Camulodunum pavements. It may have reached a population of 30,000 at its height. It was not until the late 18th century that historians realised that Colchester's physical Brythonic (British Celtic) and Roman remains were the city mentioned in ancient literature as "Camulodunum". The earliest Iron Age defensive site at Colchester is the Pitchbury Ramparts earthwork north of the town between West Bergholt and Great Horkesley. The main earthwork defences of the Brythonic Celtic oppidum of "Camulodunon" were built later, beginning in the 1st century BC but most date from the 1st century AD. They are considered the most extensive of their
Ablative (Latin) "SIDSPACE" and any of its anagrams, including "IS SPACED" and "PASS DICE", may be used as a mnemonic to remember the most common prepositions which use the ablative case: Ablative (Latin) In Latin grammar, the ablative case (in Latin, "cāsus ablātīvus") is one of the six cases of nouns. Traditionally, it is the sixth case (Latin: "cāsus sextus, cāsus latīnus"). It has forms and functions derived from the Proto-Indo-European ablative, instrumental, and locative. It expresses concepts similar to those of the English prepositions "from"; "with", "by"; and "in", "at". It is sometimes called the adverbial case, since phrases in the