Historic Cities
Walk Canterbury in AD 200
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Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
Durovernum Cantiacorum, AD 200
Durovernum Cantiacorum is the civitas capital of the Cantiaci, a compact, prosperous Roman market and administrative town on the Stour at the convergence of roads to the Channel ports. The walk passes the theatre and temple precinct, the forum and public baths, gravelled shopping streets and timber-fronted workshops, tile and pottery yards, mills on the river and the town walls being raised in flint and tile.
37 scenes — 24 streets, squares and views, 13 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Canterbury as it stood in AD 200 (“Durovernum Cantiacorum”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Watling Street Approach
- ↳ Roadside Taberna Interior · interior
- 2. Stour Crossing
- 3. West Gate
- 4. Stour Quay
- 5. Mill on the Stour
- ↳ Watermill Wheel Pit · interior
- 6. Gravelled Main Street
- 7. Forum and Basilica
- ↳ Basilica Central Hall · interior
- 8. Temple Precinct
- ↳ Temple Cella Inner Chamber · interior
- 9. Great Theatre
- ↳ Vaulted Theatre Passages · interior
- 10. Public Baths
- ↳ Heated Caldarium Chamber · interior
- ↳ Apodyterium Changing Room · interior
- 11. Potters' Quarter
- ↳ Potter's Workshop and Kiln · interior
- 12. Brick and Tileworks
- ↳ Tile Kiln Stoking Room · interior
- 13. Bakers' Street
- ↳ Baker's Shop and Donkey Mill · interior
- 14. Market Square
- 15. Timber Workshop Lane
- 16. Domus Street
- ↳ Mosaic Atrium with Impluvium · interior
- ↳ Household Triclinium Dining Room · interior
- 17. Bronzeworkers' Yard
- ↳ Bronzework Foundry Interior · interior
- 18. Suburban Mausoleum
- 19. Town Walls (Under Construction)
- 20. East Gate
- 21. Road to Dubris (Dover)
- 22. North Gate and Road
- 23. Oppidum Ramparts
- 24. Wall-top Vantage