Badbury Rings in a northwest direction (visible today as a thin strip of woodland) heading for the Roman fort at Hod Hill. At an early stage, this road formed a junction with Ackling Dyke, a Roman road which headed northeast to Old Sarum ("Sorviodunum"). Another road ran across country in a north by northwest direction towards Bath ("Aquae Sulis")., and another ran south to a small port in Poole Harbour ("Moriconium", modern Hamworthy). The final road (still used as a modern trackway on the west side of Badbury Rings) ran in a southwest direction through the settlement of "Vindocladia" heading towards Dorchester
Aquae Flaviae Aquae Flaviae Aquae Flaviae (or "Aquæ Flaviæ") is the ancient Roman city and former bishopric (now a Latin Catholic titular see) of Chaves, a municipality in the Portuguese district of Vila Real. The northwest peninsular region is an area of hot springs and Roman settlements linked to the exploitation of valuable natural resources. Aquae Flaviae was the principal "municipium civitas" in the northwest (from epigraphic findings) implanted in the Trás-os-Montes, on a small hill on the banks of the River Tâmega, in the Roman province of "Gallaecia". This was a fertile area, where hot springs abound, in addition to a