Camulodunum Camulodunum Camulodunum (; ), the Ancient Roman name for what is now Colchester in Essex, was an important town in Roman Britain, and the first capital of the province. It is claimed to be the oldest town in Britain. Originally the site of the Brythonic-Celtic oppidum of Camulodunon (meaning "stronghold of Camulos"), capital of the Trinovantes and later the Catuvellauni tribes, it was first mentioned by name on coinage minted by the chieftain Tasciovanus sometime between 20 and 10 BC. The Roman town began life as a Roman Legionary base constructed in the AD 40s on the site of the
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