Talk:Calleva Atrebatum

message: Currently all articles listed under :Category:Roman towns and cities in England, except this one, have their name as used in Roman times if known. Calleva Atrebatum is a redirect at present. Walgamanus 07:10, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a good idea. Note also that all the foreign language Wikipedias use Calleva Atrebatum. Hut 8.5 20:39, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: The article fails to mention why this town fell into ruin unlike other post-roman cities eg Ebaracum or Londinium that developed into the likes of York or London.
Maybe it is worth a mention.
This is town an enigma like Wroxeter, Shropshire.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.123.23 (talk) 09:44, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Although a specific "why" is not yet known, it continues to be a partial focus of the ongoing archeaological investigation of the site by the University of Reading, some suggested reasons are given on page 7 of the BBC article shown in the external links. Mighty Antar (talk) 21:13, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

text: There is a suggestion  that the Saxons deliberately avoided Calleva after it was abandoned, preferring to maintain their existing centres at Winchester and Dorchester.  This would be consistent with them also avoiding Londinium.  The later establishment of Lundenwic some distance away parallels that of Basing and Reading. AJRG (talk) 23:42, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  In a Guardian article it mentionss a theory that the water table, through a process of successive well diggings that eventually became latrines, became compromised. Wwwhatsup (talk) 06:07, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why didn't the town develop after Roman occupation? 

message: The same Guardian article noted above goes into some detail of a pre-Roman urban settlement saying
 the evidence is unarguable: the Iron Age people lived in regular house plots flanking broad gravelled roads, aligned with the sunrises and sunsets of the summer and winter solstices, in a major town a century earlier than anyone had believed.
It also suggests that a local dynastic dispute may have precipitated the entire Roman invasion!
Commius was succeeded by three quarrelsome sons – significantly dubbing themselves on coins as "rex" or king – who successively deposed one another. The third, Verica, was toppled by local tribes and made a move that would change the course of British history: he fled to Rome and asked for help – and in AD43 the Romans came. 
Wwwhatsup (talk) 06:13, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pre-Roman town 

message: http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue21/silchester_index.html
©Geni (talk) 21:16, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: possible open access source

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