Camulodunum (Colchester)
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posted on 2015-01-21, 10:14 authored by Adam RogersCamulodunumlies beneath modern Colchester in Essex, 80 km northeast of London, in what was the territory of the Trinovantes. The name probably derived fromthe pre-Roman oppidum perhaps meaning “the stronghold” or “fortified place” of Camulos, an Iron Age god of war (Crummy 1997).
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Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2011Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND LAW/School of Archaeology and Ancient HistoryVersion
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Encyclopedia of Ancient HistoryPublisher
Wiley-Blackwellisbn
978-1405179355Copyright date
2012Publisher DOI
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah16037/abstractLanguage
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