Tripontium
Remains of the bathouses being excavated in 2005.
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 Shown within England
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| Location | Warwickshire, England |
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| Region | Britannia |
| Coordinates | 52°24′33″N 1°12′46″W / 52.409152°N 1.212683°WCoordinates: 52°24′33″N 1°12′46″W / 52.409152°N 1.212683°W |
| Type | Settlement |
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| Founded | Around AD 50 |
| Abandoned | 4th century |
| Periods | Roman Empire |
Tripontium (Latin for "Three-Bridge") was a town in Roman Britain. It lay just off the Roman road later called Watling Street (and known today as the A5) at a site now chiefly within the civil parish of Newton and Biggin in the English county of Warwickshire and partly in Leicestershire, some 3.4 miles north-east of Rugby and 3.1 miles south of Lutterworth.
Tripontium was established as a military frontier post soon after the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 47. Its name references the bridges over the River Avon and two of its tributaries. Tripontium was a civilian town which was inhabited for around 400 years before being abandoned in the late 4th century when the Romans left Britain. It was connected to the road network near Watling Street, but via a detour 7 Roman miles longer than the main route between Venonis (High Cross) and Bannaventa (Norton).
The exact position of Tripontium remained a mystery for centuries, but it was found by the antiquarian Matthew Bloxam in 1836. Excavation works at the site were begun in 1961 by the Rugby Archaeological Society and have continued ever since.
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