Oldest town in Britain with the River Avon acting as a transit route. Evidence of frogs' legs being eaten as well as 31,000 flints and animal bones have also been found. Colchester claims to be Britain's oldest "recorded" town. Its claim is based on a reference by Pliny the Elder, the Roman writer, in his "Natural History" ("Historia Naturalis") in 77 AD. He described Anglesey as "about from Camulodunum, a town in Britain", where Camulodunum was the Roman name for Colchester. It is claimed that this is the first known reference to any named settlement in Britain, although coins minted by Tasciovanus mention the
A Latin Dictionary the "Oxford Latin Dictionary", which was completed in 1983. The dictionary's full text is available on-line from the Perseus Project. Lewis and Short is also available for offline consultation, by means of various applications. Among classicists, Lewis and Short has been largely superseded by the "Oxford Latin Dictionary", called the OLD for short. Lewis and Short incorporated material from existing Latin dictionaries; the "OLD", by contrast, started from scratch, following procedures similar to those of the well-regarded "Oxford English Dictionary". Thanks to the increased availability of modern editions, the "OLD" editors had access to a larger variety of classical works.