Dorchester

• Dorchester is a town located on the river Frome, 7 miles (11km) to the north of Weymouth in the County of Dorset in the South West Region of England.
• It was the Roman town of Durnovaria Durotrigum in the Province of Britannia.

Roman Sites

• The Roman Town House
• Maumbury Rings, the Roman Amphitheatre.
• Remains of Dorchester Roman Walls

Museums

• Dorchester County Museum

Roman Roads

• Portway
  • London–Silchester–Old Sarum-Dorchester.
• Iter XV
  • Silchester-Dorchester-Exeter

Nearby Sites

• Isle of Portland
  • possibly Ictis or Mictis.
  • Thomas Hardy called Portland the ‘Gibraltar of Wessex’.
  • Portland Stone Quarry was quarried by the Romans and used to make Sarcophagi.
• Maiden Castle
  • An Iron Age Hill Fort.
• Wareham
  • A Roman Settlement whose Latin name is unknown.

Maumbury Rings, Dorchester