The Encircling Sea

Place names

Alauna: Maryport in Cumbria

Aballava: Burgh by Sands

Baiae: now underwater in the Bay of Naples

Bremenium: High Rochester

Bremesio: Piercebridge

Coria: Corbridge

Corinium: Cirencester

Deva: Chester

Eboracum: York

Gades: Cádiz in Spain

Londinium: London

Lugdunum: Lyon in France

Luguvallium: Carlisle

Maia: Bowness-on-Solway

Magna: Carvoran

Mona: Anglesey

Thule: A mysterious island in the far north, whose identity is uncertain. The Romans may have applied it to one of the Shetland Islands, or even Iceland or Norway.

Tomi: Constanta in Romania

Trimontium: Newstead

Uxellum: Ward Law, although the identification is uncertain