Under Another Sky (43 page)

Twelve Caesars
11

Suetonius Paulinus 27–8, 31, 32, 45, 100

Sulis-Minerva 93–4, 98, 103

temple of 94, 97, 98

Sussex 17–18, 229–30, 242, 250

Sutcliff, Rosemary 70–1, 72, 244

The Eagle of the Ninth
xviii, 70–2, 176, 197

The Silver Branch
197

Swaffham 28

Swaledale 122

Swallow
(boat) 184

Swan Hunter 115–16

Sycamore Gap 112

Syria xviii, 200

Syrians 170

Tacitus xvii, xxi, 7, 9, 10, 17, 19, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32–3, 34, 35, 44, 45, 62, 100, 137, 139–41, 142, 153, 155, 173, 176, 177, 192, 228

Agricola
17, 62, 137

Annals
25, 55

Histories
140

Tas, River 30

Taunton: Museum of Somerset 210, 249

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 8

Terence xviii

Thames, River 11, 15, 27, 43, 44, 47, 57, 177

Thanet 13, 14, 219

Theodosius (father of Theodosius the Great) 217

Thermae Baths Spa, Bath 93, 99, 245

Thomas, Professor David 128, 129, 130

Thomas, John 84

Thornbury, Walter:
Old and New London
46

Thornycroft, Thomas:
Boadicea and Her Daughters
23, 37–8, 39

Thule 9

Tiberius, emperor 8, 17, 18

Tilbury 34

Times, The
90, 223

Tineius Longus 116

Togodumnus 12, 15, 25

Toland, John 100

Tolkien, J. R. R. 87

Tomlin, Dr Roger 51, 104, 106, 107, 129, 130–1

Trajan, emperor 112, 166–7

Trapain Law 138

Trinovantes 11, 99

Trinovantum 45, 99

Tulip, Henry 120

Tullie House Museum, Carlisle 181, 188, 190, 191, 193, 246, 249

Tungrians 116

Tupper, George 208–9

Tupper, Thomas 209

Turkey 18

Turner, J. M. W. 187, 227

Tutankhamun, tomb of 85

Tuttiett, Linda 115

Twechar 147

Twice Brewed pub 120

Tyne, River xvii, xix, 112, 116, 246

Ulpha Fell 179

University of London

Institute of Archaeology 80

University College 80, 81

Valentia 153, 217

Vaughan Williams, Ralph 78–9

Vegetus 51–2

Venta Icenorum 29, 30

Venta Silurum
see
Caerwent

Venus 205–6, 211

Vercingetorix 27

Verica 12

Verney, Tessa
see
Wheeler, Tessa Verney

Verulamium 28, 89–90

Vespasian 15, 62, 88, 91

Vespasiana 153

Victoria, Queen 36, 38, 122

Vikings 58

Vindolanda 116, 127–32, 246

Virgil vii, xvii, 8, 130, 195–6

Aeneid
vii, 12, 37, 39, 73, 83, 167, 174, 194, 197, 211, 213

Eclogues
8, 196, 197

Georgics
130

Viroconium Cornoviorum
see
Wroxeter

Vivius Marcianus, tombstone of 46, 53

Vortigern 219

Wade, General 141, 142

Wade, John 202

Walbrook Stream 44, 51

Wales 25, 81–6, 207, 244–5

Walmer 5, 6

Walpole, Horace 187

Wantsum channel 14

Warburton, John 118, 119

Waterloo, Battle of 67

Watling Lodge 146

Watling Street 14, 75

Watt, James 145

Watts, George Frederick 26–7, 227, 228

Waveney, River 215

Webb, Stanley 75, 78

Wedlake, William 90

Wellington, Duke of 67

Westminster, Palace of 227–8

Westray 138

West Row 220

Wheeler, Michael 81

Wheeler, Mortimer 19, 79–81, 82–3, 84–6, 87, 88, 89–91, 92, 184

Still Digging
80, 82, 91

Wheeler, Tessa Verney 81, 82–3, 86, 88, 89–91, 92, 181

Whin Sill 111

Whitfell 179

Wilderness Plantation 147

William the Conqueror 20, 229

Wilson, Roger:
A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain
xix, 60–1, 81, 241, 244

Winchester 62, 168

Wisdom, Norman 7

Wolfson College, Oxford 130

Wood, John 97, 98–102, 245

Essay Towards a Description of Bath
98–100

The Origin of Building
101

Woodchester Pavement (Great Pavement) 201–4, 207, 249

Woodward, Bernard Bolingbroke 155

Woodward, Bob and John 202–4, 249

Wotton-under-Edge 202–3

Wrekin, the 77

Wren, Christopher 46, 47, 49, 50, 55–6

Wright, Thomas 76

Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum) 14, 75–80, 122, 244

Xerxes 32

Yassin-Kassab, Robin 170

Y Gaer 81–4, 244

York (Eboracum) 23, 72, 158–97, 207–8, 217, 248

Bootham Bar 165, 166

map 158–9

Minster 162–3, 248

Monk Bar 166

multiangular tower 163, 248

Petergate 166

walls 163, 165, 166

Yorkshire Museum 162, 166–7, 169–70, 171, 248

Zosimus 218

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