owners rich enough to install fine mosaic floors. More than thirty have been discovered and it has been suggested that the town contained a workshop of the Corinium Saltire School of mosaicists or else boasted its own 'Lindinis School'.[4]
Medieval
Pottery imported into the area after the
See also
- Ilchester, for the later history of the settlement
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1874336747.
- ^ "RIB 1673. Building inscription of the canton of the Durotriges of Lendiniae | Roman Inscriptions of Britain".
- ISBN 0-340-20116-9.
- ^ White, Roger (2007). Britannia Prima. Stroud: Tempus. pp. 114, 133.
- ^ a b Nennius (attrib.). Theodor Mommsen (ed.). Historia Brittonum, VI. Composed after AD 830. (in Latin) Hosted at Latin Wikisource.
- ^ Ford, David Nash. "The 28 Cities of Britain Archived 2017-06-20 at the Wayback Machine" at Britannia. 2000.
- ^ Newman, John Henry & al. Lives of the English Saints: St. German, Bishop of Auxerre, Ch. X: "Britain in 429, A. D.", p. 92. Archived 2016-03-21 at the Wayback Machine James Toovey (London), 1844.
- Burnham, Barry C; Wacher, John (1990). The Small Towns of Roman Britain. London: B T Batsford.