Chelmsford, Mother And Child, Mildmay Road 1906
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More about this scene
Around AD 120, a mansio was built on a slight rise overlooking the site of the fort. This was a state-run building where persons on official business could change horses, take a bath and have a bed for the night. It appeared to overlie the foundations of a timber structure that had been destroyed by fire a few decades earlier. Boudicca may or may not have been responsible. For a while, the mansio and its attendant shops were surrounded by a series of banks and ditches. The small settlement was called Caesaromagus, meaning 'Caesar's marketplace' or 'Caesar's plain'. No other town in Britain had 'Caesar' in its name, and we do not know why this particular gaggle of buildings was accorded the honour. Maybe the mid-Essex 'plain' was earmarked as a future administrative centre.
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