Aquae Sulis a major Roman Baths complex associated with an adjoining temple. About 130 messages to Sulis scratched onto lead curse tablets ("defixiones") have been recovered from the Sacred Spring by archaeologists. Most of them were written in Latin, although one discovered was in Brythonic, and usually laid curses upon those whom the writer felt had done them wrong. This collection is the most important found in Britain. The Brythonic curse recovered on a metal pendant is the only sentence in the language that has been discovered. It reads: "Adixoui Deuina Deieda Andagin Uindiorix cuamenai" or maybe "Adixoui Deiana Deieda Andagin Uindiorix
Insula (Roman city) forum around which the most important public buildings would be sited. Insula (Roman city) An insula (Latin for "island") is a city block in an ancient Roman city plan, i.e. one that is surrounded by four streets. The term was also used for apartment buildings that took up an entire city block. A standard Roman city plan was based on a grid of orthogonal streets and was probably founded on the ancient Greek model of Hippodamus and was used when new cities were established, e.g. in Roman coloniae. The main streets of each city would be the Decumanus Maximus (east–west-oriented)