Rutunium
Possible Roman Settlement
Possible Roman settlement. Pottery and a rotary quern found. Conjectural site of a Roman posting station.
The only classical reference for the Roman name of this settlement occurs in the Antonine Itinerary of the late-second century. Iter II of this work is entitled “the route from the Wall to Portus Ritupis“, and details the somewhat circituous 501 mile journey from Richborough. In the middle of this itinerary is a station named Rutunium, located 12 miles from Mediolanum (Whitchurch, Shropshire) and 11 miles from Viroconium (Wroxeter, Shropshire).
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References for
Historical Map and Guide – Roman Britain by the Ordnance Survey (3rd, 4th & 5th eds., 1956, 1994 & 2001); The Roman Inscriptions of Britain by R.G. Collingwood and R.P. Wright (Oxford 1965);
Sites near Rutunium
- Bury Walls (3 km)
Iron Age Promontory Hillfort - Trench Hall Banks (4 km)
Possible Roman Fort - Uffington Temporary Camp (13 km)
Marching or Temporary Camp - Duncot Roman Fort (14 km)
Flavian Auxiliary Fort (AD 69–96) - Norton 2 Temporary Camp (16 km)
Marching or Temporary Camp - Norton 1 Temporary Camp (16 km)
Marching or Temporary Camp - Whitchurch (Mediolanum) Roman Fort (16 km)
Claudian Auxiliary Fort (AD 43–54), Flavian Auxiliary Fort (AD 69–96) and Vicus - Sharpstones Hill (16 km)
Iron Age Settlement - Wroxeter (Viroconivm Cornoviorum) Roman Settlement (17 km)
Aqueduct and British Civita - Viroconivm Cornoviorum (Wroxeter) Legionary Fort (17 km)
Legionary Fort