Alchester (Roman town)

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AlchesterA History of the County of Oxford: Volume 1, pp. 281–303. Victoria County History, London, 1939: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol1/pp281-303 is the site of an ancient Roman town. The site is not included in any ancient references; hence, the Roman name is not known. However, Eilert Ekwall contended that it appears as Alavna in the Ravenna Cosmography, with the addition of the Old English ceaster to signify a Roman fort.Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p. 5. It lies about south of Bicester, in the northwest corner of the civil parish of Wendlebury in the English county of Oxfordshire. Read more on Wikipedia

type: ancient site
date from: None

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