Archaeological Sites in Bedfordshire - Hill Forts in Bedfordshire, Ruins in Bedfordshire, Dunstable, List of Monastic Houses in Bedfordshire (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hill Forts in Bedfordshire, Ruins in Bedfordshire, Dunstable, List of Monastic Houses in Bedfordshire, Icknield Way, Barton-Le-Clay, Sandy, Bedfordshire, Bedford Castle, Waulud's Bank, Houghton House, Risinghoe Castle, Someries Castle. Excerpt: Dunstable (pronounced ) is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. It lies on the eastward tail spurs of the Chiltern Hills, 30 miles north of London. These geographical features form several steep chalk escarpments most noticeable when approaching Dunstable from the north. In Roman times its name was Durocobrivis. There was a general assumption that the nominative form of the name had been Durocobrivae, so that is what appears on the map of 1944 illustrated below. But current thinking is that the form Durocobrivis, which occurs in the Antonine Itinerary, is a fossilised locative that was used all the time and Ordnance Survey now uses this form. There are several theories concerning its modern name: Relics of Pal olithic man, such as flint implements and the bones of contemporary wild animals, suggest settlement is prehistoric. At Maidenbower in the parish of Houghton Regis to the north, there is an Iron Age hill fort and is clearly marked on the Ordnance survey maps. Maidenbower has some of the Ramparts showing through the edge of an old chalk quarry at Sewell where there are Bronze Age remains of an older Fort. There are a lot of prehistoric sites in this area and details can be found with the Manshead Archaeological Society who are based in Winfield St. Dunstable. There was already some form of settlement by the time that the ancient British Romans paved road (now known as Watling Street, and in the Great Britain road numbering scheme the A5) crossed another ancient and still-existing road, the ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14660986