Calleva Atrebatum was an Iron Age oppidum, the capital of the Atrebates tribe. It then became a walled town in the Roman province of Britannia, at a major crossroads of the roads of southern Britain.
Mosaic from Calleva Atrebatum
Part of the city walls (2004)
Silchester eagle
Excavations at Calleva (Insula IX)
The Atrebates were a Belgic tribe of the Iron Age and the Roman period, originally dwelling in the Artois region.
Atrebates
Stater of Tincomarus, king of the Atrebates.