Now each group transferred its Roman names onto the outline map of Great Britain and added London: Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain. When they had found all the names, each group re-assembled its map by gluing the four pieces onto the blank A3 sheet.

those ending in -ter or -ster) and to highlight or ring them. We asked the children to search on the road map for what might be Roman towns (i.e.

Names ending in -ter or -ster = fort, so towns such as Chester could originally have been Roman forts where army detachments were stationed.Įach group had a cut-up road map and each pupil had a piece of that map. We told the class that we were going to use the endings of town names as clues to Roman settlement. Maps of Roman Britain showing the main roads and settlementsįirst we cut each atlas photocopy into four pieces, one piece per group member.A3 photocopies of a map of England and Wales, including Hadrian's Wall, from a modern road atlas.The aim was to provide an activity that would enable our children to appreciate the extent of Roman conquest, colonisation and settlement.Įnough copies for one per group of four pupils: When working on The Romans in Britain, we took our modern road atlas as the basis for developing an understanding of the pattern of Roman settlement in Britain. Using maps and placenames exemplar: Roman Britain

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