Appendix Map

Britain Before English

Appendix · Map

A sketch of Britain showing the two Roman walls (Chapter 6), the lands north of them (Chapter 8), the western and northern British kingdoms (Chapter 9), and the places the chapters name. I drew it myself as a schematic.

This is a simplification The coastline is a rough outline, not drawn to scale, and the borders are straight lines. The tinted areas are approximate and belong to different centuries: the Roman province, the Picts and the post-Roman kingdoms did not exist at the same time as one picture. Place positions are approximate. Orkney is added above the top edge.

Key to the map

Mark	What it shows	Where the chapters say it
Green area	The Roman province of Britannia, south of Hadrian's Wall	Chapters 6, 7
Yellow area and line	The land between the walls, held by Rome at times; the Antonine Wall (begun AD 142)	Chapter 6
White line	Hadrian's Wall (begun AD 122)	Chapter 6
Purple area	The lands north of the walls: Caledonians, later Picts, with Dál Riata in the west	Chapter 8
Blue areas	Western Brittonic kingdoms in Wales and the south-west, in the sub-Roman centuries	Chapter 9
Labels in the north	Dál Riata, Gododdin and Rheged: the northern British kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd (Old North) are placed by me; the chapters do not give locations	Chapters 8, 9

Places on the map

Place	Why it is here	Ch.
Skara Brae	Stone-built Neolithic village on Orkney, occupied about 3180 to 2500 BC	2
Stonehenge	First phase about 3100 BC, with later stone phases	2
Maiden Castle	Hillfort that grew to about 19 ha	4
Colchester	Roman Camulodunum, listed as a capital	7
London	Roman Londinium, listed as a capital	7
York	Roman Eboracum, a provincial capital; Septimius Severus died there in 211; origin of the name from eburo-, "yew"	6, 7, 10
Lincoln	Roman Lindum; the name comes from lindo-, "pool"	10
Vindolanda	Fort near Hadrian's Wall where the writing tablets were found in 1973	7

Note on sources The map and its geography are mine, drawn from the wall, province and kingdom descriptions in Chapters 6, 8 and 9 (Wikipedia's Roman conquest of Britain, Hadrian's Wall, Antonine Wall, Roman Britain, Picts, Dál Riata and Sub-Roman Britain articles) and the places named in the chapters. Positions of towns and the tinted regions are from my general knowledge of where they lie and are approximate; I checked them against no map. The chapters' sources do not give coordinates. Every place marked is named in a chapter, but its position is mine. The areas of the Welsh and south-western kingdoms are rough.